Criticizing a TV show arc (Crisis on Infinite Earths CW edition) Arrow, Flash, Supergirl

The way crisis is panning out is very inaccurate to how things go down in the comic book. I had many issues with it and that was just the first, the next issue is the flash feeling like a side character.

The flash is one of the main CW protagonists but in the most important story arcs where in the comics he is the single most important character, he is almost nonexistent. His wife seems to do more than him while he just goes on some random quest.

The way Oliver Queen dies in the beginning of it in the most stupid way possible, makes no sense. It is completely out of character and overall, just seemed very forced, which it was, so that they can use it as a plot point later on.

They bring iconic character from the past like Tom Welling from Smallville, and characters from iconic comic series, like “Kingdom come” superman. They even bring in Lucifer from the show Lucifer. This was the only good part of the entire story arc.

At the end they bring Oliver back as a guy called the Spectre in one of the most rushed plot points I’ve ever seen. No build up or anything just BAM, he’s the Spectre now.

Overall, the story, while cool in the sense of the cast and characters that make cameos, is absolutely horrible in terms of plot. There were too many potholes to count and just had so much that didn’t make sense.

I wrote this in twitter format in the sense of small posts that I would make on a thread. These posts would be small but straight to the point. I tried to stick to the genre norm that twitter has of just making things feel like a rant that is just broken up into small pieces.

A Review of Enola Holmes

            When looking at this movie at face value, you see well known stars like Henry Cavill and Millie Bobby Brown, and you hope that the movie is good. After seeing the movie, I can say with pleasure that the movie was great. At first I was disappointed with how little sherlock Holmes is in the movie, but as it continues I realized that the movie was never about him, from beginning to end he never played a part that really impacted the plot, it was all Enola. The movie contained many important social issues that we are dealing with today and that was going on at that time. The feminism in the movie just added onto the intellectual genius known as Enola, there was plenty of action and mystery that kept you wondering where the plot would take you. Overall, the movie was great and the messages that the movie was portraying only added onto how great it turned out to me. 5 out of 5 is the rating that I would give it and I suggest that you watch the movie too, it is definitely worth it.

Academic Analysis

        The CW television channel that produces all of the DC comic television shows like Arrow, Flash and Supergirl had put out a miniseries of about a couple of episodes called crisis on infinite earths. This event in the comic book world is one of the biggest events in DC comics and is what is used to revamp the entire universe. All of this to say that it is a very big deal. When the TV adaption is attempted though there are tons of things about it that I personally liked and disliked. One of the main things I disliked about the series was the lack of the flash. In the comics and in all of the crossovers he is usually the guy at the forefront and is always one of the main characters that the series would center around. This was not the case in the series as he was almost never there despite always being there, if that makes any sense. He barely got screen time and even if he did it was more along the lines of a side character rather than the main character that the end of the show put him out to be. He only did one real good thing throughout the entire series and that is a real problem due to the fact that one of the four main shows that collaborated for this is called “The Flash”.

            The next nit pick about the show is how another main character from one of the main four TV shows dies in the very beginning. He dies in a place where he really didn’t need to die all for a plot point that practically appeared out of nowhere. The plot point that they used was also completely inaccurate to the comics because the flash was supposed to do what he did, but they sat the flash down as a side character. But enough about the negatives because the list can go on. There were also many positives to the series and one of them were the many cameos. There were countless cameos done that brought in favorites from all kinds of shows that had any sort of DC connection. From Smallville’s main character Superman who is played by tom welling, to Lucifer from the show Lucifer. Overall, the cameos, although very fleeting were quite cool and clearly done to placate DC fanboys like myself and give them more of an incentive to check out the miniseries.

            The last point to touch on which was woven into all of that was said previously is the plot. The plot of the series could be interpreted in many ways. From a comic book accuracy sense, the plot sucked, but from a regular CW viewer standpoint it was very thrilling. There were tons of enormous fight scenes that displayed everyone in the impressive lineup of heroes. It also showed character development as we see how the heroes change in the face off mass grief and the need to make tough decisions on a whole other level than what we are used to seeing. The plot was a bit all over the place but, that’s usually the way it goes with CW superhero shows, and fortunately or unfortunately, depending on who you are asking, that’s how they decided to produce the series. Thus, I would never call it a top tier television series, but I would be so callous to call it the bottom of the barrel.