Nah, she was well done with her musical by the time this was filmed. They didn't start filming this 'til October - she finished the musical in the first week of August.
I think you're giving Guggenheim & Co. the benefit of the doubt when they don't really deserve it considering they've always given the Supergirl cast the short end of the stick. It's kinda obvious Guggenheim just doesn't care about SG because he's got nothing to do with it, imo.
He's one of those characters who is capable of so much more, but the writers seemingly aren't quite sure how to use him.
An interesting observation that.
Well, before this crossover, we only thought there was 52 anyway, or 53 if you include Earth-X, but there are in fact (at least) 90. They're going to need to merge some of them at least, and I suspect that once it's all wrapped up, Kara and Barry will be residing on the same Earth; it's an easy fix for the CW to finally combine their shows, allowing for more references and crossovers.
A mini series would make sense; as it can be shot independently from the show and doesn't need to confine itself to 135 minutes.
Considering their job is to maintain time and reality, you'd think, if reality is being changed, they'd be involved. I just hope all the characters, of all the shows are used properly; the Legends team for example, if we're truly going cosmic with this sort of Crisis, the most equipped person would be Ray, and yet I can't help but fear Sara will get more screen time and relevance when honestly, she shouldn't.
Yet she still got more screentime than any of SG's main supporting cast, lol.
If they can't get Geoff Johns to write the next crossover, give it to Sterling Gates. He wrote SG's comic for a while. or if nothing else I know Crisis requires a comic pedigree, but I think SG's writers could handle a different teamup. I think Gggenheim only took this because of Superman and Batwoman
Agreed, I've been pushing for more Sterling Gates involvement for a while now. He's a good Supergirl comics-writer turned good Supergirl episode writer, turned good Flash writer. He'd be a far more preferable option over Guggenheim for me.
More than serviceable villain crisis, at least the past two. I admire taking the best crossover episode from Invasion! and spreading that over 3 episodes, but Elseworlds in particular could have just as easily been standalone episodes from any of the shows rather than midseason finales.I wasn’t that troubled by Kara’s modest screentime in Part 3. Taking “Elseworlds” as a movie-in-three-chapters, I think she got decent representation overall. More, if you count Superman as part of the Supergirl contingent.
I don’t recall the prior crossovers that well. But my impression is that there was a more-or-less serviceable villain crisis, which therefore justified a combined superhero response. So basically, the geeky thrill of seeing the various DC/CW characters team up for “Event TV” was the main draw. A solid storyline… not so much.
This time, however, there was an attempt at something more ambitious. Namely: there was a central protagonist (Oliver) who had a plot thru-line that progressed in all three episodes. And I prefer that to an overpopulated adventure where screentime is assigned based on which show a story segment happens to fall in.
That said… if “Elseworlds” was intended as a single “movie in three chapters” (which essentially ignored the boundaries between series), I don’t quite get why The Flash and Supergirl had to swap timeslots. Unless it was a strategic move/experiment to see how well The Flash might do on a Sunday and Supergirl on a Tuesday…?
