Legends of Tomorrow | Season 5 Episode 1 - "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five"

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Hello!

So, here we are. Crisis finale! Well, I'm not going to waste any time and I'm just going to say it - I'm disappointed.

That's right folks, this crossover was not what I was expecting. Was it good? Yes. Was it as epic as they were promising? Not really. 

The thing about Crisis on Infinite Earths was the stakes. The battle in the comics is huge, with Barry and Kara dying. Obviously we knew those two weren't going to die. Instead, Oliver would take their places, which happened... But that was it. I feel like I can speak for everyone when I say that we were expecting a ton of characters to die (a lot from Legends, in my opinion) but, in the end, Oliver was the only one to die, which was such an awful and disrespectful death. I don't know, I just know that this was not what they promised.

And now you say - What about all the 'cameos' and Easter Eggs? Well, those were great, don't get me wrong, but they were just that - a few cameos that made the crossover special, but they didn't add to the 'epicness' that I was expecting, mainly from this last episode. I saw someone say on twitter this and I totally agree - They focused way too much on the cameos and on the crossover being a 'fan service' that they forgot about the story and to play homage to our characters. And what makes everything worse is that there wasn't enough characters in this final battle, let alone Legends characters, which was what I was expecting, after all, this was a Legends episode.

However, the beginning was nice. The beginning of the episode gave us the feel of a Legends episode, with the fun, the jokes and, obviously, with Bebo. Yes, Bebo was back for this crossover and he was the last good thing in this. As soon as they 'killed' Bebo, it just went downhill. Yes, Black Lightning appeared again but it was so short. And again, where were Cisco, Iris, Ralph, Nora, Constantine... There were so many characters left out of this episode and I just wanted to see an epic final battle with a ton of superheroes and with a few more deaths.

In the end, I feel like this crossover was made just to get all our heroes in one Earth (now Earth-Prime) but then they messed that up too, when they showed that there's other Earths after all. From what I know, Crisis happens and then there's just one Earth left and... That didn't happen. Again, as I saw on Twitter, they just forgot about Doom Patrol, and Titans, and Swamp Thing and they couldn't mess that up (which they did anyway) so they had to 'keep' the other Earths.

Anyway, in the end, this crossover was just an huge disappointment for me. I saw people saying that this was the best one and, personally, I think this was the worst one. Even the last one was a lot more fun with Oliver and Barry switching. That was so much fun! And I kind of miss when they had smaller crossovers, like the first one with Oliver and Barry - my favorite duo.

Well, I'm going to end my rant here. Let me know what you thought of this crossover. Are you with the majority that loved it or are you with me? Tell me everything and I'll see you soon with new rants!

Love,

Daniela.

Batwoman | Season 1 Episode 9 - "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two"

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OMG! I knew there was a reason to believe that Oliver would come back! That's right guys, Oliver is kind of back. He's not 100% back but they're working on it. It's already a good thing that he's not dead so, I'm happy! And this episode, although still a bit slow, it was better. There were no Supergirl characters (apart from Kara, obviously, and Superman and Lois) and there were no Supergirl plots that could confuse me. Also, Mia was pretty quiet this episode so, everything worked in my favor.

As we saw in the preview, we saw a few people mourning Oliver's death but of course, that was really misleading because right away we find out that Barry was not okay with Oliver dying, as we all thought he wouldn't be, and starts working on a way to get him back. Surprisingly, it didn't involve time travel or anything. It was actually a lot more Arrow accurate, with Barry wanting to go to a Lazarus Pit to get him back. My thought right away was that Thea had destroyed all of them.Well, there's a lot of Earths they could look into and so that's what they do and go to a different Earth to get Oliver into a Lazarus Pit. For that, they ask for the help of Constantine who leads them (Barry, Sara, Oliver and Mia) there and also tries to help with getting Oliver's soul back. That's when things don't really work out and the spell doesn't work because of the Anti-Matter that is affecting Constantine. And that's it for the Oliver story-line.

But before they go there, the Monitor lets everyone know that, in order to defeat the Anti-Monitor they have to find the seven Paragons (aka the symbols that we saw in that scene with Nash). The Monitor also tell them that they have already find two of them  - The Paragon of Destiny, which is Sara, and The Paragon of Hope, which is Kara. The Monitor as information for two more and so two different teams go look for them. Iris, Lois and Clark go look for the Paragon of Truth, who's another Earth's Superman, and Kate and Kara go look for the Paragon of Courage who is Batman from another Earth.

With the first team we visit Smalville's Superman, who we learn that has given up his powers in exchange for a family and then they find the real Paragon - Brandon Routh's Superman, which we all knew was coming.

As for the second team, there's a whole thing with Batman which I don't think is that relevant. The only thing that we need to know is that this Batman killed Superman, which leads to a fight between him and Kara and in which Batman ends up dead - meaning, he's not the Paragon.

When back to the Waverider (yes, they're base is now the Waverider, from another Earth, I might had, which also brought us Mick from that same Earth) we find out that the new Paragon of Courage is Kate instead of Batman and that's it. We have our first four Paragons. There's still 3 more left which I'm sure we're going to find them in the next episode, as well as get Oliver back.

This episode, overall, was good. I'm just happy that they're bringing Oliver back, so that's enough from me. I'm pretty curious to see who will be the 3 remaining paragons. One might think that it's obviously Barry and Oliver, but I doubt it. My bet is that one of them is Black Lightning, and that's why he's the only one from that show in the crossover, and then the other two might be Killer Frost and Diggle as Green Lantern, which have been rumors about. Those are my three bets. I know the next episode is just a couple of hours away but well, let me know your bets.

I'll see you tomorrow with a new rant!

Love,

Daniela.