Supergirl x Flash x
Arrow x DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (CW 2016)
Monday
through Thursday nights this week saw something I don’t believe has ever been
done on American television – a four-night, four-show, four-way cross-over
event, one story told in multiple series the likes of which has only ever, as
far as I know, ever been attempted in the comic books which are the inspiration
for the only block of television shows I’m currently watching with any consistency.
Based
conceptually on DC Comics’ 1988 three-issues-plus-a-myriad-of-cross-over-issues
event entitled, as was each of the cross-over episodes from each of the series
represented here – except for Supergirl
– “Invasion!,” this epic told how the alien Dominators were determined to
eliminate the threat they perceived to exist in the metagenetic potential of
humankind giving rise to the dawning age of the superhero, and how a coalition
of such metahumans ultimately beat back this threat to our existence.
It was
ambitious. And although the execution ultimately fell short, on balance I found
it very satisfying.
