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(Read our take on the Supergirl lead-in to the crossover here.) Most of those arcs take a backseat in this year’s Flash-centric crossover episode, which has the scarlet speedster teaming up with Team Arrow, Supergirl and the Legends of Tomorrow to fight off alien invaders known as the Dominators, often to entertaining effect.
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We know Barry messed up, but Cisco continuously insisting they aren’t friends is getting a little old.Between Flashpoint, Doctor Alchemy, Savitar, a new Wells, and more, The Flash has had a lot going on in Season 3. Why is Diggle so upset about not having a daughter he has technically never known? What we learn is that the only person affected is Stein, who goes home to visit his wife only to find a daughter. We get it, what he did was selfish and he didn’t do it, but who would have though that the voice of reason would have been Oliver? Given that we’ve found Arrow a little lax this season, his characterisation and involvement in this episode has been superb. Our main, and possibly only, gripe, is that everybody keeps raging on Barry for his changing the timeline with Flashpoint. The episode is well paced, it has moments of good humour, emotional bits, Felicity being excited about Kara, and just generally leaving us with quite a good feeling about what is to come. Once they get unwhammied all seems to be fine, but then suddenly Sara, Ray, Diggle and Thea all get abducted by the aliens and as Barry runs to grab Oliver before he is taken, but he isn’t fast enough. It most results in humorous take downs of most team members and Kara looking completely effortlessly pleased with herself.Īs the episode progresses, the aliens managed to whammy most of the collected heroes, with only Oliver and Barry spared from the spell of madness, which brings us to the start of the episode, the team are trying to kill the two of them. “I thought you said you were bringing an alien?” chips in one of the team, so Kara shows them she can fly and everybody instantly believes that she’s an alien… in a world with metas we wouldn’t really think this is enough, but okay! Barry, as ‘team leader’ suggests (with the very obvious help of Oliver) that they train against Supergirl to prepared themselves. This is why you didn’t have to watch Supergirl to watch all of the crossover, because the scene from the end of the episode is repeated in The Flash, we feel a tiny bit cheated, to be honest, but we’ll let it go… So Barry (along with Cisco (Carlos Valdes)) pop over to Earth-3 to go and get Supergirl (Melissa Benoist).
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Enter Lyla (Andrey Marie Anderson), and her explaining that this isn’t the first time that aliens have come into contact with Earth, but this is the first time they’ve been an all out threat.īarry then assembles the Aveng- Team Arrow and the Legends in order to create this super line up to face them, but what they really need is an alien to help them face the aliens. As it turns out, it’s actually an alien spacecraft. But The Flash lands us right in the middle of the action with Barry (Grant Gustin) and Oliver (Stephen Amell) suited and booted and under attack, seemingly from an unknown force, but then they nearly get struck by heat vision and you realise that everything is not what it seems.īack we go ten hours and what Team Flash think is a meteor crashes into Central City. Those of you who watched last night’s Supergirl will be aware that the crossover didn’t really start.