Kevin Conroy is playing Kingdom Come Batman.
Still nothing on Batwoman or Supergirl, although maybe Leviathan will play a role in the Crisis.
The Flash
“Nash” Wells claimed that the Monitor is a fraud and that he wants to take him down, thereby saving Barry. He showed to Team Flash’s the Monitor’s alleged hideout leading to an interdimensional portal in the sewers under Central City. The wall was impenetrable, even to the Flash’s phasing, due to being infused with eternium. Any physical disturbance would cause it to explode. He recruited Allegra to illuminate the eternium so that he could dig around it.
Arrow
Oliver, Laurel, and the kids went to Russia to get the plans for a weapon that could kill the Monitor. Before leaving, the Monitor through Lyla asked Laurel to prevent this and in return he would restore Earth-2. Laurel didn’t go through with this plan and returned to confront Lyla, bringing along Oliver and Diggle, at which point all three of them were shot with tranquilizer darts.
Well, this is an interesting development. The Stargirl series, developed for the DC Universe streaming service, will also air on the CW. In addition her character will be introduced in the Crisis crossover. There was a Stargirl character who was a member of the Justice Society of America introduced in Legends of Tomorrow, played by a different actress. I don’t know how these two characters will be related.
I guess Black Lightning is officially part of the Arrowverse now. Does this mean I’ll have to make another series thread?
I’m very annoyed that a 5 episode cross-over event is spread out over a month. I really feel this is a mistake. A weak season from the Flash is not helping me.
They should have had all five episodes run in a 1 week period.
First trailer is out: - YouTube
Thank you for this thread Terminus Est. I’m excited for Crisis.
You’re welcome!
More photos from Entertainment Weekly. Check out that one of Batwoman vs Lex Luthor on the Waverider.
Batwoman and Supergirl are on break. They will return next week.
The Flash
Bloodwork infected Barry and learned all about the Flash and the coming Crisis. He seemed rather nonplussed to learn that he played absolutely no role in the Crisis. He offered Barry a way that he could survive the Crisis, by joining with him. The Speedforce, in the form of Nora Allen, tried to get Barry to resist temptation but the latter went full Reverse Flash by phasing his hand into Nora’s chest and decided to accept Bloodwork’s “gift”.
Arrow
Oliver and Laurel were caught in what appeared to be a time loop in an alternate reality where Quentin Lance was still alive. They thought that they had to prevent Quentin’s death in order to break the loop. However, it was for Oliver a lesson from the Monitor that some things can’t be changed and hence to accept his fate in the Crisis. (Also to stop trying to kill the Monitor.) For Laurel, it was chance for her to say good-bye to Quentin, a reward for passing the test of NOT betraying Oliver last episode. Diggle, who was also tranqed last episode, was not part of the loop for some reason; perhaps he didn’t require any testing, lesson, or reward.
Spoilers!
Yeah, when Barry plunged his hand into the Speedforce and then flash-backed to The Reverse Flash doing that to Barry’s mom, I was like, “Oh holy moses!” I was really happy that Barry gave into Bloodwork, because, “drama” and I a, excited to see how they pull him out of Bloodwork’s control and how Barry deals with the Crisis.
And more spoilers:
I am kind of thinking that, The Monitors, meaning of “The Flash must die” is that Cisco has to pump more of the "anti-super hero ability serum into Barry to stop him from being controlled by Ramsey. And so to save Barry and the Crisis, Barry has to stop being a super and the Flash, by the serum, and that he doesn;t die. He just becomes a normal human again.
But those are just my own thoughts on this tv character and how they are going to end the show. The Flash ends so the show can end because of whatever reason they are ending it.
It’s Arrow that’s ending, mainly because Stephen Amell thought it was time. The Flash isn’t going away any time soon.
This is it, the home stretch, a week until Crisis. Batwoman and especially Supergirl had better fracking notice Crisis now. I predict that Harbinger will show up in the closing minutes of each show, to recruit their respective heroes like we saw in the teasers.
Great, we get to see Nash Wells open the door 4 separate times :rolleyes:
Brian
My kid is amazed that Dreamer didn’t get, like, ten seconds of exposition about how Something Big Is Coming. I mean, that’s kind of her whole thing: if the writers want to sideline her, fine, have her get overwhelmed and fall into a deep sleep for as long as the plot needs — but then end an episode by having her eyes pop open as she sits bolt upright to announce something, right?
New photos: Brandon Routh’s Kingdom Come Superman has Superman Tyler Hoechlin in a chokehold.
The Crisis is upon us!
This week, immediately before Crisis, all four shows had the same tag taken from that of The Flash:
[spoiler]Nash Wells, having finally broken through the wall of the sewer, is confronted by a portal with seven mystic symbols. He says that, having chased the Monitor through the multiverse, all he wanted to do was to kill him. But now the Monitor has saved his life. The disembodied voice of the Monitor intones, “Submit, and begin your life anew!” whereuon the symbols glow. Nash presses the symbols in a particular sequence, opening the portal. He is bathed in a golden light and is suddenly transported elsewhere.
“To be continued on Crisis on Infinite Earths”[/spoiler]
For Batwoman, this was the only thing related to Crisis.
Supergirl had an additional segment immediately preceding:
[spoiler]J’onn and M’alefic have reconciled and the Martian Manhunter sends his brother back to Mars. The Monitor appears before J’onn and explains that he has passed the test. He has learned that his vulnerabilities are his strengths and now he is ready for the Crisis.
Cut to Lex Luthor playing chess with himself in some interdimensional realm. Apparently he’s been cooling his heels there all these months. The Monitor appears before him carrying the Book of Destiny. He tells Lex that the universe needs a mind like his and the time has come to fulfill his destiny.[/spoiler]
The Flash:
[spoiler]We see Nash standing before the portal in the sewer.
“You seek the truth. If you wish to know all, show your allegiance and all will be revealed. Bow down to me and all have desired will be yours.”
Suddenly the power cuts out and Nash is attacked by a Bloodwork-infected zombie. He fights it off but more keep coming.
Much, much later, Nash has been overcome by the zombies when they are hit by a wave of UV light from the particle accelerator. This immediately cures them and Nash is saved.
Meanwhile Team Flash has cured all the zombies and go on to defeat Bloodwork. They are now just waiting for Crisis. At the stroke of midnight, the skies turn red. Cut to Nash standing before the portal in the sewer and we see events unfold as outline above.
[/spoiler]
Arrow:
The parts (and people!) that Oliver collected throughout the season have been brought together on Lian Yu. Oliver believes it to be a weapon. It is, in fact, a device that can only be activated by Lyla Michaels and in turn transforms her into a “harbinger of things to come.” Whereupon the skies turn red over Lian Yu.
Crisis on Infinite Earths final trailer: Crisis On Infinite Earths Trailer - YouTube
OPEN SPOILERS AFTER THIS POST.
So I was wrong about the Crisis tag. I was so very, very wrong. It was seriously underwhelming, wasn’t it? Especially compared to the awesomeness of last year’s Elseworlds tag. It was incomprehensible if you haven’t been watching The Flash. Even in context, it made little sense. Nash Wells thought that the Monitor saved him from the Bloodwork zombies (when it was Team Flash that did all the work) and so went from wanting to kill him to wanting to join him.
Red skies! She should have been dreaming about red skies. Have her fall asleep in the middle of the newsroom, like she did last season. Then awake with a start and announce, “Red skies are coming.”
There is a rumor that Monday’s episode of Black Lightning, entitled “Earth Crisis”, 
will be connected to the crossover. It won’t technically be part of the crossover since no characters from other shows will appear, but it will involve red skies and the multiverse and will be a lead in for Black Lightning’s official appearance in Crisis the next night.
I gotta admit, that’s a pretty amazing picture.
Since I don’t follow Black Lightning (as it’s being broadcast), I completely missed this. A couple days ago, the CW released a promo for the mid-season finale which shows red skies over whatever Earth Jefferson is from: - YouTube