You gotta check him out on P&R. His Perd Hapley character is riot:
That was just so much fun.
Good use of the Flash’s super hero powers & Barry’s Barryness. Moved the Supergirl plots forward. Nice explanation of why they’re not crossing over all the time (while still making it possible for another crossover some day). Callbacks to previous episodes. It was cheesy, but still a good episode.
Meh, Kara and Barry seemed to become bestest buddies 4eva after knowing each other for the whole afternoon. The DEO must have great Yelp reviews because everybody is going there. And the big bad villain was taken down by the latest in high-tech weaponry, a hose.
Still not buying the run-up-the-side-of-a-building-to-catch-people thing, either.
Seems to me that being a relationship with a superhero is always a bad idea.
Kara was even more adorable in the presence of Barry. Winn was even geekier. Cat’s quips were spot-on; “the attractive yet non-threatening racially-diverse cast of a CW show,” indeed!
Cat figured out really quickly that Barry was the Flash, which leads me to think that she still knows that Kara is Supergirl. She may not quite know how Kara pulled off that subterfuge, but she’s going along with that for now.
Well, J’onn’s transformation back into his natural form was done in public. I suspect she’s put two and two together.
I thought the crossover was great. One question: Flash set Kara’s clothes on fire, but didn’t melt the ice cream? (Yeah, I know he was traveling faster than usual when he carried her to safety–at least, from his perspective–but still, that ice cream should have melted.)
Oh, and she shouldn’t be snippy about his not needing to save her. He saved her secret identity. She would have survived the fall, but everyone would have known she was Supergirl.
I liked how he remembered the earplugs from the Pied Piper episode, and gave Earth 3 the power canceling equipment. (Which I bet means a trial in an upcoming episode in which Supergirl will have to testify.)
I think, despite the two episodes directly addressing it and leading to the conclusion she was wrong, that Cat has always known and still knows, and is content to let it be for the sake of propriety. She’s proven over and over she’s the only one who isn’t a fool.
On another note, sometimes I wonder if all the namedropping she does are people who are genuinely Calista Flockhart’s friends. If they can have a CW reference in the presence of the Flash, one day there will be a Harrison Ford joke.
Re: your question concerning the ice cream. In the comic books, at least, it’s been repeatedly stated he generates an aura around him that prevents the effects of superspeed friction from, say, melting ice cream, or causing him or anyone he’s rescuing 2nd degree burns.
Cept the whole point was that he did cause Kara to burn. I haven’t watched this since early in the season but came back because of the crossover. I want to like this so much because Benoist does an amazing job and she is so incredibly adorable but all this did was remind me why i quit watching. The villainesses were completely ridiculous, Barry was basically turned into Cisco because the only real help he provided was his gadgets, and the resolution was cringe worthy.
What about mechanical things? He must have run to the kitchen, got the ice cream scoop out of the drawer, got the cones out of the cupboard, opened the freezer door to get the ice cream, etc., all in a fraction of a second. Do the other utensils go flying about the kitchen when the drawer is opened? Can a freezer door be opened that fast without yanking it off the hinges?
Not a problem if the cones were already made (I assumed Barry ran to the closest theme park and took them from toddlers… they were in those wafer cones that are mostly ordered by kids).
I really enjoyed this cross over. I kind of wish they could do it at least once a year.
One nice plot point, Barry showed the National City police how to jail meta humans so no more human rights violations.
Have you seen how S.T.A.R. Labs on Earth-1 incarcerates their metahumans? They don’t even give them a bench to sit on.
Comic book physics is only fully understood by two people: Ray (the Atom) Palmer in the DC Universe, and Reed (Mr. Fantastic) Richards in the Marvel one. Earth-Prime (our universe) rules don’t necessarily apply.
Victor Von Doom would probably take issue with that. Especially since comic-book physics includes magic, which he is a master of, and Richards is not.
But in one of the first episodes after Barry discovered his speed, didn’t his clothes catch on fire? I think that was part of the reason that Cisco made the super suit. And I think there have been a few other times that someone or something Barry has been carrying has caught on fire, usually as a throwaway joke.
Maybe since Barry was going fast enough that he could travel to a parallel universe, then that’s why Kara caught on fire. But he wasn’t going as fast to get the ice cream. Regardless, the look of excitement that Kara had when she realized she had ice cream in her hand was all worth it.
I absolutely loved the chemistry between Barry and Kara, they were just so delightful together. I love how excited they were about each other and about fighting crime. I would have spent less time on the villains and more time on them.
Remarkably similar to the really-really-stupid glass cell at the DEO, actually.
Does anyone know any real-world backstory about how this crossover came to happen, btw? Cross-network crossovers are not an everyday occurrence. But I guess Greg Berlanti is a producer for both shows, or something?
Wasn’t there an episode where they explained that they stopped doing that?
They were delightful together, and I smiled every time they interacted, but they because super best friends (or best super friends?) in about 20 seconds. It was awfully quick.
As fast as he is - I still find it amazing that he just happened to jump between universes, into a new city and be in just the right place at just the right time to catch the one person that needed to be caught - that wasn’t even making a sound (beyond ‘woosh’) on the way down.
Beyond that - and I have no problem with it in ‘reality’ - I thought this was one of the best episodes yet - simply fun -