Most shows were limited in what could really be accomplished given their ongoing storytelling needs. There never seemed to be a clear plan for how to move the various surviving shows forward following the conclusion of Crisis. Only Arrow was fundamentally transformed by the events of Crisis, and that series ended two episodes after the crossover. Crisis mainly served to streamline Flash and Supergirl’s respective Earths into one world, while setting up a handful of ongoing story threads involving multiverse doppelgangers and Lex Luthor’s rehabilitated public image. But once the dust did finally settle, the actual, tangible effects of Crisis were surprisingly small. The crossover itself is massive in scope, chronicling the death and rebirth of the DC multiverse itself. In hindsight, this approach seems to have diminished the impact Crisis had on the surviving Arrowverse shows. Essentially, this meant that shows like The Flash, Supergirl and Batwoman were forced to press pause on their ongoing storylines for one episode before returning to business as usual the next time around. The Flash’s Season 5 finale changed the newspaper’s date to December 10, 2019, laying the foundation for a crossover in the middle of the 2019-2020 TV season. However, it eventually became clear that Crisis wasn’t the destined end point of The Flash, but merely another stop along the way. The very first episode of The Flash in 2014 ended with the reveal of a futuristic newspaper headline dated Ap“Flash Missing: Vanished in Crisis.” That was clearly the climactic end point the show’s writers were building to, leaving viewers with the promise of ten years of adventures and dramatic twists building to a massive battle for the fate of the multiverse. After Crisis: The Smaller Scope of the ArrowverseĪrrowverse fans knew years ahead of time that a Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover was coming.
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