And Crisis on Infinite Earthsis the most consistent and cohesive of them all.
In recent years, there’s been more cohesion. An episode of Supergirl would feel very much like an episode of Supergirl for example, regardless of how many other characters from the other shows were hanging around. In the early years of Arrowverse crossovers, the respective episodes that told the story always explicitly belonged to their shows. And like that latter film, I’m just going to call it right now: Crisis on Infinite Earths succeeds. The easiest comparison is Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, which had the unenviable task of bringing ten years of moviemaking to a close in a satisfying way. Sure, there’s two episodes left, but this is a form of TV storytelling never before attempted. The thing about “Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three” is that this not only had to deliver 100+ episodes worth of emotional and narrative payoff, it was also the climax of the single most ambitious crossover in television history. But get him there they sure as hell did, even though things ended up a little differently than we expected to. Given that the original date on that infamous newspaper headline indicated that Crisis on Infinite Earthswasn’t going to take place until 2024, well…so few shows make it to 10 seasons these days that this just seemed like more of a way to make fans know that the showrunners knew where Barry eventually had to end up, rather than a way to get him there. I’m not sure I ever truly believed we would ever get here. The one that they spent five seasons and change reminding us would happen eventually at every possible opportunity. The one we knew that Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and friends always wanted to do so badly that they baked it into the very concept of the series from the pilot. It’s THE episode we’ve been waiting for since the very first episode of The Flash. “Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three” is the big one.
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