Post Crisis

I didn't realize this weekend was the 4th annual Women's March, as well as MLK weekend. Also another awards show I guess, but it's been a disappointingly non-diverse slate this year, with Tarantino's stupid film continuing to win. Hollywood so in love with itself again, awarding the same-old boring people again. Yawn.

On TV, the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover finally finished. Really terrible 4th episode that kept using the same dumb side-quest things that killed momentum. No real explanation of Spectre's power and what use the Paragons were in him fighting the Anti-Monitor. So anticlimatic. The 5th episode was better, with the paragons actually fighting real opponents instead of vague shadow-things. Then they gave Oliver yet another tribute and founded a Superfriends group with a special table at the Hall of Justice. Honestly, the whole Crisis was just an excuse to unite all the superheroes on one Earth-prime, and to reset Supergirl permanently so that Lex Luthor would stay alive and rewrite history.

But it's weird that Oliver still narrated a new multiverse arising while we saw other DC heroes on other Earths, yet in the latest Supergirl episode, Brainiac claims that there are no other Earths anymore. That doppelgangers from other universes are refugees on Earth-Prime. So, like, make up your minds, writers! I'm not sure I like where the Brainiac plot is going on Supergirl, and I wish they could have fixed Kara and Lena's relationship. Their feud is so tiring and disappointing.

Meanwhile Batwoman is apparently using this doppelganger thing to bring an alternate-universe Beth to Gotham. I mean, yet another Kane sister? I was just starting to hope that Kate and her step-sister Mary were going to spend more time together and hug more, but now this!