Crisis on Earth-X, Part 1

Once the "Wedding stuff" is out of the way this is excellent.

IT used to be a somewhat OK show with a few clichés here and there, to be expected, fine. But now its getting to be like a over sugary, full of (very bad) clichés soap opera. It was always part that of course but it balanced out with some OK action and dialogue.Not to mention the stupid inconsistencies. The bad guys escape out the door for 3 seconds and "theyre gone". Flash can run the city in 1 second but cant catch bad guys who are infront of the building. They always act like its a big revelation when a mirror counterpart is shown to be a copy despite everybody knows it. Horrible, so predictable.

And overall lately the soap opera part has completely taken over, the writing is beyond abysmal, its drenched in sweet and often feels like a commercial for inscription into SJW club. Please stop and take a step back, this is PATHETIC.

Caught your attention didn't it. Hear me out though. A lot of people are complaining an asking why Nazis what is this 1985? For now Nazis serve a purpose in super hero shows. They are a human, Earth based enemy, where viewers don't get upset if the good guys hurt, maim, or even kill the human. The studio doesn't have to come up with a machine or a random non-humanoid alien, they can have disposable humans with a Earth based plot. Even the Avengers use them to be beaten to a more extreme manner. Super Heroes can kill humans, if the humans are Nazis.

Here is another biased review. I hate the wedding subplot, I think it has been draining life out of the flash series, so having so much of this crossover focus on it was annoying. I would never call them "the most perfect couple in the world, it is like the writers have an idea of who these characters are but that idea is noticeable different from the characters you seen on screen on weekly basis. Dialogue was 5-10% good, rest of it was forcefully peppy or outright painful.

CG was poor, it is unsurprising for a TV show budget yet I got my hopes up for a bit, then I saw supergirl uppercut a dominator and my hope took a dip but the church fight was good.

"Crisis on Earth-X" remains the best crossover even after "Elseworlds" and "Crisis on Infinite Earths" for several reasons. The battle in the church, the soundtrack by Blake Neely, the humor, the absence of useless dialogue, the right amount of screen time for each character and the joy to see all of them together truly make it an excellent 4 hours of television. The large number of characters is not overwhelming, on the contrary, they all have a perfect storyline that fits their own show. There are also the presence of Reverse Flash, the opening title, and the use of powers that we rarely see (Killer Frost, Vibe, Steel, Kid Flash, etc.) that create a special atmosphere for these episodes.