CRISIS ON EARTH-X review

Suck it, Drumpf.

Right. There are 52 parallel worlds all "vibrating at different frequencies," just roll with it.

Also, there's a 53rd Earth, called Earth-X, where the Nazis won the war. And Oliver Queen is somehow Der Fuhrer. Never mind that there's a literal ubermensch on Earth-X, who is content to be Oliver's wife and general. Never mind that there's another ubermensch as well, running around wearing Harrison Wells's face again (guess Matt Letscher was unavailable?).

Actually, a word on that. I'm on record as thinking Tom Cavanagh as Eobard Thawne as Harrison Wells (or "Wellsobard," if you will) is the single greatest live-action performance of a comic-book villain, ever. Having said that, I don't think Letscher's performance is bad, it's just not as nuanced. Letscher's Thawne is never given an opportunity to be anything other than straight-up evil. Wellsobard is given so much more in Season 1 of The Flash, but here... well, here, it just feels like fanservice. There's no reason for Thawne to be wearing Wells's face. There's no reason for Thawne to roll around in a wheelchair for yuks at one point. And he's really over the top here. (Yes, Cavanagh got freakishly over-the-top before, near the end of Season 1 of The Flash, but he was clearly having a moment; he snaps back to "cold and collected" for the finale. Here, he's just hardwired to be hyper.)

So you decided that Nazis were going to be the antagonist, right. And then, as a joke, you relate that Mick-X died "saving cops from a burning building." Were they Nazi cops? Snart-X cares about "due process," like he'd ever heard of the thing growing up under Nazis. And as mentioned above, the Master Race doesn't seem to care about the fact that there are two inhuman demigods running around - wouldn't that have some impact on their ideology?

Anyway.

So Nazis took over Earth-X. And now they want the Earth-38 Supergirl. Her, specifically, the one with friends across the multiverse.

So naturally they crash Barry Allen's wedding. On Earth-1. When they're hunting the Earth-38 Supergirl.

Did Nazi Oliver somehow get an invite?

Now, I will say that this actually felt like a comic book crossover, in the sense that things go hilariously wrong for the first 3/4ths of the story and then, for no apparent reason, the good guys suddenly gain an edge in the final act and manage to win. Guess we just needed more superheroes to blast Metallo after Supergirl couldn't do the trick herself.

Look, it's obvious that they wanted Nazis as the villains, so they made Nazis as the villains (and, hilariously, put Oliver and Kara together) and didn't give it any further thought.

Also, I found the color filters really obnoxious.

On the plus side, it was great to see the Green Arrow fighting in a competent fight scene for the first time in years (have I mentioned that I hate how Arrow does its fight scenes?)