Frozen Fox

Earth-1 Alex's hair... it looks so bad on her! lol

"It's just one word, Superman." Barry is killing it with his lines in the crossover. I love dorky fun Barry. One of my biggest problems in the past couple of seasons was that Barry wasn't as fun anymore.

Gary! "You guys are my heroes, well not heroes, legends."

And that was my bad attempt at writing my thoughts down while watching the show and not waiting until afterwards like normal. After Cisco got introduced I stopped trying and instead just watched the show.

I liked evil Cisco, and evil James, but I was disappointed that James didn't get to do very much. It was an episode of Supergirl after-all and he got treated badly last year in Crisis on Earth-X as well. I know Cisco was important to the story but I wanted a little bit more time with James.

No Lena at all was a disappointment.

I liked how Kara got through to Earth-1 Alex. It doesn't matter what earth, Alex is still a good person who cares about people. But at the same time I missed our Alex. I wished she had arrived with Brainy, Lois, and J'onn.

Once again I find myself really liking Lois and Clark, which is weird because I've never been a huge fan of them in the past. I've never minded them, but they never made me think 'yeah, I ship that!'. But they are super cute here. Unfortunately Superman is my current prediction for dying during the next crossover in place of Kara who died in the comics.

One thing that did disappoint me however this was the first time the Earth-1 heroes met Brainy, the first time most of them had met Lois and the first time most of them had met J'onn (I can't remember if the J'onn reveal happened before or after Barry went to Earth-38 in Season 1). And it was just glossed over. I wanted a more "hi, who are you?" type thing.

Not seeing Kate again except for a cameo at the end was also a disappointment. I would have been fine with it if they hadn't spent so much time in the summer building up to Batwoman being this epic thing. What we had was great, but I want more.

I also have a rant coming ahead on Crisis on Infinite Earths which I'm saving for another post.

Overall though, I liked Elseworld. It was a fun crossover. It wasn't as good as Crisis on Earth-X but that would have been hard to top.

One thing that Crisis did really well was it was basically a movie while Elseworld was split in individual parts, which made me miss certain characters. For example Part 3 takes place in Central City, there was no reason why Iris couldn't have been included, but I don't remember her even getting a mention. I want to see all the characters interact, not just Oliver, Barry and Kara. Hopefully the movie format returns for Crisis on Infinite Earths.

But there was still a lot of stuff to like about Elseworlds. Barry being Oliver, Oliver being Barry, Batwoman, Barry in general, Clark and Lois, Kara, the Earth-1 version of Alex and James even if they were in a wrong reality, evil Cisco who is better at being evil here than Earth-2 Cisco, Gary, etc. No Beebo though, such a shame.

This episode reminded me why Arrow is my least favourite of the Beeboverse shows. Oliver is just way to serious for my liking, although I did like how towards the end of the episode he tried to be more like Barry with the smiling and thumbs up. I wouldn't mind Oliver becoming more fun if it also didn't involve Barry becoming darker (I'm totally with Iris and her concerns).

All-in-all though I liked the swapped body thing, even if I disagree that they need to start acting like each other to fully use the other's skills. I snickered when Barry was on board for having fun with the body swap until Oliver mentioned that he had woken up in Barry's bed with Iris in the apartment. I just really love small moments like that which remind us how much Barry loves Iris.

I'll admit that WestAllen was my NOTP for a long time, but they've won me over. The stuff about Iris being Barry's lightning rod always makes me melt, I like pairings that are stupidly in love with each other. I also liked their conversation at the end where Iris reminded Barry to remain true to himself. She gets it. That's more important than becoming the Green Arrow.

Strangely enough, I liked the stuff at Kent farm even though I'm not a big Superman fan. His previous appearances on Supergirl never left an impact on me, but I liked him here and I really liked Lois. I know from BTS pictures during filming that they're both back at some point in the crossover so hopefully it's not a too long of wait. And hopefully they'll both be making appearances in Supergirl after this.

And we finally got the answer for the ever long question of how do prisoner's go to the bathroom who are locked in the Star Labs cells. A good kick to the wall is all it takes, although I'm sure Barry could have gotten it out a little gentler.

One question though, where was Nora for the entire episode? I know she left the 100th episode by going back into the future but surely she wasn't gone that long since when she and Barry travelled to the past it was like no time had passed in the present.

I'm looking forward to seeing Batwoman's introduction in the next episode. Can't wait!