Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31722073-20190131024820/@comment-31722073-20190201185712

Not a single member of the JSA died, three characters from Earth-2 died in total, Robin, Huntress and Green Arrow. And I recognize that a lot of them weren’t important, but most of those you mentioned are ones who exist, Caitlin/Killer Frost needs to be in the crossover, Jonah Hex could easily be in it too, but the main problems are the Lanterns, Psimon and Earth-Three, the Oans are vital to the whole lore of the thing and since no one knows it they’ll have to do a big long monologue to introduce things for five episodes not to explain stuff that has been unexplained/partially explained for decades, Psimon is important to the villain part and the original task force and he doesn’t exist. Earth-Three is necessary for the stakes, kill off people everyone knows but don’t care about, but it also brings us Alex Luthor Jr., the only character introduced in the Crisis who needs a setup and I see no way to get it.

And Crisis on Infinite Earths isn’t like Elseworlds, Earth-X, Invasion, or any of the other crossovers. They had an annual crossover in comics too, two comics of a crossover between the JLA and JSA, Crisis is different not just because it does important stuff but because it is longer and is everyone, and I don’t really think anyone appreciates that a limited series is the only way to respect it.

They can grab random versions but that would require Earth-90-ing even more popular universes or doing that to places no one cares about/recognizes, they just want Supergirl to be on Earth-1 and they’ll do anything for it.