User blog:Xandermcc/Crisis on Earth-X part three: The hottest Fuhrer by default.

Wow this four parter was longer than i thought. Anyway, didn't post until near the end of the week cause... Halloween! One of my favourite times of the year. I also like gay superheroes. Oh wait, not in that way. Sometimes i need context in what i say. Anyway, on with the review.

As with the last one, this one starts with our heroes in Nazi jail and to be honest, they don't really sell the severity of the situation in this one. They will however which we will see as this review continues, but right now? Earth-X is basically high school based on how the extras are selling it in this opening. Plus they don't explain why Oliver, Sara, and Alex are wearing meta collars for no reason at all. Does it stop them from punching things? -1

Kara's scenes with her Nazi doppelganger are really well done moments shown. Same with Eobard being there too. Her clash with her Earth-X self over their respective ideologies is very classic Supergirl material. Not to mention, the suspense in Eobard being ready to cut open Supergirl. +2

They later give the reason why the collars are on Oliver, Sara, and Alex, but it still doesn't make any sense why the inhibitor feature is on there too. Anyway, enough on that since the collars are disabled anyway by the great Captain Cold!... or at least his doppelganger Citizen Cold, and the Earth-X hero known as the Ray. +1

Weird that of all the conflicts that Earth-X Kara is having with her doppelganger, she decided to talk about Kara being single. I know in social situations i don't deal with, married people do tend to bother single people about their singleness, but did they have to focus on that when they could just focus on their warring ideologies? -1

1/10

Oliver, Snart, Barry, Alex, Stein, Jefferson, Ray, and Sara all make it to a secret base for the Freedom Fighters which is just the Arrowcave, but in yellow lighting. Things are a little different on this world when they find that the General of this freedom group is Winn's doppelganger. Now Jeremy Jordan does pretty well with this whole doppelganger business and unlike with Melissa Benoist where it wasn't her first time playing an evil counterpart, Jeremy is doing this for the first time and nailing it almost as well as Melissa. +1

Alex now is in a moment of desperation in trying to save Kara. However Sara decides to comfort her during this time by telling her the story of her own sister Laurel vs. Yanny Lance. It is well done how they show the parellel between Black Canary and Supergirl's story. +2

Oliver, Barry, and the Ray plan an attack for later on the Nazi dimensional portal. Showing all their skills as tacticians up to this point. Very well executed mainly. +1

I didn't like how Kara responded to being cut open by saying "my cousin will stop you" or something like that. Kinda misses the point of what her show was trying to prove the opposite of. (-1) However Eobard's line after was badass. Him going "A little tidbit. I bought your cousin once. He is fast, i'm faster" +1

5/10

So Kara has a situation where Felicity and Iris are in danger. Especially Felicity who has a vibrating hand waiting for her. However Kara's heroism ends up winning out when she sacrfices herself to save Felicity. +1

Oliver goes undercover in the Nazi operations. Finding a Nazi version of the Legend's Waverider. Which is a super cool design that was shown. However the best part was Nazi Quentin Lance from Arrow. Even having Oliver showing the theme of DC by saying "the strong must protect the weak" which is similar to DC's gods becoming humans mantra. +1

Red Tornado returns! Whooo! Sadly he didn't fight Kara too, but he did battle the Flash which is equally awesome. +1

Martin gets shot. Ending the episode right there. With Jefferson looking at him in shock, and a tragic version of the classic Legends theme playing. Very well done and besides one allusion to it happening later, it still was unexpected. +1

9/10 is the score. Still, i need to wait an hour for my superhero team to start getting my bonus scores from Earth-19. Meh, going to nuke them now.

The episode felt more like an episode of Supergirl than an episode of Flash. Yes, i am aware that they get extra time for Eobard to be on set if it is a Flash episode, but there was more of a Supergirl presence this time around with Red Tornado, Metallo, Winn's doppelganger, development for Alex etc. Also its more feeling of positivity in dark times and pushing against bigotry. Personally they should have made the first part of this crossover a Flash episode and then made this one the Supergirl episode. -1

I loved Citizen Cold in this. He was just very well done in terms of different ideas for a new Snart we haven't seen. The Ray was also cool, but i formed more of an opinion on him in his own series. +1

They had a nice little reflection into Kara's broken state during the beginning of Season 3. It bothered me last crossover that it had no character arc for Kara, she was just there. Now there is something and that is appreciated. +1

Metallo having his voice from the show. That was a nice attention to detail. +1

11/10 is the final score. Slightly better than the last, but not that much better. However we are getting a pretty good conclusion to it all on Legends of Tomorrow.