Honestly, the most surprising part of this episode was how little of the episode was actually spent with the aliens. In hindsight it makes sense because if this is a 3 part episode, the first part should focus on getting the team together before beginning to fight during Arrow and beating them during Legends but while I was watching, I was sitting here thinking that for a crossover that was billed as heroes v aliens, there are very little aliens in this.
But let's start from the beginning. I always love how during the crossovers how either Barry or Oliver save the other and I just love their friendship so hard. When everyone else was pissed at Barry for Flashpoint, Oliver was the only one to take his side (and Kara but she doesn't really live in this Earth so she doesn't really count). Part of this is probably because Oliver knows more than anyone else about blame and taking on the burden of guilt from everyone. Oliver knows about mistakes. He's written the book on them.
I loved seeing the teams meet Kara and be in awe about how badass she was! The scene where everyone was fighting her and she was seriously destroying them was amazing. I can totally see why Kara needs to be in her own Earth cause literally every problem Oliver, Barry or the Legends have, she could solve in like two seconds. But seriously, it was so cool seeing her deflect literally every attack off of her and Sara hitting on her and Heatwave freaking Kara out and Oliver mistrusting her. This is the kind of epicness I wanted to see.
Cisco was still mad at Barry and I'm kind of glad they didn't just sweep these feelings under the rug for the crossover. In fact, they captalized on this and everyone basically caught each other up on what's been happening on their shows. Ray told Barry about Snart dying and Caitlin told everyone about her ice powers and Barry admitted everything he changed during Flashpoint. Digg's reaction to finding out that he had a daughter was heartbreaking although I expected Sara to say something cause the baby was named after her and the Legends were outside of the timeline during this time so they should have seen the changes. It was really nice seeing how well all these characters know each other and how when they came back together, a lot of pairs that we haven't seen together in a while came together. Like I almost forgot how close Caitlin and Stein were because Ronnie used to be Firestorm or that Ray and Barry had met a couple of times before. Having characters interact with each other and seeing how close they all are is one of the reasons why I was so looking forward to this crossover.
There was also some stuff with Wally and him wanting to go out into the field with Barry but Iris and Joe not being a fan of this. I was not a fan of this stuff because like I said in previous reviews, Wally is my favorite speedster and I hate that the only storyline he's getting is that he wants powers and can't have them or now he's got powers but he can't use them. What the actual hell is going on with Iris and Joe? Neither one of them have stopped Barry from using his powers before. And I know that Wally doesn't have much experience yet but everyone has to start somewhere! I am interested in this Wally and HR team up that's going to happen because honestly I want Wally to be trained and become awesome and then show up and save the day and be super badass. Also how freaking hilarious is it that literally everyone is faster than Barry? Seriously. Reverse Flash, Zoom, Savitar, Jessie Quick and now Wally. Barry, babe, you should just say that you're faster than humans at this point cause you are DEFINITELY not the fastest man alive.
Now that I've gushed about characters and everything I loved, to the aliens! Despite having a limited appearance, they showed up and fucked shit up!! Not only do they look terrifying but they were able to kidnap the president, kill him and then mind control everyone else. Somehow the aliens knew that Team Flash, Team Arrow, Supergirl and the Legends were the real people protecting the Earth and were able to bait and attack them. Were they spying on Earth for longer than a day? And if they knew that all the heroes were in America, why not attack another continent? Wouldn't world domination be slightly easier if it wasn't in the hometowns of these heroes? Also they literally KILLED THE PRESIDENT! This should be a much bigger deal than it was.
Also I gotta give a special shoutout to Diggle and his hilarious actions. Throwing up after Barry sped him to Felicity's apartment, being in awe of Supergirl, blaming Barry for his life being less normal than it was. I live for this kind of humor.
Anyway if you couldn't tell, I absolutely loved this episode and I'm pumped to see the rest!!!! Tune in later tonight for my Agents of SHIELD review!
xoxo Allie
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