To get this out of the way I've already said my peace on how little of an interest I have in the MCU and DC Cinematic Universe so I'm moving on from that. What I am going to talk about however is how disinterested I am with the DC Television Universe.
The DCTVU started off hot. Especially with Arrow, first two seasons anyway, and Flash and it seems to be what I felt how the DC Cinematic Universe should have been. Least IMHO. The Arrowverse managed to establish its own universe and mythology and at the time it seem to have some form of a direction. Then the idiocy of WB rears its ugly head. First it started with systematically killing off Deadshot then soon almost anyone who is involved with the Suicide Squad just for the sake of not having two versions of the same characters. I guess WB must think their fans are too stupid that they couldn't tell the difference between the tv and film versions. And because of this there is a strong possibility that we might not see TV Barry because WB, in their infinite wisdom feel that having two Barry's is illogical. So that would mean all that build up and making the fans feel emotionally invested in the character is flushed down the toilet because WB is too petty to not just separate the tv and film versions of the respective characters. Which is a shame. I wouldn't mind a TV version of Superman teaming up with Supergirl and hang out afterwards. Or a few heartwarming scenes involving Clark helping Kara through her trauma of the Red K incident. Hell I wouldn't even mind Kara interacting with Lois. But that cant happen.
So why should I even care about the characters if they are just going to get killed or disappear because we might be seeing a movie version of the same character soon? I guess this also means no Martian Manhunter in Justice League?
You'd think with Marvel trying to walk on eggshells in establishing their universe without X-Men related characters, due to Fox owning them, that DC would be taking advantage of this opportunity right? To quote someone
I like the idea of separate universes. I think a big part of the reason Daredevil and Jessica Jones are as good as they are is because of how far away from the rest of the Universe they are.
If anything, DC needs to truly separate the universes. Get rid of this "no doubles rule" and give the TV Show's the creative control they've earned. They sure like using the TV Shows to advertise the movies, you'd think they'd want those shows to be as high quality as possible.
Don't ruin a good thing WB! Otherwise you'd just be alienating your fanbase even further.
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