Monday Media Musings - 10/7/19

Arrowverse: I caught up on Saturday! I focused mainly on The Flash and Arrow, but I also watched the final two episodes of Supergirl and Legends just so the finales could be fresh in my mind (although it turns out that Legends isn't back on until January). The shared world feels like it's starting to fall apart, though. Every single issue that the Earth-1 shows were facing had implications on a global scale: ( spoilers for all )

Good thing I finished when I did, because it's season premiere week for three of the shows... I haven't decided whether I'm going to write up every single episode as I watch it, but for at least these premieres I think I will, and see how it goes with time and having interesting things to say.

Batwoman series premiere: It became quickly clear that, as an origin story, the pilot goes back in time, prior to when we first met Kate Kane in the 2018 Elseworlds crossover. Overall I suppose this choice makes sense, although it would've been nice to see a CW show take a break from the origin story character introduction. I also wonder how the show will manage to catch up to the Crisis timeframe while also dealing with the potential antagonists introduced in Elseworlds. I guess what I'm saying is that the overall narrative has bitten off quite a lot, and only time will tell whether it's capable of chewing. Big picture aside, the pilot was fine -- it set up what it needed to set up, introduced who it needed to introduce, and left me curious to see what comes next. Not brilliance, but then none of the other CW pilots were, either.

Supergirl S5 premiere: "Pants!"

( Okay I do have more to say than that. )