Comments - End of an era
Kind of a sad end for the CW's Arrowverse, an ambitious project that managed to pump out over seven hundred episodes of connected superhero universe and even managed to (kinda/sorta) do Crisis on Infinite Earths on a low rent TV network budget. Had you told early 80's, teenage me that such a thing would exist in the future I would have been incredulous and excited beyond measure.
It's The Flash that I feel saddest about. The first season was amazing and fun and subsequent seasons became increasingly weighed down by angst, melodrama and repetitive story lines. I became increasingly unhappy with a show I took to calling "Sad Barry, The Bummer Flash" and eventually noped out after they fired Hartley Sawyer for some decade old tweets. Dibney's journey felt like it had some of the old spark that the early Flash did and with him gone, there was nothing left for me.
I thought I would try to watch the final season as a send off for the show that, at the very least, brought me excitement by having Gorilla Grodd and King Shark in live action, but I couldn't get through the first episode. It was just more of the same stuff that prodded me to leave years ago.
In the end, Arrowverse was done in by undercooked melodrama and huge changes in the TV and streaming landscape. Goodnight, sweet prince. We'll not see your like again.
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