The CW's Crisis on Infinite Earths is the culmination of seven years of DC Comics-based television and reaches even further back for several of its cameos. Given the huge scope of the network's ultimate crossover, one might expect that the CW planned to follow it up with something even more grandiose. Marc Guggenheim, however, has  seemingly confirmed the opposite. Instead, the writers of the Arrowverse are intent on giving the new universe a breather, with the potential event for next year being much, much smaller in scale. As disappointing as this may sound to some fans, it actually makes sense on several levels.

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The World's Too Big

Given that the scale of Crisis literally threatens the whole of the Arrowverse Multiverse, any attempt to follow that up runs into the conundrum of how to even possibly do so. The Anti-Monitor himself, since his introduction in the Crisis on Infinite Earths comic book, has been the ultimate villain in the DC Universe. Even threats such as Doomsday and Darkseid pale in comparison to his power. Thus, coming up with a villain to rival, or even supersede him in power would be a difficult task. Similarly, the comic books waited years before trying anything on the scale of Crisis. The first attempt came after 8 years after Crisis in the form of Zero Hour: A Crisis in Time. This story served more as a follow up to Crisis than a true sequel, trying to finish the continuity fixing job of its predecessor. The true sequel, Infinite Crisis, would come an entire twenty years after the first, allowing the new and only Earth to be established before trying to threaten it on such a similar scale again. Even after the success of Avengers: Endgame, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is planning on diverging its earthbound and cosmic characters in future stories, refraining from jumping into another universe-wide crossover so soon. In other words, viewers need breathing room in between this gigantic spectacles, lest they run the risk of growing stale, and fast.

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Setting the Scene

The CW is also adding a litany of new shows and heroes to its universe, all of whom will need their own mythos and status quo established before viewers care about their fate amid a new crossover. One of these shows is Superman and Lois, and given that Crisis will likely consolidate the various Earths into one like in the comics, viewers will want to see Superman's feet firmly planted in his role of this new Earth's greatest hero before anything else is done with him. Similarly, the upcoming Stargirl will supposedly be in the Arrowverse continuity, and its promised new generation of superheroes needs to be established on its own before thrusting them into the midst of a huge crossover. This will keep them from narratively being swallowed up by the more established veteran characters. Even Batwoman, the most recent Arrowverse show to air, is being juxtaposed into the story of Crisis in the middle of her inaugural season. To prevent this from happening again, the CW should stick to its guns, laying each show's foundations before ever having another crossover even nearly as ambitious as this one.

"Crisis on Infinite Earths" begins Sunday, Dec. 8 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Supergirl, then continues in Batwoman on Monday, Dec. 9 at 8 p.m. ET/PT and in The Flash on Tuesday, Dec. 10 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. After the winter hiatus, the crossover will conclude on Tuesday, Jan. 14 in Arrow at 8 p.m. ET/PT and in DC's Legends of Tomorrow at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

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