The other day I wrote a little article recapping the first dozen episodes of “Supergirl,” and why you should be watching it. Yesterday we got one more reason: Grant Gustin’s Flash is going to be visiting Supergirl in National City. Here’s the official announcement:
Actor Grant Gustin, who plays Barry Allen/The Flash in the CW’s The Flash, will make his way into National City alongside Melissa Benoist, who stars as Kara Danvers/Supergirl, on the specialSupergirl episode slated for Monday, March 28 at 8/7c on CBS.
“We are so incredibly excited to announce something that we have dreamed of happening since we starting making Supergirl,” said The Flash and Supergirl Executive Producers Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg. “We want to thank Grant Gustin for making the time to come visit (on top of his already immense workload) and all of the folks at CBS, The CW, Warner Bros. and DC for working this out.”
The producers also took the opportunity to thank the many fans and journalists who “kept asking” for a crossover special.
“It is our pleasure and hope to create an episode worthy of everyone’s enthusiasm and support,” said Berlanti and Kreisberg.
How will the two superheroes work together? Be sure to watch Supergirl Mondays at 8/7c on CBS to find out.
That’s really all we know at this point.
It’s something we’ve been hoping for since they announced that Supergirl was getting her own series, but then when CW passed on it and she headed over to CBS, it seemed like it wasn’t going to pan out. Crossing heroes is one thing, crossing networks is another. And yet, the producer of both shows, Greg Berlanti, said that they were going to keep writing the two series so they wouldn’t conflict with each other storywise. Like…they could be in the same universe, even if that crossover never happened. Even if it’s just Barry Allen meeting Kara Danvers, they’re both so adorably dorky that it make for a fun episode.
I don’t think this will result in crossovers as frequently as we get on “The Flash,” “Arrow,” and “Legends of Tomorrow,” but it would make that universe that much bigger. My son was geeking out on the idea of Cisco meeting Winn, and them having over-the-top geeky conversations. Or Diggle’s reaction when he finds out there aren’t just superpowered heroes, but aliens too. Or an inevitable race between Flash and Supergirl, that will somehow end in a tie. This means that Superman exists in the Arrowverse. It means that we’re that much closer to some kind of Justice League forming up. Which I don’t necessarily need or want. Each series is already chock-full of heroes and villains. Which I love. DC Comics on television is getting everything right. And with the (other) news that the Teen Titans series that TNT dropped out of may still have a life “elsewhere” (possibly CW?), that could potentially expand that Arrowverse one more time.
Wow. This is a good week.