With the declaration that the CW is expanding its superhero show roster withan Atom / Firestorm / Black Canary team - up show , it looks like we might finally be dumbfound something Smallville tried ( and ultimately failed ) to do : make the Justice League on television system . But this time , it might really turn .
Aside from their connection having been born out of The Flash and Arrow , if you dig into the comic - book story of these three character , their only existent connexion consist as members of the Justice League over the class — not on the same level as Batman and Superman , sure as shooting , but in this example they do n’t really have to be . Unlike Smallville , which rushed in to add Bart Allen , Arthur Curry , Oliver Queen and Victor Stone as quickly as they could , this new opportunity , focalize on what at first might seem like secondary reference , s means that DC and the CW are free to assay something a little different . This time , it does n’t find forced , and that means it remain firm a good chance of sticking and creating a Modern paradigm in superhero TV .
One of the key reasons this new League might work is that it does n’t have to be beholden to whatever pass off in Batman V. Superman . Although we might look to Marvel and lament that DC does n’t strain to attach their first-class shows to their motion picture ’s shared universe , in this case it ’s actually a welfare to the companionship .
The movies are untested earth — we do n’t know if Batman V. Superman and its successors will hit it off yet , so cop the already successful idiot box show to that bandwagon could have been risky . However , by keeping the two branches of adaptation disjoined , yet allowing them to crossover among themselves . means DC basically gets to have its bar and eat it , too . They get the welfare of a shared universe on both film and tv set , merged projects that have granted the folk at Marvel huge succeeder so far , but they also do n’t get the problems that shared storytelling can bring — a problem Marvel has already faced , when agent of SHIELD was stuck grind its heel and remove flak from fans until it could take out its “ Aha ! ” mo with the release of Captain America : The Winter Soldier . With two separate shared universes for different format , DC is innocent to do what they require without one being beholden to the other .
Of naturally , there ’s always the chance you could cross them over as unlike realities in the Multiverse as well , but let ’s not get forward of ourselves just yet .
If we ’re honorable though , this TV Justice League does n’t really need a connection to the heavy - bump off Justice League members we ’re come on the handsome screen . Its equivalents are already the big stars of shows we presently have : You ’ve got Ollie as your Batman stand - in , the darker hero base in realism , while Barry symbolize the more outlandish and the superpowered antic of the likes of Superman . With their own serial publication to themselves , they ’ve had meter to get established , to become the main figureheads of this new cosmos .
And that , unlike Smallville ’s approach , is another string to this fresh serial ’ bow ( Green Arrow pun unintended , but I ’ll take it ): We ’ve had time to get to know these characters and see them on their own before they ’re bestow together . Smallville hasten to introduce , establish , and then come up its Justice League within a single season of TV , and then fundamentally promptly forget about it . Here , we ’ve actually had time to get to sleep together Black Canary , Atom and Firestorm over the class of their appearance in Arrow and Flash before we see them come together . In a way , it ’s an plan of attack even more careful than the one DC ’s movie universe is accept ( one of the many criticisms hold at Batman V Superman being that it seems too sudden to go from Man of Steel to establishing the League over the course of a single movie ) . We do n’t involve to spend time bring in these characters and what they ’re about , because they ’ll be embark the show as fully forge characters already .
And the fact that they ’re established already means the three novel heroes mentioned in the initial reports as joining the team — whoever they are — will hopefully get the time they need to be established as they can be anchored by the presence of these already well known heroes .
DC ’s gotten a lot of flak for fundamentally being a bit copycat when it comes to their alive - action stuff . The determination to forgo Man of Steel 2 for a team - up movie run to many accusations that they were just chasing the money made by The Avengers , but while in this example the idea is inherently the same , no one else , and certainly not wonder at the bit , are try on to do something like this superhero team - up on television receiver . For once , DC is breaking a little bit of new ground — even if it is admittedly something they tried and failed to do with Smallville .
“ But what about Agent Carter flashback in SHIELD ? ! ” you cry . Yes , Marvel ’s video shows are connect to each other through the broad umbrella of the MCU , but in term of really crossing over , that ’s not happening any meter soon . SHIELD is for the most part on its own outside of connecting up with the film and lento establishing the Inhumans . Agent Carter was an separated chronicle . Even today , we ’ve had word from Jeph Loeb not to expect Daredevil , A.K.A. Jessica Jones or Defenders to be intersect over among themselves or the rest of the MCU for a while . This young DC show would be an amalgam of all these crossovers and connections between Arrow and The Flash with the summation of more DC Comics characters project into the mix — and unlike anything else we ’re currently see from superhero TV : A to the full set up team of superheroes , kick piece of ass and demand names on the minor blind . That ’s an incredibly interesting estimate , and it ’s exciting that we could be starting to see a humble taste of what we ’re have at the film in a weekly show .
The “ Flash vs. pointer ” and “ Brave and the Bold ” episodes sparked the beginning of something rather special for DC ’s television venture with the CW . And although it ’s extremely unlikely they this new show will inherit the Justice League title while the motion-picture show are around , allow ’s trust that whatever this newfangled team - up show ends up being , it can be worthy of being the League in all but name .
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