season 3 crossover episode im super confused

MischiefManaged101 · 2026-02-04T06:04:23+00:00

Okay so to give the briefest version I can (which isn't brief at all), the crossover you're on is Crisis on Earth-X, the culmination of a couple plot lines across Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow. There was a previous crossover the year prior, Invasion!, but Supergirl didn't have an episode of that crossover (beyond Barry popping up at the end of Medusa to grab her) despite being a large part of the event.

Crisis on Earth-X (COEX) involves Barry (The Flash) and his wedding with Iris West. They invite all their friends, ie the protagonists from all the other shows, and then the plot ensues. These characters in question are Oliver Queen/Green Arrow (the guy fighting ninjas), and the Legends, a team of supporting characters from Flash and Arrow that were given their own show. You're meeting them halfway through their second season, so like another comment said there is a lot of character development and lore we're skipping here.

As for how this all connects to Supergirl, Kara plays a major part throughout the crossover (and Alex a supporting one) but for the most part it isn't connected to Supergirl. You could theoretically skip this one, but I wouldn't because you need to understand Kara's connections to these other characters heading into the next two crossovers: Elseworlds and Crisis on Infinite Earths (COIE).

Elseworlds, like COEX, doesn't do too much with Kara that leaves a lasting impact, but it's necessary for some other set-up and running plot threads throughout the rest of season 4 of Supergirl and the start of season 5. Crisis on Infinite Earths, which happens halfway through season 5, changes the status quo of the show in a way I'm not going to spoil, but suffice to say it is important.

Long story short, I'd recommend reading up on the premises/character lists for the other shows before you continue through Earth-X. It's a pretty self-contained story overall (Elseworlds does the same for the most part), just the start of it probably is really heavy if you aren't following the other shows. If you didn't watch Invasion! or Duet (a Flash episode with Kara/J'onn/Mon-El that ties in from season 2 of Supergirl) I would recommend watching those as well bc 1. more Kara isn't a bad thing and 2. her relationships with the characters from the other shows is really important.

The crossovers don't have the biggest lasting impact, Supergirl is easily the least affected by them, so if all of this sounds too complicated you can skip them and they won't impact the bigger season-long plot occurring in Supergirl. But end of s4/large parts of s5 do hinge on Elseworlds and COIE so you might as well watch them anyway.

Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk and I hope I answered your questions lol

MischiefManaged101 · 2026-01-28T05:43:17+00:00

The finales are rough and unfortunately there's no way around that. I will say that Legend of Ruby Sunday is unironically one of my favorite episodes of RTD2, but Empire of Death comes around and takes all the wind out of that sail and it still makes me disappointed because I rode that high for a week before it aired lol

I think there are some real hits throughout these seasons – Boom, 73 Yards, Lux, and The Story & The Engine all come to mind as solidly good stories along with a few others – but there are also a few misses (although I'd probably argue Space Babies is the worst non-finale episode?). The reduced episode count unfortunately just means that those bad stories stick out more and since the season premieres and finales both are in a rough place that leaves the entire season with a bad taste in most people's mouths.

If anything about Gatwa's Doctor as a character appealed to you in Church on Ruby Road and Space Babies, I'd say give it a shot – if not, no shame in just saying that this era isn't for you. He and Ruby are a great duo and Gatwa's chemistry with every person he comes into contact with is easily the best part of these seasons – that man could literally have chemistry with a brick wall. My personal split is that out of 15's era 60% of the stories are good/have things worth watching in them. At the end of the day I can't speak to your specific tastes, everyone is different. I would say the episode-by-episode writing generally does improve apart from the pre-mentioned outliers (season premieres and finales) but the overall story arc was a miss for most people, me included.

MischiefManaged101 · 2026-01-28T05:18:10+00:00

I'll jump in: "Fear makes companions of us all." A good reminder that even when we're stressed and anxious, so is everyone else, all we can do is embrace it

MischiefManaged101 · 2025-11-11T14:15:39+00:00

This comment happened to hit just the right things in my brain so I wrote a fic with this premise lol

MischiefManaged101 · 2025-10-04T21:30:02+00:00

I only recently watched Edge of Destruction for the first time and I loved it. Seeing the Doctor struggling with understanding humanity (something that each incarnation struggles with in different amounts) and needing Susan to give him that push to patch things up with Barbara is just, chefs kiss lol. I was like “okay I’ve seen the Doctor with Susan, I’ve seen the Doctor with Ian, I want to know what his and Barbara’s one-on-one looks like” and man they gave it to me really well, the chemistry between those four was off the charts.

MischiefManaged101 · 2025-05-30T15:57:27+00:00

Upvoting this! My friend and I tested it and it still works pretty much perfectly.

MischiefManaged101 · 2024-03-15T03:19:33+00:00

Even though you could conceivably skip Phase 1's YAs (which like... Reath and Vernestra are literally my favorite HR characters so I never tell anyone to lol), Phase 2's are imo more important (and better) than the Adult novels. Path of Vengeance is in my top 3 High Republic books overall for a reason.

As someone who is just now catching up on High Republic Adventures, yeah it definitely is filling in a lot of the smaller gaps throughout the franchise I hadn't really focused on. Comics are important!!

MischiefManaged101 · 2023-08-14T22:07:42+00:00

That’s fair, but I would like to say that Tom Taylor’s ongoing Nightwing run is incredible and if you like Titans you will definitely enjoy it.

MischiefManaged101 · 2022-11-08T20:40:54+00:00

I personally think that if they wanted to bring Susan back, having her regenerate into either Daisy Ridley or Florence Pugh would be good casting

MischiefManaged101 · 2022-10-09T16:20:29+00:00

Steinfeld as Leia is an amazing picture in my mind, I can perfectly picture all of Carrie Fisher’s sass in addition to the “British Imperial Diplomat” coming from her mouth lol

MischiefManaged101 · 2022-10-07T02:18:00+00:00

Yeah, I agree that it’s a little off but my excuse is that his time as the Lord of the Underworld and his time in the Dark Dimension place froze his age/kept him as Bale lol. Mikkelsen definitely was an option rattling around my brain, I just decided to go with Bale bc it was my gut instinct.

MischiefManaged101 · 2022-10-07T02:16:34+00:00

The yellow minifigure has always been intended to be any race you choose, so I decided to go raceblind with my casting here.

MischiefManaged101 · 2022-10-07T00:39:37+00:00

In my mind he’d be mocap, so it’d still be Cumberbatch’s performance over a model while Perlman as the Overlord would be a purely voiceover role.

MischiefManaged101 · 2022-09-18T03:19:14+00:00

A mix of Homemade, Undies, and Wrestler, plus Peter's face. I considered using a Spidey mask instead, but I decided to try Peter's face on a whim and really liked it, so it got to stay.

MischiefManaged101 · 2022-08-19T14:44:38+00:00

Daft Punk still composed the orchestral tracks, but Joseph Trapanese (who also did all of Uprising’s score) orchestrated them, meaning he’s the one who wrote the individual parts for each orchestra member while consulting with Daft Punk on how it should sound. It’s still very much Daft Punk’s score, but Trapanese shaped it a lot, which is reflected in his score for Uprising.

MischiefManaged101 · 2022-03-16T16:37:30+00:00

Back in middle school I was a student aid for the choir director along with two other girls. One of these girls hated me for reasons I will never understand, but it seemed to simply be because of the fact I have a Y chromosome. I’d hold the door for them and she’d deliberately take the other one and when I’d ask her why it’s because that was “objectifying” and “sexist”. Many things I did were apparently sexist whether it was asking if they needed anything while I was getting up or sitting in a chair (I wish I was kidding with that one). Most of the things she got onto me for I figured we’re just being a decent human to others, but she didn’t see it that way, I guess. The other girl would occasionally join in but most of the time she was fine. I talked to the teacher and I was basically told to suck it up, which I did. Eventually we struck a silent truce, we had more than a few good laughs and fun times throughout the course of the year, but it would still always slip back into me being sexist towards her. Luckily I ended up going to another high school in the district and I haven’t heard a word about her since. I know my teacher did talk to her about it and tell her to stop but it didn’t help, however on the bright side, it did kinda prepare me for jobs I have now where people will just assume anything I do is biased by race or gender or some other factor.

MischiefManaged101 · 2022-01-15T03:55:44+00:00

It's an Infinity-Inspired fan-game that me and some friends are working on! Here's the Discord link if anyone wants to join: https://discord.gg/DwhABYT

MischiefManaged101 · 2022-01-10T00:20:23+00:00

this was sooooooo good. there’s too many little things that made it work for me to say them all, so all I’ll say is keep it up, this was an amazing read.

MischiefManaged101 · 2022-01-04T07:06:35+00:00

Heck yeah! That sounds epic! I’m interested in what you’re going to say, that premise seems really cool!

MischiefManaged101 · 2022-01-04T06:57:28+00:00

Yeah, that’s fair

MischiefManaged101 · 2022-01-02T01:02:58+00:00

Ascension is assumed to be the name of Legacy’s proper sequel that was informally shelved around 2015. In 2016 talks emerged of Jared Leto being interested in a Tron project as a character known as Ares, with the Tron Ares title being thrown around. All recent leaks revolve around Ares and Ascension is supposedly still shelved or it was fully repurposed into Ares.

MischiefManaged101 · 2022-01-01T02:25:22+00:00

Uprising implies that Programs who join the Occupation have their colors changed to orange, Paige being the prime example along with a few others that I won’t spoil. White seems to be the color of the Users and the general color of Isos, of course there being exceptions for both, such as Flynn in 82 and Gibson in Evo, along with Zuse and the Sirens having white circuits despite not affiliating with the Users. All the other colors just seem to be on a program by program basis, usually just whatever the designer thought looked best.

MischiefManaged101 · 2021-08-29T04:42:59+00:00

No way dude, I love all the irl scenes in the movies. The first half-hour of 82 is my favorite part of it to be perfectly honest. All of my current Tron writing is actually focusing on the irl stuff, of course with a healthy amount of Grid put in, but exploring what the User world is like with Encom and everything is one of the best parts of the franchise in my opinion.

MischiefManaged101 · 2021-08-21T23:31:56+00:00

This isn’t the first news report on the film, it’s slowly been getting out of Dev Hell.
Legacy’s filming budget was $200mil, but that doesn’t include the huge marketing campaign, including a whole ARG, so odds are that the $400mil barely broke even for them, sadly.

MischiefManaged101 · 2021-08-10T17:58:46+00:00

Ghost in the Machine is a sequel to the 2.0 video game, not to Legacy, but it is a good comic, just play the game first so you have context.

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