And yes, it is definitely the "Darker / Grittier" of the CW Superhero Shows.
Arrow has also suffered because some of the writers from the early seasons have been moved over to the Flash.

But overall, the CW DCU is, in my opinion, the better version of DC than the Cinematic DCU.

Phantom

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes

There were a few 'trying way too hard' lines in Supergirl, and they packed...WAY too much into it. It was far too busy.

The way they went out of their way to NOT name Superman was ridiculous. Guys, Supergirl is LITERALLY RELATED TO SUPERMAN. SAY HIS NAME. It stopped being funny by the fourth time they avoided it.

As for Legends of Tomorrow, casting Rory as the Doctor with the serial numbers filed off was brilliant, but there are some major-ass plot complications that I'm hoping they address in part two of the pilot. It's great to see Gideon again, though~ I was wondering where she went after....THINGS happened in Flash.

--dbrandon

From what I've heard, they stopped doing that further along in the season and the rest is much better balanced. I follow somebody on Tumblr that's an avid watcher of the show, who loves it. So I get a play-by-play of cool stuff (and fanart!) from her.

Also, the prohibition for mentioning Superman or Clark has pretty much been bombed out of the water by the fact that he'll be appearing in season 2, possibly regularly. While still keeping the focus on Kara and her close compatriots.

--- Philip

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In the sense of "what we want our world to be," at least.

The time travel aspects of the series are so screwy that if I had Don Griffin's portfolio, I would still be tempted to throw up my hands and let the universe dissolve, and that's before the end of Season 2.

I still like the series, but anything that starts by defining the observed universe as a divergent timeline created by a meddling time traveler is going to be problematic.

Peter Eng
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I don't mind it being based on an offshoot timeline made by a temporal meddler; I mean, you have to start somewhere, and that's a pretty good start considering they'd already established Barry as existing in Arrow.

It's better than the start the cinematic DCU has, which is 'Superman is a sociopath who doesn't care unless something happens right in front of him or happens to somebody he likes'.

As a start it was fine, but the continued use of the time-travel reset button has pretty much ruined the show for me. The final straw was Oneel tbvat onpx n frpbaq gvzr naq npghnyyl fnivat uvf zbgure. Events don't really have weight when you know that, if it gets bad enough, Barry will just stop it from ever having happened.

Chacun à son goût.