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The way I understand it is that Earth-38 from
Supergirl,
and whatever earth
Black Lightning
was on, got folded into the Earth-1 setting of
Arrow, the Flash, Legends of Tomorrow,
and
Batwoman,
with the mashup now being called Earth-Prime. The Doom Patrol and Teen Titans shows are supposed to be set on their own parallel earths, as are
Lucifer, Smallville,
the Nineties
Flash
show, the Sixties
Batman
show, the Donner
Superman
movies, and the DCEU movies.
Basically, if it airs on the CW it's now on Earth-Prime, everything else is on its own.
But they're saying that Earth Prime is the only one that exists now.
But they're saying that Earth Prime is the only one that exists now.
Yeah, that's the part that keeps confusing me. When I'm sure one of the post show interviews said that the people of Smallville are happily back in their universe.
Whever is saying that is contradicting what we saw on screen. They specifically showed Brandon Routh as Superman flying in orbit with a little Earth-96 caption onscreen at the end of the crossover.
That's the only conclusion I can reach, but it seems like a weird decision to have the characters believe something so huge that only the audience knows is not true.
I was mostly ignoring it until it Flash made such a big deal about it this week.
The Arrowverse wiki says:
With the rebirth of the multiverse, some things changed. Earths are now separated by something other than vibrational frequencies. As such, the residents of Earth-Prime with knowledge of the pre-crisis timeline appear to be unaware of the new multiverse's existence and still believe it is destroyed.
So I guess it will eventually be addressed in-universe?
Earths are now separated by something other than vibrational frequencies.
Which I guess is why Cisco's powers aren't working again?
So I guess it will eventually be addressed in-universe?
Hopefully, because right now it's annoying.
Earths are now separated by something other than vibrational frequencies
Handwavium is a harsh mistress.
Heh.
I am curious about what is going to happen in the next episode with Alice/Beth. I am expecting it to be heartbreaking.
It kind of mirrors the cosmology of the multiverse in the comics, though. After Crisis everything was supposed to be one singular Earth, but it was (much) later revealed that there were still parallel worlds all over the place, just in a different relative state/connection to the prime universe.
