Next Arrowverse Crossover Event Will Increase Emotional Stakes

Last year’s big four-way crossover event for The CW’s Arrowverse was one of the craziest and most epic episodes in superhero TV shows. It went on to become a must-see event for many fans, as they are already expecting a yearly outing of the four-way crossover. “Heroes vs Aliens” was the grandest yet, as all the episodes of “Supergirl,” “The Flash,” “Arrow” and “Legends of Tomorrow” were linked for a week of huge crossovers. The DC heroes went against a group of aliens, and to be honest, nothing could top that unless a DC big baddie appears.

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Increasing Emotional Stakes and Payoffs For The Four-way Arrowverse Crossover

It kind of makes sense then, if the Arrowverse crossover will roll back the stakes and focus on the emotional impact of the episodes instead. Executive Producer Mark Guggenheim recently shared that this is indeed the plan, as he spoke to Entertainment Weekly. Here’s what the producer had to say:

“If we end up doing what we’re talking about doing, it’s going to be pretty cool. The crossover is always the most challenging thing we do, but it’s also the most fun. Every year we feel the pressure [to top ourselves]. I feel like each crossover has topped the previous one. Topping last year’s, that’s a high bar, if for no other reason than what do you do that’s bigger than aliens?”

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“We’ve got some very, very exciting ideas…. Very early on in the process of doing last year’s crossover, Greg [Berlanti] said there’s probably no way to get bigger than aliens, so the best way to make the [next] crossover especially epic is if you can’t increase the bombast, increase the emotional stakes and the emotional payoffs, so that’s a very oblique comment on where our heads are at for this season.”

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It’s definitely difficult to try and top the “Heroes vs Aliens” Arrowverse crossover episodes. But if you would look ate each episode closely, the real entertaining factor there was the interaction between all the heroes. The clash between Oliver Queen and his hesitancy over Supergirl and the internal conflict between Barry when he found out about a message by his future self. Seeing them as allies in the end was the best part of the crossover, next to the fight scenes with the aliens.

Judging by last year’s fall schedule for The CW, we can expect the Arrowverse crossover to occur sometime during December.