Invasion was a serious television endeavour that took some incredible scheduling, talent, and writing to pull off. That said, it wasn't without it's own hiccups. Arrow's 100th episode was rolled into the crossover which might have been better if it was allowed to breathe. Also, Supergirl's portion was not really part of the crossover because Earth 38 wasn't being invaded. Well Entertainment Weekly talked with executive producer Andrew Kreisberg about the four way crossover difficulties and their plans for a true four-way crossover next year!
Next year, we’re hoping to do a true four-way crossover. The great thing about our dear friends at the CW and Mark Pedowitz picking the shows up as early as they did has allowed us to start building the schedules for next season. One of the big things we learned from two years ago, which made the crossovers this year slightly easier, was building in shut-down days, where shows just went dark. The single hardest factor in doing the crossovers is actors’ availability because the shows keep going on. You’re basically juggling four shows worth of schedules.
Explaining how shutdown days are so important, we also learned that poor Melissa was the only lead on a show that actually didn't get a rest:
The thing that we didn’t really plan on — because we weren’t aware that we were going to switch Supergirl from CBS to CW and it was really going to be part of it — that was the one show that didn’t have built-in shut-down days, so all the other ones did. Melissa [Benoist] ended up being heavily in Flash and then in Arrow, so Supergirl was the one we needed to shut down the most and it was the one that we didn’t have any opportunity to. Now that we’ve gotten the early pickup and we’ve started designing the seasons, we’re building in those dark days, and actually more dark days on Supergirl than the other shows, to make it a little easier.
So there you have it! Supergirl had to work quadruple overtime to get the crossover done and all for the fans! We don't know what next season's true four show crossover is going to be about we'd love to hear your ideas!
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I'm excited!! :)
She may have not been in the LoT episode as much, but she (and Barry) were instrumental in saving the day at the end, so I'll give them credit for that, plus the post-invasion party sequence. But Arrow, they basically leveraged the Dominators' mind control to do the 100th Episode thing, which... didn't do much for me, anyway, as I don't watch Arrow.
Agreed would love to see teamup with Mon-El in his real Valor suit with Superman, Supergirl. Green Arrow and Flash
All the women...this would be an amusing moment for LiveWire to show up "How can I rob all the banks if these aliens destroy them first?"
Better phrasing: This year we had a four-WAY crossover. Next eyar we will aheva four-EPISODE crossover.
That just goes to show just how much of a trooper our girl is.
Quote:Bit of jealousy on the mart of Maggie perhaps? ;)
Quote:But those bits with her, she was obviously having a blast. And she did get to be the one to finally tell off Agent Smith...and in the most cutest way possible. :)