DCEU: What Was The Crisis? - The Big Picture

DCEU: What Was The Crisis? – The Big Picture

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DC’s infamous Crisis on Infinite Earths miniseries gets its first live-action adaptation as part of the CW superhero TV lineup this season. And some think it will, like the comic, serve as an opportunity to “reboot” the DCEU brand itself. But did the original Crisis ever actually solve anything? And, if it did, why has it been reworked, undone, redone, tweaked, and reconfigured so many times since then, right up to today in Doomsday Clock?

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This is The Big Picture with MovieBob, thinking through the crisis. And if you missed it, check out Bob’s “Will CWā€™s Crisis on Infinite Earths Erase the Snyderverse from the DCEU?


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Bob Chipman is a critic and author.