11 things nobody wants to admit about the Arrowverse

It deserved a better ending

If you cast your mind back to 2016 and think about how much of a chokehold the Arrowverse had on all of us when was in its prime, it’s sad to think about the way that it all ended.

The CW’s shared universe of superheroes was a major must-see TV franchise that brought together some of the biggest superheroes in the world on the small screen, and did it a lot more coherently than its big-screen counterpart. It brought us all together for cinematic crossover events and made us all watch in awe as superheroes dominated television for the first time in years. Then, seven years later, it went out with a whimper.

Popularity wanes over time. For some, it fluctuates between highs and lows. That is certainly true to the Arrowverse too. Nobody is saying that The Flash shouldn’t have ended it all after nine seasons, because honestly that’s really quite poetic given how it was the Arrowverse’s most successful show and it really was time for it to conclude. However, Batwoman and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow should never have been cancelled, Arrowverse offshoot Stargirl shouldn’t have been cancelled, and the universe shouldn’t have been killed off in such a one-fell swoop.

We get that The CW’s new owners were taking the in a new direction, we get Warner Bros. Discovery are planning on relaunching the DC Universe across film and TV; but when you have a property as game-changing as the Arrowverse on your hands, the least you can do is let it bow out in game-changing fashion one more time.

Legends and Batwoman should have gotten final seasons, The Flash should have gotten a better ending, and there should have been one final Arrowverse crossover.

Simply out: The Arrowverse deserved better.