Supergirl aired on CBS first before eventually arriving on The CW. The fourth year of the Arrowverse saw two new massive arrivals, Supergirl and DC Legends of Tomorrow. Series: Arrow | The Flash | Supergirl | DC Legends of Tomorrow Once you’ve watched the crossovers you can view the remaining episodes of Arrow and The Flash however you please, respectively. It’s our recommendation that you watch the first seven episodes of Arrow, and then the first seven episodes of Flash before watching the crossover. Every future season of Arrow and The Flash would have a crossover episode in the eighth or ninth episode of the season. The crossover between Arrow and The Flash was officially the very first of the Arrowverse and laid the groundwork for future crossovers. The Flash hadn’t aired on The CW at the time, but Grant Gustin as Barry Allen was an instant hit with Arrow fans. Season 2 did mark the beginning of the future of the Arrowverse when Barry Allen debuted in episodes 2×8 and 2×9 of Arrow. One of the best seasons of Arrow, and easily of the entire Arrowverse, season 2 also goes uninterrupted as it was the only Arrowverse series still available at the time. Year 1 of Arrowverse was literally just Arrow so that’s the best place to start. Men take the time, mid-combat, to say things like “God damn it, that magnificent son of a bitch actually found them!” But their canned amazement isn’t contagious, and, even viewed without the filter of one’s feelings about the morality of war, their feats are rarely thrilling.We start at the beginning with season 1 of Arrow. Though the movie clearly wants to do right by the players in its story, it rarely brings them to life as real people it also fails to go the other direction, turning them into the larger-than-life personalities that might fuel an openly jingoistic take on this material. Aaron Eckhart drops in to play Jimmy Doolittle - who enters the film rather dramatically, but whose famous raid on Tokyo happens, inexplicably, in the pic’s margins. Mandy Moore plays the movie’s sole significant female character, Best’s wife - a stock figure of “go show ’em what you’re made of” emotional support. While Midway‘s midsection is clearly aimed at military-history buffs, assuming that viewers are keeping maps in their heads of ship movements and secret military bases, the script offers some formulaic human-interest ingredients. Having characterized Yamamoto (in that 1937 prologue) as someone who tried to avoid conflict with the U.S., the film follows him and other naval leaders in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack, trying to disable the remaining U.S. We soon move to Japan, where the pic finds Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Etsushi Toyokawa) caught in political struggles about the war’s direction. But here, it just feels like uncertain storytelling. Surely, the contrast between banality and profound destruction is intentional, meaning to underline how stark the surprise attack was for a nation still refusing to enter the war. In one second, an officer is joking with a sailor about “chasing tail” in the next, hundreds of Japanese planes are strafing them and dropping bombs on battleships. Fortunately, Nimitz makes better use of Layton as the Americans try to outsmart Japanese forces in the months to come.Ībout that Pearl Harbor attack: It’s weirdly unaffecting here, given the resources Emmerich has to bring its shocking violence home. “There’s the man who tried to warn us!,” one of his superiors says ruefully after the attack, and the script hammers that told-you-so home in a couple of scenes that follow. Working with an underappreciated code breaker, Layton had warned superiors that something like the Pearl Harbor attack might happen. Patrick Wilson is perfectly cast as Layton where some older castmembers are wasted here ( Woody Harrelson cashes a check as Admiral Chester Nimitz) and younger ones are sometimes hard to distinguish from each other, Wilson projects an intelligent earnestness that almost brings the film’s many office-bound strategy sessions to life. Layton, who works with diplomats in the film’s 1937 prologue and, by the time of Pearl Harbor, is a gifted intelligence officer. It’s a movie-like but true incident while that should be enough, the film gilds the lily later on, giving the young star a moment of brave defiance that is probably pure fiction.īalancing Best’s swagger is the movie’s other key lesser-known character: straitlaced Edwin T. In a much smaller part, Nick Jonas plays sailor Bruno Gaido, whose spontaneous heroism during one Japanese attack earned him a promotion on the spot. We’re told later on that “men like Dick Best are the reason we’re gonna win this war,” but there are few such men onscreen.
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