The CW might have teased a four-night "Heroes v Aliens" crossover event this week as its DC shows dive into the Arrowverse's adaptation of the "Invasion!" comics, but Supergirl's fall finale "Medusa" served more as a prequel to the full showdown against the Dominators.
During a Q&A after a "Heroes v Aliens" screening event, executive producer Andrew Kreisberg explained to members of the press why Supergirl (the show, not the character) is significantly less involved in the crossover than the other three CW DC series.
Full spoilers for Supergirl's latest episode, "Medusa," continue below.
The bulk of "Medusa" is set dealing with Supergirl-specific storylines, and it's only at the end of the episode that The Flash's Barry Allen and Cisco Ramon pop in to whisk Kara off to Earth-1. Kreisberg explained that the main reason Supergirl focused on Supergirl instead of the crossover is because this episode doubled as the show's fall finale.
"Part of what made it a little bit difficult was all the other shows – Flash, Arrow and Legends -- all have a subsequent episode to the crossovers, but with Supergirl, it was our midseason finale," he said. "We wanted to make sure that episode 8 of Supergirl spoke to what had been happening on the first seven episodes of Supergirl and not just as a tie in."
Kreisberg also said the CW shows weren't able to pull off expanding from last year's two-show crossover ("with a sprinkling of Legends") to a full four-show crossover, and instead did a three-show crossover with a tease in the fourth: "The idea of going to four full shows, I'm not sure we could have pulled off logistically speaking." It's also worth noting that, unlike the other three shows, Supergirl takes place in a different corner of the multiverse than the other three series in the crossover.
Freeing up time for Melissa Benoist to film her crossover scenes set up its own share of complications as well, Kreisberg explained. "Hopefully people didn't realize it, but Kara was not in a lot of episode 7 of Supergirl where she was captured by Cadmus, specifically to free her up for five days so that she could appear in all these other episodes," he said.
Despite the Supergirl TV show not being fully involved in the crossover, expect to see Supergirl herself as a pivotal member of the Arrowverse team in the next three crossover episodes. Once Kara is in the same universe as The Flash, Arrow and the Legends of Tomorrow, she has as big a role to play as the rest of the Arrowverse's main characters.
Terri Schwartz is Entertainment Editor at IGN. Talk to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz.
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