They could have cheaped on her powers and just had an animal sound effect happen in the background when she used the appropriate power, instead of the CGI animal image, and it would have been fine, IMO. It's not like the animal image is necessarily even a part of the comic characters powers (since she's been shown using elephant strength / etc. without a giant elephant appearing super-imposed over her). That way they could have squeezed in quite a few more power showings, by not spending all that money on squiffy looking CGI.
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As far as I can tell, certain shipper groups in the Arrowverse fandom serious overstepped the mark and made the comics writing pool and editorial loathe to touch anything deriving from the Arrowverse after Rebirth
There’s also the more than mild embarrassment that Arrowverse ended up being the only thing consistently flying the DC flag for a long time thanks to the DCEU eating itself
At least with Emiko it was only one parent in common (though the Arrowverse adaptation of her switched it to the other parent as Thea had already been given the same origin before Emiko's introduction in the comics). Sara and Laurel were full siblings, not half siblings. You'd have to change Sara's backstory.
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LoT became a clown show, Supergirl became a political preacher with a ridiculous premise of crowds of aliens all of a sudden showing up. The Legion was so misused. Naomi stunk from the beginning with the Superman stunts line and a bunch of male actors that were stuffy, pompous, full of mystery reveals (now that's original) and a yawn of a plot. She would have been better off in the standard Arrowverse time line.
Flash just fell apart, esp. when they ditched classic Tom and just kept cranking out evil speedsters plots and more and more team members that were a yawn. Batwoman - never watched.
Arrow and Superman and Lois held up with better acting and plotting.
Flash was good in the first couple seasons, Legends was cool for a good while, Arrow and Supergirl suck, Black Lightning is one of the best superhero shows ever made.
Looking at the Flash:
The fact that the Flash has NEVER faced off against the Rogues is (to my fanboy mind) unforgivable.
Wally West was a complete waste of time. You could remove the character from the series entirely and it wouldn't make a lick of difference.
Making Savitar a future version of Barry was another HUGE missed opportunity.
The constant murdered mum rammed down your throat got old quick too.
While Godspeed's costume looks fantastic, the storyline about him was BORING as hell.
"My name is Wally West. I'm the fastest man alive!"
I'll try being nicer if you try being smarter.
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