How would complicating both shows' timelines make either better? They already have a mechanism for crossovers, which is all they really need.

That is both awesome and awful. :-)

There would be nothing better as a capper on the Berlanti-verse than a Crisis on Infinite Earths that ends with Barry and Kara sharing ice cream at the victory party— before returning to their respective, saved, worlds.

Elastic Lad or go home I say. And Flamebird!

Superfluous nitpick: Egyptian Hawkman's wife was Shiera (or in more modern retellings, Chay-Ara)— unless they made her Shayera like the Thanagarian one in Smallville. The similarity to Sha're remains either way, of course.

If you have Netflix, it has all of season 1.

Look around CatCo. There's no one over the age of thirty except Cat. I don't think long-term pension obligations are the company's biggest concern this decade.

He could occasionally text her.

I would too. But in many ways this sort of iconic Superman is perfect as a secondary character. Modern drama doesn't do iconic characters well, because of the expectation that protagonists have to grow and change and undergo emotional arcs. (Contrast to older unserialized adventure series, where the hero would come…

How much they could have accomplished in Lincoln's term with solid Southern opposition in Congress and state legislatures, and Taney as Chief Justice, is really hard to say. Where was the money for compensated emancipation going to come from? Did the federal government even have the authority to make it happen? …

"Hey, look— they're showing the old classic 'The Mark of Zorro" at the Gotham art house theater. See, son, you'll love it back there! They've even got free parking at the end of the alley."

her attempts to turn LCorp (formerly LexCorp)

Not "an ally". Trusting Batman with it is a big deal, and doesn't mean he'd be fine with the Teen Titans or Task Force X hanging on to a sample.

I keep telling you, he's really a centaur! Jeez, people are so judgmental!

Or maybe they can only be easily opened when conditions are right. (Which happens to frequently coincide with sweeps.)

Really, it's lucky she did try to intervene. "A mysterious woman inveigled her way into the President's box, and then he was assassinated" would otherwise be good for at least arrest and interrogation, I suspect.

Given that James knows, Lois definitely does. (The "room in her life for both of us" also points in that direction.)

Lincoln was personally an abolitionist (that being why the South seceded before he was even inaugurated), but prioritized saving the union over that, and outside the context of the rebellion didn't believe (probably correctly) that he had the authority to free any slaves. Even the Emancipation Proclamation was…

Hey, it's like the oft-played scene where the divorcing couple each call the beloved pet. Whichever one he goes to gets to keep him.

Though it's all handwaves considering how much cutting edge physics was done here. If the US or its component parts are reduced even to the level of a regional power like Brazil, that's a lot of missing funding and institutions (and places for Jewish scientists to flee the Nazis). Maybe time travel gets invented…