A confluence of changes brought the TV universe’s momentum to a screeching halt.
Toward the end of 2019, the Arrowverse was firing on all cylinders.
A year later, though, the project was on life support.
It wasn’t the Anti-Monitor and his Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Money was always going to be a problem.
The COVID-19 pandemicput the brakes on all that Crisis momentum.
The Arrowverse was set to reboot following theCrisis on Infinite Earths crossover event.
Just two months after the crossover, though, the pandemic shut down production on pretty much all television.
People went a longer-than-usual time without seeing any Arrowverse shows.
It was an admirable effort that still wasn’t enough.
It doesn’t help that people were becoming exhausted with superheroes, either.
2019 marked the end of the MCU’s Infinity Saga and the death of Iron Man.
For many people, that was the end of the MCU–or at least their involvement with it.
Along with all of this, the CW ran into somewhat of an actor problem at the same time.
Programming, finally, became an issue as well.
Black Lightning’s creator ended the show with Season 4 in May of 2021.
That forced abrupt, cliffhanger endings for both Legends and Batwoman.
It wasn’t any one big thing, but a lot of little things all compounding together.
These all came together as one heavy foot on the brakes of the CW’s strange, surprisingly-successful experiment.
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