I love how tonights episode used the backdrop of Crisis to do some really interesting character work with Jennifer.
On her way, we get brief check-ins on the seasons standing plotlines.
But combined with HBOsWatchmen, it got me thinking about how tempting it might be to follow the logic.
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Then the skies go red, and the Crisis comes to Freeland.
Jennifer takes a ride through both of their lives.
I found that scene really powerful.
Jinns life on Earth-2 is somehow even more unpleasant than that.
In all three worlds, Jennifers fate is tied to Odell.
But Jinn works with Odell willingly and vamps through the halls of Garfield like a dark fairy queen.
She kills her dad, and horrifically recites his classic inspirational mantra to his corpse.
Thats too much for our Jennifer.
When they get back to the void space, she starts tussling with Jinn.
But then things take a turn for the worse.
The anti-matter wave wipes out Gen and Jinn, but that doesnt help Jennifer.
The wave wipes out our Freeland too; only Jefferson, who teleported out seconds before, is spared.
