14 Problems Nobody Wants To Admit About The DC Extended Universe

6. There Are Too Many Different Continuities

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Marvel Studios was smart to ensure that there was minimal overlap with their separate TV and movie properties. For the most part, the MCU TV shows don't create conflict with the continuity of the movies and vice versa.

DC, meanwhile, has opted to take the opposite approach, setting TV and film in two separate universes. The movies are, of course, the DCEU, while the likes of Arrow, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow exist within the "Arrowverse", which has occasionally intersected with yet another separate universe containing Supergirl.

Yes, creating a consistent continuity out of such a complex tapestry isn't easy, but DC hasn't even tried, and it's just not very rewarding as an audience to have these potentially complimentary areas of DC lore kept separate.

As cool as Ezra Miller will undeniably be as The Flash, wouldn't it have been awesome to see Grant Gustin in the role? Instead, we're left with a "multiverse" that seems set to have no link, implied or otherwise, between the movie and TV arms. What a waste of potential.

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