Some time ago, I read a story on TVLine about the details of the final season of Superman and Lois. I posted said details on this board, and then it hit me:  Superman and Lois is the last remaining Arrowverse show left, and when that ends, so too does the Arrowverse.

I'm not gonna lie, I am saddened that the Arrowverse is ending, and even more saddened that it's ending on a whimper. This whole thing started all the way back in 2012 with the show that it's named after:  Arrow. Now, I didn't watch Arrow when it began, but I do remember playing catch up and watching in time for a season premiere. Two years after Arrow premiered, The Flash began, and for a brief while, it was just those two, and they would crossover at times. Those two shows aired on CW, but CBS would give us Supergirl, and that ended up being part of the universe. Supergirl premiered in early 2016, and it was a few months after that when Legends of Tomorrow began. For a while, those four shows served as what I like to call, the core of the Arrowverse.

Let me put it this way.  If the Arrowverse had phases, those first four shows would be Phase 1. Phase 2 would be Batwoman, Black Lightning, Stargirl, Naomi, and Superman and Lois. I watched Batwoman religiously, until I fell behind a few times, but I did catch up. I tried to watch Black Lightning, but couldn't; I found myself losing interest after a few episodes. Stargirl  I watched religiously, but at some point during Season 3, I phased out. I tried my damnedest to watch Naomi--couldn't. I did watch Superman and Lois, but I have yet to watch Season 3. 

I have an emotional connection to the Arrowverse, especially the mega crossovers. The first one was the Invasion one, and I remember that fondly because the first episode of that crossover aired on the same day that the Green Bay Packers defeated the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday Night Football, which began the Packers' "run the table" winning streak in 2016. Arrow's end with Oliver Queen's funeral got to me, and of course, I enjoyed watching what would be Batwoman's final season in 2021-22, where I would write reviews on the Poison Ivy angle, I got some of my tweets liked by Nicole Kang, who played Mary Hamilton on the show, and I would enjoy the first year of  the NHL on TNT, which ended up being the year that the Colorado Avalanche won the Stanley Cup.

To me, the Arrowverse pretty much made The CW, and without it, it's going to be such a different animal. As I said before, it's going down, for the most part, without a fight. The Arrowverse deserves a much better overall fate than this.