I know someone already gave pretty good context but, just to add, Darren is playing a villain from DC Comics named Music Meister. He’s the one who trapped them in this dream musical world. In the episodes of both Supergirl and The Flash that came before this, Barry and Kara had both broken up with their partners and they used the musical to fix the problems that they were having in their relationships.
@@AmieMariah_ Music Meister was originally introduced in a Batman cartoon, and was voiced by the great Neil Patrick Harris. Have you reviewed not only the best musical episode ever, but my favorite TV episode ever, Buffy season 6 episode 7. Completely original score.
Omg i watched this ep like 2 years ago i can't believe how much id forgotten. I clearly need to give it a rewatch bc so much is thrilling and new as the first time
Also, the look youre describing when Barry (Grant Gustin) is watching Kara singing...he had just described that musicals were his escape in the first part of this crossover the episode before. His mother (who is dead in the show) would always put on a musical so he could escape whenever he was going thru a rough patch as a kid. And since in the show he was going thru a rough patch in his life, being thrust into a musical setting....that look is definitely of love, but also of remembering the memories of musicals he had growing up, not love for Kara. At least this is what I think since they have had ZERO romantic feelings for eachother in the show at all
@@AmieMariah_ Yep. And Kara's (Melissa Benoist) to musicals is the movie "The Wizard of Oz". As someone said in the comments before, her character connects to the movie because of how when she was younger she felt almost disconnected from Earth and her adoptive family. Her character also felt home-sick because, like Superman (who's her cousin), she's from Krypton originally and had to go to a new a foreign place/planet where she didn't know anyone, or anything about where she was.
I think there was some admiration in there. He was surprised to see Kara singing and was very impressed. He not quite sure what going on in there. But to suddenly catch your friend singing and singing very well, you would be happy too, to see them.
You missed one song and it had THREE major theater stars: Broadway’s Jesse L. Martin (Rent), London West End’s John Barrowman (a lot of shows), and Broadway’s Victor Garber (Godspell, Damn Yankees, Hello Dolly and a lot of other shows). They sing a fatherly “More I Cannot Wish You” from Guys and Dolls.
Hey , the guy in the grey jacket singing next to Jeremy is Carlos Valdes. He went to University with Darren Criss and he also is a part of Starkid. He wrote a bunch songs for it and used to be in the band. He also wrote a musical with Darren !
@@AmieMariah_ Yep! He played bass in the pit for AVPM and MAMD, and also co-wrote the music of MAMD alongside Darren Criss and AJ Holmes! He also sang for Twisted alongside Britney Colemen, for the verson of "A Thousand and One Nights" that plays in the closing credits!
the reason the flash isn't alowed to go back in time anymore is because the more you do it the more fragile the flow of time becomes and each time you come back from the past things change from when you left it in the flash they had a whole season dedicated to this phenemonon of the flash messing with time
@@AmieMariah_ Any alterations in the past have a "Butterfly Effect" and cause unintended consequences. One of his enemies, Reverse Flash, came into the past before Barry had powers to make the future exist FOR the Reverse Flash. He killed Barry's mom and framed his father for the murder. By this point, Barry had gained powers and went through his rookie year. He went back in time and tried to save his mother but disrupted the present and future. He had met Supergirl when he crossed into her separate reality. He helped her against some enemies before she was free to help him return to his Earth. When Supergirl debuted, it was a CBS show. Flash was a CW show, along with the other DC Comics based shows. Flash and Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow shared the same reality. Once the series was no longer carried by CBS, Supergirl joined the CW network lineup.
@@AmieMariah_ he created an alternate timeline in which none of the people he knew even knew who he was and some of his friends got seriously injured or killed all because he went back in time and saved his mom from dying
CW took a look at their casting and realized they had the best basis for a musical episode, compared to many of their other ones I have to say this was was one of the greatest cause most of them had experience in musicals. Even Candace Patton has been proposed via song before (acting of course) 😂
I really really really recommend you watch the full episode. It’s so fun and heartwarming and you don’t even have to watch Supergirl and the flash to understand what’s going on.
Thank you for doing this one! Glad you enjoyed it! I’m VERY surprised though that you missed the song in this episode that has all the theatre legends - Jesse L. Martin, Victor Garber, and John Barrowman.
Also as far as Barry (Grant Gustin) and Kara aka Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) romance goes: they’ve met a few times and have the utmost respect for each other. No actual romance though as they each have their own love stories in their own shows. Trying to keep this short, The Flash is one show and Supergirl is another show, in different parallel universes which is why an extended romance would probably never happen. Their chemistry has always been great on screen though so it would be a fun storyline.
Firstly thank you so much for explaining that all to me, you are the real MVP! I can't believe I missed that song either 😭 clearly I need to do some more research before these videos. I feel like Grant Gustin just has fantastic on screen chemistry with everyone. I remember shipping him and Santana so hard on glee despite the fact that both their characters where gay. 😂
@@AmieMariah_ Yeah he really does lol. Very charismatic and extremely talented 😝. Keep up the amazing work! I know finding motivation to do videos can be difficult and finding a niche can be daunting. I’m sure you’ll continue doing great though 😁
@@AmieMariah_ even if it's not a part of the ranking anymore, I would still love to see your reaction to it if you wanted to make a video! I think you would like the performance :) here's a link to it th-cam.com/video/RSiGSmGKFNg/w-d-xo.html
The Flashverse (Arrowverse after the beginning of Flash) was basically just one big Glee reunion. You got Grant and Melissa as 2 major superheroes, and then Professor Stein (FIRESTORM) was Mr. Schue's dad. Plus the minor roles, like Darren coming in as the Music Meister for this episode, or Max Adler (Karrofsky) as a one-episode meta in Flash. Also, you should check out "Tha Los-Open Your Eyes", it 's Cisco, one of Flash's characters (also singing in "Put a Little Love in Your Heart") I'm convinced that no straight female alive could possibly say no to Grant Gustin proposing to them, even without him singing. The singing is just a bonus to make you speechless.
some context to help you: Carlos Valdez (one of the guys in the beginning number) wrote and helped with stuff in Starkid musicals. Melissa Benoist is Supergirl on the CW show, this was a crossover. Jeremy Jordan is also a character on supergirl. Darren played the villain in the episode. The girl in "Runnin Home to You" is his wife. other people like Jesse L. Martin, Victor Garber, and John Barrowman appear in this episode. lol, hope this helped. also, the context for the episode: Darren's character trapped Supergirl and Flash in a dream/coma and had to play along with the "show" to escape.
Love loving a ship so much to the point of still being confused about what their relationship is even though one of the songs is called "Super Friends."
To add to the “reunion” vibes, the choreographer was the same from Glee, Zach Woodlee. Also, Darren not only was college friends with Carlos, but also Pasek and Paul.
For context the crossover started at the end of a Supergirl episode. At the last minutes Music Maester (a meta-human) send Kara/Supergirl's conciousness into this "Musical World". The actual crossover being a flash episode, Barry joined after Kara had already spend a couple of hours there (which is why he was confused in Moonriver). His look is (for me at least) just a "damn! Kara can sing?" as they are just very good friends from different earth/universes. They both had to learn a love lesson for their respective relationship to get out and the episode end with Barry proposing (again) to Iris and Kara forgiving Mon-El for lying to her about who he was. There was also a additional song. Not sure if you just didn't heard about it or if it was cut for a specific reason but I'd recommend taking a look.
I was worried about the video being too long so I only reacted to what I thought would have been the most popular songs but I didn't realise the other song had some serious broadway heavyweights so I massively regret not including it!
I think music meister is actually a 5th dimensional imp or whatever, as they asked where he was going and he said that they couldn't know or whatever didn't they?
The relationship between Barry (Grant Gustin) and Kara (Melissa Benoist) is just as besties. The way he was looking at her in Moonriver was just because he had never heard her sing before and was gobsmacked lol. And yes, Melissa/Kara is Supergirl 😊
Hello! I’m new to the channel! I just subbed because I love music and thought this video was fun! I’m a huge DC and MCU fan and I’m actually currently watching the whole Flash series and I’m in love with this episode so with that being said I will fill you in a little bit!! They are there because someone I guess as they say whammied to another world and they made it because of their love for musicals so now they have to finish the script to be able to go back home so the first song was to kind of give them an idea of what’s going on. In the next song since Barry isn’t a singer in the show, he’s kinda clueless so now he’s just saying random stuff. It’s super friend because they are both super hero’s and to answer your question yes the girl is super girl and that’s why they were talking about superman(her cousin). She said in the song that if he messes up he can go back in time and give it another shot because of how fast he is he can run to the future or the past but he’s no allowed to do that anymore because it messed up the time line and he created something called flash point. Anyways, he is not dating supergirl he is dating iris and his parents died when he was young so he’s know,live with, and love her since he was like 11. He proposed once but he did it to change the future, but then her brother (kid flash) told her that’s why(Barry still loved her) but then she broke off the engagement but now he proposed again but with the song! I thought it was beautiful and they have a great relationship and I just love this episode so much! It’s amazing and beautiful and I genuinely thought I was the only one who loved or thought it was cute when superhero’s sing!!❤😊❤😊
Melissa Benoist also sings “Running Home to You” in another crossover a few years after this one was aired. Also... yes SuperFlash would have been a great couple hahaha
Melissa's character Kara, made that face on the line "My huckleberry friend" with an emphasis on the "huckleBarry" because Grant's character is named Barry. She and Barry are trapped in a musical world so her seeing him when hitting that line was basically just to show she recognized him while putting a bit of a pun there. Anyway overall this musical episode was so much fun. I love Grant and Melissa(I saw her live in Beautiful the musical and she was awesome!!) and the CW shows have some great theater actors like Victor Garber, Jeremy Jordan, and Jesse L. Martin. The amount of musically talented actors the CW DC shows had was basically the reason we got this crossover musical :)
hey on Supergirl 3x08 at Barry's wedding, Kara sings "Running Home to you" while the ceremony happens and on Legends of Tomorrow, another show thats corelated to The Flash and Supergirl, episode 4x11 they have an AWESOME bollywood number that I think is very worthy of you checking out. you could check those 2 songs and the one you missed from The Flash's musical episode and make it a video!
The villain (Darren Criss) is the only one they hired for this episode, The rest of the people singing are just the cast from the show’s (The Flash) (Supergirl) (Arrow) (Legends Of Tomorrow) they just released half of our cast are from Glee or Broadway or something like that.
Grant Gustins singing is so good it makes every girl who hears it fall in love with him instinctly. So to any guy reading this make sure you're girlfriend doesn't hear him sing.
Already fell in love with him before (since the pilot episode of the Flash), but I love him even more after watching him proposing to Iris with this song...
@@danielbutler8103 Also Grey's Anatomy had a musical episode in season 7 episode 18 called "Song Beneath the Song". This one you also should watch in order otherwise it may get a bit confusing. It features Sara Ramirez (plays the character Callie Torres) singing in most of the numbers. She is a Tony-award wining actress and has an amazing voice. There are also other actors and actresses in it that have either theater or music background that sing in it.
Melissa sang for months in her Broadway Debut in “Beautiful” the musical. You should check it out is on yt someone uploaded it and it’s amazing! Also there are more of Melissa singing. As for another musical eps, the Once Upon a Time musical ep was good hahaha
Buffy the Vsmpire Slayer: Season 6 episode 7 - Once More, With Feeling. PLEASE! Keep in mind that absolutely none of the cast are trained singers and the entire script (as well as the book) were written by the shows creator and his brother. It was an experiment that they had wanted to do and had only just found the pull to get the studio to sign off. It’s amazing. I really hope you know the show as it will inform your opinion but either way I think the structure is very strong. P.S. You should defiantly listen to the songs in the order they are performed on the show. Otherwise it will be even more confusing.
There's a show I forgot to bring up as I'm not certain how well this will work and I haven't watched it in awhile so I don't recall exactly how many songs appear in each episode. It's called Eli Stone. In the first episode definitely and I'm pretty sure at least once or twice each episode the cast break into song and dance. Eli develops a brain tumour that allows him to get visions that help with his cases (he's a lawyer who just discovered he wants to be good) and those visions usually involve the people he works with singing and dancing. As well as Johnny Lee Miller the show also features Victor Garber and I know for sure he gets to sing and it's fantastic. It's on the new Disney+ "STAR" section for things with adult stuff.
No, Grant and Melissa's characters (Barry/the Flash and Kara/Supergirl) are just friends, but I mean, can you blame Grant, I would also be making heart eyes in his shoes.
If you love Jeremy Jordan. I think you may like Tangled The Series. He plays the character Varian in it. And Yes, He SINGS!. And all the songs are written by Alan Menken and Glen Slater!. The show in amazing, and I would love to see a reaction video to it ^^
I love that this aired the same week as the Arrow episode “Kapiushon”. So at one end of the Arrowverse you have: Barry and Kara - “🎵I’m your super frieeeend… 🎵” And at the other end you’ve got: Oliver - “I killed people because I wanted to! AND I LIKED IT!”
The only reasons the world they were trapped in was musical theater based was because both Barry and Kara love musicals so much and because they hold so much loving memories for them so this first intro song to me has two meanings. First, it’s darrens plan in song form he wants to inspire the two superhero’s who just both broken up with their love interests for valid reasons but stupid ones as well and second, this theme for the song put a little love in your heart could also play back to the whole reason why they’re trapped in a musical mindscape because musicals hold so many loving memories for them for Barry it’s the memories of his mother and for Kara it’s watching the wizards of Oz with her family because at the time when she was younger she felt like she was alone on Earth and struggled to fit in
I'm sure you know this, but too many young commenters have no idea who Victor Garber is , let alone John Barrowman and a few don't recognize Jesse Martin, but they are all Broadway (West End in Barrowman's case) veterans. Victor played Jesus in Godspell and John Wilkes Booth in Assassins.
I LIKE SO MUCH THIS EPISODE! GRANT AND MELISSA ARE GREAT! BUT ALL THIS EPISODE IT'S A GREAT THING! ANYWAY, I SAW THIS EPISODE EVERY TIMES, BECAUSE I LIKE SO MUCH WHEN GRANT SINGS! IT'S INCREDIBLE HIS VOICE!
A recommendation is that you watch the full episode but maybe only record your reactions to the songs that way you have an idea of what’s happening and don’t miss any songs
I love this episode, it was such a change of pace xD Thank you for the fun vídeo, Amie! I love your input, even though you destroyed the Theather magic...
a lot of the cast has a theater background in particular grant was in a remake of rent before he was cast on glee and john barrowman who has done a lot of musical theater as well as acting jobs, Jesse L. Martin, and Victor Garber... and if you like superhero shows you should totally watch Arrow, the flash, and Super girl!
Hihi! Arrowverse is one of my special interests so if you werent given an answer I'll happily give one! Yes, Melissa Benoist (or in this show Kara) is infact supergirl, supermans cousin, and infact she has a show in this universe focuses around her and her adventures called "Supergirl"! Context for this episode: at the end of an earlier supergirl episode (or near the end), Blaine, or well in this crossover, the Music Meister sends supergirl into a coma and then says "i really wish i could stay but i gotta chase down the fastestan alive" who happens to be Barry Allen, aka the flash. So J'hon and Mon-El go to earth-1 (the earth that Barry lives on) to warn him, and then while the Kid Flash and Flash try to lock him up he uses his powers to send Barry inti a coma as well. The dream-like world that the characters are in are based on what genres they like, so it could've been anything but due to Barry's love of "Singing in the rain" and Kara's love of "The Wizard of Oz" they both ended up in a musical world, and in order to escape this world they must follow the script. Also fun fact: that little scream Kara did after that actor jumped off the stage was actually real (she didn't know it would happen) and they decided to keep the clip in!
I feel like you missed a lot of the musical magic because you didn't watch the whole episode. Barry and Kara are the only ones who are actually themselves and realize that they're in a musical, everyone else is just playing a character in a dream realm. It's so freaking fun and adorable and cinematic and everything you could want from musical theater.
I know this was 3 years ago for you but I just saw your video today. Barry and Kara discussing time travel, he's fast enough to go back in time but it has dangerous consequences if you mess with certain things in the past. Arrowverse treats some events in time as a fixed point. Melissa actually does a great job as Supergirl in her own show, don't be too thrown off by the drastic cast changes between Seasons 1 and 2 since that was due to a network and location shift since originally she was on CBS and the show shot in California but as of Season 2, The CW took it and moved the filming location to Vancouver, British Columbia. Barry and Kara had already met previously same with her meeting most members of Team Flash but he never had the chance to meet anyone back then on her team other than Jimmy, Winn and Lucy, we never saw him and Superman together back then but he probably found out about him at some point. Barry and Kara aka Supergirl are just friends, at this point in the timeline of their shows, they are in different universes and they both had very recent relationship issues hence why the Music Meister did what he did. Music Meister was a metahuman villain in other shows he's been in mostly all animated but here, they treat him as some kind of like dimensional being who mends romantic relationships. Kara singing Moon River, she had already gotten attacked by Music Meister on Earth-38 and that's what leads to them going to Barry since Music Meister makes a hint towards it before breaching, breaching is what Arrowverse calls portals generally portals to other universes. Barry had just been attacked by Music Meister so he was shocked to not just see Kara there but also he had no clue she was that great at singing.
I love these songs.🙂The Choreography is marvelous.:-)😀Music Meister can just mouth a a song and mentally cause someone to sing it. Wow.he did with the sentence "And The world." He was li synching as a guy sang those lyrics. the other man was not looking at him.:-O😲😀I wish there could be a person with the power in the real world.A little bit of public quiet singing and /or dancing is good.
You mentioned enjoying Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, would you want to do a reaction for some of their songs? I’m obsessed with the show and I kinda feel like it needs way more attention
Barry and Kara (Supergirl) are just friends. He looks at her that way cause he's never heard her sing before and he just got thrust into this magical musical world not knowing what the hell was going on so seeing his friend made him happy.
Glad to find someone reacting to musicals that watches Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist. Just super friends the Flash & Supergirl. Interesting your using Anime style ranking S, A, B, C, D.
Yes, Benoist was playing Supergirl, aka Kara Zor-El. In this variation, the two live in different universes, but Flash's universe has had multiple characters show the ability to cross universes at this point. This is because this episode is a crossover. Supergirl and Flash are SEPARATE shows. The first meeting between them was funny, and they both played their characters a-dork-ably, and became instant friends in a 'share the same brain' kind of way. The Moon River son was actually the FIRST song, and they were just introducing the idea that they were surprised they were BOTH trapped in a musical together. Hence the reaction. Really, this musical doesn't deserve much credit, IMHO. The reason for the musical was VERY shoe-horned in, very little happened that mattered to the characters aside from the long-expected proposal from Barry to Iris. There never was a relationship between Barry and Kara, but it was a VERY frequent fan fantasy. They would have made a better couple than Barry and Iris as, for some reason, the Arrowverse writers consistently wrote love-interest characters TERRIBLY. Iris West was the WORST. Kara's original crush was a version of Jimmy Olsen and he was written badly. Green Arrow's comic-accurate lover was written so badly they had him fall in love with someone else. It was wierd. But this musical episode was kind of a waste.
Can you please react to the musical episodes from The Magicians. They have at least one like every season. "One Day More", "Under Pressure", "Here We Go Again", "Take On Me" just a couple of them. They are really good
This is, like, the third video I've watched of yours (starting with the Scrubs musical because I FUCKING LOVE SCRUBS!) and I NEED to know if you've done the part 2 video of this yet, with the dads singing??
She is superman's cousin this episode is a fantasy created by the music meister who places them in a musical to learn a lesson grant gustin is the flash and yes she is supergirl
I proposed to my kids mom singing this song. At 12am exactly new years eve in 2018. It was beautiful we all cried. I have a video if you'd want to see it. We are not together anymore but we are great friends and co-parent wonderfully. We will always love each other. But yes, that song makes me bawl my eyes out. (Running home to you).
You should also watch where Kara sings Running Home at Barry and Iris's wedding before the Nazi ruin it. The Flash Season 4 Episode 8 (a 4 episode crossover with Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow)
Yep, I knew that. The songs were out of order which may have helped tell the story. Buffy S6 E7 "Once More with Feeling" is very, very good. The song order is important to the story as well as the whole episode has a heavy consequence on the season, too. "Eli Stone" is a two-season series that can be surprising.
You should react to the CW Arrowverse actors singing the theme song from Firefly... starring Nathan Fillion who has been quoting as saying two quotes : "I never want to sing nor do Shakespeare." "Anytime that Joss Whedon calls and offers a role, without hesitation or anything said, you say YES!" This is how he was cast in Much Ado About Nothing and also as Captain Hammer in 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Vlog'... starring Neil Patrick Harris. so that gives two reaction videos. :)
in the flash it explains it more but there is something called the multiverse so Barry is from central city earth 1 and Kara is from national city earth 38 but they met when Barry accidentally ran to fast with the tachyon enhancer and ran to earth 38 that is where he met Kara but Cisco ( Barry's friend) made portals to all the earth's in the multi verse. All of the episodes is based off of the DC comics.
Everyone recognizes Jeremy Jordan (as they should) but no one ever recognizes John Barrowman (a freaking ICON) and Carlos Valdez (has been in several theater productions, including one nominated for a Tony).
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I know someone already gave pretty good context but, just to add, Darren is playing a villain from DC Comics named Music Meister. He’s the one who trapped them in this dream musical world. In the episodes of both Supergirl and The Flash that came before this, Barry and Kara had both broken up with their partners and they used the musical to fix the problems that they were having in their relationships.
I love that! I'm now adding a gender bent Music Meister to my list of dream roles! 😂
@@AmieMariah_ Music Meister was originally introduced in a Batman cartoon, and was voiced by the great Neil Patrick Harris. Have you reviewed not only the best musical episode ever, but my favorite TV episode ever, Buffy season 6 episode 7. Completely original score.
Omg i watched this ep like 2 years ago i can't believe how much id forgotten. I clearly need to give it a rewatch bc so much is thrilling and new as the first time
yeah, perfect explination.
@@AmieMariah_ Also Melissa Benoist does play Supergirl/ Kara Danvers
I loved this episode for being a musical and a mini Glee reunion with Grant Gustin, Melissa Benoist and Darren Criss.
I just finished glee so i was thinking abt this ep and i was like omg wow
And Victor Garber who was Mr. Schue’s father
@@CSGray-nf2hx I totally forgot about that.
I hadn't seen Glee when I watched this episode so after that I watched the whole thing to find out why they were so good singers
Also a mini starkid reunion. Carlos Valdés and Darren Criss are both starkids
Also, the look youre describing when Barry (Grant Gustin) is watching Kara singing...he had just described that musicals were his escape in the first part of this crossover the episode before. His mother (who is dead in the show) would always put on a musical so he could escape whenever he was going thru a rough patch as a kid. And since in the show he was going thru a rough patch in his life, being thrust into a musical setting....that look is definitely of love, but also of remembering the memories of musicals he had growing up, not love for Kara. At least this is what I think since they have had ZERO romantic feelings for eachother in the show at all
Okay, now I'm crying 😭 I love that so much!
@@AmieMariah_ Yep. And Kara's (Melissa Benoist) to musicals is the movie "The Wizard of Oz". As someone said in the comments before, her character connects to the movie because of how when she was younger she felt almost disconnected from Earth and her adoptive family. Her character also felt home-sick because, like Superman (who's her cousin), she's from Krypton originally and had to go to a new a foreign place/planet where she didn't know anyone, or anything about where she was.
I think there was some admiration in there. He was surprised to see Kara singing and was very impressed. He not quite sure what going on in there. But to suddenly catch your friend singing and singing very well, you would be happy too, to see them.
They also live in different dimensions. Don't know how that would work.
I love their dynamic so much.
They're like chaotic siblings.
You missed one song and it had THREE major theater stars: Broadway’s Jesse L. Martin (Rent), London West End’s John Barrowman (a lot of shows), and Broadway’s Victor Garber (Godspell, Damn Yankees, Hello Dolly and a lot of other shows). They sing a fatherly “More I Cannot Wish You” from Guys and Dolls.
Sadly I'm an uneducated Australian and I didn't realise how iconic these three men are, consider me educated now 😅
The fact that nobody pays attention to John Barrowman, Victor Garber and Jesse L Martin who are musical theatre royalty.
Yeah. A real shame.
So true
I watched a vocal coach react and it seemed like she had no clue who they were :'(
Truth 😭
I know I was just getting ready to say where the hell was more than I can wish
Hey , the guy in the grey jacket singing next to Jeremy is Carlos Valdes. He went to University with Darren Criss and he also is a part of Starkid. He wrote a bunch songs for it and used to be in the band. He also wrote a musical with Darren !
I LOVE STARKID!!! I can't believe I didn't pick up on that
@@AmieMariah_ Yep! He played bass in the pit for AVPM and MAMD, and also co-wrote the music of MAMD alongside Darren Criss and AJ Holmes! He also sang for Twisted alongside Britney Colemen, for the verson of "A Thousand and One Nights" that plays in the closing credits!
Haha his “loving look” is just like, woah my friend Kara sings 😂
The funny thing about the line “ if your not their in time you can just go back in time “ is that the flash has reversed the timeline a lot of times
Now I just need to know why he is not allowed to do it anymore, like what went wrong?! 😂
@@AmieMariah_ a lot went wrong many times
the reason the flash isn't alowed to go back in time anymore is because the more you do it the more fragile the flow of time becomes and each time you come back from the past things change from when you left it in the flash they had a whole season dedicated to this phenemonon of the flash messing with time
@@AmieMariah_ Any alterations in the past have a "Butterfly Effect" and cause unintended consequences. One of his enemies, Reverse Flash, came into the past before Barry had powers to make the future exist FOR the Reverse Flash. He killed Barry's mom and framed his father for the murder.
By this point, Barry had gained powers and went through his rookie year. He went back in time and tried to save his mother but disrupted the present and future. He had met Supergirl when he crossed into her separate reality. He helped her against some enemies before she was free to help him return to his Earth.
When Supergirl debuted, it was a CBS show. Flash was a CW show, along with the other DC Comics based shows. Flash and Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow shared the same reality. Once the series was no longer carried by CBS, Supergirl joined the CW network lineup.
@@AmieMariah_ he created an alternate timeline in which none of the people he knew even knew who he was and some of his friends got seriously injured or killed all because he went back in time and saved his mom from dying
CW took a look at their casting and realized they had the best basis for a musical episode, compared to many of their other ones I have to say this was was one of the greatest cause most of them had experience in musicals. Even Candace Patton has been proposed via song before (acting of course) 😂
To this day, The Flash musical episode is one of the best I've ever seen. The cast did absolutely amazing!
I really really really recommend you watch the full episode. It’s so fun and heartwarming and you don’t even have to watch Supergirl and the flash to understand what’s going on.
Yeah melissa is supergirl. You def need to see the whole show. Very bingable
I didn't realise that it was a whole separate show, ill definitely have to heck it out!
Thank you for doing this one! Glad you enjoyed it! I’m VERY surprised though that you missed the song in this episode that has all the theatre legends - Jesse L. Martin, Victor Garber, and John Barrowman.
Also as far as Barry (Grant Gustin) and Kara aka Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) romance goes: they’ve met a few times and have the utmost respect for each other. No actual romance though as they each have their own love stories in their own shows. Trying to keep this short, The Flash is one show and Supergirl is another show, in different parallel universes which is why an extended romance would probably never happen. Their chemistry has always been great on screen though so it would be a fun storyline.
Firstly thank you so much for explaining that all to me, you are the real MVP! I can't believe I missed that song either 😭 clearly I need to do some more research before these videos.
I feel like Grant Gustin just has fantastic on screen chemistry with everyone. I remember shipping him and Santana so hard on glee despite the fact that both their characters where gay. 😂
@@AmieMariah_ Yeah he really does lol. Very charismatic and extremely talented 😝.
Keep up the amazing work! I know finding motivation to do videos can be difficult and finding a niche can be daunting. I’m sure you’ll continue doing great though 😁
@@AlvisWong You have no idea how much I needed to hear that, honestly thank you so much! I really appreciate it 😊
Amie Mariah so you knew they were both gay characters and you shipped them anyway? that’s disgusting.
You should react to Melissa benoist version of running home to you, she sang it at Barry and Iris wedding's
I don't think anyone quite realizes how many stars of the arrow verse are musically inclined. This episode clued a lot of people in on it.
You are right! They are more than friends! They are...
BEST friends
They had even more broadway royalty than you showed here. Victor Garber and Jesse L Martin also got to sing as well
I can't believe I missed it! I definitely need to start doing a little bit more research into thr shows before reacting
@@AmieMariah_ even if it's not a part of the ranking anymore, I would still love to see your reaction to it if you wanted to make a video! I think you would like the performance :) here's a link to it th-cam.com/video/RSiGSmGKFNg/w-d-xo.html
There is also John Barrowman. He’s Malcom Merlyn from arrow and a Broadway star. The episode is awesome.
I agree
The Flashverse (Arrowverse after the beginning of Flash) was basically just one big Glee reunion. You got Grant and Melissa as 2 major superheroes, and then Professor Stein (FIRESTORM) was Mr. Schue's dad. Plus the minor roles, like Darren coming in as the Music Meister for this episode, or Max Adler (Karrofsky) as a one-episode meta in Flash.
Also, you should check out "Tha Los-Open Your Eyes", it 's Cisco, one of Flash's characters (also singing in "Put a Little Love in Your Heart")
I'm convinced that no straight female alive could possibly say no to Grant Gustin proposing to them, even without him singing. The singing is just a bonus to make you speechless.
some context to help you: Carlos Valdez (one of the guys in the beginning number) wrote and helped with stuff in Starkid musicals. Melissa Benoist is Supergirl on the CW show, this was a crossover. Jeremy Jordan is also a character on supergirl. Darren played the villain in the episode. The girl in "Runnin Home to You" is his wife. other people like Jesse L. Martin, Victor Garber, and John Barrowman appear in this episode. lol, hope this helped. also, the context for the episode: Darren's character trapped Supergirl and Flash in a dream/coma and had to play along with the "show" to escape.
Yes starkid reunion
Love loving a ship so much to the point of still being confused about what their relationship is even though one of the songs is called "Super Friends."
To add to the “reunion” vibes, the choreographer was the same from Glee, Zach Woodlee. Also, Darren not only was college friends with Carlos, but also Pasek and Paul.
You cannot tell me that no one noticed how amazing Carlos is at singing
Barry loves Kara as a friend nothing more, but their super friend bond is unbreakable
For context the crossover started at the end of a Supergirl episode. At the last minutes Music Maester (a meta-human) send Kara/Supergirl's conciousness into this "Musical World". The actual crossover being a flash episode, Barry joined after Kara had already spend a couple of hours there (which is why he was confused in Moonriver). His look is (for me at least) just a "damn! Kara can sing?" as they are just very good friends from different earth/universes. They both had to learn a love lesson for their respective relationship to get out and the episode end with Barry proposing (again) to Iris and Kara forgiving Mon-El for lying to her about who he was.
There was also a additional song. Not sure if you just didn't heard about it or if it was cut for a specific reason but I'd recommend taking a look.
I was worried about the video being too long so I only reacted to what I thought would have been the most popular songs but I didn't realise the other song had some serious broadway heavyweights so I massively regret not including it!
I think music meister is actually a 5th dimensional imp or whatever, as they asked where he was going and he said that they couldn't know or whatever didn't they?
He’s not a meta human he’s a alien
The relationship between Barry (Grant Gustin) and Kara (Melissa Benoist) is just as besties. The way he was looking at her in Moonriver was just because he had never heard her sing before and was gobsmacked lol.
And yes, Melissa/Kara is Supergirl 😊
Hello! I’m new to the channel! I just subbed because I love music and thought this video was fun! I’m a huge DC and MCU fan and I’m actually currently watching the whole Flash series and I’m in love with this episode so with that being said I will fill you in a little bit!! They are there because someone I guess as they say whammied to another world and they made it because of their love for musicals so now they have to finish the script to be able to go back home so the first song was to kind of give them an idea of what’s going on. In the next song since Barry isn’t a singer in the show, he’s kinda clueless so now he’s just saying random stuff. It’s super friend because they are both super hero’s and to answer your question yes the girl is super girl and that’s why they were talking about superman(her cousin). She said in the song that if he messes up he can go back in time and give it another shot because of how fast he is he can run to the future or the past but he’s no allowed to do that anymore because it messed up the time line and he created something called flash point. Anyways, he is not dating supergirl he is dating iris and his parents died when he was young so he’s know,live with, and love her since he was like 11. He proposed once but he did it to change the future, but then her brother (kid flash) told her that’s why(Barry still loved her) but then she broke off the engagement but now he proposed again but with the song! I thought it was beautiful and they have a great relationship and I just love this episode so much! It’s amazing and beautiful and I genuinely thought I was the only one who loved or thought it was cute when superhero’s sing!!❤😊❤😊
Melissa Benoist also sings “Running Home to You” in another crossover a few years after this one was aired. Also... yes SuperFlash would have been a great couple hahaha
Actually it was the same year this episode aired. This aired early 2017, and earth X aired late 2017.
I agree
Yes, Melissa plays supergirl, and they're just friends, good friends, like I'de say she's at most like a sister to him.
Melissa's character Kara, made that face on the line "My huckleberry friend" with an emphasis on the "huckleBarry" because Grant's character is named Barry. She and Barry are trapped in a musical world so her seeing him when hitting that line was basically just to show she recognized him while putting a bit of a pun there. Anyway overall this musical episode was so much fun. I love Grant and Melissa(I saw her live in Beautiful the musical and she was awesome!!) and the CW shows have some great theater actors like Victor Garber, Jeremy Jordan, and Jesse L. Martin. The amount of musically talented actors the CW DC shows had was basically the reason we got this crossover musical :)
Melissa and grant are absolutely incredible and so underrated. I’m so glad you actually enjoyed this
You just suddenly became a "superflash shipper" (Supergirl and Flash) on the very first episode you watched them together...
hey on Supergirl 3x08 at Barry's wedding, Kara sings "Running Home to you" while the ceremony happens
and on Legends of Tomorrow, another show thats corelated to The Flash and Supergirl, episode 4x11 they have an AWESOME bollywood number that I think is very worthy of you checking out.
you could check those 2 songs and the one you missed from The Flash's musical episode and make it a video!
The villain (Darren Criss) is the only one they hired for this episode, The rest of the people singing are just the cast from the show’s (The Flash) (Supergirl) (Arrow) (Legends Of Tomorrow) they just released half of our cast are from Glee or Broadway or something like that.
Wow! I had no idea Carlos Valdes was a part of the arrowverse. That's so weird!
Grant Gustins singing is so good it makes every girl who hears it fall in love with him instinctly. So to any guy reading this make sure you're girlfriend doesn't hear him sing.
FACTS 😂
Already fell in love with him before (since the pilot episode of the Flash), but I love him even more after watching him proposing to Iris with this song...
The other two musical episodes I can think of are Buffy (Once More With Feeling) and Scrubs (My Musical)
If you do those two make sure you do the songs in order since both have some songs reference songs from earlier in the episode
@@danielbutler8103 Also Grey's Anatomy had a musical episode in season 7 episode 18 called "Song Beneath the Song". This one you also should watch in order otherwise it may get a bit confusing. It features Sara Ramirez (plays the character Callie Torres) singing in most of the numbers. She is a Tony-award wining actress and has an amazing voice. There are also other actors and actresses in it that have either theater or music background that sing in it.
Melissa sang for months in her Broadway Debut in “Beautiful” the musical. You should check it out is on yt someone uploaded it and it’s amazing! Also there are more of Melissa singing.
As for another musical eps, the Once Upon a Time musical ep was good hahaha
I love how at the start Barry is like wth where am I but at the end hes like dancing
Why did she not talk about “More I Cannot Wish You”?
Buffy the Vsmpire Slayer: Season 6 episode 7 - Once More, With Feeling. PLEASE! Keep in mind that absolutely none of the cast are trained singers and the entire script (as well as the book) were written by the shows creator and his brother. It was an experiment that they had wanted to do and had only just found the pull to get the studio to sign off. It’s amazing. I really hope you know the show as it will inform your opinion but either way I think the structure is very strong. P.S. You should defiantly listen to the songs in the order they are performed on the show. Otherwise it will be even more confusing.
I love how all three of them were in glee and now are all grown up😭💯
There's a show I forgot to bring up as I'm not certain how well this will work and I haven't watched it in awhile so I don't recall exactly how many songs appear in each episode. It's called Eli Stone. In the first episode definitely and I'm pretty sure at least once or twice each episode the cast break into song and dance. Eli develops a brain tumour that allows him to get visions that help with his cases (he's a lawyer who just discovered he wants to be good) and those visions usually involve the people he works with singing and dancing. As well as Johnny Lee Miller the show also features Victor Garber and I know for sure he gets to sing and it's fantastic. It's on the new Disney+ "STAR" section for things with adult stuff.
No, Grant and Melissa's characters (Barry/the Flash and Kara/Supergirl) are just friends, but I mean, can you blame Grant, I would also be making heart eyes in his shoes.
UR REACTION TO SEEING MY FAVORITE GIRL MELISSA JUST MADE ME SO HAPPY
If you love Jeremy Jordan. I think you may like Tangled The Series. He plays the character Varian in it. And Yes, He SINGS!. And all the songs are written by Alan Menken and Glen Slater!. The show in amazing, and I would love to see a reaction video to it ^^
I love that this aired the same week as the Arrow episode “Kapiushon”. So at one end of the Arrowverse you have:
Barry and Kara - “🎵I’m your super frieeeend… 🎵”
And at the other end you’ve got:
Oliver - “I killed people because I wanted to! AND I LIKED IT!”
The only reasons the world they were trapped in was musical theater based was because both Barry and Kara love musicals so much and because they hold so much loving memories for them so this first intro song to me has two meanings. First, it’s darrens plan in song form he wants to inspire the two superhero’s who just both broken up with their love interests for valid reasons but stupid ones as well and second, this theme for the song put a little love in your heart could also play back to the whole reason why they’re trapped in a musical mindscape because musicals hold so many loving memories for them for Barry it’s the memories of his mother and for Kara it’s watching the wizards of Oz with her family because at the time when she was younger she felt like she was alone on Earth and struggled to fit in
You have to do Buffy (Once More with Feeling), in my humble opinion, it is the best tv show musical episode, and the one that popularized the genre.
The extended edition. To be clear.
I agree
I'm sure you know this, but too many young commenters have no idea who Victor Garber is , let alone John Barrowman and a few don't recognize Jesse Martin, but they are all Broadway (West End in Barrowman's case) veterans. Victor played Jesus in Godspell and John Wilkes Booth in Assassins.
I LIKE SO MUCH THIS EPISODE! GRANT AND MELISSA ARE GREAT! BUT ALL THIS EPISODE IT'S A GREAT THING! ANYWAY, I SAW THIS EPISODE EVERY TIMES, BECAUSE I LIKE SO MUCH WHEN GRANT SINGS! IT'S INCREDIBLE HIS VOICE!
The song "Super Friends" is a play on the super cheesy 70s cartoon show of the same name
A recommendation is that you watch the full episode but maybe only record your reactions to the songs that way you have an idea of what’s happening and don’t miss any songs
I love this episode, it was such a change of pace xD
Thank you for the fun vídeo, Amie! I love your input, even though you destroyed the Theather magic...
Haha thank you! ❤
a lot of the cast has a theater background in particular grant was in a remake of rent before he was cast on glee and john barrowman who has done a lot of musical theater as well as acting jobs, Jesse L. Martin, and Victor Garber... and if you like superhero shows you should totally watch Arrow, the flash, and Super girl!
btw Melissa also did a cover of running home to you in a future episode of The Flash
Hihi! Arrowverse is one of my special interests so if you werent given an answer I'll happily give one!
Yes, Melissa Benoist (or in this show Kara) is infact supergirl, supermans cousin, and infact she has a show in this universe focuses around her and her adventures called "Supergirl"!
Context for this episode: at the end of an earlier supergirl episode (or near the end), Blaine, or well in this crossover, the Music Meister sends supergirl into a coma and then says "i really wish i could stay but i gotta chase down the fastestan alive" who happens to be Barry Allen, aka the flash. So J'hon and Mon-El go to earth-1 (the earth that Barry lives on) to warn him, and then while the Kid Flash and Flash try to lock him up he uses his powers to send Barry inti a coma as well.
The dream-like world that the characters are in are based on what genres they like, so it could've been anything but due to Barry's love of "Singing in the rain" and Kara's love of "The Wizard of Oz" they both ended up in a musical world, and in order to escape this world they must follow the script.
Also fun fact: that little scream Kara did after that actor jumped off the stage was actually real (she didn't know it would happen) and they decided to keep the clip in!
I feel like you missed a lot of the musical magic because you didn't watch the whole episode. Barry and Kara are the only ones who are actually themselves and realize that they're in a musical, everyone else is just playing a character in a dream realm. It's so freaking fun and adorable and cinematic and everything you could want from musical theater.
I know this was 3 years ago for you but I just saw your video today.
Barry and Kara discussing time travel, he's fast enough to go back in time but it has dangerous consequences if you mess with certain things in the past.
Arrowverse treats some events in time as a fixed point.
Melissa actually does a great job as Supergirl in her own show, don't be too thrown off by the drastic cast changes between Seasons 1 and 2 since that was due to a network and location shift since originally she was on CBS and the show shot in California but as of Season 2, The CW took it and moved the filming location to Vancouver, British Columbia.
Barry and Kara had already met previously same with her meeting most members of Team Flash but he never had the chance to meet anyone back then on her team other than Jimmy, Winn and Lucy, we never saw him and Superman together back then but he probably found out about him at some point.
Barry and Kara aka Supergirl are just friends, at this point in the timeline of their shows, they are in different universes and they both had very recent relationship issues hence why the Music Meister did what he did.
Music Meister was a metahuman villain in other shows he's been in mostly all animated but here, they treat him as some kind of like dimensional being who mends romantic relationships.
Kara singing Moon River, she had already gotten attacked by Music Meister on Earth-38 and that's what leads to them going to Barry since Music Meister makes a hint towards it before breaching, breaching is what Arrowverse calls portals generally portals to other universes. Barry had just been attacked by Music Meister so he was shocked to not just see Kara there but also he had no clue she was that great at singing.
The songs did appear in a different order in the show so you're kind of watching their story back to front which may explain the weird looks.
Melissa Benoist was actually also on Broadway she's been on the show carol king
If you're watching musical episodes than Buffy is a must watch.
yeah there's more than friendship there's super friendship
the superfriend song was written by the super talented rachel bloom from crazy ex girlfriend
I LOVE CRAZY EX GIRLFRIEND!! Now that you mention that it definitely does sound like a song that would have been on the show
When you have that many Glee stars and Jessie Lee Peterson, original cast from Rent, how couldn't you do a musical episode.
Yes, Melissa is Supergirl (she has her own show; this is a crossover episode)
I love these songs.🙂The Choreography is marvelous.:-)😀Music Meister can just mouth a a song and mentally cause someone to sing it. Wow.he did with the sentence "And The world." He was li synching as a guy sang those lyrics. the other man was not looking at him.:-O😲😀I wish there could be a person with the power in the real world.A little bit of public quiet singing and /or dancing is good.
Watching the episode alone without context would be confusing enough, but just the songs must be super-(pun intented) confusing.
You mentioned enjoying Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, would you want to do a reaction for some of their songs? I’m obsessed with the show and I kinda feel like it needs way more attention
And to think...you didn't even cover the trio between John Barrowman, Jesse Martin, and motherflappin' *Victor Garber*.
“3rd rock from the sun” 2x25 (Life has been good to me).
Oooh I've never heard of that show before!
Btw Melissa Benoist has also been on Broadway.
the sign behind her needs to be seen by people
Barry and Kara (Supergirl) are just friends. He looks at her that way cause he's never heard her sing before and he just got thrust into this magical musical world not knowing what the hell was going on so seeing his friend made him happy.
Watching the whole episode in the wrong order had me baffled
Glad to find someone reacting to musicals that watches Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist.
Just super friends the Flash & Supergirl.
Interesting your using Anime style ranking S, A, B, C, D.
You definitely need to watch more Flash and Supergirl.
Yes, Benoist was playing Supergirl, aka Kara Zor-El. In this variation, the two live in different universes, but Flash's universe has had multiple characters show the ability to cross universes at this point. This is because this episode is a crossover. Supergirl and Flash are SEPARATE shows. The first meeting between them was funny, and they both played their characters a-dork-ably, and became instant friends in a 'share the same brain' kind of way. The Moon River son was actually the FIRST song, and they were just introducing the idea that they were surprised they were BOTH trapped in a musical together. Hence the reaction.
Really, this musical doesn't deserve much credit, IMHO. The reason for the musical was VERY shoe-horned in, very little happened that mattered to the characters aside from the long-expected proposal from Barry to Iris. There never was a relationship between Barry and Kara, but it was a VERY frequent fan fantasy. They would have made a better couple than Barry and Iris as, for some reason, the Arrowverse writers consistently wrote love-interest characters TERRIBLY. Iris West was the WORST. Kara's original crush was a version of Jimmy Olsen and he was written badly. Green Arrow's comic-accurate lover was written so badly they had him fall in love with someone else. It was wierd.
But this musical episode was kind of a waste.
Can you please react to the musical episodes from The Magicians. They have at least one like every season. "One Day More", "Under Pressure", "Here We Go Again", "Take On Me" just a couple of them. They are really good
Nope they only date in the fanfictions 😭😭😭 which is amazing... DON’T COME AT ME PEOPLE!! 😂😂
I loved the Glee reunion and Smooth Criminal is definitely my favorite glee song too
Please do the part 2 for this episode, that you talked about in a later video!
Also missed out ‘More I cannot wish you’
This is, like, the third video I've watched of yours (starting with the Scrubs musical because I FUCKING LOVE SCRUBS!) and I NEED to know if you've done the part 2 video of this yet, with the dads singing??
you should watch the rest of the show, its pretty good
I haven't watched the video yet, but i saw the title, and honestly same
She is superman's cousin this episode is a fantasy created by the music meister who places them in a musical to learn a lesson grant gustin is the flash and yes she is supergirl
I proposed to my kids mom singing this song. At 12am exactly new years eve in 2018. It was beautiful we all cried. I have a video if you'd want to see it. We are not together anymore but we are great friends and co-parent wonderfully. We will always love each other. But yes, that song makes me bawl my eyes out. (Running home to you).
You should also watch where Kara sings Running Home at Barry and Iris's wedding before the Nazi ruin it. The Flash Season 4 Episode 8 (a 4 episode crossover with Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow)
Maybe a part 2 to this video? 🤔
@@AmieMariah_ That's a good idea, especially since it would broaden your experience with Supergirl
There is another song in the musical ‘More I cannot wish you’
You should definitely watch the full episode if you haven’t! It’s a great one.
You need to watch both shows! They're so so good!!!!!
Yep, I knew that. The songs were out of order which may have helped tell the story. Buffy S6 E7 "Once More with Feeling" is very, very good. The song order is important to the story as well as the whole episode has a heavy consequence on the season, too. "Eli Stone" is a two-season series that can be surprising.
Love a Glee reunion and the flash
You should react to the CW Arrowverse actors singing the theme song from Firefly...
starring Nathan Fillion who has been quoting as saying two quotes : "I never want to sing nor do Shakespeare." "Anytime that Joss Whedon calls and offers a role, without hesitation or anything said, you say YES!"
This is how he was cast in Much Ado About Nothing and also as Captain Hammer in 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Vlog'... starring Neil Patrick Harris.
so that gives two reaction videos. :)
You missed a song from the episode where Joe and stein and cutter all sing to their song/ daughter about their true love
I’d say Barry and Kara have a sibling relationship
Melissa Benoist plays Supergirl on the CW
Its a jukebox musical
The next song: I’m an absolute original
in the flash it explains it more but there is something called the multiverse so Barry is from central city earth 1 and Kara is from national city earth 38 but they met when Barry accidentally ran to fast with the tachyon enhancer and ran to earth 38 that is where he met Kara but Cisco ( Barry's friend) made portals to all the earth's in the multi verse. All of the episodes is based off of the DC comics.
The music meister is from another TV musical episode from Batman Brave and the Bold which is in my opinion the best of musical episodes
Everyone recognizes Jeremy Jordan (as they should) but no one ever recognizes John Barrowman (a freaking ICON) and Carlos Valdez (has been in several theater productions, including one nominated for a Tony).