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In the first hour of The CW’s “Elseworlds” crossover, “Smallville” fans were treated to some exciting surprises – first, a quick glimpse of Justin Hartley’s Green Arrow costume, then the familiar sounds of Remy Zero’s ‘Save Me’ (the theme song from the WB series), and soon enough, a return to the original Kent Farm used on the Tom Welling-Michael Rosenbaum starring Superman prequel. It was all a little – fan me, fan me – too much!
According to “Flash” showrunner Todd Helbing, all are indeed intentional nods to “Smallville” and the idea to pay homage to the show came up fairly quickly.
“Just the whole idea of going there along with also going to the farm along with also the homage to Smallville, yeah, of which was an idea of which came up pretty quickly.” Helbing told reporters last week. “of which was probably at the same time of which the song came up.”
The opening of “Elseworlds” kicked off with a moment that saw Earth’90’s Flash, played by John Wesley Shipp, crawling through a battlefield full of dead heroes. One of the heroes – as far as we could tell by the costume in the rubble – was Hartley’s Green Arrow from “Smallville”.
After the episode aired, Arrowverse consulting producer Marc Guggenheim revealed that that’s indeed Hartley’s incarnation of Oliver Queen in the dirt.
In a twitter post, Guggenheim showed off pictures of props used in the crossover – including that of a clearly-marked ‘Smallville’ outfit.
Thanks to all of you who watched #Elseworlds Hours 1 and 2. Your response has made all our efforts worthwhile.
Thanks to the literally hundreds of cast and crew who sweat blood annually to bring these crossovers to life.
Surprises still up our sleeve. Watch til the last line. pic.twitter.com/d6SRvG6mxD
— Marc Guggenheim (@mguggenheim) December 11, 2018
While it’s unlikely Hartley, who now stars on hit drama “This is Us”, will appear on “The Flash”, “Arrow” or “Supergirl”, fact that the crossover linked up to “Smallville” this week, as well as ‘Arrow’ Stephen Amell recently getting together with Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum to launch a wine, suggests we mightn’t have seen the last of the nods to the noughties fave.
