Last week on Tuesday and Wednesday, something amazing happened for all the nerds, geeks and especially Arrow and The Flash fans. The awaited crossover episodes aired on TV. These episodes had been announced around the beginning of this season, and many fans have been patiently watching the shows and eagerly anticipating this event. But how did the episodes actually compare to the hype people had been giving them? It honestly depends on how you look at the episodes. Each episode is going to be broken down below.

The first part of this two-episode, two-night event to air was The Flash since new episodes air on Tuesdays. In my opinion, I thought that this episode of The Flash was kind of rough. Now don’t get me wrong—I loved this episode, but looking at it closely, there wasn’t a strong plot to follow. The episode started with a man, Roy Bivolo, walking into a bank. He puts the people in a rage and robs the bank. This triggers a response from the police, who try to catch Bivolo. They track him to a warehouse, and he uses his powers on a cop, enraging him. Oliver, dressed as the Arrow, shows up to save everyone. Arrow and Flash decide to team up. Later, Bivolo uses his powers on the Flash, turning him into an angry man with super speed. Oliver stops him with the help of Star Labs. Now that I say it, I guess there was more of a plot than I had suggested earlier.

Now there were two things that really excited me about that episode. Both of them happened at the end. In the first part I that liked, Oliver meets his ex-girlfriend in a coffee shop in Central City. This ex of his ran off to Central City when Oliver’s mother figured out that she was pregnant. She paid the woman to leave and tell Oliver that she had a miscarriage. When you see her in The Flash, she and Oliver talk before she goes up to the counter to order her drinks. She gets a call and answers, telling the caller that she is just getting him a hot chocolate. She then calls him a “sweetheart” and hangs up. To most people, this just seems like a little thing. Something along the lines of revealing that she actually had the child. To comic readers, you know that this boy is Connor Hawke, Oliver’s son and the second Green Arrow.

The second thing that made me excited was the appearance of Firestorm, the hero they’ve been teasing throughout the first season. The way they introduced him was a little cliché though. Two muggers walk up to him and warn him about how bad of an idea it was to be hanging out under a bridge—yada yada, the normal mugger stuff. When they go to mug him, however, they notice he’s shaking. They tease him a bit until he tells them that they don’t want to attack him. His head then bursts into flames, quickly followed by his hands. The show ended on that high note, exciting its viewers for what was to come.

The second part of the crossover was during Arrow. This episode starts with Team Arrow still working on their case to find the murderer that they had been tracking in the previous part of the crossover. They find his house, storm in, and are met not by the man they’ve been tracking, but by agents working for ARGUS, a secret government organization in charge of apprehending all of the crazies that appear on the show. After Green Arrow returns to his home base, the two scientists from Star Labs who work with Barry show up with the DNA results from an arrow that killed the Black Canary. While he’s waiting around, Oliver hears about his bodyguard, Diggle, sneaking into ARGUS headquarters for information about the murderer. Oliver goes to meet him in the nick of time, as the murderer starts attacking Diggle with boomerangs. Barry shows up to save them. They learn that the murderer, named Digger Harkness, was once part of the Suicide Squad. The mission he was on turned bad, and the bombs in the Task Force X’s necks blew up, killing them. The only bomb that didn’t blow was Digger’s.

The Team (and Barry) track Digger down to a warehouse, where he attacks them, shooting Diggle’s girlfriend who works with ARGUS by monitoring Task Force X. Digger then runs away. Flash and Green Arrow track him to a subway, where he tells them that he planted 5 bombs around the city. The two of them could choose to let him go and diffuse the bombs, which would soon explode, or “arrest” him, turning him in to the police. The two stand there, but tell Team Arrow and Star Labs to diffuse the bombs. They learn that once one bomb is diffused, the rest will explode. At this point, the two teams split up, each taking one bomb. They diffuse them all within a second of each other, keeping the bombs from exploding. Oliver turns in Digger to the police, and the episode is over.

I prefer The Flash’s part of the crossover to Arrow’s for the pure fact that it had a few Easter eggs to enjoy. Overall, these two episodes were the best yet.