Seriously, everything I was worried about in the previous episode came to be in this one. Keith David has all of five lines over the course of two episodes. What a waste of talent! Not to mention the invasion of sapient gorillas itself being immensely lacklustre. The fight between Solovar and Grodd is well animated at least.

Barry also proposed but honestly, who cares? Every episode now is book ended by cutesy scenes of Barry and Iris that add nothing or worse; reiterate the same plot point over and over and over. Shit or get off the pot, show.

The interaction between Harry and HR wasn’t what I wanted either. It came off like straight-up bullying. Harry SPAT in HR’s cup, for fuck’s sake! That’s gross on so many levels. Not to mention the shitty ploy Harry had to keep Jesse on Earth-2. I love Tom’s acting but the writing seemed off for Harry this episode. Hell, he seemed more gravel-y as well.

The biggest takeaway for me was Cisco’s jaunt to Earth-19 which revealed a low-key cameo by the Accelerated Man, the Flash of the same Earth as Gotham by Gaslight, an Elseworld with a Victorian/steampunk aesthetic. He’s portrayed by Sean Pogue and while nothing much is said, the look at the photos of another breacher seems like foreshadowing to me.

Jessica Camacho continues to be foxy as all hell as Gypsy and she has a wonderfully playful dynamic with Cisco that I’m worried won’t last. They even mention Lisa Snart in this episode and when was the last time she even showed up?

The episode ends with Savitar appearing out of thin air to menace Wally. Why? How? I guess we’ll find out next episode but to round up Attack on Central City; it was a bit of a let down and the whole two-parter mostly felt like an exercise in wasted potential. Hopefully the plot will kick into top gear next week as we bear witness to The Wrath of Savitar.

Attack on Gorilla City is the long-awaited return of a fair few characters and gives us plenty of fun moments but it definitely feels like set-up more than it’s own thing.

Not so much Attack on Gorilla City as a Stumble into Gorilla City or a Wander through Gorilla City because we see very little of Gorilla City life but hey, TV budgets and for what we got it looked pretty good.

I’m glad we’re getting a two parter out of this too because Solovar is voiced by the sexiest voice on any Earth, Keith David and we got fuck all of those golden pipes here. You don’t get motherfuckin’ Goliath on your show and then waste him. It’d be like if Tony Todd had all of 3 lines as Zoom!

Meanwhile, in teen hormone corner, Wally and Jesse are having relationship problems that are solved by the end of the episode but will be reappearing because, guess what? Jesse Quick has her own Earth to protect! We haven’t seen any other heroes from Earth-2 so she’s obviously not going to stick around and that’s sad, not because we’ll be down a speedster…

But because we’ll be down another Wells and god damn do we need more Tom Cavanagh. He plays three distinct roles tonight and carries it off with aplomb!

The episode ends with the status quo seemingly restored while Grodd amasses his troops for war with Gypsy by his side. How? Why? I guess we’ll find out when this two-pater concludes next week with the Attack on Central City!