I wonder how much this cost them to make compared to regular episodes like the three previous ones, must be at least twice as expensive as one of those. Was it worth it? I certainly think it was.
The VFX was fantastic compared to the last two Grodd episodes where Grodd mostly appeared during nighttime or it was otherwise dark in the room. Obviously they had to up the spectacle being that we were not only getting Grodd but the entirety of Gorilla City in this episode. I like that they didn't decide to change the look of the city from the time we saw it at the end of "Gorilla Warfare" last season, continuity is appreciated. Instead they took us closer and showed us more of the inside of it. When they gave us that overview of the city with gorillas walking everywhere I got a big smile on my face. Never did I imagine when we were first introduced to Grodd that this was going to be happening barely two years later. We went from sewers to this within just three seasons, that's pretty crazy. It took them 4-5 seasons to bring out the Fortress of Solitude on Smallville. Anyway, the VFX department has done a very good job. The city, the gorillas and the arena fight were all fantastic and there's going to be more Gorilla-action in next week's episode. Honestly, never thought I'd see Grodd wearing armour but I was sort of hoping for it one day, glad that day has come and he looks great wearing it. Barry's speedpunches does nothing on his bare muscles so I don't know how he is going to stop a Grodd who now has armour. I hope they'll get some help from Solovar to fight Grodd and we see the two gorillas fight each other because that would be awesome!
Grodd's plan was understandable although not entirely flawless. He does well in tricking Team Flash to think that Solovar is evil by making them feel sympathy for Grodd because they sent him there and now he's not being treated well. Of course this is just so he could be backstabbing Team Flash later on, assume control and commence his attack on Earth-1 Central City. It's not the best plan but given that Grodd has a back-up plan in the end I get the impression that the writers wanted us to notice how Grodd has become smarter since we last saw him. Poor Gypsy, how did you end up in this situation? Please explain that to me in the next episode.
Jesse and Wally scenes were okay. When the episode is set to give us basically "Welcome to Gorilla City" the scenes where we are not in Gorilla City will feel unnecessary and that was no different here than it was during the Earth-2 visit last year. H.R. was fun in this episode so he pretty much saved all the Earth-1 scenes, especially when they returned from Earth-2.
This is a two-parter story so this was only half of the story. Will the second half be as great as the first half? I hope it will, I can't see how it wouldn't be. Armoured gorillas causing mayhem in the city? How can this not sound cool to anyone following this show.
All in all, this episode was great, the VFX excellent, Grodd is growing to be a fearsome adversary (too bad we can't have a full season of him) and he's coming back next week to lay waste to Central City!
The VFX was fantastic compared to the last two Grodd episodes where Grodd mostly appeared during nighttime or it was otherwise dark in the room. Obviously they had to up the spectacle being that we were not only getting Grodd but the entirety of Gorilla City in this episode. I like that they didn't decide to change the look of the city from the time we saw it at the end of "Gorilla Warfare" last season, continuity is appreciated. Instead they took us closer and showed us more of the inside of it. When they gave us that overview of the city with gorillas walking everywhere I got a big smile on my face. Never did I imagine when we were first introduced to Grodd that this was going to be happening barely two years later. We went from sewers to this within just three seasons, that's pretty crazy. It took them 4-5 seasons to bring out the Fortress of Solitude on Smallville. Anyway, the VFX department has done a very good job. The city, the gorillas and the arena fight were all fantastic and there's going to be more Gorilla-action in next week's episode. Honestly, never thought I'd see Grodd wearing armour but I was sort of hoping for it one day, glad that day has come and he looks great wearing it. Barry's speedpunches does nothing on his bare muscles so I don't know how he is going to stop a Grodd who now has armour. I hope they'll get some help from Solovar to fight Grodd and we see the two gorillas fight each other because that would be awesome!
Grodd's plan was understandable although not entirely flawless. He does well in tricking Team Flash to think that Solovar is evil by making them feel sympathy for Grodd because they sent him there and now he's not being treated well. Of course this is just so he could be backstabbing Team Flash later on, assume control and commence his attack on Earth-1 Central City. It's not the best plan but given that Grodd has a back-up plan in the end I get the impression that the writers wanted us to notice how Grodd has become smarter since we last saw him. Poor Gypsy, how did you end up in this situation? Please explain that to me in the next episode.
Jesse and Wally scenes were okay. When the episode is set to give us basically "Welcome to Gorilla City" the scenes where we are not in Gorilla City will feel unnecessary and that was no different here than it was during the Earth-2 visit last year. H.R. was fun in this episode so he pretty much saved all the Earth-1 scenes, especially when they returned from Earth-2.
This is a two-parter story so this was only half of the story. Will the second half be as great as the first half? I hope it will, I can't see how it wouldn't be. Armoured gorillas causing mayhem in the city? How can this not sound cool to anyone following this show.
All in all, this episode was great, the VFX excellent, Grodd is growing to be a fearsome adversary (too bad we can't have a full season of him) and he's coming back next week to lay waste to Central City!