#Alfred just casually talks about nuclear reactions.

[the-heaminator]

hbggg wanna write America and Australia asking old ppl (Scotland and prussia, china maybe) about the first high explosives which ends in them making fulminating gold and silver in scotlands garage, they get out the aqua reigis it's a fucking blast (ba dum tss).

But I don't have the chemistry knowledge

[kaedekisaragi]

Kaede Kisaragi Watches The Flash S3E14 - Attack on Central City

Pack your toothbrushes, we going to the restaurant at the end of the universe.

Barry Allen is one awesome bf. He has gotten a full course breakfast PLUS balloons. All before 6:30. V-day and all, yes? Meanwhile, at the labs, Harry is very much stunned by HR's giddiness. Or HR's unhealthy curiosity on how Harry brushes his teeth. Harry demonstrates his love for HR by spitting toothpaste in HR's coffee. Class act.

So the team is also similarly uncertain about HR's decorating. He also has made them Friends' day Cards, the equivalent of V-day in his earth. And hey, look, personalized cards: "You have sped into my heart, Jesse quick". Wally agrees, anyway. And seems that the two have not yet told Harry. Wally is nervous. Barry cheerfully agrees that HR is right, they do deserve to celebrate their win over Grodd. Iris is all too happy too, kissing her "friend" Barry.

Jessie and Wally go tell Harry. Harry drops his shit when she tells him. But he acts very cool and casual, accepting Jessie's happiness comes first and foremost. But given his pause and questioning her about it being WALLY she loves, I think he obviously does not take it as well as he seems. But anyway, time to look for a place to live! Wally is nervous.

Cisco is bitter of being permanently in the friendzone, not helped by Caitlin saying she and Julian are just friends. As Caitlin assures him someone for him might be just around the corner, Gypsy leaps out of a breach... And blasts a smiling Cisco. She also blasts Flash too, immobilizing him, but she's caught offguard by Harry and his gun. One lockup at the pipeline later, they interrogate her and discover that she had been manipulated by grodd. And they realize this must mean he's in Earth-Prime too, else he couldn't manipulate her.

The gorilla army stands in the hills, looking off towards Central City.

Barry has a broken moment where he realizes Grodd keeps evolving, while they always fight him the same way. They need to change how they face him. Harry suggests using their knowledge of the future to predict Grodd's attack and stop him preemptively. Harry has an idea to modify Vibe gear so they can have cisco see the future he doesn't know of yet. He goes off to work (on the only pair, mind you) and drags Wally with him... Weird. Cisco goes to talk to Gypsy so she can help, because no way she'll say no to him. Which she does. He charms her into staying, after she drops a 'Luke Starkiller' reference that geeks him out in a multiple-earth level, saying she gets to get revenge on Grodd and spend time with 'his face'. She says she saw the horrors Grodd has in mind for Central City, and she won't take part in this fight. Cisco, upset but relenting, lets her leave.

Wally is good following Harry's instructions, and he also is glad for how well Harry took to the news of him and Jessie. Harry says his daughter deserves happiness, and Wally makes her happy. Wally says they'll visit him a lot too on earth-2... And Harry reveals that his health is not what it once was. He's been to a doctor. He doesn't know how long he has. He asks Wally not to tell her.

Team all set for Cisco's vibe experiment.

Cisco "Harry, if this thing fries my brain..." Harry "It's an improvement~" Cisco "Was that Rocky?" Harry "Yeah, Burgess Meredith."

Harry loves his BFF Cisco ^^ Or would, if Harry didn't reveal right there that the amplified vibing can be possibly deadly. Cisco vibes blindly... Intersection State and Oakhill. They assemble the SWAT on the place, but... It's too late: Grodd speaks through Joe, knowing Joe is important to Barry. He pulls his own gun and SHOOTS AT JOE'S TEMPLE, AND FLASH MANAGES TO BE FASTER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET, THE BULLET JUST GRAZING HIS FOREHEAD! This was all just a distraction... Grodd's real target is a limo carrying an army guy.

Joe's alright, and when he got controlled, he got glimpses of Grodd's mind, just like Gypsy. Harry has an idea about using the kind of machinery used for treating depression to help Joe recover Grodd's memories, assuming the mind control goes both ways. Joe's okay with the plan. Iris goes to barry, who is hitting a deep low, feeling nothing he does can stop his loved ones from being brought harm. He can't just send Grodd away... They gotta kill him. Iris doesn't like that. He counters that even Ollie has killed and still remains a hero. She shoots back that this weighs on Ollie's head every day. Barry is considering this only because if he kills Grodd, the attack won't happen and Iris may live. She says his kindness is why he's so beloved, and he should never compromise. Her life isn't worth that.

Wally tries to tell Jessie to spend as much time with her dad as she can, but naturally, he has poor choice of words. He tells her about her dad's sickness. Jessie... finds this unbelievable and stands up to go talk to him. And by the looks on his reactions, he really WAS bullshitting Wally to keep Jessie for himself. She lays the ultimatum. Not losing a beat, he resumes the experiment on Joe. Joe's brain is lit up, and he makes a portrait of the man Grodd captured. Who is unknown to them. Grodd, meanwhile, uses the general guy to infiltrate Fort Reynolds, a NUCLEAR MISSILE TRANSPORATION BASE!

Barry beats up on a poor sandbag with his flash-fisticuffs. Breaking it open. Harry walks in, and shows himself to be on Iris's side, saying he is not proud of all the stupid ideas he's had, and Barry should not kill grodd. If he kills Grodd, it'll only make easier to kill the next enemy. The team is called to the cortex, because HR got an idea thanks to renowned Alfred Yankovic, a poet from his world (Yes, Weird Al, cuz of that hair). General guy has a military hairdo. They found his identity: General Mcnally. And he has the highest clearance, being able to fire nukes in seconds. Which he just did. Yay. Barry goes by himself, since if he fails to stop the missile, kid flash and jessie gotta evacuate everyone to safety.

Flash arrives at the ballistic launcher, and he has little time to disarm the launch. They don't know the disarm code. Only that the code is five-digit. So Flash, in a frantic few seconds, rapidfires all possible combinations until he lands 45127. Grodd, seeing it failed, sends his gorillas to attack. STAR Labs detects them. Barry is decided not to kill Grodd, so he'll need everyone's help here.

Earth-19. Gypsy gives intel on someone to a guy in aviator glasses and scarf. As soon as he leaves in a flash, Vibe is there to talk to her. Vibe defies her shutting him down, saying he is able to vibe her feelings and knows she's a hero like him, not just an officer. He needs her help getting something to stop grodd. On Earth-Prime, Jessie Flash and Kid Flash are waiting to meet the enemy army. With few odds on their favor. The kid speedsters do their job distracting the main army while Flash rushes Grodd... and gets swatted aside. Kid Flash is next. And then Jessie. Grodd mocks Flash for not being willing to kill him...

...Flash reveals his trump: Vibe and Gypsy bring Solovar to the fray. Gorilla on Gorilla brawl! The battle goes to the top of a building, then Grodd gets pushed off the building. Solovar is victorious. The army submits to him. Solovar is about to kill Grodd but Flash stops him, reminding him how he spared Solovar, and vows to keep Grodd on Earth-Prime. Solovar accepts.

ARGUS is called in to take Grodd. Barry feels bad, but Caitlin thinks what little good Grodd had on him is gone, and for all she cares, he can rot next to King shark. Cisco would pay for that fight. Gypsy tries to leave, saying she only helped for the city's sake, but Cisco aggressively confronts her on her feelings for him. She aggressively kisses him and tells him she is too much for him. Cisco swears to marry her XD

Harry is leaving for Earth-2. He makes clear he'll murder Wally ANYWHERE in the multiverse if he hurts Jessie. Wally swears he'd need to be dead before anyone hurts her. They shake hands.

Barry fixes a romantic night for him and Iris on their apartment. He's realizes that there's always another way to fix the future... Like making it THEIR future... POPPING A RING AND KNEELING! WITH A RING THAT BELONGED TO HIS GREAT-GRANDPA IN WORLD WAR II WHEN HE WANTED TO PROPOSE! HE ASKS IRIS TO MARRY HIM!

Stinger. Wally and Jessie watch Casablanca. She doesn't get it, but it's his favorite movie. She says she's in mood for burgers, so he runs off to get some... AND HELLO SAVITAR IS HERE AND HE'S DASHING TOWARDS WALLY WHAT?!?

...Seriously, is this the way to end an episode? Bad show, no donut for you. I kid of course.

Harry being an asshole even when he's not in mortal danger was expected, so was his constant annoyance and elitist attitude towards HR's 'moron qualities'. We should give these two a spin-off. Cisco being the aggressive flirt was a nice change from deer-in-headlights Cisco. Especially since Gypsy is TOTALLY fem-cisco. And I'll admit, I genuinely did not expect Barry to try and marry Iris this season. This makes me worried. Very worried.

I wish that they'd have spent more time fighting the gorillas. I mean, both this and last episode we had a shortage of gorilla brawls. Speaking of brawls, solovar vs grodd... felt too fake. The CGI on CGI all out brawl on a CGI background... yeah, too much CGI. It felt fake. It was nice to callback to Barry's sparing of Solovar, maybe using this as a building brick for estabilishing Solovar as a future ally of the team, in any future gorilla city forays.

[the-heaminator]

Reblogging to keep my tags safe. O may be onto something

#Rather I do have the chemistry knowledge I just dont know how to convey it without sounding like a paper#pls send help I hate having science brainrot#The heam speaks#For context culminating silver is incredibly reactive. If you touch it with a lighted splint even if its wet it'll just fukin detonate on#Jack would love watching Gilbert and Alisdair argue about how to make fulminating silver and Alfred would be taking notes bc he wants#Imagine your uncle and some other crusty dude yelling at each other about how not to handle high explosives. Then it detonated#Everyone knows mercury fulminate they probably wouldn't go through that#WAIT THOSE 4 WOULD HAVE A SCIENCE CHANNEL#Alfred would go on 2 hour long explanations about astrophysics#And with Gilbert and alisdair they could easily talk for hours on shitty video quality about machines and their mechanisms and their histor#Gilbert and alisdair would have a whole series “What not to do with chemistry” basically making a lot of explosives#And things of questionable legal standing. Like carbon tetra chloride because we know alisdair doesn't throw shit out and probably has some#Organo-phosphates and other highly dangerous chemicals and compounds banned in the 60s to 90s in his shed#Alfred just casually talks about nuclear reactions.#Jack and guest appearances of zee would be examining animal and human biology in a sory of crack head way that people love.#He has a pretty large base of people who watch his videos. Short and quick forward but genuinely educational#While people like me are going to watch Alfred go on for hours about isotopes and allo tropes and isomers fission fusion the whole lot.#Alisdair and Gilbert's velideos constantly toe the line of legality. There is a lot if swearing and questionable health and safety

hbggg wanna write America and Australia asking old ppl (Scotland and prussia, china maybe) about the first high explosives which ends in them making fulminating gold and silver in scotlands garage, they get out the aqua reigis it's a fucking blast (ba dum tss).

But I don't have the chemistry knowledge