What a fun episode. This is what I was expecting to get with the arrival of Jay Garrick into Barry's Parallel Earth. What I didn't expect to see is him without his powers and I liked how they were able to improvise at the end to make it appear he still had his Speed. Sand Demon was kinda cool. Too quick of an appearance to really get much out of it though. His character is very similar to that of Sandman. Was wondering how they were going to 'write off' Dr. Martin Stein from The Flash and get him ready for Legends of Tomorrow. Having him drop at the end seems like the start. Best part of the episode was of course the epilogue that took us to Jay's Parallel  Earth and seeing Dr. Harrison Wells. Yay! Did I tell you that this is going to be a fun season?!

Another great episode for the Comic Book fans tonight (the other being Agents of SHIELD). In this episode it's basically the rebirth of a new Firestorm to replace Ronnie who "died". With Dr. Martin Stein life ebbing away without another half to sustain him, we are introduced to new character Jefferson “Jax” Jackson who becomes his savior and new Firestorm. Even the fight scene to test out his new ability was pretty good too. But it's the ending that I want to talk about. When Barry/Flash is looking at Patty in the coffee shop and we see this MASSIVE hand come into frame and grab Flash by the neck, I thought it was the hand of Grodd at first. In less than a half a second we see that it's Shark Man or whatever he's called. It's an all-CGI creation of what is essentially a Great White Shark in "human form". It looked awesome. The only thing that can top that was the revelation of Dr. Harrison Wells as the man that saves Barry/Flash by shooting Shark Man. Can't wait until next weeks episode.

Finally we get a full episode with the return of "Dr. Harrison Wells". Well, the Harrison from Earth 2. I like the version from Earth 2 created a device that can detect meta-humans and that this device would eventually reveal Cisco's big secret that he is one himself. Fun episode that ends in a grand way when we finally get to see Zoom, who looks bad ass. I thought it was cool that Dr. Light would be played by the doppelganger of Linda Park which adds a nice wrinkle to things.

Gorilla Warfare just might be my favorite episode so far this season. It was great. I want to see more Grodd and that's exactly what we get here. Even better is that the entire episode is really about him so you know that FX team had their work cut out for them as he was going to be on screen for a lot of the time and he looked great. I love how the story line starts out one and then pivots into a homage of King Kong and Ann Darrow with Caitlin stepping into the shows of Fay Wray. We even get the return of "Reverse Flash" and the return of Barry's father. I knew with John Wesley Shipp back in town that he would give another pep talk to Barry and make me get misty eye. Happens every time!! Loved the ending with Grodd ending up in Earth 2 at some Gorilla City. I fully expect Grodd to return back to Earth and be a main catalyst in Zoom's downfall.

Welcome to Earth-2 was a damn good and a damn fun episode to watch. This is the kind of crossover, comic booky story I want to see more of. Having Barry, Cisco and Harry heading to Earth-2 opened up a lot of things. So far we have only experienced the fish-out-of-water angle through the eyes of Harry and Jay. But that hasn't been the same because they are on Earth-1, with nothing changing. But put the characters into Earth-2, thus taking the viewer along for the ride really sells it. All the bad guys from Earth 1 are now good guys on Earth 2, and more deliscious was seeing all the good guys and gals turned evil. Seeing Caitlin, Cisco and Ronnie as Killer Frost, Reverb and Deathstorm was fantastic. The episode had a very good balance between laugh out loud funny moments and teary-eyed poignancy. I'm glad this will go for another episode. Loved the breach at the start of the episode. When you go through it, you "see" alternate things that will happen in the future. The images whiz by so fast and are so distorted, it's hard to make out most of them. But the one thing that I saw as clear as the blue sky was Supergirl (Melissa Benoist). This had me grinning.

When they killed off Laurel / Black Canary over on Arrow a few weeks back, I always had it in my mind that this would be reversed with the help of Legends of Tomorrow with their whole Time Travel gimmick and sure enough, it was Sara that was demanding to do just that. To my surprise, they never did and I figured that they would revisit the idea later. For the time being, her demise would be permanent. What I totally forgot was that Earth-2 still had doppelgangers and lo and behold, "Laurel" returns as Black Siren. It was great to see Katie Cassidy back on TV and in my eyes, in a much better role for her. She was good as the Black Canary, but I always preferred Caity Lotz in the role. As Black Siren, she just looks better as a brunette and more importantly, she plays better as a Villain and she can make this own character instead of constantly being compared to Caity's version. I'm down for more of this.

Great episode that finally had John Wesley Shipp and Amanda Pays 'reuniting' on screen for the first time since their own Flash series back in 1990-91. They even set up a possible romance between the two, just like before. But as soon as I saw where they were taking this, it was bad. It was impending doom and sure enough, Zoom arrives and kidnaps him. The final scene has Zoom apparently killing him in front of Barry. They left this as a cliffhanger, but I'm pretty sure that we just saw the last of Barry's father. I hope I am wrong because I really like the relationship they have on the show. It gives the series its heart which is something that would be lacking if they in fact just got rid of him. One last episode left. Can't wait to see what the Season Finale has to offer.