The Flash Recap: Invincible

Season 2 / Episode 21 / The CW And you say Centr When I say META, you say POCALYPSE! Central City looking like a scene out of The Warriors. Sheeeeeit, it’s lookin’ like The Flash done used up 80% of their budget on this episode alone cuz It. Is. Goin’. Down! We got winged villains terrorizing the sky, lightning striking psychos throwing high voltage all over the place, beasts patrolling dem streetz, explosions galore to the left and right, bad guys throwing green energy blasts blowing up police cars, blue hadoukens, and an entire meta uprising featuring Zoom’s Earth-2 henchmen.

We got Joe and Captain Singh in the thick of it all, with the tide of battle going against them. That is, until our boy Barry Da Speed Force GAWD pulls up on the scene and starts to hand out fade sessions like a server at a Soylent Green soup kitchen. S.T.A.R. Labs: You ever have somebody push you to go hard with something? You work at it and are told to keep going, get better, strive for more, and THEN one day you walk up in that muhfucka exuding confidence? I’m talking ’bout, you drippin’ swag out of every orifice. That snot dripping out your nose? Uncontrollable bravado. That musty smell? The aroma of a winner. That sweat pouring from every pore? A million yes-men telling me I got this shit! This is the level that Barry is on following his venture into the Speed Force. Barry talking all the Denzel Washington “King Kong ain’t got shit on me” smack to Iris as they walking into S.T.A.R. Labs to debrie…