Official CW Black Lightning Discussion Thread (Fonzi Approved!) FINAL SEASON! NO Painkiller SPINOFF

Gemini

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chrislee

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I love the Flash and it's easily my favorite show on tv but damn I can see Black Lighting surpassing it. It's like a weekly Luke Cage series with lightning in a sense. Majority of those comments on Reddit are whites. So if they are supporting the show then hopefully this show will be a success.
 

2Klub

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Some thoughts that I haven’t seen yet:

-Music was nice. Love some of the remixes and hip hop and rock. I need the song from when BL was wrecking shop at the hotel.

-couldn’t help but wonder how else he could develop his powers. Never read the comic but wonder if he could create a field/bubble around an area with an altered state of electric charge...which could in essence act like a form of sonar.

-even my wife loved seeing all the chocolate women on the show. :D
 

playahaitian

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Black Lightning Just Introduced Green Lantern’s Sister



Black Lightning
may not be fighting alongside DC’s other TV heroes, but he’s got a major connection to Green Lantern. The emerald, ring-slinging hero who even casual CW fans are probably aware of by now, given the amount of Hal Jordan easter eggs Arrow has dropped. All clues and teases intended only to excite and delight the comic book fans, most assumed. But with Black Lightning now joining the network, if not explicitly the same world as Arrowand The Flash, there may be the strongest link to Green Lantern yet.

The catch is, it ain’t the version that The CW has been teasing in the past. It’s the version of Green Lantern that fans of the animated Justice League series and related features have known for years, better known for his discipline and no-nonsense attitude in a fight. That personality may be something that Green Lantern John Stewart has in common with Jefferson Pierce, a.k.a. Black Lightning. But the two men share something more important in the comics – and possibly, the TV series.

Black Lightning is married to Green Lantern’s sister. Well, was married, anyway.

RELATED: BLACK LIGHTNING MAY EXIST IN THE ARROWVERSE AFTER ALL

BLACK LIGHTNING’S EX-WIFE, LYNN PIERCE
The premiere episode of Black Lightning may be all fans of DC Comics and The CW have to go on, but it makes an impact. Mainly for all the ways it’s unlike the heroes who came before. This superhero is older, experienced, and as a superhero, even retired. It wasn’t an easy decision for him to make, but as the episode reveals, it was Jefferson Pierce’s wife who convinced him to leave the vigilante heroics behind him. Not even for her sake – but for the sake of their two daughters. Jefferson turned to his family, but only after his wife turned to divorce.

The first episode is all audiences need to know that Lynn Pierce (the only surname we have to go on, based on cast listings) is not a woman to take lightly. Yet as has become the habit with comic book to TV adaptations, audiences and fans will wonder as to Lynn’s role in the comics. And, dare we say it, perhaps a superheroine identity of her own in future seasons. Well, the bad news is that Lynn Pierce’s role in the comics was primarily as Jefferson’s ex-wife and the mother to their two daughters (a combination that changed somewhat over the years).

The good news is that for fans of the larger DC Comics mythology, the shared ground between Jefferson Pierce and John Stewart as African-American superheroes is just the beginning. Not only were they introduced around a similar time in history (1971 and 1977), and designed to battle street-level crime in America’s cities (overlooked by the ‘grander’ superheroes), but they were linked by one of the most important women in their lives: Lynn Stewart.

At least, it was the plan for Black Lightning to be revealed as Green Lantern’s former brother-in-law. Will the TV show finally make a solid link to a Green Lantern on TV?

https://screenrant.com/black-lightning-wife-green-lanterns-sister/
 

playahaitian

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I was so happy with that scene and glad they didnt make one of the cops black like they did with luke cage, when he knocked him into the windshield.

I gotta watch that again

the first stop scene I believe the cop who actually THREATENS the daughter in the back seat?

is black

I gotta re-watch and see if the 2 cops in the alley (if the one on the right isn't Black)
 

Flawless

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I wish there was more character development with Lala. After he shot his cousin I wish he had shown some emotion. We domn't know if it troubled him or he just doesnt give a fuck
 

silentking

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2nd episode is on point as well...DC got one. And I seen the Black Panther trailer during every commercial break. :groupwave:
 

silentking

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I wish there was more character development with Lala. After he shot his cousin I wish he had shown some emotion. We domn't know if it troubled him or he just doesnt give a fuck

he said it had him feeling all kinda ways. his gangsta is just strong.
 

Flawless

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"Black Lightning, my man" That old dude needs to win a award for best supporting character.
 

yaBoi

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yeah this show is something else... digging it so far. this show does no fit in the arrowverse.

maybe a good thing

sound track is old school r and b

there are few things i don't like about but i'll keep that to myself for now
 
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