Unlike most the CW ’s other superheroes who often rely on a nigh - knit connection of allies who assist them when their vigilante employment get to be too much , we ’ve really only ever seen Black Lightning puzzle out with one or two other the great unwashed . Now , though , Jefferson ’s last get something like a team of his own — and he just bechance to be link to all of them .
It ’s always great when Black Lightning takes a minute to slow and focus more on the Pierce family dynamics , if only because the show ’s plaster cast has phenomenal alchemy , something you’re able to clearly see in “ The Book of Little Black Lies . ” Now that everyone sleep together that Jeff ’s Black Lightning and both Anissa and Jennifer inherited their don ’s activated metahuman gene , the Pierces are at an impasse .
While Jeff is subtly pleased that she takes after him , Jennifer ’s response to let on her power to zap and fry things is alarm rather than high spirits because in her vista , being over-the-top means giving up the unconstipated teenaged sprightliness she wants . If Anissa is the idealized rendering of a person who larn one day that they had world power and immediately became a superhero , then Jennifer is her much more ground similitude who does n’t have that same calling to heroism because she understands the danger it entails .
Though Black Lightning ’s past few episodes have n’t expend too much metre revisit it , Jennifer ’s still seek to cope with Khalil ’s shooting during the anti-100 protest that left him paralytic and eventually led to their break up . In that moment , both of their lives change and she come face to grimace with the consequences of merely getting involved with superheroes and their enemies . It makes sense that , even with the support and acceptance of her sister and male parent , Jennifer might see her ability as a gist that her crime syndicate should have warned her about .
It ’s the secrecy and deception more than anything else that hurts Jennifer because she clear that she ’s the last to be in on the family arcanum , but Lynn points out the very licit reason that she and Jeff never thought they ’d have to tell their girl .
Because Jeff was n’t bear with his powers , it stood to rationality that there was a chance they would n’t be clear on genetically . Between awe that the youngster might have accidentally exposed him Black Lightning and Jeff ’s eventual determination to retire from superheroism , it made sense for the Pierces to try out and live regular lives . But it ’s that variety of thinking — the effort to bury hard truth rather than present them in the open — that go to house drama . Lynn , Jeff , Anissa , and Jennifer all bonk that on some point and , though they ’re suffer , they choose to stick together rather than letting themselves be pull apart .
While Jennifer may not be clamor to get a customs supersuit of her own from Gambi , “ The Book of Little Black Lies ” really does seem like the beginning of Team Black Lightning , the squad of on - the - ground heroes and remote support extremity who might just economize Freeland .
As Black Lightning closes in on another lead about the organization that create Green Light in an endeavor to recreate the summons that gave him superpowers , we see just what a military unit to be reckoned with Anissa / Thunder is . Unlike her dad who ’s got to think quickly on his feet for use his electric abilities to protect him from strong-arm harm , Thunder ’s a straight - up tank to walk into gunshot brain - on and proceeds to wreck some goons without breaking a sweat . Their mission to take down the Green Light lab is one that either one of them probably could have handled on their own , but or else , they do it together and with Lynn and Gambi ’s intel and tech that they ’re able to get the job done cleanly without getting hurt themselves .
There are still four episodes of Black Lightning give this time of year and “ The Book of Little Black Lies ” point to the show ’s culmination act being an volatile one . With Latavius turn out from the drained thanks to a phantasmal LaWanda White and a polish off out on Black Lightning ’s head , the state of war that ’s come Jeff ’s fashion is only fetch more and more serious — meaning that when the time comes , he ’s going to need all the assistant he can get to protect his city . gratefully , it looks like he has them .
Assorted Musings:
• Jeff roll up wearing an Obama masque to shake down that criminal linked to Green Light is hand down one of the proficient television receiver bit of the twelvemonth .
• Let ’s talk about Thunder ’s costume . How can something that ’s so cheesy be so damned coolheaded at the same fourth dimension ? I will never ever get banal of seeing bulletproof black masses wiping the floor with people . Never .
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