No matter how coolheaded they might be , a superhero ’s really only as good as their most villainous foe . The 100 has proven to be a compelling threat for the city of Freeland , but Black Lightning need a really dread enemy to exemplify that Jefferson Pierce might not win his warfare . This week , the show deliver .
Somewhere between Professor Delores Umbridge and former White House adjutant Omarosa lies Black Lightning ’s take on Lady Eve , a Greco-Roman baddie from DC ’s comics , here portrayed brilliantly by vocaliser / songwriter / actress Jill Scott .
In the comics , Lady Eve ’s best known as the phallus of an ancient Kobra cult that works in the shadows to bring about a newfangled age of chaos and bedlam to the human race . Black Lightning ’s Eve is markedly unlike — she ’s the director of a funeral parlor consort with Tobias Whale and the 100 — but she ’s a ruthless , dismay sociopath all the same . “ Lawanda : The Book of Burial ” insert Lady Eve as a Machiavellian name who has her hands deep into Freeland ’s criminal underbelly .
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As the citizens of Freeland struggle to cope with the jolt of Lawanda White ’s murder , the event for Jefferson ’s decision to work Black Lightning out of retirement are set out to pile up .
Every clip he steps into the street as Black Lighting , Jefferson is n’t just putting himself in harm ’s fashion — he ’s actively inspiring normal , non - superpeople to take thing into their own handwriting and stand up against the 100 when the police either ca n’t or wo n’t . In theory , that ’s a expert thing , because a community that ’s actively engaged with and invested in its survival against something like the 100 has a better shooting at occur out on top . In exercise , though , this means that civilians are potentially putting their own life at danger and given how Black Lightning seems to have no queasiness about killing off characters left and correct , said vehemence is better thought of as an contingence than a possibility .
Anissa understands that risk . Between her account of activism and her newfound great power , it is n’t at all surprising that she ’s tight - tracking herself towards costumed vigilantism . We ’ve all fancy plenty of rootage training succession where a fledgling super - being tests out their newfound powers to get a common sense of just what they can do , but the complete joyousness on Anissa ’s human face when she works out how her breathing is link up to her denseness handling and super - forcefulness was something especial .
It was a piffling sorry to see Anissa ’s first dear interest group so nonchalantly give the axe in guild to move Anissa ’s larger arc forward , but it was more than deserving it to get to Grace and the kickoff of their family relationship , which , judging from this sequence ( and the comics ) , holds hope . In time , Anissa’ll take after in her Father of the Church ’s footsteps to become a superhero and Black Lightning will wander into a new narration territory that might end up being one of the more compelling elements of the season . Both Lynn and Jefferson sense that something is develop within their daughters and one imagines that the parent ( understandably ) wear their young lady are merely dealing with the current event of the city .
But , so far , Black Lightning has n’t get along across as the kind of show that would just get right to turn the Pierces into a sept team of vigilante . Both Thunder and Lightning are on their agency to Freeland , but when they finally come , the sky look like they ’re only going to get stormier over the Pierce household .
Assorted Musings:
What time of Clarence Shepard Day Jr. is this church service service conjecture to be taking place ? It ’s definitely daytime judging from the shots within the church , but Anissa apparently snuck off to the junkyard at night .
The cinematography in this episode is something else .
I ’ve talked before abouthow black a show Black Lightning is , but watching detective Henderson go in on the church building pastor for having a $ 25,000 watch and a silk handkerchief carry . Me . Out . Not only is he in bed with the 100 , you know he ’s probably been “ adopt ” from the collection home base .
JILL SCOTT IS DELICIOUSLY UNHINGED . MORE LADY EVE , PLEASE .
Anissa ’s got mad game and her peck Grace up was quite politic , but can we talk about how bad an estimation it is for her to watch that picture of herself using her power in a bookstore ? That ’s how you get caught and ship off for weird experiments .
Jennifer ’s psyching her parents out about require to have sex was pitch - perfect for the sort of adolescent Black Lighting ’s make her out to be . The show ’s entire approach to millennian high schoolers is astonishingly nuanced and well - balanced .
Tobias Whale has yet to wow me , but you ’ve got to fee your hat to a criminal who stabs a lackey and then chastises them for shed blood out .
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