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  • Black Lightning #1.7 "Equinox: The Book of Fate"

    Count down and talk about tonight's episode LIVE - then let this be the episode thread!

    Pics from tonight's Black Lightning can be found HERE: http://blacklightningtv.com/black-li...nox-book-fate/

  • #2
    Pretty good episode with several developments with Jefferson deciding to train his daughter Anissa in fighting crime together while one crime boss is dead and the other resurrected. The lady crime boss reminds me of Amanda Waller.

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    • #3
      The action, though it's short, is still really good in the show. I also like how Jeff and Lynn are realistically trying to deal with Anissa having powers, and then wondering if Jen is next.

      I have noticed, however, that the humor and light-hearted moments aren't nearly as present in the recent episodes.

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      • #4
        First up is Lynn, who is trying to calm Anissa down from the ecstatic high of discovering that her MLK-quoting no-nonsense father is Freeland’s hard-fighting vigilante. Lynn is trying to warn her from taking a path that has caused herself and Jefferson much hardship, but Anissa is too excited, too full of the possibility to help other people at a meaningful level, to heed her.

        A similar story is unfolding not far away, where Gambi is warning Jefferson not to attack Tobias with lethal force. Something we know that Jefferson doesn’t is that Gambi has likely killed a lot of people, so he truly is warning Jefferson away from his own path. But Jefferson is too passionate about punishing Tobias, and too distrustful of Gambi by now, to listen.

        Similarly, there seems to be a theme going on here as we have the villains on the flip side. On the other side the bad guys really want to go the extra mile by killing off all the competition, but common sense and logic seems to be holding them back. They want their rivals gone, but know that killing them off right now would only bring them problems.

        That seems to contrast strongly with the heroes side, where the heroes seem far more emotional than logical. Black Lighting is forced to confront the fact that he's been a hypocrite when it came to his own daughter. Here he was, angrily rampaging in an clubhouse trying to get to his father's killer while at the same time telling his own daughter that she shouldn't do things purely based on her emotions.

        So the epidose's story was all about emotion and logic theme-wise. They seem to be playing up the idea that the villains like to play it smarter, while the heroes seem to act more on impulse than anything else. Seems to go a long while in explaining how the baddies managed to gain so much power in Freeland.

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