I just finished watching the show and I'll be very honest, I was extremely disappointed! I thought it will get better as time progresses but they missed out the SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT THING in a series which is called " CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT"

Anissa learned how to use her powers in 3 episodes and her character remained the same all 4 seasons.

Jennifer struggled learning to control her powers but the development on her side was a little shallow in my opinion.

Jefferson, though is in control of his powers kept using them the same way and there was nothing new about him, except for the suit.

Lynn was just irritating.

The only character with the best DEVELOPMENT and I feel has the best plot is "PAINKILLER/KHALIL" That dude has been through some shit and that also developed him into a badass character till the end. Props to his story progression and he was the best actor for it!

OK, after looking through majority of the show, I honestly feel like that. These three characters were honestly very much wasted they could’ve offered so much more to the show and especially with black lightning’s team.

With Prenna being the medic telepathic therapist, I did love that they added her in season two for helping Jennifer understand more her mental state with her abilities to better learn control and I really love personality. She’s very soothing. She’s very capable, and with the fact that her telepathic abilities were printing much powerful, which I feel like the show should’ve utilized her way more often because she is a powerful ally.

With Wendy, she is actually a very powerful wind manipulator, and the fact that they haven’t resurfaced her seasons. Later is kind of ridiculous. I mean they shown how powerful Wendy could be because she could’ve really been more of help to black lightning‘s team and along with the fact that she could’ve gotten a lot of guidance from Jeffersonas a whole along with the fact that she works very well with Lynn, and that she was the only one that was really there for Wendy and that says a lot.

With Issa, I genuinely think that he would’ve been very beneficial as a character because his ability to make people confess the truth would’ve been such a relevant person to have an honest I feel like Odell was dumb to get rid of Issa because to have someone they can make you tell the truth would’ve been very beneficial in terms of the interrogations and foreseeable splinter ASA programs, which I feel like as would’ve been the perfect agent if he was given more proper training, but had to kill him because it would’ve been a problem and he didn’t follow through with Odell back calls, but regardless, I feel like it’s so would’ve been fine being on black lightning team and Jeff and then entire Pierce family would’ve really helped us more at home and to make him not feel so alone and misunderstood

I just started watching black lightning never thought about watching it. Jennifer has to much going on the drama around her is getting annoying.

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Do anybody Remember Tobias Whale father Eldridge? Back in season 1 Tobias broke his back with a hug. But check this out though. Tobias is supposedly born in 1946. Eldridge is his biological father and if I were to put his age on an average of how old a dad is usually older than his child by his birth year range from 1926-1930 at the very minimum. Making him in his 90s at the time. What’s impressive is he didn’t look 90 and not only that he took a punch to the jaw from Tobias without being too hurt by it. What is your theory or explanation for how he was able to remain alive and sort of youthful.

I’ve only ever watched the first season of this show, and a little bit into the second season. I’m doing a bit of an Arrowverse rewatch at the moment and was wondering how the rest of the show stacks up to the first season. I quite liked the first season from memory, it felt more real than the other Arrowverse shows.

He’s pretty foul tempered, and he keeps trying to get back with his ex even though there was a reason for their divorce and they constantly bicker at it again and again, he also spent half of the season wallowing in self-pity, not even suiting up for a while.

Sorry I'm a drunk girl tonight but like have you seen dat ass???

How did black bird survive the poison from pain killer? Was it due to her meta human abilities because she was poisoned in the same area as Tavon… yet Tavon died MUCH quicker than her

S3E9. So can someone please explain to me how Gen (Earth 1 Jennifer) is actually from Earth 1? Oliver’s and Barry’s earth. Because her reality clearly seems way more dystopian, than The Flash and Arrow around the same time. Or is it just an oversight from the writers? I’m so confused

Ok so I’m watching black lightning. LYNN!!! God I hate her sooooo much!!! She seriously pisses me off. Every single time I see her on the screen she just makes me so frustrated. WHAT DOES JEFF SEE IN HER!

SHE GOES ON AN ON ABOUT HOWW SHE DOES THIS AND THAT FOR HER FAMILY! BUT SHE KEEPS BREAKING THE FAMILY APART. SHE IS TRYING TO BE THE VICTIM OF EVERY SITUATION AND ALWAYS WITH SOME SORT OF SOB STORY.

LYNN IS A HYPOCRITE AND NARCISSISTIC PIECE OF BLEEEP! SHE DIDNT WANT JEFF TO BLACK LIGHTNING BUT THEN WHEN JEN GOES INTO THE SPACE AND TURNS INTO A ATOM OR WHATEVER SHE IS LIKE WHY WERENT YOU BLACK LIGHTNING BLAH BLAH BLAH!

YAPS SOME MORE AND SAYING OHHH HOW JEFF IS ADDICTED TO HIS POWERS BIT THEN GOES AND INJECT HERSELF WITH POWERS! SHE BLEEPING YAPPED ABOUT OHHH I WONT TAKE ADVICE FROM SOMEONE I BROUGHT INTO THIS WORLD. UGHHH I HATE HER THEN SHE WHEN JEFF SAW HER HAVING DINNER WITH TOBIAS SHE TRIED PLAYING THE VICTIM. “OHHH SO YOU DONT TELL ME STUFF SO I WONT TELL YOU STUFF” LIKE SHUT UP ABOUT THIS WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE GUY WHO JEFF SAW KILL HIS DAD IN FRONT OF HIM AS A CHILD.

THEN WHEN JEFF GOES TO APOLOGIZE WHEN HE DIDNT EVEN DO ANYTHING WRONG. LYNN DIDNT EVEN SAY IM SORRY BACK. THAT PIECE OF BLEEEEEP!!

LYNN COULDNT ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY ABOUT THE POD KIDS. SHE IS ALWAYS THINKING ABOUT HERSELF THEN MAKES UP AN EXCUSE THAT ITS FOR THE FAMILY!

anyways prolly missed some scenes of her. I wrote this after seeing Lynn come on screen again i just had to get it out there. Im not done with the series yet but im sure she’s gonna make me more mad.

I’m rewatching black lightning and I’m on s3. Lynn is disrespecting the hell out of Jefferson while Odell is using her like a fucking labrat. She thinks she saving lives but Jefferson has saved more lives just (not including black lightning) as the principal of Garfield. SMH sb needs to put her in her place

So I’m on season 2 episode 2 when Lynn explains to Issa that the metagene rewrites your dna but when created artificially it destabilises your DNA and kills them, if that’s the case how is black lightning alive since he was given the vaccine which is how he got his powers but he wasn’t put in a pod so shouldn’t he of died or is there an explanation why Jefferson didn’t die from the vaccine from his powers but all the others were?

Picking the show back up again after a while, and I've got to the end of the book of resistance and the start of the book of Markovia, both connected by the antimatter storm.

I'm so confused. Does it ever get explained who/what caused it? Is this new universe that the characters are in the same as the previous one in terms of events that happened such as the whole resistance?

Basically, are these questions that will be answered for me as I watch more of the show, or have I missed something?

Quite frankly, the way I remember from season two is that the masters of disaster were kind of a disappointment, I mean they honestly had the chops to do bigger things, but they honestly wasted it. I mean when they brought the guy Shakedown with his vibrational powers, he was honestly more of a threat if he was truly to his full of potential and then his other teammates if they would’ve been woken up more earlier in the season, they all would’ve been more of a legit threat to black lightning and thunder really and to Freeland.

The writing was great, the fight scenes were on point, and the pacing barely dragged in places. Jennifer was annoying, but she became way less annoying towards the end of the season. I cheered when she used her powers on that bad guy in the season finale. It’s too bad the other seasons dropped the ball big time. Jennifer became annoying again and Anissa and Lynn became UNBEARABLE to watch.

I’ve always been very curious about Anissa’s powers in the comics because innocence it doesn’t really make any sense for her to have density control abilities seemed very much random compared to her sister Jennifer, who has legit electrical powers the same way their father Jefferson has. But I always had this theory that the density control is really mostly a mental block and that Anissa’s real power is actually bio-electricity but due to a mental block she fortifies her bio-electrical abilities into her bodies density, which is allowing her to be super strong and invincible and, shockwaves when she’s stumps.

is anybody else as confused as me on season 3? everything is so out of order and confusing for example why is jen shape shifting into an asian girl or lyn and jefferson locked away in the asa

Lynn/Christine Adams ruined the whole show for me. I just cant stand her. Her lines are incredibly bad and her character itself is bad. But the character is not such a big problem if the actor is good, especially in this show. Well, here both the character and the actress are bad. Christine Adams is in my opinion one of the worst actors. I mean she cant even get into the role, as if she was really the character, since thats what an actor should do. How did she get past casting?

Who should it revolve around as the main villain? Maybe LaLa?

I have just started to re-watch the show on Netflix... Years back this was my number one show on Netflix, and awaiting for each season seemed eternal to me back then. Too bad this show was canceled. Who is re-watching theis GEM also?

Just imagine a spinoff where Jennifer is learning to master her powers, given she's the strongest, and Anissa learns to look before she leaps. They built up Anissa's character so much only to rush through her arc in S4. This could really flesh out their stories and give us the character development we missed out on.

I have to say, his daughters are just so annoying – anyway I’m looking at his eldest daughter who has decided to become a superhero. She’s wearing a skin tight blue latex suit with high heels and a strip of gold makeup across her eyes as a disguise. She can hardly walk. 🤦‍♂️ I think she’s going to a swingers party 🤣🤣

So this seems to be right out of the DC Universe in which when a person is standing in front of you with a colourful costume and just a pair of goggles nobody recognises him a bit like Superman with his glasses on and glasses off bullshit!!! I mean, come on it would take a blind man not to see lightning is the same person as the principal

I'm at s2e16

Jen just went after Tobias to get him after getting told to stay in their bunker i guess. Now there have been instances where she went out by her own and almost got killed, like in the previous episode she goes to some motel to find info on Tobias, and this girl just gets unconcious during a fight. Luckily thunder saves her.

Now you might think she learnt her lesson. But no. She as i said, goes after Tobias to get him after she was told to stay put, but this oversmart kid uses her powers to turn Gambi's monitor on and heads that way. Well, then as usual she get unconcious and starts getting full of energy, about to be exploded. Gambi comes to help her by absorbing her energy with his gloves and in doing so, he almost dies.

Now Jeff comes and as thunder to take both of them back to the bunker, where thunder does some First Aid things to Gambi. Jen says "Tobias owes me another on for this". Dude Gambi is in that state literally just because of you ,not Tobias. She doesn't even take responsibility of her own mistakes, Always blame others. Like blaming her parents for not letting her house eventhough they do that because this woman is a walking immature hot headed nuclear bomb. Gambi then wakes up after sometime.

The city's grid goes off, so now gambi decides to go and get electricity back. Then this girl has the audacity to say "Take me with you or leave me and i would anyway come".

Dude that guy is full of bruises because of her and she doesn't even have som guilt.

She's so selfish. After all that has happened until now, she endangered her own life 2-3 times because of being restless and using her powers.

This time someone got hurt, still she doesn't even flinch before thinking about going out to use her powers.

Until now, she is the worst character for me.

Shitty principals are not really unheard of. But when it comes to a white man in a black school suddenly it’s racist. It turns out he wasn’t even racist, he was just taking out his anger out on everyone from his history of a shitty lifestyle. Makes no sense even more on if he really was racist, why would he even take the job at the black school.