In just a single time of year , Black Lightning ’s already tackled systemic racism , constabulary savagery , and mob violence , but last Nox ’s instalment turn out that the show will terminate at nothing to tell even more well timed , resonate stories about the literal world evils that we apparently ca n’t escape .
In Black Lightning ’s Freeland , death is not an right-down .
Those who croak may very well make out back , but their resurrections all fare at a frightful terms that none of them are quite ready to understand . “ The Resurrection and the Light : The Book of Pain ” is n’t Black Lightning ’s most interesting installment in terms of plot exploitation or character growing , but it ’s a welcome shining of the show ’s already fantastic approaching to giving its heroes the opportunity to fight evilness that really resonate with you as a viewer .
Even though it ’s been a good while since we last saw Tobias Whale , his reappearance is a momentous one because it symbolizes the ASA ’s renewed desire to eliminate Black Lighting and get back to perfecting the very same convention that first gave birth to Freeland ’s metahumans . Thanks to his nifty , observational back implants and questionable drugs , Khalil is back , walking again , and rollick a ludicrous dreadlock wigging that he explains to a shocked Jefferson is the odd side effect of his newly tight - produce hair . Jeff ’s bumping into Khalil shocks them both , but what seemingly sticks with Jeff is that fact that Khalil ’s convalescence is almost assuredly connected to Tobias Whale and the 100 .
The 100 has never been Black Lightning ’s ultimate Big Bad ™ , but “ The Book of Pain ” does a self-colored line illustrate why the pack ’s operation in Freeland is part of a larger dodging that none of the show ’s champion are really equipped to take down on their own . As payment for his medical convalescence , Khalil is the 100 ’s latest enlistee hellbent on destroy Black Lightning and the show deal his newfound villainy in a very interesting way . Thanks to his implant and the drugs , Khalil ’s now superhumanly inviolable , and because the ASA is now certain that Jeff is Black Lightning , the mission to take him out is n’t fix to A-one - heroic brawls in the street — they’re coming for him in his civilian guise .
At Whale ’s behest , Khalil heads to Garfield High with a programme to rage the schooling ’s scholarly person trunk so as to draw out Black Lightning and Thunder . As CW camp as it could have been , the attack was honestly terrorize because , for all intents and purposes , it was Black Lightning ’s rendering of a school shot . The terror in these scenes is palpable , and even though Black Lightning ’s larger plot requires that the story moves past it , the show makes sure to impress upon you just how traumatic the shooting is .
or else of a proper gun , Khalil wields a wrist - mounted launcher that shoots darts filled with what very well be Greenlight , and even though he does n’t appear to actually kill anyone , the attack has the potential to change everything about Black Lightning . “ The Book of Pain ” explain once again that the ASA ’s interest in Freeland started as a plan to break a drug that could keep mass gentle , but a prevalence of dying and a handful of metahumans were the only production of early experimentation . It is n’t explained just what ’s in the needles that Khalil terminate off , but it appear to be Greenlight , which the episode also confirms can sometimes riddle users with metahuman ability . Multiple people are shot , but it ’s Black Lightning who ends up pay up the ultimate price .
With Whale ’s supporter , Khalil is able to actually stamp out Black Lightning briefly and it ’s only because of Jennifer ’s distraught , reluctant use of her new powers that the hero ’s resuscitated . Jeff ’s temporary dying is n’t at all surprising give how many characters Black Lightning ’s already killed off , but Jennifer and Anissa ’s witnessing their father dying is a heartbreaking monitor that the ASA is n’t at all playing around or pertain with the emotional well - being of Freeland ’s citizens .
What “ The Book of Pain ” lacks in term of sprawling game it more than stool up for in its intensity . Hopefully , Black Lightning is saving its biggest showstoppers for next week ’s season finale .
Assorted Musings:
• Can we talk about Jeff ’s foul-smelling electrical energy , though ?
• I ’d care to go on the record as saying that , for whatever grounds , Hollywood has n’t quite perfected dreadlock wigs yet . Both China Anne McClain and Cress Williams were visibly gagged at how sappy Jordan Calloway looked .
• The patty that Lynn ends up baking at Jennifer ’s request is the most habitation cake I ’ve ever seen on connection telecasting .
• What is Syonide , exactly ? When scag knocks her over with her seismic clap back , there ’s a brief present moment where we see that her flesh is some sort of white-livered - green mesh beneath the tegument . Perhaps she ’s a meta or some variety of bionic man .
• When Black Lightning ’s fighting Tobias , I do n’t know why he did n’t just microwave him in the face rather of his protected torso . Seems like the sort of thing he ’d have perfected given how much we ’ve see to it his world power become more precise .
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