|
Rocksicles posted:Motherfucker didn't do anything. He was there, had a job, didn't like it and bailed, went full whistleblower and helped raise him into who he is. Sure he kept a secret, but WHo's Jefferson to stomp on someone keeping secrets. He's clearly be lying to both sides for decades. We honestly don't know what he has or has not done at this point.
|
#
?
Mar 17, 2018 18:19
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 25, 2024 10:32 |
|
|
Aleph Null posted:He's clearly be lying to both sides for decades. We honestly don't know what he has or has not done at this point. Pretty sure he's made a little wooden puppet that came to life, sure I've seen a film about it.
|
|
#
?
Mar 17, 2018 18:53
|
|
|
Aleph Null posted:He's clearly be lying to both sides for decades. We honestly don't know what he has or has not done at this point. Yeah, at the bare minimum he's been playing along and working with the ASAs actions which include Lady Eve's involvement with crime, drugs, Tobias and the 100. We saw Gambi talking with Tobias, Eve, and the boss. We saw Gambi go on a killing mission. I buy Gambi's broader argument that when the full weight of things were realized I tried to blow the whistle and when that got Jefferson's dad killed he worked to protect him ad his family. But like he still seemed to do a lot of skeezy poo poo in the process.
|
|
#
?
Mar 17, 2018 19:18
|
|
|
It took me a while to remember where I'd seen Black Lightning before, but remembered it was at Superman's Funeral.
|
|
#
?
Mar 17, 2018 22:17
|
|
|
Aleph Null posted:This family talks and trusts and it is awesome. TwoPair posted:I'm surprised/very relieved that we finally get the Gambi reveal now instead of making it some season ending cliffhanger. muscles like this! posted:My problem with Gambi is that it is really hard to know what he really feels about anything seeing as he has been shown lying to literally every character on the show. Rocksicles posted:Motherfucker didn't do anything. He was there, had a job, didn't like it and bailed, went full whistleblower and helped raise him into who he is. Sure he kept a secret, but WHo's Jefferson to stomp on someone keeping secrets.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2018 13:48
|
|
|
Tiggum posted:Those two things along with skipping the origin story has earned this show a lot of credit with me. They're just avoiding almost every mistake this genre makes over and over again and it's such a nice change. I'd imagine after the first guy that tried to leak information got murdered for it, I'd stop trying. At least back then when newspapers and TV were the way to deliver news. This excuse isn't really valid anymore once the internet existed and he could've leaked it himself on the internet.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2018 14:57
|
|
|
TwoPair posted:I'd imagine after the first guy that tried to leak information got murdered for it, I'd stop trying. At least back then when newspapers and TV were the way to deliver news. This excuse isn't really valid anymore once the internet existed and he could've leaked it himself on the internet. With things like Eva's comments about his "retirement" and telling Tobias "you're not supposed to be here" I'm guessing they know drat well who leaked to the reporter, and any attempt to leak it again will have... consequences. If he truly thought the Green Lightning stuff was done, he could have rationalized it as not being useful info.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2018 18:19
|
|
|
Bruceski posted:With things like Eva's comments about his "retirement" and telling Tobias "you're not supposed to be here" I'm guessing they know drat well who leaked to the reporter, and any attempt to leak it again will have... consequences. If he truly thought the Green Lightning stuff was done, he could have rationalized it as not being useful info. Overlapping your CW shows there.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2018 20:00
|
|
|
Green Lightening is the name of the designer drug going around that gave that one kid at Jefferson's school super strength and let Tobias' sparring partner go against him. And I believe the ASA boss specifically named it as their experiment in his talk with Gambi and there was a vial of it in Jefferson's dad's stuff. So it's almost certainly the ASAs experiment.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2018 20:24
|
|
|
Green light 
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2018 20:30
|
|
|
Aww, crap. My bad. Guess I was just filling in the blank everytime someone said the name.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2018 20:31
|
|
|
STAC Goat posted:Aww, crap. My bad. Guess I was just filling in the blank everytime someone said the name. Same here.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2018 20:39
|
|
|
STAC Goat posted:Aww, crap. My bad. Guess I was just filling in the blank everytime someone said the name. They even had an insert sing during the episode it was introduced and everything
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2018 20:51
|
|
|
CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Green light I think of it like a traffic light. Green Light. Edit: But does anyone else think it's weird that they were trying to design a drug to make everyone docile but instead created metahumans and a street drug that gives people super strength? How bad was their chemist?
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2018 20:57
|
|
|
I assume super powers were an unintended side effect 30 years ago (or however long it's been for Jefferson) and they've been trying to replicate it since. Their focus shifted when the realized they had failed to make an effective "docile citizens" drug and had stumbled on "super powered soldiers".
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2018 21:24
|
|
|
I thought it was nice that not only was Jefferson wearing a Black Panthers hoodie the whole episode, it was one explicitly tied to their community outreach efforts. Especially in an episode that heavily involved a shady government agency’s interference in a largely black community.
|
|
#
?
Mar 20, 2018 18:56
|
|
|
Huh, so Vixen and Supergirl do exist on this Earth, interesting.
|
|
#
?
Mar 21, 2018 02:21
|
|
|
Lmao their improvised costumes. Anissa's new costume is way better than her first one. Hard to tell that Gambi made it considering it isn't covered in neon lighting.
|
|
#
?
Mar 21, 2018 04:11
|
|
|
howe_sam posted:Huh, so Vixen and Supergirl do exist on this Earth, interesting. Given that an issue of The Outsiders appeared in one episode, it's implied that most DC superheroes only exist in comic books.
|
|
#
?
Mar 21, 2018 22:42
|
|
|
Murderion posted:Given that an issue of The Outsiders appeared in one episode, it's implied that most DC superheroes only exist in comic books. You don't have anything concrete to back that up. They could have very successful televisions shows.
|
|
#
?
Mar 21, 2018 22:46
|
|
|
Rhyno posted:You don't have anything concrete to back that up. It could also be that the show really is set on Earth-1 after all and that Freeland is just really insulated from the other wackiness of Central and Star City due it its geographical proximity farther south or something. Jennifer was talking about Vixen like she was a real person to her, and Supergirl has been involved in at least two high-profile super hero battles to save the world from aliens and Nazis, it would not surprise me if a lot of folks on Earth-1 know the name “Supergirl” and have some concept of who she is, even if she doesn’t show up all that often. Also Flash has an entire merch department out there somewhere putting Barry’s logo on backpacks and poo poo apparently without his knowledge or consent, so it wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of the various heroes had “unauthorized” comics made of themselves floating about there in the Arrowverse that just so happen to look like stuff DC has actually made in the past because lol look at us reference ourselves, guys.
|
|
#
?
Mar 21, 2018 22:59
|
|
|
nine-gear crow posted:Also Flash has an entire merch department out there somewhere putting Barry’s logo on backpacks and poo poo apparently without his knowledge or consent, so it wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of the various heroes had “unauthorized” comics made of themselves floating about there in the Arrowverse that just so happen to look like stuff DC has actually made in the past because lol look at us reference ourselves, guys. This would actually be a neat way for a superhero to support himself instead of having a day job, and I'd be willing to bet it's been done before. But Barry oughta find these guys and make them cut him in on the business, especially now that he's sorta fired from the police department.
|
|
#
?
Mar 22, 2018 00:06
|
|
|
Phenotype posted:This would actually be a neat way for a superhero to support himself instead of having a day job, and I'd be willing to bet it's been done before. But Barry oughta find these guys and make them cut him in on the business, especially now that he's sorta fired from the police department. It's how Ozymandias in Watchmen initially made his fortune. He sold all the Watchmen's merchandise while the rest didn't care and just wanted to fight crime.
|
|
#
?
Mar 22, 2018 00:09
|
|
|
The odd thing is that Supergirl is from a different Earth from Vixen so this one might still be a different one with all of the heroes in one universe. Of those are the only ones they could legally name drop.
|
|
#
?
Mar 22, 2018 00:38
|
|
|
In the comics doesn't Kingpin own the trademark for Spiderman's merch? I seem to remember something about that.
|
|
#
?
Mar 22, 2018 01:35
|
|
|
ShakeZula posted:In the comics doesn't Kingpin own the trademark for Spiderman's merch? I seem to remember something about that. That was in Ultimate Spider-man.
|
|
#
?
Mar 22, 2018 03:37
|
|
|
Murderion posted:Given that an issue of The Outsiders appeared in one episode, it's implied that most DC superheroes only exist in comic books. This is actually DC canon: certain people are "attuned" to other dimensions as basically comic book oracles and write fiction they unknowingly observe. It gets doubly fucky because the real world actually exists in DC and is (well, was) called Earth Prime. OTOH it was probably just meant as a cute namedrop and I now I want Lynn to get a totem 
|
|
#
?
Mar 22, 2018 05:26
|
|
|
Phenotype posted:This would actually be a neat way for a superhero to support himself instead of having a day job, and I'd be willing to bet it's been done before. But Barry oughta find these guys and make them cut him in on the business, especially now that he's sorta fired from the police department. I'm imagining Barry showing up in civil court in his uniform, just sitting there at the table blurring his face and voice while his lawyer asks witnesses banal questions about copyright laws.
|
|
#
?
Mar 22, 2018 05:27
|
|
|
nine-gear crow posted:It could also be that the show really is set on Earth-1 after all and that Freeland is just really insulated from the other wackiness of Central and Star City due it its geographical proximity farther south or something. Jennifer was talking about Vixen like she was a real person to her, and Supergirl has been involved in at least two high-profile super hero battles to save the world from aliens and Nazis, it would not surprise me if a lot of folks on Earth-1 know the name “Supergirl” and have some concept of who she is, even if she doesn’t show up all that often. Phenotype posted:This would actually be a neat way for a superhero to support himself instead of having a day job, and I'd be willing to bet it's been done before. Xelkelvos posted:The odd thing is that Supergirl is from a different Earth from Vixen so this one might still be a different one with all of the heroes in one universe.
|
|
#
?
Mar 24, 2018 15:40
|
|
|
In LoT they revealed the JSA existed and several of them had super powers.
|
|
#
?
Mar 24, 2018 18:34
|
|
|
I mean, of course we all know that the real answer is that it was just a cutesy reference to the Arrowverse and they probably had no idea where they wanted this show to fit in when they filmed it. I think if we get a second season that's when we'll get some definition about where this show is in the Multiverse but trying to figure out rules or anything now is probably tilting at windmills. But yeah, its been established there are more heroes beyond what we've seen on both Earths so who knows? Earth 1 could know about Supergirl from that time she saved the President of the United States and Earth 38 could have its own Vixen. Or maybe the Legends are gonna do a mission there or something. There's all kinds of possible explanations.
|
|
#
?
Mar 28, 2018 03:12
|
|
|
Ahaha that old lady trying to drop things on Black Lightning. I really want to know what Lala's deal is with his murder victim tattoos. Did Lady Eve give him powers? Did he take green light and get them from that while no one was looking? Something Else? I love that the ASA guy isn't a complete moron and figured out Jefferson was Black Lightning.
|
|
#
?
Mar 28, 2018 03:49
|
|
|
I literally winced when I saw the vice principal was the spotter. That's some good backstab right there. Also jesus Skye P. Marshall is inhumanly attractive.
|
|
#
?
Mar 28, 2018 06:07
|
|
|
CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Ahaha that old lady trying to drop things on Black Lightning. Any scene with Two Bit and Black Lightning is comedy loving gold.
|
|
#
?
Mar 28, 2018 06:08
|
|
|
CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:I really want to know what Lala's deal is with his murder victim tattoos. Did Lady Eve give him powers? Did he take green light and get them from that while no one was looking? Something Else? Isn't it more likely he's one of the originals like Gambi? I mean the editing made it seem like his awakening had everything do with Lady Eve's death but then they've just seemingly dropped it for the last episodes so who knows. 
|
|
#
?
Mar 28, 2018 09:30
|
|
|
The guy playing Lala is so loving good, I'm really glad they brought him back. The talent on this show is stacked like crazy. Their music selection's on point too. Never thought I'd hear a Kevin Gates track on a DC CW show.
|
|
#
?
Mar 28, 2018 18:21
|
|
|
MiddleOne posted:Isn't it more likely he's one of the originals like Gambi? I mean the editing made it seem like his awakening had everything do with Lady Eve's death but then they've just seemingly dropped it for the last episodes so who knows. Its possible. I think we're all just expecting some kind of payoff for that weird voodoo zombie poo poo Lady Eve seemed to be doing and since LaLa resurrected at the same time she died we're assuming a connection. But its possible (a) we all misread it or (b) its coming but unrelated to LaLa.
|
|
#
?
Mar 28, 2018 21:54
|
|
|
Gregg Henry can give master classes in scene stealing.
|
|
#
?
Mar 29, 2018 00:06
|
|
|
Renewed
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2018 20:03
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 25, 2024 10:32 |
|
|
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2018 20:08
|
|
