This shit is the blackest show I've ever seen.

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pleasantly surprised by its blackness

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loving the black superhero concept and how they're doing it here -

overall image of black folks are done well (aside from the marching/praying/sangin)

this show needs to be on a larger network imo....at least BET

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All DC shows are corny (even tho I still watch a couple of them) but this is corny on a whole different level due to the "hey look, it's a Black guy!" stuff they keep doing. At the same time tho, I've never liked a DC show on CW before the 5th episode. They always take time to warm up and get it right, so I'll give it til about episode 6.
Episode 1 was like... really? He's the ONLY "hero" I've ever seen attack an innocent bystander for absolutely no reason (the white guy at the hotel who out of his room and back in). His acting was horrible in that episode. They never even explain where his powers came from. His power is wack... you'd think with that name he'd be drawing bolts from the sky, but he could just as well be named Black Taser. The dialogue is horrible, like the took every bad thing about the 80s and crammed it into a show. He and his daughters get stopped by the cops and the daughters are just wylin' out, yelling and screaming and not complying, but the cops are hella cool. Then he has some weird stand-off with the white one. If they were REALLY tryna make it realistic, he woulda gotten shot right there lol. That horrible rap joint they play going to commercial "I saw a superhero he was BLACK, Black Lightning's BACK!" Smh. I mean damn, can you just make a Black superhero and let it all be Black without trying so hard? The one white person in the cast WOULD just have to be the smart guy who created his suit. Episodes 2 and 3 weren't as bad, but still weren't good imo.
One interesting thing I notice about DC is that shows throw homosexuality into every "social justice" issue they tackle. For instance, Supergirl was the "girl power" show, but it becomes them dealing with gay rights a large chunk of it (her sister is gay). They did the same thing with BL (his daughter is gay). Nothing wrong with gay folks, but it's interesting that it's never white men who are gay on their shows. Even on Arrow, the gay cast member a Black guy. But I digress.

If I want a Black show, I'd much rather watch The Chi. The dialogue is FAR more genuine and comes across like it's written by Black folks (b/c it is as far as I know).
If I want to see a positive Black image in a comic show, The Runaways has a really intelligent young brother as the de facto leader of the crew, and that's something you pretty much never see in white superhero shows.

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It’s a superhero show on CW. I think the dialogue is fine for a show in this genre.

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in reference to Black Lightning.
So Blacker shows I'VE seen deserve mention...
especially if that Blacker show is on right now.

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That’s the hook to get this thing POASTING

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Yeah I figured this was the show, when you said something in that GOT post.

Yeah Black Lightning got some work to do.

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>If I want a Black show, I'd much rather watch The Chi. The
>dialogue is FAR more genuine and comes across like it's
>written by Black folks (b/c it is as far as I know).

and not to denigrate The Chi too much (because it has my dude Alex Hibbert from Moonlight and Sonja Sohn making Namond Brice's mom looking WILD tame in comparison) but some of that dialogue is kind of bogus... or rather, funny style. like it's good but I don't think they did enough to capture how cats in Chicago actually speak.

like it's trying way too hard. Perhaps this is because they're under supervision of DC and the CW. Certain stuff they're just gonna have in their shows, and it's obvious that they either have quotas to fill (i.e. the white genius) or they're tap dancing or weren't raised about Black people or something... it's just off. Say what you will about The Chi, but the dialogue is more genuine whether the characters sound like born chicagoans or not. The characters in Black Lightning don't sound like Black people in any poor neighborhood anywhere lol.

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I hear you about the Chi, I havent seen it yet becuase its on showtime and I've been too lazy to go and find a link

that said, I find the characters in BL to be refreshing, it shows black people just existing in a plain state

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its like The Wire's step brother

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Everyone I ever met from Chicago didn’t have a unique sound.

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His costume is hilariously bad but the dialogue and story are dope.

I just wish it wasn’t on at the same time as Blackish.

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cotdamn son. get you some hulu.

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I’m just talking about real time and how they still put our 3 or 4 shows on the same 2 nights at the same damn time.

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even though, yes, you bring up a point, it is unfair to stack slots like that.
blackish and empire went through the same thing

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but then said slots matter to you

is there a difference or were you just trying to get a joke off?

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from a personal viewing habit slots do not mean much since I stream

however from a numbers perspective its messed up to stack the slots which can lead to sense of reduced viewership for the shows in question

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Seems like they trying to hurt Blackish because now it's against "This Is Us"

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its an incredible display of modern parenting

and yes, the show is fantastic

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I was flipping and was planning to give the show 5 minutes because it was black and then the daughter announced she was loosing her virginity on Saturday. I was like, what wait? But started wondering how it would go down in my household. Good stuff.

THen an Albino Gangster? loved that.


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