 Hey everybody what's going on it's B.A.V. here and thank you very much for tuning in to my Appian Slash recap for season one episode one of Black Lightning first episode is titled Resurrection. I really do appreciate it but before we get into this recap help you help help you boy out by clicking that subscribe button also click the bell so you can be notified when I make uploads and give me that thumbs up let's see if we can get this video to 100 likes so I did not say review I said recap and the reason why I said recap or a pain slash recap is this is going to be spoiler field and so I'm just really going to recap the whole episode so if you have not seen season one episode one of Black Lightning which debuted on CW I strongly suggest you turn the video off now go watch the video go watch the episode and then come back or you can stay if you do not care about being spoiled now with this DC property here that came on CW I did a reaction to the trailer many many months ago and if you go on if you subscribe subscribe to my channel you go back and look at that you're pretty much see that I was I was not a fan of the trailer at all I thought it looked bad I thought it looked crappy I thought it looked corny I thought it looked cheap I thought the show was gonna suck pretty much thought it was just a low budget mess and I am just gonna go ahead and tell you now that I am proud to say that I was wrong I was very wrong I really did enjoy this first episode and I can honestly say now that I will be coming back next week I'm not sure if I'm going to I mean I'm gonna try to always upload videos recaps you know the night it comes out but if I'm busy doing something else then I'll just try to get it you know uploaded whenever I can but I was really impressed by this I had low expectations but you know I was sitting there smiling ear to ear now I didn't love everything about it and we're gonna talk about that but for the most part I really did enjoy it the title of the episode is Resurrection the creators of the show or Salim and Mara Brock Acoe if you've never heard of them before Salim he was the director for Sparkle which came out a number of years ago and jumping the broom that movie had Angela Bassett and him and I believe his wife they are both the creators of the shows or the show Runners The Game which was on BET you know I don't even know if it's still on that show was so great in the very beginning but after season three it kind of tanked and went downhill and also being Mary Jane great TV shows I love that and so they are behind this now the black lightning himself that's by a guy named Chris Williams not really big in the movies but he's been in Grey's Anatomy he's been in ER he's been in a lot of TV shows in the past few years and you know he was he's the titular character of black lightning and for the most part you know he really did a great job and you know you know this show has a lot of parallels of what's going on right now in the real world and I think that's something that kind of you know got me attached early on is there's a lot of you know injustice and and violence in the streets and you know a little bit of police brutality but in this episode here this starts out where there is violence in the street and Chris Williams black lightning is going to the police station to pick up his daughter by the name of what is her name Anissa and yeah Anissa and wait my handwriting is horrible excuse me oh yeah her name is Anissa and she was arrested she was arrested for protesting and in turn kind of violent and what I like is at the very beginning of this they kept kind of quoting very important figures in history that has to do with the black community like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King and this and that and just so many other people and just kind of just sound like you know more violence just gets more violence and you can't fight hate where hate you can't fight darkness where darkness and you know I liked all that you know she and her sister they have like her real name is Nefessa Williams and the sister's name China and McLean and you know China was okay but Nefessa she was one of the standouts in this whole episode for me because they're just her acting was just very great it was very convincing I love the you know the banter that she was having with her younger sister back and forth because a younger sister was just kind of more of a hothead and wanted to party and not really responsible but you know the older sister was just like okay hey we live in the real world you can't be out here you know popping bottles and twerking you're still in high school you know you need to chill out and worry about your future and things like that she's been responsible she's been like a real big sister but the relationship that she has with her daughter you know is very powerful as well you know we find out that black lightning he used to be a superhero back in the day but he you know put the costume away and wanted to become a principal and kind of fight crime in the daytime and you know he kind of lost his touch or whatever his daughter doesn't like that like I mean dad what happened used to do this used to do that used to be you know so brave and you know but what happened you're kind of folding under pressure you know and I like it's not like over the top it's not overbearing you know she's not annoying anything like that she does kind of have a valid reason of you know her fulfilling this way towards her father but at the same time her father Chris Williams black lightning you know he has a valid reason too because later on in the in the show he's just kind of like look I had to put the costume and powers away I had to stop being a superhero because I was getting my butt kicked I was almost dying there was no into it I you know I started being a superhero because I just wanted to stop this person right here because they killed somebody that somebody really close to him died and he wanted revenge but then you know there was more crime over here in this personature and this you know violent crime so he was just like look there's just no into this you know I'm losing my wife I have children to look after you know so I don't blame him and kind of just seeing the back and forth like that between him and his daughter I'm just kind of like it was something that really just stood out to me and you know like I said the acting from Vanessa you know was very great I liked all that there kind of is a scene to where there hasn't have some police brutality to where he was being pulled over it was raining and cops just like get out the car you know and you know having an attitude not really telling him what he did wrong or why he was arrested slamming him down trying to put cuffs on man that's just like you know they cop shouldn't do that I mean you know be cordial with somebody it's like hey I'm pulling you over because of this you know and it's just not fair and they're just taking advantage of you know their authority and that was like the spark right there they're kind of just like you know I'm tired of this crap he kind of showed a brief glimpse of his powers and you know kind of you know mess with the electricity and things like that and I'm kind of jumping all over the place but you know that's okay but like going into this I don't I don't I don't know much about Black Lightning I really don't this is a DC comic character I am born to Marvel I knew of static shock like when I was a much younger but static shock and Black Lightning is not the same person but if you're eager to know what his powers are Black Lightning is an Olympic level athlete with superb hand-to-hand combat internally generated electromagnetic field and can create Hurls boats and supercharged electricity and so as far as like the hand-to-hand comment that was pretty dope I liked all of that I liked the electricity and him you know manipulating electricity and all that so just kind of seeing him do that at the very beginning with the cops or whatever that was kind of cool and then you know we kind of get the next scene of one of his daughters at a club and I like this is kind of where they reveal the villain which is named his name is William Coffitt that's his real that's his name in real life but in in the show he goes by the name of La La they could have picked a better name than La La that's kind of rack and not very intimidating but he was a good villain I like that I loved everything in the in the in the club the 100 club and the 100 club is like the name of a gang I don't know if it's a 100 no the the yeah the name of the club was the world's slang name is the 100 club and there's a gang called the 100 gang which are the people in the gang hang out at the club and you know they do prostitution and sell drugs and gangbang and all that stuff I say a prostitution so lightly like that's just a good thing not judging you if you're a prostitute you know I hope you find a better profession but no I'm kidding but well I'm never mind anyway but you know that was just kind of a scene there to where we really got to know the villain and what he was capable of and I kind of just like how they drew Black Lightning's daughter in and just kind of like she didn't want to have anything to do with it but I like how she got kind of thrown into the mess which motivated Black Lightning to have to you know get involved in the crime world again so that was just great writing there um of course the black guy I tried to find his name but I couldn't but he's a simp he's a loser you know he's wack you know grabbing on uh one of the sisters um you know at the club no not at the club but at the school um I was just like bro what are you doing man you can't just grab women like that or whatever and she kind of hits them with the gut move and does a little flip and flips them upside down and his pump butt getting you know beat up you know he feels bad about it and embarrassing on pull a gun on well he's about to pull a gun on the girls at the school I'm just like whoa dude what are you doing like you finna pull a gun on like all it feels like 50 to 100 students outside everybody can see you you don't have a mask on this bright day like so he's just not thinking clearly you know but Black Lightning gotta come down there and save the day and you know like everything leading up to this is great um we kind of get like some Batman and Alfred scenes with uh you know there's like one of his guys uh he's not black you know uh nice uh nice gentlemen at a clothing apparel store that apparently built Black Lightning's costume way back in the day and they're having pep talk and that's kind of like where we start to get more of Black Lightning's uh backstory and I'm I like it I'm liking all that I'm loving uh I love the flashback scenes shout out to Roland Martin you know on tv he was with tv one you know he's been popping up in a few movies here and now he popped up in downsizing um as a tv pundit or news host and he also popped up in Black Lightning I like that I like the relationship that Black Lightning had with his wife um you know their divorce but you know there's still um some attraction there and um you know I hope they get back together kind of got some flashbacks of why she left him and wanted a divorce and I don't blame her either uh because you know people can try to use her as collateral if you know you're married to a superhero I'm liking all that but the only thing I did not like about this episode and it's probably going to be every episode is the costume the costume of Black Lightning is extremely corny uh to me um it's very bulky uh you know if you're trying to sneak up on people it's kind of hard to do that you know if you have neon lights on your on your chest but then again you're going to be drawing attention if you're doing lightning bolts and things like that but it was one particular scene where he was like like his daughter's got kidnapped because the guy at the school won a revenge and you know he came later on with his goons putting guns in the middle of high school and went and kidnapped him and took him back to the hotel right and so that's where the last uh fight scene is where Black Lightning has to come and rescue his daughters and he does you know he's fighting and stuff but he does like this move right here like with his hands and the show's like wave and he does like this hudduking and I like that like some little street fighter you know like you know hudduking I was like oh man I like I even called to that like I was like man he about to do a hudduking so when he like did like this and called it back you know sitting on my cops like you know like yeah you know charge it up like I'm a big street fighter fan you know if you couldn't tell already so oh that was cool I like the action and I like the powers but the costume was really wack to me um you know I hope he gets an upgrade or something like that apparently it's kind of stops bullets it's bulletproof you know I'm not entirely sure um you know but I skipped over scene earlier at the beginning when the cops shot him in the chest with the tasers or whatever I'm like oh y'all done messed up now and I'm like power up y'all y'all giving him power and he like took it and just you know threw it back and I'm like okay yeah this show pretty no pretty dope or whatever I was crapping on it when I did the reaction um a number of months ago but I like to show a lot other than the freaking uh other than the freaking what you call um the costume and like he just has like goggles on his face it's like dude people gonna know who you are I don't know I mean it's not really a secret identity you know uh so and it didn't make sense either at the end of the episode to where the cops are there at the motel and they're arresting all the guys and taking statements it's not like it's a hundred story building to where you can stand at the top and kind of look down on heroic it's a freaking two-story motel dude people gonna see you up there and I'm just like there's nobody see him up there there's nobody see the black lightning was involved maybe I don't know I mean maybe he doesn't care if people know that black lightning is involved but bro don't just stand at the top of the thing so that part really didn't work to me and the costume didn't work but I I really didn't enjoy this episode a lot um I really can't wait for the next episode uh you know it was really good guys I you know um we got black panther coming out and about 28 days or something like that and you know we got black lightning you know black lightning black panther black black black no I'm uh joking but I'm serious at the same time but no it was really great episode guys um this is like the first recap I've done um I was I took a few notes um you know but I'm like well man I'm talking to the whole show and spoilers so I'm gonna have to you know I'm gonna work on some things if you if you want me to recap some more let me know in the comments let me know what you like what you what I didn't like they will always be spoilers so you know um you know but guys that's just my opinion for this first episode season one episode one black lightning car resurrection um have you seen the episode what did you think did you like it did you hate it do you agree with me or do you disagree with me let me know in the comment section below let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing if you like this video go ahead and give me a thumbs up and if you don't like the video that's fine um just leave me a comment below why and uh you can still give me a thumbs up subscribe to my channel um like my facebook page like my instagram my twitter all that good stuff is there in the description box below and it's right there at the bottom of the screen and there's um yeah do all of that but guys I just want to thank you very much for tuning into my opinion slash recap for the first episode of black lightning and before you go don't forget that my name is brandy keithavery and that's just my opinion peace