Let me first state that I'm a huge Black Lightning fan, and thought this was a great episode, but the beginning of the episode was completely absurd...Even for a scifi-based series.
I get that the show is low budget, but if they expect the audience to swallow that a single, non-enhanced, human woman, can take out an entire army of cops with guns trained on her at distance, even after having murdered a cop right in front of their eyes, without suffering so much as a flesh wound, then they need to show how she did it...Even if it's in flashback. Otherwise, it's lazy, and insulting to the audience.
I was distracted the whole episode by that absurdity. If the writers couldn't have been bothered to show how she pulled it off; didn't have the budget/time to properly choreograph the scene; or couldn't figure out how to make the scene plausible with that setup (most likely scenario), then they should've re-written the scene, instead of just going for the "cute" visual of a lone woman staring down a large group of heavily armed cops, with absolutely no attempt to actually execute it.
As I said at the beginning, I realize this is a scifi series, so I've cheerfully gone along with everything else up to this point. But, even scifi shows have "rules", and one of the rules of THIS show is that non-metas don't have super powers. So unless I've missed where Cutter (the HUMAN assassin) has the speed of "The Flash", then the writers of this episode should be ashamed of themselves for the abject disregard they've displayed for their audience.
The only reason this episode gets a five stars instead of one, is because it would've been a ten without the opening scene.
I get that the show is low budget, but if they expect the audience to swallow that a single, non-enhanced, human woman, can take out an entire army of cops with guns trained on her at distance, even after having murdered a cop right in front of their eyes, without suffering so much as a flesh wound, then they need to show how she did it...Even if it's in flashback. Otherwise, it's lazy, and insulting to the audience.
I was distracted the whole episode by that absurdity. If the writers couldn't have been bothered to show how she pulled it off; didn't have the budget/time to properly choreograph the scene; or couldn't figure out how to make the scene plausible with that setup (most likely scenario), then they should've re-written the scene, instead of just going for the "cute" visual of a lone woman staring down a large group of heavily armed cops, with absolutely no attempt to actually execute it.
As I said at the beginning, I realize this is a scifi series, so I've cheerfully gone along with everything else up to this point. But, even scifi shows have "rules", and one of the rules of THIS show is that non-metas don't have super powers. So unless I've missed where Cutter (the HUMAN assassin) has the speed of "The Flash", then the writers of this episode should be ashamed of themselves for the abject disregard they've displayed for their audience.
The only reason this episode gets a five stars instead of one, is because it would've been a ten without the opening scene.
