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Aldarion

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Ambiturner said:
Because you said "wisecracking clone of Tony Stark, trying to out clever each other with witty one liners". If you're actually complaining about Marvel humor, then yeah that got old a long time ago, but wild to call it a Tony Stark thing.

Stark's humor is more sarcastic/I'm smarter than you/you're all idiots House MD type stuff which is pretty much the only marvel humor I could go for more of. Dr. Strange is the only one that even attempts witty/clever. Most everyone else is usually the butt of whatever the dumb joke is and "they're out of the element this is so wacky!!" bullshit.
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I get it, maybe the Stark reference didnt come across well.

Its how I noticed it, so its how I refer to it internally. When the movies started, they all had their own personalities. Stark was always wisecracking with this absurdly fast ADHD style, but Hulk was Hulk and Cap was Cap etc.

Then fast forward a few movies and they've got every single fucking character making rapid fire witty banter in every single fucking scene. Watching these movies as they came out, at some point I said to myself, "why is everybody acting like Tony Stark now?"

I mean they've got Thor, the God of Thunder who was still speaking in like Thees and Thous in the comics, making retarded zoomer jokes back and forth with the rest of them by now.

Anyway, I type this out not to argue, but to explain the origin of my description.
 
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Dr.Retarded

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Aldarion said:
I officially retract my optimism.
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But why!

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Personally I don't give two shits about the show and don't really know anything about the comics, but I do find it pretty hilarious.
 
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Bald Brah

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It's obvious from the DEI hire black lantern it's going to suck.
 
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rhinohelix

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Haus said:
Yeah... cautious.. optimism... fading.....
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From another ice-cold franchise: "It's dead, Jim."

Everyone in Hollywood still thinks its 2016-2019. They are still fighting the last war. For them, It's still DEI time; They still think cynical nihilism is what sells, despite flop after flop and cancellation after cancellation. "No more white comfort!!!" "True Detective is so cool!" It is, in a True Detective show, not a super hero show about galactic cops without fear using their will to power sci fi magic rings. If you give them two rings rather than one, make Hal Jordan a good guy and not an asshole, make him weary maybe but not a jerk, etc. Make Aaron Pierre struggling to learn the ropes after getting his ring and Hal working him coaching him up. It's so fucking easy if you get the anti-racism/anti-white California politics/Damon Lindelof out of the show.

Instead this is going to be terrible. Hope to be wrong but the Track record of Wokewood speaks for itself.
 
Haus

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rhinohelix said:
From another ice-cold franchise: "It's dead, Jim."

Everyone in Hollywood still thinks its 2016-2019. They are still fighting the last war. For them, It's still DEI time; They still think cynical nihilism is what sells, despite flop after flop and cancellation after cancellation. "No more white comfort!!!" "True Detective is so cool!" It is, in a True Detective show, not a super hero show about galactic cops without fear using their will to power sci fi magic rings. If you give them two rings rather than one, make Hal Jordan a good guy and not an asshole, make him weary maybe but not a jerk, etc. Make Aaron Pierre struggling to learn the ropes after getting his ring and Hal working him coaching him up. It's so fucking easy if you get the anti-racism/anti-white California politics/Damon Lindelof out of the show.

Instead this is going to be terrible. Hope to be wrong but the Track record of Wokewood speaks for itself.
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Yeah, there are a ton of great stories you can tell with a real Hal Jordan being Hal Jordan and a real John Stewart being John Stewart. Needing to tell a "Small town corrupt cops/bad white guys/whatever needs a detective" simply isn't the story to tell. If you're going to do the downfall of Hal Jordan you do that after you build him up in season one, and then do Parallax in season 2.

Now, with all this said, was there a chance this story/narrative choice was made on a "Make a show about two cosmically powerful heroes, but do it on a shoestring crap budget"? Yeah, I won't discount that might also be in play here. But even then, so many easy slam dunks of stories to riff off of here. The buddy cop formula is a staple for a reason. It feels like they're angling for something like that here, but just getting it all wrong. Hope I'm pleasantly proven wrong, not expecting to be.

Learn the Mortal Kombat lesson, ask yourself "What do Green Lantern fans want to see in a GL show? Do a shit ton of that".

Full disclosure : Growing up my favorite super heroes were (1 to 3 order) : The Flash, Green Lantern, Spider-man. First thing I made when I realized that my first 3d resin printer came with a bottle of translucent green resin? A perfect fit GL ring. heh
 
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I love me some GL, but fuck emo Hal Jordan. Especially if they are just gonna do his Parralax evil arc. I would have preferred a Guy Gardner show. I have no problem with John Stewart, but he's pretty over done compared to the others.
 
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