Bald Brah
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When did Damon Lienedloff transition to a fat black lady? I mean I don't like fat magicians and I also don't like the juice so what am I missing here?
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Not sure exactly what the rules are in this new universe, but the Guardians did authorize John Stewart to take the ring so him taking it is technically possible and potentially lore accurate as Oa would have the security overrides turned off or edited to allow John to seize it. That, plus it established the ring was out of power for most of the episode when John did end up taking it. I’m more bothered by the fact that this specific lantern ring has the battery capacity of an Iphone and needs charging twice daily.
Of course I’m giving the writers a lot more credit here than they deserve. This episode had the kamikaze bad guy tell the dude from Fear the Walking Dead that “he wasn’t going to self detonate unless he knew it was a Manhunter and not a decoy“ and then the exact next scene with him we have this guy running towards the massive mile long cloud of anti-lantern black fog beeping and detonating before he even reached the fucking thing let alone identify who the Manhunter even was or get in close proximity to her.
...And then we have the fact that for some reason, despite establishing they’ve been trying to fanatically protect the Manhunter for 5 fucking episodes at any cost the Fear the Walking Dead guy has the chance to kill the boss terrorist but he doesn’t because he wants to converse with it and be a decoy to buy her an additional 5 minutes for…? This is the same town that had the ability to orbitally nuke the terrorist at any moment this entire episode.
Some of the fight scenes were pretty cool. John saying fuck everything and walking away because he sees how messed up Hal is and how untrustworthy the guardians are was neat. I laughed at the phone call scene he had with his parents - to me I took it as him mocking their ridicilious legacy obsession but who knows what the writers actually intended. I can’t believe i’m saying this but I also enjoyed the Zoe and John scenes this episode and the dialog they had.
But the entire manhunter plot including the alien assassins were retarded, pointless, and made no sense whatsoever. Zoe demonstrated she had the ability to fake her death and disappear in a previous episode but she…doesn’t. The entire town has the ability and had the opportunity to murder both John and Hal if they wanted to for 5 straight episodes but they…don’t. The Manhunter, John, and the boss alien terrorist assassin spell it out numerous times that the Manhunter is going to do what it needs to do to survive, that it doesn’t welcome death, and that it’s “in its nature“ to survive, yet everything it does in this entire episode feels completely counter to that. I also don’t know how to feel about the fact that Manhunters are supposed to be completely emotionless yet this one is clearly bipolar.
Imagine being one of the most dangerous threats in the DC universe, programed to survive, having already killed one green lantern, and in episode 1 you have some shit kid light your cigarette with the Green Lantern Ring as you fuck him in your truck and you don’t…kill him and take the ring? Hal is arrested in the bar of your fanatics, by your fanatics, disarmed of the ring with you there, and you don’t kill him and John and take the ring right there? Oh, it didn’t do any of that because it…didn’t want to bring attention to itself or have to move out of random shit small town USA to another random shit small town USA?
The writing has been pure ass.
Of course I’m giving the writers a lot more credit here than they deserve. This episode had the kamikaze bad guy tell the dude from Fear the Walking Dead that “he wasn’t going to self detonate unless he knew it was a Manhunter and not a decoy“ and then the exact next scene with him we have this guy running towards the massive mile long cloud of anti-lantern black fog beeping and detonating before he even reached the fucking thing let alone identify who the Manhunter even was or get in close proximity to her.
...And then we have the fact that for some reason, despite establishing they’ve been trying to fanatically protect the Manhunter for 5 fucking episodes at any cost the Fear the Walking Dead guy has the chance to kill the boss terrorist but he doesn’t because he wants to converse with it and be a decoy to buy her an additional 5 minutes for…? This is the same town that had the ability to orbitally nuke the terrorist at any moment this entire episode.
Some of the fight scenes were pretty cool. John saying fuck everything and walking away because he sees how messed up Hal is and how untrustworthy the guardians are was neat. I laughed at the phone call scene he had with his parents - to me I took it as him mocking their ridicilious legacy obsession but who knows what the writers actually intended. I can’t believe i’m saying this but I also enjoyed the Zoe and John scenes this episode and the dialog they had.
But the entire manhunter plot including the alien assassins were retarded, pointless, and made no sense whatsoever. Zoe demonstrated she had the ability to fake her death and disappear in a previous episode but she…doesn’t. The entire town has the ability and had the opportunity to murder both John and Hal if they wanted to for 5 straight episodes but they…don’t. The Manhunter, John, and the boss alien terrorist assassin spell it out numerous times that the Manhunter is going to do what it needs to do to survive, that it doesn’t welcome death, and that it’s “in its nature“ to survive, yet everything it does in this entire episode feels completely counter to that. I also don’t know how to feel about the fact that Manhunters are supposed to be completely emotionless yet this one is clearly bipolar.
Imagine being one of the most dangerous threats in the DC universe, programed to survive, having already killed one green lantern, and in episode 1 you have some shit kid light your cigarette with the Green Lantern Ring as you fuck him in your truck and you don’t…kill him and take the ring? Hal is arrested in the bar of your fanatics, by your fanatics, disarmed of the ring with you there, and you don’t kill him and John and take the ring right there? Oh, it didn’t do any of that because it…didn’t want to bring attention to itself or have to move out of random shit small town USA to another random shit small town USA?
The writing has been pure ass.