Lanterns

Fairly disappointing ending. Show wasn't awful, but definitely so much wasted potential. Are they even aiming for a Season 2 or is this just character establishment for when John shows up in Man of Tomorrow?

We were so close to a Stewart/Gardner showdown too, which would've been cool.

Wait, that was the last episode? Bah.

MusicForFish said:

Spoiler: dumb bitch moment

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see everyone guessed this since episode one.
however, no one could have guessed back then Lindsey.

all the post partum depression jokes. Pure Cinema.

Also, just female cops.

As someone who knows jack about Green Lantern lore, I thought the series was ok overall.

For people who do know jack about the lore - one thing that bugged me was this talk about Hal breaking the oath. Is this the literal one they recite in the show ? Because that one is all flowery descriptions - the only thing remotely actionable is 'No evil will escape my sight'. Why would talking to Sinestro violate that ? Also, this seems like a stupid prohibition because the only way you could fail is unintentionally, which suggests it was written by asshats.

Actually, why was Hal in jail anyway ? Did he commit any actual crimes there other than breaking and entering ? It was John who was the one doing first degree murder and dragging alien mercs into town.

Speaking of Sinestro - beating him up, stealing his shit and then leaving him to die of dehydration seems kind of questionable as 'justice'.

velk said:

Actually, why was Hal in jail anyway ? Did he commit any actual crimes there other than breaking and entering ? It was John who was the one doing first degree murder and dragging alien mercs into town.

Speaking of Sinestro - beating him up, stealing his shit and then leaving him to die of dehydration seems kind of questionable as 'justice'.

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Because they couldn't kill him off without a little character assassination along the way. The fall from grace, losing the 'one' ring to rule them all. Going to jail. It was all to push the dumb suicide angle like they ham fisted into his dad's and granddaddy origin story. That way it would be a huge shock when the love of his life that he was in a relationship with for 5 minutes of screen time offed him.

They were doing some temu Shakespeare shit with Jon Stewart having to kill the terminator robot who was the love of his life after 5 minutes and mirroring that with Hal's pointless retarded death. You can't give a black guy the ring without making the white guy look like a pathetic loser who really should have just killed himself and let the black guy have it.

The Sinestro and Gardner bullshit was just to reinforce how strong the black man was and how he could effortlessly take out all the other green lanterns because he is the Alpha Tyrone and he could even fuck them into submission if he wanted like he did the killer robot.

The most objectionable part of the show was the guy being able to say 'ask'.

Huh? He distinctly said "axe" twice in a row. I was really hoping Hal would use it to make fun of him but of course the ghetto chick writers couldnt let that happen.

Hal's whole backstory episode was a red herring, Hal didn't have mental problems and kill himself, the portal wasn't even his, he didn't break Sinestro out, and the vault wasn't meant as a generational secret passed to John. Hell the internet theory about him sussing the town again was wrong he was genuinely trying to be helpful.