I went to high school near Rushville. That area is a fine choice if you're looking for "middle of fucking nowhere." Also,
Yeah saw this last night. Was a very good pilot, very well done. Really liked both the Hal and John characters, can't wait to see how it all unfolds My one question after the episode is if there can only be one ring wearer, where does Guy Gardener come in - I'm pretty sure I saw him talking to Hal Jordan in one of the trailers. Also assuming he might have it after what we saw at the end of the episode in 2026?
I want to say Guy was supposed to be assigned to a different sector or something, but I couldn't be bothered to look it up. Too bored. I didn't hate it the way others seem to, but I wasn't on the edge of my seat. Yet another jaded old superhero who needs to tell you it's all bullshit. Yet another on-the-nose representation of "current thing". Green Lanterns who do little to no Lanterning. I want OA. I want deep Lantern lore. I want freaky aliens doing weird shit in outer space. It's too early to say it won't happen, so I'll give it a chance.
Im curious about that myself. Guy Gardner has always been not just my favorite Lantern but one of my favorite comic book characters period, so I'm glad to see him getting some love. And maybe, with him being on this show, he'll be treated a bit more seriously. Maybe the Corps decided Earth needed one dedicated lantern to stay there because of all the weird shit going on.
Very curious what current thing you're referring to. If you want that stuff, go watch the Ryan Reynolds film. They'll probably get there (we've seen Sinestro in the trailers). But they are expecting an HBO/True Detective audience that has a bit of patience.
Hal didn't strike me as jaded - I mean he was doing selfies and signing autographs with fans at that taco joint - he struck me as gruff and just tired after being GL for so long. Plus it seems like he didn't want to give up the ring to John at all
GL is one comic book super hero story I didn’t read. But, the guy playing John Stewart acted just like the animated series “Justice League”’s John Stewart
I don't remember JL:TAS's John Stewart being a vegan, having sex with a random woman he just met, making rookie mistakes or playing second fiddle to anyone. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that.
I don't remember the comic canon explanation for why there are so many Earth-Lanterns. The lineup includes Hal, John, Guy, Kyle Rayner, Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz. That's a lot of people who were chosen for rings. We saw in Superman that Guy had a ring, and the events of that movie presumably are in 2025, the year that came out, so before Hal is found dead and ringless in 2026. Could be that Guy was given a ring of his own I think the coming soon had Guy talking to John when John was in prison.
I hate to put words in his mouth, but I'd guess it's some variant of what he was saying about Trek/Thor/Star Wars: Can't have a happy, moral, triumphant white guy hero. Have to lift up people of color and women instead.
I hope that's not the case. Especially since Hal gets to be the Earth's first hero, a global superstar, and an acknowledged history of heroics.
That’s just the story. The writing. Nothing to do with the actor’s ability to mimic another acrtor’s portrayal of an established character.
No, it's the obvious illegal immigration commentary. Can't even really call something so on the nose and plainspoken an allegory.
I will give UA some credit. It's a fairly common trope of equating actual E.T. aliens to illegal immigrant aliens. I would say that IMO here, it's not a particularly good fit. Because the concern isn't so much about aliens coming to Earth to take advantage of the sophisticated resources that we have here and dragging us down to their third-world level like itis with illegal immigrant aliens. Rather, the concern here is about far-more sophisticated E.T. aliens colonizing Earth, which is, galactically speaking, bumblefuck. Barely have space travel. Colonizers are very different from illegal immigrants. Another big difference is: in this show, the E.T. aliens are an actual threat in a way that illegal immigrant aliens simply are not. But UA can elaborate if he chooses on what he means. P.S. thanks to UA for specifying what he meant, and I stand corrected.
The hollywood strawman of a redneck, with his remote militia compound, monologing about "people who don't belong here" or somesuch (yes, I'm paraphrasing. I've seen it one time. fuck off.) was as subtle as a sledgehammer. Now, everyone gaslight away. "I didn't notice anything. That must be YOUR issue. "
Christ, "Heavy Metal" did an illegal alien gag, and that was 1982. "Alien Nation" split the difference; that the ship were mostly slaves who didn't know how to fly the ship, and the slave masters hid in society. And neither slaves or masters knew how to build the ship.
Oh, knock it off with your binary crud. Jesus, it must be such an exhausting way to live. Put the suitcases full of lead down. No religion is going to give you your martyr statue.
Oh come off it.The goal there was a cheap laugh, not a super "clever" allegory to guilt you into changing your wicked ways.
(Sung to the tune of the "momma mia" bit of Bohemian Rhapsody) Paranoia!! Paranoia!!! Paranoia let me go!!
Not gaslighting, here at least. Just a respectful difference of opinion. Because here, the rich dude has a pretty undeniable point. A lone alien with a thought managed to set off an explosion that could have destroyed a good chunk of his town. And he was there as part of a conspiracy that the local cops and the one space cop know almost nothing about. The one space cop is, as he put it, equipped with a weapon of mass destruction put on his finger by other aliens. Intelligent aliens in this universe greatly outnumber and outclass the 7 billion people on Earth, and (although Superman hasn't become public by the 2016 time frame) a single sufficiently powerful ET could easily take over Earth. If we were to accept the premise that the ranch owner and his militia are supposed to be talking about illegal immigrants, the show does way too much to stack the deck in his favor. Especially since there is no realistic chance that illegal immigrants are going to pose the potential existential threat that ET aliens can and do in this universe.
Yeah I got the same vibe initially too but then it kind of went out of my head when he started talking about actual aliens Also that ranch owner is probably an alien or something else. Something off about him and he didn't want to shake anyone's hand either
I think even the most rabid anti-illegal immigrant person would have to concede that there is no chance that a single immigrant could blow up a town by themselves, and most if pushed to shove would have to admit that even in the most rabid replacement theory scheme, that it could not happen in the next 50 years. But I might be being utterly naive here about their ability to reason on these points.
