Lanterns episode one, a true Detective show(yes that is a Pun.)

I think as someone who hadn't read too many comic books at the time of first learning about Green Lanterns, you really did not get too much into the space cop aspect of ol'Greenie, specifically cause there are so few depictions of it, like we see the big green hammer makers as exactly that, big green hammer makers.

Because you want to see the superhero do superhero things, we don't exactly see much detectiving outside of Batman which is funny cause the Brand has nothing to do with Washington DC, it is actually short for Detective Comics, which is something I learned recently and will never stop cribbing about.

Superman was actually action comics and so you will see Superman stuck in an alien conspiracy but you wont see him at a crime scene questioning a suspect.

And that is majorly what the first episode is, I was a little apprehensive that they are starting with Hal Jordan as an old Guy already and the Rumors that Lanterns will kill off Hal Jordan in the first episode, but now that I have seen it, I am actually quite intrigued.

This is a true detective show where the murder being investigated, is of one of the main characters.

And I say it that way, because the death happens in 2026, and the main show takes place in 2016.

So obviously, there is a connection between these two time periods ten years apart, and we will slowly unravel what is actually taking place as we learn things from jumping in between times, and we will be seeing a lot of Hal Jordan even though he is dead.

I mean to be fair he has a gun shot wound on his head and he is pretty much frozen to death by anyone's standards, but here's the thing...

We have a specific scene earlier where we have a guy who passes pretty much every way of passing as a human, save of course the are you racist check

Ah yes the Defining feature of Humanity...

Unbridled Racism.

Remind me again how may species can pass as human again?

And after so many of these Darned Aliens going to insane lengths to perfectly replate(I am assuming that all fourteen of them aren't just Humanoid) the Human Physiology...

These people who went to the lengths of going to a fucking football game to disguise their obvious mission of opposite of peace...

They did not care to replicate racism.

I guess it's not easy, because I would presume that the reason these races have advanced so much is because they didn't spend 99% of their day thinking about how they will assert dominance on someone who has a slightly different skin toe than you.

But regardless, apart from Racism there really isn't a way to figure out if the man in front of you has hidden antennae or not.

Yes thank you Hal.

And here is the thing about dead bodies...

They don't do racism alien or not.

Now anyone's initial knee jerk reaction to this should be that why won't they just revert to Alien when they die, aren't them the rules?

Now that would make sense until you realize that the main plotline of this episode is proving to the local sheriff that the dead Aliens are in fact dead Aliens.

So therefore, a dead huma could very much pass as a dead huma except for no one knowing them in the locality but then if you are impersonating a well known human, then that problem is gone too, so basically, highly likely this isn't Hal Jordan.

I mean come on! this is a mystery detective take on the Green Lanterns!

But then again, bold choices aren't unknowns!

But then again, the corpse wasn't racist to Joh Stewart, so my suspicions remain.

Now Speaking of Racist, did you know that Green Lantern in the comics wasn't racist.

But he did Disapprove.

You see even in the comics, like in the show John Stewart was chosen by the Guardians before he ever got a Ring,

And as well, unlike the show Trailers implied initially, Hal was under no illusions that this is his replacement should something happen to him.

In the comics the original Plan was Guy Gardner, and then he got into a accident.

So then Stewart came into the picture, but immediately, Hal saw what a massive chip on his shoulder he has.

The thing is though, as the comics progressed, it seemed more and more clear to Hal that he was in fact not able to judge the situation straight away, John brings a very different perspective to the Green Latern Job.

And we see both of the above in John Stewart in the Show.

He makes bubble wrap to save himself, which shows him approaching this as an architect which is what he was in the comics, later retconned as a former U.S. Marine working as an Architect just like in the show.

What is it with U.S. Marines? Every superhero is a Former Marine.

Oh Hi Frank.

And yes, I know Hal being a Former Air Force pilot kind of throws a wrench i the works.

But what I also know is John has a massive chip on his shoulder which comes from the fact that him and his Father very clearly trained for the Green Lantern Job since childhood.

We see a scene in the beginning where John is watching an Interview with the Green Lantern after he revealed his public Identity.

And also, John's father is called John Senior in the series unlike in the comics where he was Henry Stewart.

Also a Former Marine.

Oh Hi Frank!

So it seems(theoretically) that there is a chance that this is a "my child will get what I couldn't" Situation.

I mean we don't know, maybe John Sr. and Hal knew each other!

But this Chip comes to bite John pretty bad when he hooks up with a woman he meets in the Same Bar where Hal Rage baits a guy so hard he knocks him straight into Jail.

And what do you know, Hal is bailed out in exchange for a lunch and some help by the Father in Law of the Sheriff(who probably had a previous relationship of some sort with Hal)

You see Hal has bee coming here a lot, this is where he found the ring meaning this is where Abin Sur Crashed all those years ago, and this place has had enough of that that he has a look out stationed all the time here to tell him when...

"There's a hail in Rushville Nebraska"

Yes John, Absolutely! Thank you!(Never Letting that go by the way)

But now, why does this mean that John is Screwed because he screwed someone.

Well the woman he slept with is called Zoe Macon, Mother in Law to Sheriff Kerry.

https://video.wixstatic.com/video/84219a_40fd5d89289a4d328f0a6353fe857706/720p/mp4/file.mp4

Ah yes, and they have been there just over a day.

In Brightest Day...

In Blackest Night...

No Granny Shall escape my sight...

Okay Jeez I am sorry Hal!!

But his disillusionment with the Oath really is something ain't it.

It seems he has been a Later so long his Identity is now tied to it and that is why he doesn't want John to have the ring while he lives, but Also, he doesn't really seem to trust the Guardians of Owa.

And for good reason, there are currently two prevailing theories as to what these so called aliens are and what they are doing.

We see two things in the Trailers that point towards this.

Firstly, we know that the Manhunters are going to play a role in the Story, ad secondly we see Red constructs that will appear later on.

So That can mean we already have two potential candidates.

Red Lanterns

and Man Hunters.

But first, What the Fuck are Man-Hunters?

Gather around viewer, it is time for a history lesson.

The Guardians of Owa are a bunch of Blue skinned individuals who decided that it was their duty to protect the universe for some reason, and in their pursuit they decided to make the Manhunters, a group of Androids who were programmed with a singular purpose to "eradicate evil" but because we have already see this happen a thousand times we know that eventually their code gets corrupted and they decide that the only way to achieve that is to eliminate all life.

Yippeee!!!!

Now one of the places they hit was sector 666 which wouldn't you know it happens to have a planet called Ryut where the family of one little known individual called Atrocitus fell victim to their onslaught.

This individual survived but with an intense anger him, so high that he began to vomit acidic blood on everyone around him.

He later transported another Little known planet called Ysmault from whence he founded the perfect rival to the Green Lantern Corps.

• With blood and rage of crimson red,

• Ripped from a corpse so freshly dead,

• Together with our hellish hate,

• We'll burn you all—that is your fate!

Ah yes the Red Lantern Oath.

Objectively the best in everything, the color the oath, the fact that you get to devour the blood of you enemies and then turn it into acid and pour it onto others...

They even have a cat!

Aww and he's a good kitty will you look at that.

There is only the small problem of you never being able to take off the ring because the ring replaces your heart the moment it touches you and therefore if you take it off or if your rage leaves you and hence the ring decides to leave you then you immediately die.

So its like, you wake up choose violence destroy everything go back to sleep and return until one day you don't and then you die.

So when a random Alien claims.

You immediately think of Batman.

But why you ask, after I spent so log setting up the Red Lanterns and Man Hunters, surely it should be them!

No its Batman.

Why?

Ah yes, thank you for this Hishe.

Joke aside, it's probably the man hunters or Red Lanterns.

But what is the Macon Family doing?

We see in the Episode 2 trailer that there are some intense weapons under the compound that he is hiding.

Kerry warns Hal about the Macons.

He pretty much orders his son like a mafia boss.

Has a fucking mysterious employer.

I mean... does anyone need a bigger he is a villain sign???

So, wtf is going on, why does Hal have no ring and why hasn't it gone to John Stewart?

I mean Guy has the ring.

We all thought it was a different ring because we expected like in the comics the whole one green Lantern thing will be removed later but then we hear the after show podcast and someone said "Guy has the ring"

Also Hal has no lantern... to recharge his ring...

Pretty sure he used up the last of the energy stopping that bast so... what gives?

Yeah I know he can go get it shut up.

Also the rings no longer have a hard 24h limit, they are like phone batteries now, which is how it should have been from the start... so there...