Green Lantern

I do think that there have been great detective comic book heroes before.

I'm not as familiar with Green Lantern, though, so I couldn't really tell you if it's doing good.

You think of the detective thing in comic books, a lot of times it's Batman who's doing it or some of the other characters like that.

The best example I could set up beside it would be any of those Disney Plus, Marvel TV shows.

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I do think that a strength that they embraced with the Green Lantern franchise is that there are multiple Green Lanterns, which I think that they made a good choice with that and followed that into an interesting direction.

And there's been, I'm familiar with at least five off the top of my head.

Welcome, everybody, to the Green Lantern Corecast.

This is a podcast where we talk about all things Green Lantern from the website, thegreenlanterncore.com, a website that is right now down.

I think we got hacked, actually.

So today we're going to be talking about the new Resident Evil reboot from Zack Kreger, which is now in theaters.

We're going to talk about Lanterns and its mid-season premiere.

or mid-season, mid-season kind of finale point in episode five, which they have marked as the mid-season because they released a whole new trailer for the next kind of batch of episodes.

So yeah, there's a lot going on there.

All right.

Let's jump to TV.

We got to talk about Lanterns.

So Lanterns has hit its midseason point with episode five.

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Not you, Green Lantern.

Take your ring and fly away.

But-

In it, we see Manhunter Zoe putting her plans in motion while John and Hal desperately trying to stop an all out alien war in Rushville.

This is all while also trying to stop each other from claiming the title of Green Lantern.

Now, though the war in Rushville is the centerpiece, I also think that at its heart, this is a war between John, Hal, and Zoe.

At its cold, cold heart, it's an absolute nonstop rollercoaster of an episode that answers almost all our questions about what's going on in Rushville, brings John face to face with his destiny, and also everything that comes with it, and I can't wait to talk about it.

This also highlights how much Hal has changed over the past 10 years, and I wonder if we'll get it filled in to what made him turn shit.

My guess is that it has something to do with Sinestro, and maybe seeing his mentor fall is what turned him cynical.

I think it also speaks to how Hal has become so bitter and shut off from the world that he's just consumed with maintaining his title as Green Lantern, no matter the cost that comes with it, because that's all he is.

As we've seen, he has an empty mansion that has nothing inside of it except his Green Lantern suits and power battery.

like that's every day anymore.

Screaming into her voice.

Yeah, exactly.

I thought it was really well done.

But I got over it because there's some empathy there, sadness for the action.

Whereas when she killed Krenn in the movie, it immediately ticked me off and I haven't gotten over it.

And I feel like... maybe i'm wrong i feel like they wonder woman was too recently done they needed a female superhero supergirl was the next in line as popularity or known and so they made a angier you know wonder woman asked more violent character and then kind of piggybacking off what you were saying is i feel like they they haven't found her voice even after i don't know 57 or 60 years of comic books what this character is supposed to be and really this movie was we just don't want it to be superman but we wanted to be a girl version of that and that i feel like is the frustrating thing when they probably could have waited a couple years and told the character that was more hopeful and compassionate like you were talking about but since they did it the year after Superman.

We have to just radically shake up this character, make it more violent, make it not Superman.

Do you know what I mean? I think there's something in that.

I brought this up last week, and I'm wondering what you think, Muni, is that all the chat around the Green Lantern powers so far has been really based around fear.

And it's like, oh, I don't have any fear.

I don't have any fear.

But it's all the chats on fear.

And it feels like the training to be Green Lantern is kind of wrong, like to be a superhero.

Yeah.

Because it's not really a hero thing to have no fear, except you're Daredevil, because that's literally his nickname.