Martin Jordan

Yeah,

and it's interesting, you know, they changed his relationship with fear and like, you know, the Martin Jordan character gets changed quite a bit, which is, I think, you know, I'm okay with it.

I think it's cool.

It's just like, you know, in the comics, he's just kind of this pariah, not pariah, sorry.

And along the way, we finally start getting insight into who Hal was, not just as Green Lantern, but before, as we meet his father, who has always been one of the most important figures in his life.

There's a brilliant segment at the beginning of Hal being threatened with being kicked off his baseball team because essentially he wouldn't... acquiesce when his coach wanted to pull him to let another boy play right before he was going to get a perfect game and his dad is called in the coach thinks that'll read him the riot act and the dad immediately goes what the fuck were you doing pulling my boy and gets into a fight with the coach and that perfectly sums up martin jordan from the comics as well i think He's an incredibly loved dad, but I'm never sure if he was a good dad because he modeled the same behavior that wound up being Hal's biggest weakness.

However, there is obviously a very big change to how Martin died in this version.

That pretty much just sums up that we are taking these characters and lumping a whole lot of additional trauma on them.

All right.

So guest cast, we have Jake B. Miller playing Martin Jordan, Hal's father in this episode.

He has appeared in episodes of Fear the Walking Dead, Narcos Mexico, and I should mention for certain Jesse Jackson that might be listening, The Rookie.

So I thought I'd mention that.

He sets out brilliantly.

Okay.

So to start off our discussion, we go to 1975 and we pick up with Martin Jordan as he enters this room at little Hal Jordan's school where there's a baseball coach admonishing young Hal Jordan.

And as we find out from Hal, he was pitching an almost no-hitter in Little League baseball.

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i think that tom king goes into every book he writes with a fully formed mind at least the mini-series because we don't have to get into like you know the ongoings or whatever but with a fully formed idea of what he wants to talk about what it'll mean and how it relates to him as a person and i respect that because you want to put the you want the artist to make the art about themselves right um but i just think he's hit so many tropes at this point of himself like he has completely become comical in what he does like the second that hal jordan is on the river nile and goes uh my dad killed himself I was like, Tom, Tom, Martin Jordan.

You can tell that he

wrote that, yeah.

Looks like he got in a fight with some of his teammates because he's got a black eye.

And when Martin Jordan, Hal's super cool fighter pilot leather jacket wearing dad comes in.

it is explained that they forfeited the game and Martin comes in at first.

He is really cool and calm and like trying to turn on the charm.

I'll be flying planes from Coast City to Japan until they force me to retire at 100.

But just in case anything bad happens to me, you take this key and you deal with my safe.

Cut to Martin Jordan's funeral.

Immediately.

Mm.

And this one starts out with a flashback to the '70s, showing a young Hal Jordan and his father, Martin Jordan.

We start off with the, uh, I guess it's the baseball coach.

It's the athletics office or whatever of the school-

Would you elaborate more on what you're talking about that they changed, just if it, people aren't catching on?

I just, just that Martin Jordan may, and, and this is important too, because Hal doesn't know.

He found the note, but both his grandfather and his father, we don't actually know.

One of them died in the war, and one of them died in a plane crash, but there is a note that his father may have killed himself.

Yeah, that he may have crashed the, his plane on purpose.

Right.

Um, and so that, that really changes the nature of Martin Jordan.

And it also, something that is a problem sometimes in the comics is Martin Jordan is just Hal before Hal a lot of the time.

That's Bernadette's parenting.

That's Martin Jordan.

That's Zoe.

That's Noah.