Oa

Yeah.

This then takes a turn from Earth to all over the universe, stops on Oa.

We find out the Guardians of the Universe have been destroyed.

They meet Chiara, Hawkgirl,

Parallax is a sand cloud monster that grows more f- powerful when it eats the essence of afraid people, and escapes from a cave to kill Abin Sur, who gives the ring to Hal.

Hal goes to Oa to introduce us to three lanterns, but quits the Lantern Corps because people compare him to Abin Sur, and then he un-quits after saving people from a helicopter accident.

Hal's childhood friend, Hector, gets telekinesis from a Parallax infection and tries to kill Hal because Parallax has a grudge against Hal because C- Hal has Abin Sur's ring, and by proxy, has a grudge against Earth.

Hal flies to Oa to tell everybody that the greatest power is conquering your fear, not pretending it doesn't exist, and flies back to Earth so Parallax can eat Hector and Hal can trick Parallax into the sun.

Then the three lanterns that we were previously introduced to congratulate Hal on a job well done.

Somewhere in there, Hal learned responsibility.

Um, so I would've liked to have seen that if, if there was follow-up films, you know, seeing Sinestro's fall, which even when we talked about Lanterns I said I would love to s- I would love to see that just in general.

Mm-hmm.

We had all of these other characters, and they would go off and do things that Green Lanterns are supposed to be doing, but there's no sense of that happening here.

It's like everybody's on Oa because all the stuff's happening on Oa.

You know, there's a, there's a larger universe out there, and everybody doesn't have to... [sighs] And I'm, to be honest, I'm a little bit weirded out by Guy Gardner's portrayal too.

Mm.

You know?

So yeah, that's, that's kind of where I think Green Lantern Corps is.

Uh, this whole seven different Books of Oa or ...

Yeah, seven different Books of Oa that are built into the Book of Oa.

What?

So the planet Oa.

Oa.

Just O-A.

Oa, Oa.

Yeah.

It's a party planet.

It's a

A ring created by the Guardians of the Universe.

Right, these immortal blue-skinned cosmic bureaucrats on the planet Oa.

The ring taps into the central power battery, which basically harvests the ambient emotional energy of willpower from sentient beings across the universe.

It's very sci-fi.

A literal magic lantern.

[laughs]

He is completely separated from the Oan space cops, and yet his green energy still somehow taps into that same universal emotional spectrum.

The article specifically notes that his ring was uniquely effective against the Black Lanterns during the Blackest Night storyline, which is a massive feat.

Who is Sinestro? You may remember the mustachioed alien from the time that Mark Strong portrayed him in the 2011 Green Lantern movie with Ryan Reynolds.

For most of the film, he's bullying Hal either verbally, physically, or both, like in this sparring scene on Oa when Sinestro humbles the rookie Green Lantern.

I do believe I smell fear.

Sinestro is Hal Jordan's former mentor and eventual arch nemesis, and he's often considered to be one of the all-time great DC villains.

I don't talk about that.

The details are sparse here, but this coup definitely sounds like the show is making a departure from the comics.

Lanterns creators Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof, and Tom King might be trying to keep this conflict between Sinestro and Hal more closely associated to the Guardians, their planet Oa, and the Green Lantern Corps, rather than complicating it further by adding Korugar and its rebellion into the mix.

But even though it might not be directly adapting anything, Lanterns still seems to be drawing inspiration from Sinestro's many clashes with the Green Lantern Corps in the comics.

I think it teaches you about the power batteries.

So basically what it is, is that on Oa, the home planet of the guardians, there's a central power battery and it's a big gigantic Green Lantern battery that that basically is pulling all the sort of willpower of the universe into this object and siphoning them out into the power batteries, the ones that the lanterns hold, the power batteries.

And the Green Lanterns use that to charge their rings.

So it goes central power battery on Oa, power batteries or lanterns, and then the ring.

And you get roughly about a 24-hour charge on the ring.

In the Jeff Johns run, they kind of changed it to, yeah, if you're using it heavily, you have about 24 hours, but there is sort of a percentage that goes down as you use it.

Superman, just to watch the Guy stuff.

Sean's nephew, I believe