Oct 6, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min · 16 segments
In Brightest Day and Blackest Night, Geekscape takes a deep dive into Season One of HBO Max’s 'Lanterns' with longtime Geekscapist and Lanterns Live host Ralph Apel (aka the biggest Green Lantern fan…
Jonathan LondonHost
Ralph ApelGuest
hbo's coming into this thing they got pitched a show idea it's nice and low budget so they don't have to take the biggest gamble um and they made a show basically that's like not for green lantern fans
yeah at times she liked she liked it more than i did like some of the stuff sometimes the burn was too slow for me and i was like okay okay okay let's go because it's me like i want i want i still want a bit of the pew pew you've read
however many years of comics and i'm ready things are going to go and you're like yeah let's do this i'm like
because he's a trainer and like then why isn't why isn't john being trained yeah it's kind of
right how's being how's training i'm in and i get it i liked the dynamic immediately Aaron, Pierre, you're like, the dude is just magnetic.
The setting, I'm like, guys, you guys are going to make this kind of exciting.
And I'll tell you that the criticism that's coming out once a week, because I didn't just see all four episodes, the first four episodes in May.
that i liked almost as much as the episodes every monday morning and i made sure to watch this thing sunday night because every monday morning there was a really healthy conversation online about all this stuff plus and minus people who loved it people who didn't get it um and i loved that discourse above all of it were the theories the people who had bought in on the mystery and had all of these theories about how all these different characters were different colored ring bearers and how this person is going to be atrocious and how this person is going to be this and how they're going to introduce none of them played out It was like, oh, yeah, he's going to be blackhead.
I'm like, you guys need to slow your freaking roll, okay? We're lucky if we get a yellow lantern in this first season.
We just got the flirtations and hints towards a yellow lantern in that last episode.
And ultimately, you're going to be disappointed if you didn't embrace it for what it was.
hbo's coming into this thing they got pitched a show idea it's nice and low budget so they don't have to take the biggest gamble um and they made a show basically that's like not for green lantern fans
yeah at times she liked she liked it more than i did like some of the stuff sometimes the burn was too slow for me and i was like okay okay okay let's go because it's me like i want i want i still want a bit of the pew pew you've read
however many years of comics and i'm ready things are going to go and you're like yeah let's do this i'm like
because he's a trainer and like then why isn't why isn't john being trained yeah it's kind of
right how's being how's training i'm in and i get it i liked the dynamic immediately Aaron, Pierre, you're like, the dude is just magnetic.
The setting, I'm like, guys, you guys are going to make this kind of exciting.
And I'll tell you that the criticism that's coming out once a week, because I didn't just see all four episodes, the first four episodes in May.
that i liked almost as much as the episodes every monday morning and i made sure to watch this thing sunday night because every monday morning there was a really healthy conversation online about all this stuff plus and minus people who loved it people who didn't get it um and i loved that discourse above all of it were the theories the people who had bought in on the mystery and had all of these theories about how all these different characters were different colored ring bearers and how this person is going to be atrocious and how this person is going to be this and how they're going to introduce none of them played out It was like, oh, yeah, he's going to be blackhead.
I'm like, you guys need to slow your freaking roll, okay? We're lucky if we get a yellow lantern in this first season.
We just got the flirtations and hints towards a yellow lantern in that last episode.
And ultimately, you're going to be disappointed if you didn't embrace it for what it was.
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