Raging Bullets : A DC Comics Fan Podcast
Oct 21, 2026 · 2 hr 4 min · 14 segments
**Episode 840 : Lanterns Season 1 Review** Sean and Jim are joined by friends Philip Patrick and James William Stubbs to talk spoilery about Lanterns Season 1 after the wrap up. **New Show…
Sean WhalenHostJim SegulinHostPhilip PatrickGuest
James William StubbsGuest
Guys, actually, before I go on, because I want to talk about how and I think we do need to go to hell before I go to hell, though, there's something I think we've been organically discussing here.
And it's been the eight episodes versus I'm doing a Smallville rewatch, for example.
Where we've gotten to see 22, 23 episode seasons of shows and that longer form storytelling where you'd have like a fill in episode here and there where it was your freak of the week and things like that to use a Smallville analogy.
And they are zoners episode where they used those episodes for the purpose of character development.
Yes, it was a nice, tight story from beginning, middle, and ending, but there was a lot of character growth that would happen in some of those filler episodes.
These shows, when you have these eight-episode ones, it is doing exactly what you said before, Phil.
And when you're doing that, you're doing a nice, tight story that is accessible for that, but we also don't have...
We have ones that are designated for backstory, but you don't have ones that can like two or three episodes down be this.
in his backstory episode we didn't you don't get that with these do you guys have a preference between these tight eight episode story arcs and a 23 22 23 episode season do you think this would have been better as a 23 episode season or do you think it's they did like it do you like both where are you kind of at jim i'll start with you where do you have feelings on that or do you like the mixture or what where are you kind of at
Guys, actually, before I go on, because I want to talk about how and I think we do need to go to hell before I go to hell, though, there's something I think we've been organically discussing here.
And it's been the eight episodes versus I'm doing a Smallville rewatch, for example.
Where we've gotten to see 22, 23 episode seasons of shows and that longer form storytelling where you'd have like a fill in episode here and there where it was your freak of the week and things like that to use a Smallville analogy.
And they are zoners episode where they used those episodes for the purpose of character development.
Yes, it was a nice, tight story from beginning, middle, and ending, but there was a lot of character growth that would happen in some of those filler episodes.
These shows, when you have these eight-episode ones, it is doing exactly what you said before, Phil.
And when you're doing that, you're doing a nice, tight story that is accessible for that, but we also don't have...
We have ones that are designated for backstory, but you don't have ones that can like two or three episodes down be this.
in his backstory episode we didn't you don't get that with these do you guys have a preference between these tight eight episode story arcs and a 23 22 23 episode season do you think this would have been better as a 23 episode season or do you think it's they did like it do you like both where are you kind of at jim i'll start with you where do you have feelings on that or do you like the mixture or what where are you kind of at
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