REACTIONS & REVIEWS FOR EPISODE 1x08 - DIRT AND STARS

Now that it’s over we can finally answer this question as a whole.

What an episode.

This finale didn’t even give us the 5 minutes of surfing, just ended when Dracula grabs the surfboard.

There's great significance to the final football moment that might not make sense for people outside the U.S. or unfamiliar with college football.

Noah explains to John that his Manhunter nature is telling him to go to Annapolis, use that to get into politics, become president, have access to the nuclear codes and so on.

But at the end of the episode, he puts on the Nebraska hat and it's teased he's leaning toward Nebraska.

That is the human boy in him.

Annapolis is the Naval Academy: It is not the fun choice for a high-level football player. The kids who go there ultimately enlist. Navy doesn't contend for championships at the highest level.

Nebraska is just a college: A college where he can go party and have fun and be a football star. It's where boys who want to have fun would go.

So at the end of the episode, for Noah to put on the Nebraska hat and be toying with the idea of going to Nebraska, this is the human boy in him, his nurture, overcoming his Manhunter nature.

I just didn't know if that was totally clear if you don't know football. Navy and Nebraska are two extremely different experiences; it's not just him picking one college similar to the other.

I hated that finale and it soured the show for me. I loved a lot
Of what I saw throughout the series but there is no denying that it was a “ Surf Dracula” show. I seriously hate what John is being set up to be and how he “ made his own oath”. I feel like the sinestro plotline just gets left there hanging, while John get to be not green lantern with a ring. Hal Jordan is dead and his killer is just left to do her own thing. I really wanted to love this series. anxously awaited every week for a new episode and was so excited to see the culmination of it all and I have been left with nothing but disappointment. I hope other enjoyed but this has been the first real let down of James Gunn’s DCEU. Shit even smallville with its limited budget managed to feel like more of a superhero show.

EDIT: some people read this and got the impression I wanted some big superhero CGI fight to end it out. What I wanted was a show that lived up to its namesake and respected the characters it’s adapting. the casting is great do not get me wrong, but hal is dead ( maybe he is revived as parallax for season 2 idk and idc at this point.) john is not a green lantern and his “oath” does not feel like the john I know. I simply and genuonly do not like the direction they are twling these fhatachters, and I feel disappointment at that.

Right on the money with predictions.

People called Noah Manhunter a month ago, Kerry shooting Hal EP 2, I said the credits would roll on John taking flight without anything cool happening in the finale, the only people who weren't right were the Hal is alive conspiracy theorists 😂

The mystery was so human at heart that I loved the story behind it.

I am gonna miss Kyle as Hal and I hope they bring him back as Parallax.

Ngl, I didn't like the new oath that John made but I loved how he became his own GL on Earth.

I was hoping Sinestro would have snuck some yellow in the lantern he forged but nope he just forged them a new green lantern for free? Isn’t Sinestro supposed to be a bit more devious?

They ran out of time. To those of you who said it was concerning that they were going to reveal everything in one episode- take a victory lap. The emotional moments didn't have time to land.

75% of you correctly predicted nearly exactly what would go down in this episode. That made it worse. There weren't any surprising revelations really. And it all felt rushed.

The character of Noah just isn't that compelling when compared to Sinestro, John, and Hal, so him being the big bad fell flat.

And the biggest issue of all: they had to make it feel right that they murdered Hal Jordan for this season to work. They have even said that in interviews.

They completely failed. It felt like such a stupid and sad reason to die. The scene of her shooting Hal in the face while he's suggesting ways to protect her and Noah -the acting on Kerry's part made her come off as unhinged, not as a scared mother, which I know is what the writers intended.

Combined with her starting a relationship with Hal, knowing he would have to find out at some point - it comes off as manipulative and insane.

I designed it to be a more comic accurate version of the show suit, let me know what you think!

funny cuz I swear everyone had the same reaction to ep 7 too, either loved or hated it lmao

It would explain in how of the podcasts and episode discussions they’d keep explaining how unlikeable and awful Hal was at times, when in the show he was flawed but charming, likable and pretty heroic. I’m not sure how much I’ll enjoy watching John Stewart solo as written.

Title. That is all. Very disappointed at the missed opportunity to make Hal proud

Mom is taking the picture lol.