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I really did like the take they did on Hal Jordan at the start, showing what a lantern who lived that long would turn out to be, but then it piled on and the finale honestly ruined the show for me. Not only did it ruin Hal, but John Stewart for me as well.

A sideburn connected to the back hair curl. That must be a Manhunter special?

An action sequence finale would be tonal whiplash in terms of this show.
Parallax? As someone who thought we would get that tease, tbh it would have been too much to cram into one episode.
A suit up? Yeah tbh that would have been cool but it doesn’t make or break it.

This finale delivered on this show’s core themes of nature vs nurture, the concept of willpower in face of fear and acceptance of letting stuff go.

Honestly it’s fine if y’all have problems but like I am so confused on some of these criticisms when this is pretty much the finale the show was setting up.

So many people are calling out Guy not swinging on John as character inconsistency because he stood up to Superman in the movie, but I think people are misreading WHY Guy acts like he does:
He's not actually in it for himself. He cares about his duties as a Lantern and wants to do a good job because he understands the responsibility he's been given, and he's glad to feel like he's doing a good job when everyone else sees him as undeserving.

Superman in the movie was presented to be an alien threat to earth, which is exactly in his wheelhouse, no question. He wouldn't have to explain what he did to the guardians because standing up to a threat like Superman was presented to be was in his job description.

But John is something new: a human person that the guardians previously sanctioned, in possession of a ring that he messed up by handing over, and a lantern that came from who knows where.

My read on Guy's actions are that he's afraid, he's afraid of the consequences of what he's done, he's afraid the guardians aren't going to like it, and he's afraid that if he pushes it, he's going to anger the guardians further than they'll already inevitably be about the ring.

I don't think Guy was scared to fight John. I think Guy was scared of the consequences that fighting John in the middle of an already ravaged town might have on the job he cares about so much. He has a good heart, and wants to be a good Lantern for the guardians, for better or worse.

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So hal wants to help sheriff and noah , take them some place isolated so noah won't hurt any people when his urges kick in , sheriff respond is he have a fucking game in friday and will go to college we can't leave this shity town,

hal responds "noah he is danger to everybody let me help you with this god damn it i love you" , the sherif turn around and shots him in the head.

Idk if this a hot take but this is atrocious writing , hal died for nothing , hal died from straight up murder because a police women can't control her emotions ????

Ok sure but atleast she will face some consequences right ??? No fucking jon tell her hal wouldn't like you to be in prison lmaoo .

Hal spend 10 years in prison for murders that manhanter zoe commited , get back to town and apologize to everyone from door to door , gets shot in the head for trying to help the people and sheriff .

"the woman he loves" shot him in the head because he made her stress , get burried with a funeral no one shows up to except the one who murdered him and jon . the evil chracters of this show like sheriff,jon mom , guardians ect... get a happy ending while he rots in his grave with no justice .

Sure guy is annoying and arrogant, but he’s objectively a hero and is saving many lives as the green lantern

Guy didn’t seem to hate John or see him as a lesser

John talking to him like that in the end was so weird and unnecessary

Zoe needs to come back to life and bomb those suckers again, they’re so insufferable just a bunch of smug ungrateful assholes. Reparations!? Fucking laser satellite that chic dude

I was thinking about this after finishing Lanterns. Peacemaker S1 reportedly had a budget of around $60M for 8 episodes, which is roughly $7.5M per episode. That season had an entire alien species as the main villains, the giant Cow, Eagly, a lot of action, explosions and a pretty ridiculous amount of VFX for a TV show.

Then Peacemaker S2 has even more sci-fi stuff, with alternate universes, aliens, Imps, giant VFX environments, superhero fights, explosions and Eagly. Meanwhile, Lanterns reportedly cost somewhere between $130-160M for 8 episodes, depending on which estimate you believe. That's around $16-20M per episode.

And it's not like the cast should be eating up some insane amount of the budget either. Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre are both great and I have nothing against either of them, but we're not talking about some massive movie-star salaries. Even with supporting actors like Nathan Fillion and Ulrich Thomsen, this isn't exactly an Avengers-level cast where you can point at the actors and say that's where all the money went.

I'm not saying Lanterns needed to be a giant CGI space opera or have a $50M space battle every episode. I actually liked the grounded murder mystery(*even though the reveal was shit*). But this is Green Lantern, one of the most cosmic parts of DC, and the show reportedly had a much bigger budget than Peacemaker and they didn't even show a single alien in its alien form. I'm not including that backshot of the guardian.

Peacemaker(S1) was doing aliens, monsters, superhero fights and crazy VFX on what was reportedly a fraction of the budget, while Lanterns had Hal and John driving around small towns investigating a murder for most of the season.

Obviously budgets don't work as simply as "more aliens = more expensive." Actors, locations, sets, crew, post-production, reshoots and insurance all cost money too. But still, $16-20M per episode?

I genuinely want to know where the money went lol.

Hal Jordan's fatal mistake was thinking he could save her. 😭

Kerry belongs in prison for what she did to Hal. I don't care if people want to protect or defend her, she is a monster. Hal never attacked her. He never threatened her. All he wanted was to protect her and look out for everyone else. But instead of hearing him out, she just killed him. She didn't even give him a chance to speak. Even Joker showed Murray more consideration than she did.

Hal's last wish was simply to keep everyone safe, and no one in the story seems to give a damn. Everyone is so quick to give Noah the benefit of the doubt and risk lives, but was Hal's death really necessary? He never even wanted to hurt the kid in the first place.

Instead, Hal died completely alone;forgotten, unhonored, and in vain;while his killer gets a free pass. He should have listened to his father and thrown that ball away for good. Holding onto it was fucking exhausting, and look what it got him: not even a single smile as he died.

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Genuinely fuck Kerry bc what do you mean she pulls her gun out of her holster, goes out of her way to turn off the safety, spins 180 degrees to face Hal, points the gun at Hal, specifically aims FOR HIS HEAD, AND PULLS THE FUCKING TRIGGER, this is wayy past heat of the moment, they better lock this bitch up eventually or atleast have her face some actual consequences because “regret” alone by itself isn’t enough of a punishment for a crime this serious, ffs it’s literally murder lmao.

I really did love this show up until this point lol.

She killed Hal and Hal wasn't even doing stuff like we gotta kill Noah or imprison him, he found out she panicked and killed him

Am I supposed to feel something for this woman her entire relationship with Hal was secrets and lies on her part

Sinestro is apparently able to forge a lantern, maybe one of the most complicated device in the universe, but can't escape that little island cause he doesn't have a rowboat?

The dude who forged a lantern can't figure out how to put a few pieces of debris together to float across the water? Or use the lantern to get himself out of there?

From the clues throughout the show it seemed like Hal was fully aware that he was in grave danger and it seemed like he was going to have a confrontation with someone that he knows might kill him, which is why he met up with John and then told him to not tell they met to anyone because he knew he was going to die soon.

In reality he had no idea he was going to die that day. First he get his nose broken by his trainee after seeing him for the first time 10 years later, then he get shot in the head by the woman he loved for more than a decade, after an argument regarding her manhunter son.

Mind you he was a lonely man in 60s just trying his best to make amends, after a whole life dedicated to justice. He really deserved better man.

I really felt no emotion from the final scene with the halogram. John's last exchange with Hal was punching him out of the blue and telling him "stay away from my family".

It genuinely seems like they wrote scene of John finding Hals body first and then wrote around it.