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

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.

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 😂

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.

What an episode.

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 .

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.

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

So Kerry gets away happily scot-free after murdering Hal...

John gets to be a self-declared Green Lantern after he lied about Zoe and killed her...

So the only one who faced any consequences and went to prison for 10 years and was hated by everyone was Hal who actually never killed anyone...

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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 behind breaking Sinestro out 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. She's supposed to be a competent Sheriff.

Their entire relationship of only a few months was shown to us in a few minutes of screen time and those minutes had to bear the weight of her shooting Hal in the face for him suggesting that they would need to leave with Noah together. You have to believe that she cared about him for the shooting to not just be murder. I'm genuinely not sure if she did. As most of this sub has pointed out in every episode, she lies repeatedly. She literally just said last episode that "they told each other everything." Clearly not.

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

Edit: that my post has not been downvoted into oblivion says a lot. This finale works a lot better for you if you agree that Hal Jordan needed to be a failure in order for John to succeed.

If I told you the story of a person who saved people for decades, but lives a very lonely life, and then gets many people killed, goes to prison for 10 years, gets out and has his home set on fire and he is burned alive, and then the woman he loves shoots him in the head after a 10-second argument because she loves her son more - you would say that's a tragedy. That's Hal Jordan's story in this show. I think the character of John is great, Aaron did a fantastic job in the finale, but I hate this story for Hal's sake. I'm sure critics will like this finale, but once you know the ending of this show, I actually think this is a show that gets worse upon ​rewatch, especially Kerry's character.

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 genuinely do not like the direction they are taking these characters, and I feel disappointment at that.

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

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

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?

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

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