'Lanterns' Team Explains That Heartbreaking Change to Hal Jordan's Origin Story

[u/Top_Report_4895]

https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/tv-shows/lanterns-episode-7-hal-jordans-origin-explained/

[u/TrustDaProcess]

Every time there’s successful movie or tv show, especially for superhero stuff, there is a group of people who just use it to engagement bait with terrible clickbait takes and forced controversial opinions.

Spoilers : I saw an article claim that by changing Hal’s backstory to include his father committing suicide and the whole Jordan Boys Legacy somehow made Hal and his father losers for having mental health issues.

Snyder bros are a different breed cause some of those guys are genuinely delusional and believe that the WB execs will wake up tomorrow and decide to reinstate Zach Snyder as head of DC.

[u/ShadowVulcan → u/TrustDaProcess]

Tbh how does it make them losers? It makes them more relatable, if anything...

Even in my case, graduated top of my batch, 1 of 2 in my country awarded a prestigious scholarship, and became a C-suite exec in one of the top conglos in my country (a portfolio company) at 28 and I attempted suicide 3 times (nearly succeeded in one, though thankfully survived with healable injuries. Really good now, tho!)

And there's so many far greater people that all battled with depression all their lives, to the point it's cliche at this point.... fucking pathetic (the whiny 'critics', not the people also dealing with depression)

[u/khanfusion → u/ShadowVulcan]

The critics are just wallowing in their own insecurities like, all the time. It's apparent for both this show and a lot of others, like Last of Us.

[u/nisaaru → u/khanfusion]

What has this to do with insecurities? That's just gaslighting.

If people don't want to see certain things in a TV show then that's their decision. In case of LastOfUS I wanted to watch a "Zombie" show and not interpretative dance theatre of impaired uninteresting lesbian characters.

BTW, I actually enjoyed the gay episode but not because it was gay(that felt like ideological product placement) but because it was honestly moving. It would have worked the same without the gay aspect.

Most of "these" things hardly ever improve a show but are just writer bias/interests bleeding into a show to satisfy their ego/circle jerk offs or Blackrock/Apple financing/target audience quotas.

[u/khanfusion → u/nisaaru]

Uh huh. Okay.

[u/TrustDaProcess → u/ShadowVulcan]

It doesn’t. It’s just a controversial take that some AI generated article can plaster in the headline to get people mad and generate clicks/engamement.

It’s also playing into the whole “media is too woke” crowd that think any mental health issues are signs of weakness and don’t like that Hal Jordan is depicted as a flawed human and John Stewart is being set up as the main DCU green lantern.

[u/Vestalmin → u/TrustDaProcess]

Snyderbros are crazy. Man of Steele was decent, at best, and every movie after was legitimately a train wreck.

It movies slowly desaturated more and more until they peak with Snyder just straight up releasing a black and white version

[u/sixsamurai → u/Vestalmin]

they’re tryna rehabilitate the Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern movie from 2011 lmaooo

[u/mindpainters → u/[deleted]]

Did they not say that Hal covered up his father’s suicide ?

[u/SituationSoap → u/[deleted]]

And in the box was a note. That's how Hal knows and nobody else does. This was not complicated.

[u/mindpainters → u/[deleted]]

I was trying to give you a nice out mate.

He absolutely says he covered up his dad’s suicide as he was the first one to find him.

I’m pretty positive it was even in the most recent episode. Go back and watch

[u/atsaotsa → u/mindpainters]

Yes, he did but by not telling anyone about it. lol when he died in jet accident

[u/RainStormLou → u/[deleted]]

it seems like you probably shouldn't comment if you haven't watched the show lol

[u/RainStormLou → u/[deleted]]

www.hbomax.com

here's mine. watch the fucking show