The Big Picture: Going Green: Part I
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I'm beginning to think Bob needs to stop doing movie reviews and start doing comic book commentary more regularly. This stuff is deliciously insane.
Ok, HEAT may explain why Hal was brought back at all. Cause seriously, i hate that guy, Kyle is so much more interesting.
What the. How the...
This episode made my brain hurt. Paid advertisements to protest a fictional storyline?
Ive stood up for my beliefs, hobbys, etc. but thats just taking it to a whole new level. I mean, seriously.
Good episode. Now I really want to see part 2.
This episode made my brain hurt. Paid advertisements to protest a fictional storyline?
Ive stood up for my beliefs, hobbys, etc. but thats just taking it to a whole new level. I mean, seriously.
Good episode. Now I really want to see part 2.
The green ring is powered by "will power" and the yellow ring powered by fear. When someone is afraid they loose control of their will since they are forced to respond to the fear and the fear alone. That's the modern day explanation, the original reason is that the power rings contain a "yellow" impurity which stops them working against yellow things.Exterminas said:
I've read the majority of modern day stories, the one's after the Emerald twilight mentioned in the video (Rebirth to Blackest Night) and personally I do find Hal Jordon the best of the green lanterns. A personal highlight is when he punches Batman in the face.
I LOVE this episode mainly because I've been reading Green Lantern since I was little. XD Also...Hal is awesome. But HEAT is scary...=3
Ok, to my cursory knowledge of the Green Lantern continuity, it all begin with this race of near-omnipotent beings that could access a special energy based around emotional state from within themselves. There were 7 emotional "spectrums" that mirrored that of the visible light spectrum. Red- rage/anger, orange- avarice/greed, yellow- fear, green- willpower, blue- hope, indigo- compassion, violet- love. There are several qualities of the specific spectrums, such as Red and Violet being the most unstable because their closest to the edge, etc. etc. but I'm not getting in to that. Later there's also black and white parts of the spectrum, mirroring death and life but that's a story for another day. Each one of the spectrum works differently in conjunction with another part of the spectrum. For example, green light is boosted by that of blue light, and weakened by yellow. Because of this, Hal Jordan was susceptible to Yellow Lanterns, like Sinestro.Exterminas said:
I grew up a Kyle fan, as I wanted to be an artist as a kid. He was really the only DC character I read (over Batman, really. Knightfall was happening around the same time, I think - that's another episode).
I don't think HEAT really won. Kyle was around for a decade, and he's still around now and kept interesting in his own right. And Hal took a back step to John Stewart for awhile before, so a different torchbearer wasn't that different.
What DC really got out of it was lots of publicity and Geoff Johns's knack for putting broken continuity back together while making it relevant. I liked Rebirth, but The Sinestro Corps War was so much better. Didn't get into Blackest Night though, but you know, comics are weird.
I know it's the nature of this show, but I really don't see this fanboy stuff as part of any "Big Picture" at all, and yet I watch this from time to time to see who's complaining about what.
I don't think HEAT really won. Kyle was around for a decade, and he's still around now and kept interesting in his own right. And Hal took a back step to John Stewart for awhile before, so a different torchbearer wasn't that different.
What DC really got out of it was lots of publicity and Geoff Johns's knack for putting broken continuity back together while making it relevant. I liked Rebirth, but The Sinestro Corps War was so much better. Didn't get into Blackest Night though, but you know, comics are weird.
I know it's the nature of this show, but I really don't see this fanboy stuff as part of any "Big Picture" at all, and yet I watch this from time to time to see who's complaining about what.
No. It's not trolling try.
I must be coming from wrong part of the world (Europe) because each time there
is a "Comics are ... (something)" episode my:
I...
DON'T...
CARE...
sign pops up.
I'm not criticising material or something. It's just a statement of lack of interest.
Anyone feels the same or... It is I who needs help?
BTW... Funny enough I still enjoy watching the show even if topic doesn't float my boat.
Also...
I must give one thing to comic books. I don't know what authors are smoking but I want it too.
I must be coming from wrong part of the world (Europe) because each time there
is a "Comics are ... (something)" episode my:
I...
DON'T...
CARE...
sign pops up.
I'm not criticising material or something. It's just a statement of lack of interest.
Anyone feels the same or... It is I who needs help?
BTW... Funny enough I still enjoy watching the show even if topic doesn't float my boat.
Also...
I must give one thing to comic books. I don't know what authors are smoking but I want it too.
Hm I predict a movie about this:
"Attack of The Fanboys!"
"Fear their incessant jabber about how important their action figures are, how gripping and realistic their fan based stories are. FEAR THEM!
No? anyone? I mean we've seen worse movies out there.
Ah well. It's always nice to hear summaries of the various comic book heroes. Makes me glad I never got to read more than...five-ten issues that I'd find at random shops while on car trips with my parents.
And I really have to ask (though I honestly doubt I'll get an answer)
Bob, you have "The Big Picture", "Escape To The Movies", the "Intermission" column,
*Inhale*
Watch tons of movies, have an occasional say on "Extra Consideration",
*Inhale*
read comics (unsure if you still do but you have done that's for sure), you have the "Game Over-thinker"
*Inhale*
and you say you read all (or well, most) of the comments on...well, you (might be more precise to say the ones about you). And possibly more stuff I haven't even caught onto yet
*Exhale*
My question is:
...How do you find time to sleep? Or for that manner, think.
If I did half of those things...My brain would probably overload, or just give up and go to sleep.
Keep up the good work though.
-V
"Attack of The Fanboys!"
"Fear their incessant jabber about how important their action figures are, how gripping and realistic their fan based stories are. FEAR THEM!
No? anyone? I mean we've seen worse movies out there.
*cough*
Twilight
*cough*
Twilight
*cough*
Ah well. It's always nice to hear summaries of the various comic book heroes. Makes me glad I never got to read more than...five-ten issues that I'd find at random shops while on car trips with my parents.
And I really have to ask (though I honestly doubt I'll get an answer)
Bob, you have "The Big Picture", "Escape To The Movies", the "Intermission" column,
*Inhale*
Watch tons of movies, have an occasional say on "Extra Consideration",
*Inhale*
read comics (unsure if you still do but you have done that's for sure), you have the "Game Over-thinker"
*Inhale*
and you say you read all (or well, most) of the comments on...well, you (might be more precise to say the ones about you). And possibly more stuff I haven't even caught onto yet
*Exhale*
My question is:
...How do you find time to sleep? Or for that manner, think.
If I did half of those things...My brain would probably overload, or just give up and go to sleep.
Keep up the good work though.
-V
To be fair although the complainers did sound REALLY bitchy it didn't really make sense for Hal Jordan to violently murder people he'd worked with for years even given what had happened to him. Yeah they did explain it (in a way that only a superhero comic can get away with) in the end but that was ten years later.
Parallax?
As an aside, H.E.A.T. in my city stands for "Help Eliminate Auto Theft"
I thought Parallax was a giant-yellow-psychic-alien-insect-thing that took over Hal's mind and drove him to kill the rest of the corps.
Is that how H.E.A.T. got their good ol' Hal back?
Isn't Parallax the big final enemy Ryan Reynolds is going to fight in the Green Lantern Movie this summer?
<a hrf=http://movies.cosmicbooknews.com/content/green-lantern-movie-final-battle-spoiler>As spoiled by a toy release
Is that how H.E.A.T. got their good ol' Hal back?
Isn't Parallax the big final enemy Ryan Reynolds is going to fight in the Green Lantern Movie this summer?
<a hrf=http://movies.cosmicbooknews.com/content/green-lantern-movie-final-battle-spoiler>As spoiled by a toy release
As an aside, H.E.A.T. in my city stands for "Help Eliminate Auto Theft"
That was a nonsensical plot devise to explain away character flaws/arc. I read a bunch of Green Lantern stories and I still can't figure out exactly what it is.Denmarkian said:
I liked Kyle Rayner a lot better. Since he was an artist, he could come up with more interesting things than just a giant fist. Half the fun was seeing what new construct he could come up with.
Hal Jordan was always an alpha male asshole. I don't know why nerds want to read about the guys that beat them up in high school.
I love me some Green Lantern. Rebirth -> Sinestro Corps War -> the start of Blackest Night was an awesome run, in both Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps.
The way Geoff Johns managed to work Hal's change to Parallax in Rebirth was nothing short of masterful. Looking forward to the next episode. The whole colour yellow thing was explained well in there too. Great comics.
The way Geoff Johns managed to work Hal's change to Parallax in Rebirth was nothing short of masterful. Looking forward to the next episode. The whole colour yellow thing was explained well in there too. Great comics.
And I thought Valve fanboys were batshit insane. I'm not a Green Lantern fan, nor a huge DC fan, but I have to admit that I really like the idea of Green Lantern becoming Parallax. DC knows how to make a villain.