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Lanterns treats the ring like a service weapon — having it isn't the same as having the judgment to use it. That one choice is why the show works. #Lanterns

Green Lantern had a production problem before this show shot a single frame. 2011 gave us a CGI suit, a digital world, and a man who lived in neither one. Lanterns had to make him believable before it made him spectacular. Episode 1 understood that completely.

Tom King co-created Lanterns, co-wrote Sunday's finale, and he's not in the Season 2 writers room. The internet filled that gap with stories, so I went looking for a source on every one of them. Here's what's actually on the record. Did you think he was out?

Hal Jordan knew who John Stewart was before John Stewart knew who Hal Jordan was. He reached into this man's life and broke his career, then years later played it like they were strangers. So did Hal already know he was being replaced?

Calls on the record before Lanterns episode 2. John Stewart disobeys a direct order and he is right. Parallax is already in this story. Hal stopped the backups himself. Sunday finds out. #Lanterns #GreenLantern #DCComics

Hal Jordan drives John Stewart off a cliff and calls it training. Sinestro taught Hal. Hal is teaching John. The real question the show is asking: can the man doing the teaching tell what should get passed down from what shouldn't?

Well that was fun! Thanks brother

The vault password is the title of a 1985 Alan Moore story. A show that's ashamed of its comic book does not do that. #lanterns

Lanterns gave me the origin story, just not the one I wanted. Three men, two notes, and I still wasn't crying when everybody else was. Was the note a reveal or just information?

Go read Green Lantern #87, cover date December 1971. O'Neil writing, Adams on art. Who picks John Stewart in that book? A Guardian does. Over Hal's objection. The selection was never the thing that changed.

Calling John's parents abusive flattens the most interesting relationship in the episode. They were not breaking him. They were making sure he had the ability to get the opportunity. Not the opportunity. The ability to get it.

Some thoughts for conversation. Not arguing with anybody just trying to add a writers perspective.

Beau DeMayo says episode 10 got rewritten — and the rewrite is what killed Onslaught. X-Men '97 season 2's real problem was never that it was rushed. #XMen97

One of you wrote the exact ending of Lanterns E4, down to the reason, 43 hours before it aired. It got 2 likes. Go find your own comment. #knowitallnation

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What it feels like arguing with people who say Lanterns is boring

For the record because everyone seems intent on mischaracterizing what I am saying when I used my words precisely.

Still nobody explaining why his constructs persist off the ring. Biggest anomaly in the series. And before it gets sent to me a ninth time, I don't think it's Ion. People reach for Ion because it's the only shelf in the comics that's the right shape.

Jean Grey's rampage stems from her sister Sarah's death, but the movie twists the comic's narrative. In comics, Sarah was killed by anti-mutant bigots. #SpiderMan #BrandNewDay #XMen #DarkPhoenix #MutantRights #ComicLore #MovieAnalysis