John Stewart is seriously like the third best Green Lantern, don't let your love for Justice League the Animated Series cloud your judgment. That was a very flawed take on the GL mythos, just like their Flash isn't the way to go for movie Flash. They made very questionable decisions for the roster on that show.
You really can't build a franchise around John like you can with Hal and Kyle. Please do yourself a favor and read a brief history of John Stewart on comicvine and come back and try to tell me with a straight face that you actually think John would be a better choice for a solo GL movie.
For the most part, the people that support John Stewart for GL are the most casual of GL fans that basically know nothing about the character outside of his appearance in JL TAS.
Fans of John Stewart bring up ONE storyline from years ago, MOSAIC, as a reason for him to be the lead character. And as someone that is familiar with Mosaic, i can confidently say that a movie series based on that would be squandering the potential that a GL franchise has.
The Geoff Johns GL run destroys Mosaic in every possible way. Crushes it. John Stewart outside of the animated series is a very weak character, not ever meant to lead the Green Lantern storyline.
With Hal Jordan, you have an epic, SPRAWLING, space opera that is very reminiscent of Star Wars.
Watch Green Lantern TAS to see what I'm talking about. Verrry Star Wars inspired at times. Especially the episode "Blue Hope". They were building towards something amazing.
The JS fans baffle me, just get familiar with the character you're pushing so hard, you'll realize that he's not that great of a character and has done nothing noteworthy in the comics. There is no John Stewart centric storyline that would warrant a live action movie or movie series.
There are stories featuring Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner that would warrant a live action movie.
with Hal and Kyle, there is just so much more and so much better material for a movie to draw from.
Do people understand that the Superman/Lex or the Batman/Joker of the GL mythos is Hal Jordan/Sinestro? That is gone when you use John Stewart. The choice is so obvious, i shake my head every time i see someone suggesting John as the lead of a movie series.
If people would just get familiar with John Stewart outside of JL TAS, they would realize that he is not the prime choice for a movie series.
Watch Green Lantern TAS, watch Green Lantern First Flight, read Geoff Johns' Green Lantern run and THEN tell me that John Stewart would be a better choice to lead a movie franchise.
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(this is not as snarky as it comes off)
