First of all, please forgive me for what I'm about to say....it's been building up since the first time I heard they brought back Hal, and has built up even more when I read the first few issues of the new series....
So for all the Hal Jordan fans (who I am also a fan of) please allow this one moment of ventilation.
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I'm sorry but man....DC's Green Lantern staff SUCKS!!!! Am I the only one who thinks that DC's revival of Hal Jordan sucks?? Come on....I'm cool with him going form good to bad then redeemed but DC!!!!(LITTLE PRICKS) conviently decides to make an excuse why Hal turned into a bad guy.... what the hell was this?:
"it was revealed that Parallax was actually an ancient demonic parasitic entity dating back to the dawn of time, that actually was the sentient embodiment of fear, and which traveled from world to world, feeding off the fear of sentient beings, and causing entire civilizations to destroy themselves out of paranoia.
It was this creature, yellow in color, which the Guardians of the Universe imprisoned within the central Power Battery on Oa using fear's opposite energy, willpower. Parallax had lain dormant for billions of years, his true nature covered up by the Guardians to prevent anyone from trying to free it, and thus, it had eventually come to be referred to as simply "the yellow impurity." This was the reason why the rings were useless against the color yellow: Parallax weakened its power over the corresponding spectrum, and hence only someone with the willpower to overcome great fear could master the power ring. Thus, when recruiting new Green Lanterns, the Guardians were careful to pick only those with that type of personality. When the renegade Sinestro was later imprisoned in the Power Battery himself, his Qwardian yellow power ring tapped into Parallax's power and awakened it, allowing it to reach out to Hal Jordan through Jordan's own ring when Jordan was at his weakest, spending years influencing him, causing him increasing self-doubt, and even causing his hair to turn white at the temples. Parallax's control over Jordan exploded with Jordan's grief over the destruction of Coast City, and it was Parallax who was responsible for Jordan's subsequent murderous activity, his apparent killing of Sinestro (which was later revealed to be an illusion on Sinestro's part, created as the final stage of Jordan's susceptibility to the impurity in order to break his will), and Jordan's destruction of the Central Battery, which allowed Parallax to graft itself onto Jordan's soul."
I mean LAME!!!! So what we the readers are supposed to believe that Hal could do NO WRONG UNLESS HE'S POSSESSED? Whatever happened to the concept of being human...of learning from our mistakes....the importance of learning from our failures...???
No, we're denied to see that because DC decides its better to create this seperate entitity to possess Jordan and through that we can let him be a villain.
Wouldn't it be better if they left it as is, with Hal donning his role as GL but living with the nightmares of what HE, HIMSELF DID (with no possession angle)???????
To strive to be a better hero then how he was before, by trying to avoid the mistakes of the past??
So, DC is teaching the kids that their heroes are more then human....and if they do something bad, they have an excuse.
What kind of lesson does that teach the kids that they can do wrong and say they were taken over by another entity?
My confidence in DC is suddenly shaken.
Ahhh, thank you I needed to get that off my chest...
I'm good now, thanks!
Go Hal!
