Misconceptions of the Green Lantern

[thegameq]

Interesting discussion...time to invest in some GL TPBs....

You know, perhaps the reason Hal and John are potrayed as they are is because they are just plain guys, rather than larger than life flawed characters. Don't get me wrong, the everyday struggles and flaws do make the character more appealing to the imagination, but maybe the plain-ness is the character flaw.

John is just a guy trying to "be" or get by--I'm basing this off of of the JLU animated series, so forgive me if my impression of John is vastly different from his comic counterpart. He's an unspectacular man in a spectacular situation--who seemingly isn't fazed by his situation.

His hard exterior is his flaw and grates on the characters in his life that are more emotional (see women).

Hal, if I'm reading you guys right, is a throwback superhero. Which if written well, is more about his reaction to his environment and circumstances, rather than about himself to some degree. I can see how pairing such a character with a liberal like Green Arrow might have bought out the best in the character.

Interesting reading in the GL forums....good stuff.

 

[Webhead2006]

yea to me each guy has their plus and negatives about them. Hopefully they will do the characters right in the film.

 

[Mr. Earle]

yea as i said i am looking at things with an outside perspective on these character since i know very little on them. I dont think any suck at all. Though i have no love or hate to any of the earth lanterns. All i am hoping for is they treat the characters well and dont muck around with what is what for each character.

You could pick up some GL comic books. I dont know where you should start though. "Sinestro Corps wars" maybe?

 

[Secretwarrior]

sinestro corp war is a must, but before that u should read rebirth and even secret origins arc (i think that's a tpb by now).

really good stories al around. Of course, if u really wanted to u could get the original Hal goes crazy story ... Emerald Night ... Emerald Fall ... Emerald Twilight? damn, I cant believe I forgot the title! Havent read it in years lol

 

[Webhead2006]

yea i would pick up more comics, but i dont have alot of cash flow presently so i tend to stick to my current stock of titles i get. Plus the dam crazy high prices now. for a standard issue comic its not $3.99. Which sucks alot when i started up collecting over 9 yrs ago it was $2.25. So i have to limit what i get right now.

 

[Anubis]

So buy trades.

 

[Mr. Earle]

Or you know... try other ways...

 

[Octoberist]

if you're talking downloading, man, i hate reading comics on a monitar.

That's one reason why I think e-readers could get popular but have limitations: art books and comic books.

 

[JLU51306]

sinestro corp war is a must, but before that u should read rebirth and even secret origins arc (i think that's a tpb by now).

really good stories al around. Of course, if u really wanted to u could get the original Hal goes crazy story ... Emerald Night ... Emerald Fall ... Emerald Twilight? damn, I cant believe I forgot the title! Havent read it in years lol

Emerald Dawn?

 

[Anubis]

That was the name of a retelling of Hal's origin, which was retconned away cuz he was a drunk driver, and you can't have a boring card board cut out superhero that likes to get tanked and nearly kill his brother.

There was an Emerald Dawn II as well. The story Secretwarrior was looking for is indeed Emerald Twilight.

 

[Anubis]

Double Post

............I got nothing.

 

[That-Guy]

I can see how pairing such a character with a liberal like Green Arrow might have bought out the best in the character.

Just curious, has there been any talk of Oliver Queen showing up in a sequel? I'm sure he wouldn't be in the first film but perhaps later on, eventually leading into his own movie? If I remember his origin right, Ollie gets standed on an island... perhaps they could work it in that one of Hal's old friends, Ollie, is on a plane that gets downed by Sinestro. They wouldn't even have to revisit it after that... just have Hal thinking that his friend is dead but after the credits we see Ollie, alive on an island, crafting a crude bow and arrow.

 

[Anubis]

I'd like to see a Flash/GL team up first.

 

[protocida]

Green Lantern's friendships with Flash and Green Arrow should be left for Justice League.

 

[Webhead2006]

probably not since wb probably still would want to get more solo films going and if that ga solo movie has any new movement. Plus as we already know from campbell at least for gl 1 he doesnt want to include cameos of non gl characters.

 

[That-Guy]

Well yeah; I was referring more to a sequel, though. And even though people might not consider GA integral to the GL mythos, they were partners at one point and are best friends. Their alliance runs a bit deeper than say, Superman and Batman.

 

[dnno1]

probably not since wb probably still would want to get more solo films going and if that ga solo movie has any new movement. Plus as we already know from campbell at least for gl 1 he doesnt want to include cameos of non gl characters.

Not only that, but there is still the filming rights to those characters that could potentially get in the way of them having a team up/friendship such as that.

 

[Webhead2006]

totally, though i really wished we were in a better place for a majorit of dc characters where we could have them in the same world and all that. But since its a no go with alot of characters right now hard to do any of that.

 

[Webhead2006]

totally, though i really wished we were in a better place for a majority of dc characters where we could have them in the same world and all that. But since its a no go with alot of characters right now hard to do any of that.

 

[BojacRedleif]

Not only that, but there is still the filming rights to those characters that could potentially get in the way of them having a team up/friendship such as that.

I sincerely doubt that, from what I understand, WB owns all of DC's characters so they can do whatever the hell they want.

And in my opinion, a Green Arrow movie needs Hal Jordan in it. As well as Bruce Wayne.

Since Geoff Johns wrote the treatment for a Flash movie I would be surprised if he didn't include a scene or two with Hal in it. Or Jay Garrick.

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One more thing, in a Green Lantern sequel, I would die if they had some aspects of probably the greatest team-up in comics history.

 

[Webhead2006]

yea it would be great if they can do teamups and all that. But i doubt we would see a teamup off the bat first. They probably want to have each guy in a successful solo film first before they are willing to do a team up movie.

 

[HboyBowen]

I dont get how he travels around the universe...does he go lightspeed or somethin

 

[Anubis]

Worm holes.

 

[Hound55]

He punches space-time in the face...

 

[Hound55]

He punches space-time in the face... twice.