State Your Opinion on A Character

[Anubis]

I don't particularly care for the color spectrum. I think it's too many.

 

[The Question]

I don't particularly care for the color spectrum. I think it's too many.

My problem with it is that it's a flawed concept:

1: Why is it that membership in each Corps depends on how much of a certain trait you have (rage, willpower, etc.) except for yellow, where the criteria is how much fear you instill in others?

2: Where are the other emotions? Where's sadness? The closest thing the emotional spectrum has to sadness is zombies. And along that line of thought, since when is willpower an emption?

3: The colors represented are only the colors that are visible to humans. But other colors exist. Infrared is a color. Ultraviolet is a color. Hell, X-Ray is technically a color. We don't know what they look like because out eyes don't work that way, but there are alien races in the DCU who have eyes that can perceive those colors, Kryptonians and Daxamites being prime examples. Why is it that this ancient whatsis seems designed specifically to accomidate humans? This one wouldn't bother me so much what with it being kind of common in sci-fi if the Green Lantern mythos had not in the past been really really good about making alien races and civilizations seem like it was just Earth but in space. Corpsmen like F-Sharp Bell and Mogo actually made the Green Lantern Corps and it's mythos seem legitimately alien, even if there was still a human focus.

And while it's not a sign of it's flaw as a concept, I really hate how it has basically retconned the **** out of everything Green Lantern related and has basically wiped out the GLC mythos and replaced it with a completely new one that the Corps has just been shoehorned into.

 

[Anubis]

Yeah, doesn't really work. To tell you the truth, I've never been all that fond of the whole Corps deal to begin with.


How about one ring to rule them all b***hes!

 

[The Question]

Yeah, doesn't really work. To tell you the truth, I've never been all that fond of the whole Corps deal to begin with.


How about one ring to rule them all b***hes!

Well, granted the Corps itself is also somewhat of a flawed concept, if only because it raised a lot of questions, such as how two people can be responsible for the safety of 1/3600th of the entire universe when one of them can have a hard time with Earth super villains.

 

[Anubis]

Pretty much. I can only assume that there's only so many sentient life forms in the vastness of space.

I mean, how many sentient life forms are in Earth's Sector?

If you only have to keep an eye on two or three planets, I guess that's not so hard. Worm holes make things easier.

Also, Earth being one of those Goldilocks planets, it probably has more trouble than most.

 

[trustyside-kick]

Yea I was ok with multiple Corps before but since they haven't fleshed out enough of them yet in the time they've been introduced they seem like just fodder in the GL Mythos.

 

[The Question]

Pretty much. I can only assume that there's only so many sentient life forms in the vastness of space.

I mean, how many sentient life forms are in Earth's Sector?

If you only have to keep an eye on two or three planets, I guess that's not so hard. Worm holes make things easier.

The problem is that 1/3600th of the universe would still be made up of dozens if not hundreds of galaxies. In the DCU, Earth's solar system alone is home to three different sets of sentient beings from different worlds.

I think if they just replaced the word "Universe" with "Galaxy" and beefed up the membership of the Corps to maybe 100,000, then it'd be a little bit more beleavable. It would also make the Guardians seem less dumb when something they've never heard of before shows up. Plus, hundreds of thousands of GLs seems a lot more epic. 7,200 looks like a joke compared to most first world militaries here on Earth. Even North Korea has more soldiers than that. And I think there are more cops in NYC than there are GLs.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

2: Where are the other emotions? Where's sadness? The closest thing the emotional spectrum has to sadness is zombies. And along that line of thought, since when is willpower an emption?

I think this one, at least, was addressed to some extent. Willpower's not an emotion, it's the center of the spectrum and thus the control group, if you will. That's why everything seems to revolve around the GL Corps and why GLs can apparently channel pretty much every other corps' energy if they get one of their rings. Or something like that. To be honest, the concept as a whole doesn't work too well for me either, but I do think this one point was kinda-sorta addressed.

 

[The Question]

I think this one, at least, was addressed to some extent. Willpower's not an emotion, it's the center of the spectrum and thus the control group, if you will. That's why everything seems to revolve around the GL Corps and why GLs can apparently channel pretty much every other corps' energy if they get one of their rings. Or something like that. To be honest, the concept as a whole doesn't work too well for me either, but I do think this one point was kinda-sorta addressed.

Seems kind of flimsy to me.

Still, regardless, the closest thing to sadness in the spectrum in zombies, and that's dumb.

 

[Anubis]

The fact that Blue isn't sadness makes me


I'm trying to think of other things that are like Will Power that would better make up the spectrum than random emotions. Nothing comes to mind.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Gumption? Get-up-and-go-ness?

 

[Anubis]

Moxie.

BEWARE MY MOXIE!

 

[The Question]

Snark.

 

[Anubis]

On a serious note, how about Perception, Imagination, Reason, annnnd I don't know....Emotion?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

But that puts the whole current spectrum in just one color. How could anybody possibly survive having all those emotions?

 

[Anubis]

 

[The Question]

But that puts the whole current spectrum in just one color. How could anybody possibly survive having all those emotions?

Also, would zombies still be included?

 

[Anubis]

Death isn't an emotion. I never understood wtf they were even thinking with that s**t.

The Emotion Spectrum wielders or whatever would fit more along lines of the Psycho Pirate or that dude that used to fight the Micronauts or whoever.

 

[The Question]

Death isn't an emotion. I never understood wtf they were even thinking with that s**t.

Geoff Johns just really likes zombies. The JSA story arc that led into his run on Green Lantern was about the JSA fighting a zombie outbreak in a city.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Well, going by the light symbolism: Black is the absence of all light. Hence, death is the absence of all emotion. Which seems true, given that you can't have emotions if you're dead. Until you look at the Black Lanterns and realize a lot of them were arrogant and/or obnoxious sonsab****es.

 

[Anubis]

Well, Zombies are awesome.

They coulda just tied it to the Black Hand and called it a day. I don't know. I think in the long run, Geoff Johns will be the worst thing to happen to Green Lantern.....and Flash for that matter.

 

[The Question]

Well, going by the light symbolism: Black is the absence of all light. Hence, death is the absence of all emotion. Which seems true, given that you can't have emotions if you're dead. Until you look at the Black Lanterns and realize a lot of them were arrogant and/or obnoxious sonsab****es.

It's sort of like the deal with will being at the center or emotions. It kind of makes sense if you force it to, but it's mostly a flimsy excuse to do something Johns thought was cool. Which, in this case, was an army of super powered zombies with black power rings.

Granted, that is kind of cool.

Well, Zombies are awesome.

They coulda just tied it to the Black Hand and called it a day. I don't know. I think in the long run, Geoff Johns will be the worst thing to happen to Green Lantern.....and Flash for that matter.

Which is sad, because he used to be the best.

****ing Barry Allen.

And this is coming from someone who actually likes Barry Allen.

 

[Anubis]

Also, why do they all have rings? Why not Medallions? Crowns? Cufflinks?

 

[The Question]

Also, why do they all have rings? Why not Medallions? Crowns? Cufflinks?

Well, the Indigos have staffs.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Don't they have rings too?

Well, Zombies are awesome.

They coulda just tied it to the Black Hand and called it a day. I don't know. I think in the long run, Geoff Johns will be the worst thing to happen to Green Lantern.....and Flash for that matter.

He already f***ed up the Speed Force by tying it directly to Barry. The beauty of the Speed Force was that it was like a shared fraternity for speedsters. It belonged to all of them and seemed to have a plan and specific purpose for each one.