The Official Green Lantern Thread

[LouFerignoDemon]

I'd have to say Alan Scott and Kyle Rayner are absolutely the most overrated GL's on the SHH! message board, and that makes me truly glad that the internet does not represent a majority. I cant really say I have a favorite GL, but I like the fact that Hal has taken center stage again, as I doubt the past few years wouldve happened with Kyle, Alan, Guy, or John in Hal's place

If by overrated, you mean effectively represented as GL's with developed personalities who exist on more than one-dimensional. :P

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

Haha, we need to hose you down

Hose me, babe.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

If by overrated, you mean effectively represented as GL's with developed personalities who exist on more than one-dimensional. :P

I don't get the Alan Scott love either. A magic ring just doesn't sit well w/ me.

Hose me, babe.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

Nah, most people aren't really talking about his powers, just more or less the characterization of Alan Scott. Generally in his transformation from a hard headed jerk, to someone who is still similar, but is far more diverse as a character now.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

He and Jay Garick are pretty much the same person to me. I don't mind their personalities.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

Jay Garrick is a huge time softie. He's all about help. Alan would toss the kids in the pit, and intervene only when their lives are in danger. And then be all about, "Man, I really shouldn't have done that," and then go cry about his gay son. :P

 

[SouLeSS]

Yeah, but now a days neither one of them do anything.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

They go to doctors regularly. :P

Actually, they're pretty cool being teachers and stuff. You can definitely tell Alan Scott keeps a lot of his old school personality when he confronts Jesse Chambers about banging her mom's boyfriend, claiming the JSA would be a good way to get her honor back. XD

 

[SouLeSS]

They both remind me of those old dudes that sit on the park bench or bus stop bench talking about the good old days or back in my day.

 

[Kitsune]

Well, we can really sit and argue with it, but that's how the MU thinks. It's really not a, "How do you think MG, and how do you think, Kitsune?" It's literally a, "How would the MU rationalize this?" situation. And that's how they'd do it.

So it's not my argument. My argument would be, that in time of enemy combatants in the original implementation of the act, you would detain the prisoners for a period of time, until a council could be made to organize a fair method of giving them trial after study. If I so chose to defend it.



Whew, with all that Abin talk, this comment sure made it steamy in here.

We aren't talking about how MU would rationalize this, we're talking about how Tony Stark rationalizes this. I'm a fan of Tony a felt this was out of character for him, considering how much he hated the government using his tech in Armor Wars.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

He hated other people using his tech, not himself, who he's fine with giving out as long as he has his control on it.

And him being a total ******* who likes to do things his way outside of a law is definitely not out of character for Tony. :P

And I was definitely talking about how the MU rationalizes it. If it were Tony rationalizing it, he'd probably do it along the same lines I would've.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, but now a days neither one of them do anything.

I still don't understand why. Johns gave Alan some of his most memorable scenes and then re-aged him and promptly forgot all about him, it seems. That was okay, too, because he was primed to be the White King of Checkmate and be cool on that front... and then he got ousted by the end of the first arc. That still bugs me.

 

[SouLeSS]

Hey who knows, maybe he'll end up as the White Lantern.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

I actually sorta liked when he picked up the name Sentinel.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I liked him during that period, but I didn't like the Sentinel name. He's the original Green Lantern. He's got more of a right to the name than anyone else, Corps be damned.

Hey who knows, maybe he'll end up as the White Lantern.

I doubt it. He's not a Corps Lantern, which means Johns virtually never even acknowledges his existence in the GL comics or anywhere outside of JSA, which he doesn't even write anymore.

 

[SouLeSS]

That's what I'm sayin though. Some guy that you wouldn't expect.

Or was that in the other thread. ****ing blackestnight / greenlantern threads.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

I liked the name, as it sorta fit with his militaristic attitude. He was simply a Sentinel, something tall, powerful, invincible, always watching and always vigilant.

And he's apparently an honorary GL, as one time Hal got a report he filed with the Oans. How or why, I have no freaking clue.

 

[The Batman]

If by overrated, you mean effectively represented as GL's with developed personalities who exist on more than one-dimensional. :P

No, I mean overrated by the common definition of being overrated, which they are...."developed personalities" or not.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

People like them more than Hal for that reason, and for that, he's overrated? =?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I like Alan because he's pretty much the Golden Age Superman now that the actual Golden Age Superman is just some alternate-world weirdo. In the post-CoIE history, he was the powerhouse of the Golden Age and the guy who was at the forefront of everything, leading the JSA a lot of the time and generally being an inspiration to other heroes. I love that archetype, and it works really well for Alan because, unlike your Supermen or Captain Americas, he actually fails to live up to that perception sometimes. He's arrogant, he's willing to be morally ambiguous when he sees the need, he's kind of a standoffish jerk, etc. Superhero paragon + feet of clay = interesting to me. Whether that makes him overrated or not, I frankly don't give a damn.

 

[Anubis]

Hal is the Keanu Reeves of Superheroes.

 

[The Batman]

People like them more than Hal for that reason, and for that, he's overrated? =?

I never said they were overrated because of their personalities. I simply said they were overrated. Which they are.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Whether that makes him overrated or not, I frankly don't give a damn.

Well, since being overrated is almost 100% opinion, sounds like he's not to you

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Nope. Alan's great. You know, when he's not constantly at a disadvantage because of his age or his inability to use his powers to their full extent or his weakness to wood (all of which were not factors when he was Sentinel). But for some reason, the people at DC prefer the frail old Alan, so we get that version now.

 

[WompuM]

He should be he person who could single-handily take down Superman without breaking a sweat.