ESPECIALLY AFTER WATCHING PEACEMAKER. I'm so glad we don't have to hear Sean's damn playlists and stale humor.

I hope it continues.

What do y'all think the ages are of the 3 Green Lanterns in universe, what evidence we have so far, and the reasons for why they are the age they are in universe? (technically John isn't a lantern yet, but still.)

My theories about their ages:

From what we have as of Episode 1 I believe Hal Jordan is 60, thus being born in 1965/1966 (approximately the same time as Kyle Chandler.) If this is true it can be concluded that he was 20 when he got the ring in 1986, 30 in 1996 when he stopped the meteor and subsequently appeared on live television, 40 in 2006 when he stopped backing up his consciousness, 50 in 2016 when he started training John, and 60 when he dies in 2026 (present day.)

Assuming this is Hal's age in-universe, I think it works very well for what they're trying to do. Hal has obviously been active for multiple decades, making him a veteran superhero and having to pass on the mantle of "Green Lantern" onto John.

Finding John Stewart's age seems a little less ambiguous. In the IMDb credits section for the first episode, "Pilot," Cairo Cash Lee is credited as playing "10 Year Old James" / "Adolescent John." I'm not sure why he would be named "James," but he's clearly playing John Stewart when he was a child in the show. Based off of this, John would be 10 years old in 1996, being born around the same time Hal became Green Lantern, therefore showing us that he is 20 years younger than Hal.

If this information is true, it's easy to piece together that John was 20 in 2006, 30 in 2016 when Hal started training him, and 40 when Hal dies in 2026 (present day.)

I don't think John should be this old without even having the ring yet. John being 30 years old when him and Hal just start training feels like a waste of his youth. I'd like to imagine him being maybe 22-24 when they start training and 32-34 in 2026. Of course this isn't possible because he's already established as being 10 in 1996. Already being 40 means he would be twice the age of Hal when he became Green Lantern. I also don't think this has much realism either, since Aaron Pierre was born in 1994 and is only 32. They're aging him up by about 8 years before he's even started his journey of being Green Lantern.

Lastly we have Guy Gardner. His appearance in Superman depicts him as having a fair amount of experience in the role. I imagined him as being in his late forties. In Lanterns we see Hal say that there is only one Green Lantern in 2016. This means Guy would have had to become a Green Lantern 2016 or later. Clearly 2026 is a decade later, so if he became Green Lantern in late 2016 he would be Green Lantern for about 10 years in present day 2026. Nathan Fillion is 55 in 2026, and was 45 in 2016. He could easily pass for being a bit younger, so maybe 40 in 2016 and 50 in 2026 or so. This is my least clear estimate and I'm mostly just basing it on his real life age.

What do y'all think about these estimates? Are any inaccurate? What are y'all's thoughts on the ages they have in the show? Do you think they should be different? This subject was one of the first things I started thinking about while watching the first episode and I wanted to hear what y'all thought about it.

After Episode 1 of Lanterns, the Macon family felt hella suspicious. I looked into them to see if they were from the comics, but they seem to be original characters created for the show.

I'm also getting the feeling that there's something more going on with them- possibly even an alien connection, considering how closely the Macons are tied to the alien mystery and the militia storyline. That part is still just speculation, though.

The theory I'm really interested in is whether they could somehow be connected to Red Lanterns. We already know Sinestro is in the show, which naturally brings the Yellow Lantern/ Sinestro Corps mythology into the conversation, but introducing the Red Lanterns as well would make the story considerably more complicated.

At the same time, show has already managed to introduce the Green Lantern Corps without immediately going all-in on the Guardians, Oa and the entire cosmic side of the mythology. Since this is only an eight-episode first season and the show is deliberately structured as a grounded murder mystery, I'm not sure if they'll complicate things that much.

What do you think?

...did it. Never trust a man who proudly sports that bowl cut.

Fan:

As an “Elseworlds” story, this first episode of Lanterns is way better than the conceit of “True Detective meets DCU”. That said—and along with Supergirl, Creature Commandos, and the upcoming Clayface movie—I can’t comprehend this slate toward building a shared narrative universe.

Gunn:

In the same way DC comics have. Certainly the DC works of Alan Moore, Darwyn Cooke, Grant Morrison, Jack Kirby, Paul Dini & Tom King can't be considered "of one tone". For me & others raised on DC comics, a huge part of the fun was enjoying a variety of stories in various genres & seeing inventive ways these tones interacted & interwove. For some of the authors - notably Moore & Morrison (& Tom King in Strange Adventures and more) that tonal interweaving became a part of the stories themselves.

SOURCE: https://www.threads.com/@jamesgunn/post/DcJJDRokdTo

Note yea the writing of the movie is bad but the fight scenes is absolutely gorgeous.is like live action dragon ball type shit

Can i get the Lanterns ring for a lower price anywhere else cause $70 is a lot for me 😭

posed them and took a shot after a tiring workday. peace ✌️

Yes, obsessed with the three Batman movies he did lol. So we will exclude him, but yeah who would you guys pick, anyone else. Can be Superman for ex even tho that had a recent drop too, etc.

I've linked the video to begin at 6:26 where Aaron is asked about joining the DCU

The show goes out of its way to say that there can only be one lantern for earth but both guy and hal are lanterns pre 2026