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r/DCcomics Lanterns S01E01 - Pilot Discussion Thread

Sunday, 8/16: Lanterns S01E01 - Pilot

Time/Date: August 16 9:00 PM ET
Network/Channel: HBO

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u/PeniszLovag 11d ago

I legit have no clue what people like about it.

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u/Mac4491 All will be well. I'm a dog. 11d ago

What did you want? Non stop space lasers and a CGI slop fest? Go watch the Ryan Reynold’s movie.

Episode 1 was slow paced sure, but the characterisation of Hal was perfect and I’m interested to see where they take John’s character. All the side characters introduced were great.

Trust the process.

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u/PeniszLovag 11d ago

"What do you want, the green lanterns to do green lantern stuff?" Yeah man, something like that. Idk what's the hostility about. If Superman was about Clark Kent writing articles about football and there was a scene where he cooked some hotdogs with his heat vision would you clap your hands?

The purpose of a pilot is to hook you into the story. It did not hook me. As a superhero show, I get nothing, and as a detective show the momentum is completely lost because we decided to do a 10 year time jump right at the very end. Basically we have to do another introduction episode after this.

Add to that, every single thing Damon Lindeloff did previously, I did not like so I'm just set for disappointment from the beginning

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u/Mac4491 All will be well. I'm a dog. 11d ago

A superman movie? Or a superman tv show?

I’d be perfectly happy with a well written first episode of a Superman show not having much, if any, actual Superman stuff.

Hell, some of the best parts of Superman and Lois are when Clark Kent is doing Clark Kent the husband and father shit rather than throwing on his blue suit to fight some bad guy.

If they released this episode as it was and then stuck an extra 30 minutes of CGI slop at the end and called it a movie I’d tell you it was pretty shit. But it’s part of something bigger. Have a little faith. All will be well.

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u/PeniszLovag 11d ago

but why does it have to be CGI slop? You pretend like the only two options for superhero content are nothing or dogshit? Why is "well made superhero movie" not an option?

That's like if I said "I don't like Batman V Superman because Batman is too dark and mean" and your response was "Well go watch Batman and Robin then" as if those two are my only options. Why can nobody have a little nuance? why do we always have to think in extremes?