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REACTIONS & REVIEWS FOR EPISODE 1x08 - DIRT AND STARS

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EPISODE DISCUSSION THREADS:

• 1x01 - Pilot (Live Discussion)
• 1x01 - Pilot (Post-Discussion)
• 1x02 - Trust Fall (Live Discussion)
• 1x02 - Trust Fall (Post-Discussion)
• 1x03 - OutKast (Live Discussion)
• 1x03 - OutKast (Post-Discussion)
• 1x04 - The Weenie (Live Discussion)
• 1x04 - The Weenie (Post-Discussion)
• 1x05 - Lights Out (Live Discussion)
• 1x05 - Lights Out (Post-Discussion)
• 1x06 - Bad Optics (Live Discussion)
• 1x06 - Bad Optics (Post-Discussion)
• 1x07 - The Jordan Boys' Legacy (Live Discussion)
• 1x07 - The Jordan Boys' Legacy (Post-Discussion)
• 1x08 - Dirt and Stars (Live Discussion)

There's something about the Lanterns series that everyone is talking about, but I think people are getting it wrong or overlooking a major detail.

Why did Guy experience that sudden personality shift, and why didn't he confront John Stewart at the end?

1. Tom King's fundamental misunderstanding of the character

Tom King holds Guy Gardner in very low regard and constantly uses him as pathetic comic relief in his stories simply because he doesn't understand him. Guy is essentially a hero who knows no fear, but also has zero filter to "be polite."

TL;DR: Tom King is a lazy and bad writer.

2. A coherent explanation for Guy's sudden fear/personality shift: The Dark Lantern

Within the show's canon, Guy doesn't know what fear is and has never truly faced it as entity. He knows little about Qward or Sinestro; he’s basically been busy doing PR damage control over the Manhunters' massacre that Hal Jordan and John Stewart were involved in. Even though he has faced other threats, he has never been directly exposed to the emotion/power of fear itself.

In the show's canon, the Dark Lantern is activated by fear. When Guy arrives to talk to John, he drops his guard, completely unaware that the Lantern might be corrupting the area with fear—or even that his own ring might be harboring the Yellow Impurity. Exposed to a cosmic force he has never encountered before, the power of fear infects his mind. This causes Stewart's words to hit him with a psychological impact that Guy would normally never succumb to (whether in show canon, the DCU, or the comics).

3. All about a Guy

I'll leave you with this: Guy Gardner is my favorite Green Lantern. Not just because he's fun to read, fearless, and unfiltered, but because he's genuinely a good person. Guy is a good guy.

I hate when writers use him for cheap jokes.

I first fell in love with his character during his peak era under Beau Smith and Mitch Byrd (in Guy Gardner: Warrior), where he faced off against Hal Jordan / Parallax without even wearing a Green Lantern ring—using Qwardian tech / Sinestro's yellow ring—and nearly beat him! Out of the entire Corps, only he and Sinestro came close to stopping Parallax during Emerald Twilight. Hal destroyed the entire Green Lantern Corps, but couldn't destroy Guy!

Guy didn't trigger the destruction of Coast City or go mad (Hal Jordan), he wasn't possessed by an evil entity like Parallax, he didn't fail to save Xanshi from destruction (John Stewart), nor did he blow up Mogo or make world-shattering mistakes (Kyle Rayner). There's a strong case to be made that, as loud as he gets, Guy has made the fewest catastrophic mistakes out of all four main Earth Green Lanterns.

If you want to see why he's such a top-tier hero, read Peter J. Tomasi and Patrick Gleason's run n Green Lantern Corps.

I hated that finale and it soured the show for me. I loved a lot
Of what I saw throughout the series but there is no denying that it was a “ Surf Dracula” show. I seriously hate what John is being set up to be and how he “ made his own oath”. I feel like the sinestro plotline just gets left there hanging, while John get to be not green lantern with a ring. Hal Jordan is dead and his killer is just left to do her own thing. I really wanted to love this series. anxously awaited every week for a new episode and was so excited to see the culmination of it all and I have been left with nothing but disappointment. I hope other enjoyed but this has been the first real let down of James Gunn’s DCEU. Shit even smallville with its limited budget managed to feel like more of a superhero show.

EDIT: some people read this and got the impression I wanted some big superhero CGI fight to end it out. What I wanted was a show that lived up to its namesake and respected the characters it’s adapting. the casting is great do not get me wrong, but hal is dead ( maybe he is revived as parallax for season 2 idk and idc at this point.) john is not a green lantern and his “oath” does not feel like the john I know. I simply and genuonly do not like the direction they are >!twling!< these fhatachters, and I feel disappointment at that.

The mystery was so human at heart that I loved the story behind it.

I am gonna miss Kyle as Hal and I hope they bring him back as Parallax.

Ngl, I didn't like the new oath that John made but I loved how he became his own GL on Earth.

I was hoping Sinestro would have snuck some yellow in the lantern he forged but nope he just forged them a new green lantern for free? Isn’t Sinestro supposed to be a bit more devious?