Browsing: Lanterns

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We finally know what those mysterious portals are in Lanterns, and it makes a disturbing amount of sense. Lanterns is an unusual TV show, with every episode reinterpreting everything that went before it. Lanterns episode 3 was John Stewart’s origin story, and it radically changed our understanding of the character. John has been groomed to…

Let’s be honest: fans have a lot of major criticisms of the Green Lantern movie, leaving plenty of room for HBO’s Lanterns to go in a different direction.. Director Martin Campbell and star Ryan Reynolds both blame the script, which Campbell once said he wished Reynolds had written. Comics fans had even more to critique…

With last Sunday’s episode revealing a far darker origin for eventual Green Lantern John Stewart than might have been expected, and the prior episode introducing multiple possible “big bads”, including several longtime Green Lantern nemeses, as well as a slew of unanswered questions, this take on the characters is nothing if not intriguing. Originally pitched…

In DC Studios’ official podcast covering Lanterns, writer Tom King described the series as “…a show that’s about legacy…” and “…passing things on.”A theme that couldn’t be more blatant when the premiere ended with Aaron Pierre’s John Stewart finding the frozen body of Kyle Chandler’s Hal Jordan, Earth’s first and then only Green Lantern, and…

It goes without saying, but a key element of any successful superhero is the costume. It’s pretty hard to imagine Spider-Man becoming such a cultural phenomenon without the eternally cool webbed costume designed by Steve Ditko, and had DC Comics gone with Bob Kane’s original red-and-black look for Batman, we almost certainly wouldn’t have 15…

The HBO Max show is making some changes to their dynamic, but are they for the better?

Lanternshas been slow-rolling the lore of the Green Lantern Corps, while taking the more grounded approach of following two space cops (Hal Jordan and John Stewart) investigating a clandestine alien plot in small-town America. It’s understandable: Green Lantern is one of DC’s most fantastical characters, and the Ryan Reynolds film from 2011 proved that a…

Lanternsis doing more as a detective mystery show than it is as a DC superhero origin story. To the credit of show creators Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof (LOST), and Tom King (Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow), that mystery keeps viewers hooked on the series week-to-week, and keeps it alive online as fans share their best guesses…

Lanterns has finally revealed why John Stewart has a thing for birds, and it’s more to do with character than power. Lanterns is in a class of its own as a superhero TV show; it’s prestige TV, with phenomenal character work. Episode 3 was a John Stewart origin story, daring to rewrite comic book lore…