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I know it’s not the fictional character’s fault, but I do think the character tends to attract some bad fans.

Imo, we’ve kinda outgrown the need for Hal. Kinda wish he’d stayed gone. But, it’s unfortunately much too late for that, lol. Ideally, he should at least take a backseat as a supporting character for other Lanterns, but the conservative streak of DC fandom is gonna keep pushing him as lead or co-lead over more compelling options.

 

Cast Dex-Starr already

 

This can easily be applied to any white male character of a certain age bracket, honestly.

Which is to say of course I agree with what you're getting at, but I don't think the solution is to get rid of the character, but to get rid of the toxic people.

 

The thing that separates Hal from, say, Peter Parker is that the franchise has historically existed without him at the center. It started with Alan Scott, and for an entire decade he was replaced with Kyle Rayner, and the cartoon that was a lot of people’s introduction used John Stewart.

You could even keep Hal around as a supporting character (now that we’re two decades into him being back). But, at this point making Hal the central character of Green Lantern stories feels pretty dang regressive and stagnant, etc.

 

Totally get what you're saying, but coming back to the original topic, the show Lanterns is supposed to have both Hal and John as co-leads, and I highly doubt Gunn would do anything less, so I don't see the point of the original post. Feels like it both lacks faith in Gunn and also is just a cheap shot in general.

 

Yeah I don’t really see the issue here. Going all in on John would be cool, but it makes sense to have Hal be a mentor figure, especially in a series that takes place in space without other humans. We also don’t know anything yet. It could be a limited series with Hal dying at the end or something. Either way, John is clearly the choice as the central Green Lantern.

 

As long as Pete Holmes plays Batman

 

Just saw Pete on Friday night. And the opener was the guy who played his Gordon, Matt McCarthy (I think). Gunn should bring them both on board haha

 

Love Matt McCarthy

 

Ain’t no fucking way

 

I favor McGregor, tbh

 

Man, we really need more variety these days

 

Timothy Olyphant is the best casting for the role i've seen in the names being thrown around.

 

He's the best casting for any role

 

#BringBackSantaClaritaDiet

 

excited to see him in the new Alien show

 

Walton Goggins as Sinestro.

 

did Gunn ever specify that Paradise Lost would be based on Phil Jimenez' Wonder Woman run, part of which shares the same name? (should I read that?)

edit: apparently the inspiration for the tv series is actually Wonder Woman Historia? this according to its Amazon page

odd that it would be named after one thing but based on another

 

Thank fuck.

 

THANK YOU JOSH BROLIN, LOVE YOU BUDDY