Lanterns Episode 1 Recap | THE GREEN LANTERN UNIVERSE IS HERE! | John Stewart & Hal Jordan

What is going on everyone? Welcome back. It is B Avery with Lamont. We are talking lanterns. This is HBO HBO Max season 1 episode 1. It is the pilot episode. Lamont, this was highly anticipated. We are both superhero comic book fans. We love Marvel, but we love our DC2. Guys, this will be full spoilers. I was not initially happy with the casting of Aaron Pierre as John Stewart, the Black Green Lantern. Uh I was pretty cool with Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan. Uh but I feel different at that now. Ever since we've gotten a few trailers, Lamont, I've been more accepting um of the casting of this brother right here. And I will say uh right off the bat uh I think he did a great job. Uh I I am enjoying everything that we're seeing in this first episode. and Lamont the way that this started off like oh my gosh talk about is this a toxic household my brother Jay Alons Nicholson who we know from the show P Valley I think you're a fan of that show you can let me know man Lamont was this >> was this the best training possible or one of the most abusive relationships known to man I don't know I'm on the fence I'm talking a lot but I want to know man how did you feel about this opening scene how do you about this episode in general. I'm curious. I have no idea. Where you at, sir? Where you at? >> If B Avery will indulge me and just give me the floor for just a few seconds to just set this set the standard for DC. >> Often times people feel like me and B Avery, we're Marvel fanboys, but we have to tell you, we're not. We [clears throat] understand the value of DC. We understand the value of Marvel. And we don't always have to pull out our damn trinkets. But ladies and gentlemen, [laughter] we support DC comics over here. Okay? It's just that we support DC comics when they stay DC, meaning they're gritty, they're dark, they're not full of humor. That's Marvel's thing. We as fans want to see DC stay DC. And that is what the opening of Lanners has done for us. First of all, it's HBO, ladies and gentlemen. They're not making this kid friendly. And it's HBO Sunday night, meaning that for HBO, this is a tent pole event. They only put their best shows on Sunday night. And having said that, I will answer be Avery's question. I love Little Murder, Jonso, but in a superhero world, what he did is fine, but in a human world that we live in, hell no. That's horrible parenting. Because if you sneeze while you shooting that damn gun, your son is gone. And it was a it was a real accident, but you shouldn't have been doing this damn stupid ass behavior anyway. Okay. A mosquito come bite you on the elbow while you shooting at your son, he's lost an eye around here like Pety the damn pirate. No, Jono. No. In human world, that's horrible parenting. But in Green Lantern world and you know your son is about to be a lantern. I guess it's okay. >> Yeah, man. [laughter] You funny. I don't I don't disagree with you, man. Uh it's crazy because they've been doing it for a while. If you look behind him, you see that there was at least 30 bullet holes. So, they've been he' been training him like this since he' been two or three years old, >> you know. U But to play devil's advocate Lamont, he did show him love and tender tender love and care afterwards. He gave him a hug. He smiled. He embraced him. He said, "Let's go grab a burger." You know, um I'm not opposed to whoopins, you know. I mean, I know that's taboo right now and they say you shouldn't whoop the kids and all of that, but I got my butt whooped. I I didn't get shot at with apples exploding over my head, but um but Lamont, you you have to think, man, if you're going to be a cop, not of the the county, the city, the state, the the government of the planet of space, you got to have a hard shell. You got to be tough, you know? And so maybe this is what the doctor ordered. Something else I liked about this episode, man, is what they're doing with the timeline. Uh we got three different timelines. We'll save the last one for the end of this the conclusion, but it starts off in 1996 and then like they released the first five minutes of this episode on YouTube. And man, they crammed a I don't want to use the word crammed uh because that just sounds for well whatever. They did a great job with the first five minutes giving us the origin story of John Stewart, the lore of Green Lanterns and where they're coming from. That they've been around since it says 1996, but the subtitle says that they've been around 10 years prior to that. And he just showed up and stopped a meteor from crashing into uh the land, destroying people. And so I I loved all that. that the that John Stewart is the trainee of Howal Jordan, but they've kind of had a one-way connection since he was a child. I mean, he's young. He's looking up to a real life superhero. Uh, that's in the military like his father. It makes sense. So, um, we talked about the training of John, but I like the introduction of Hal as well with him being on the news and how this is not a secret, okay? like it is out there like in the '9s, in the 80s that there there are other planets out there. The galaxy is not empty. There's intelligent life. They're here on Earth. We have a superhero. This is what he can and can't do. These are his powers. These are his abilities. It's all over the place. I love that. How do you feel about the intro with uh with how Jordan on the news and all that? >> Oh man, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the way they intro Aaron Pierre Paul as um John Stewart. I, you know, even though I'm picking on um Jay Alfonso playing the dad, obviously, even though they didn't come out and say it be Avery, he obviously has a relationship with Hal Jordan. He has to because in order for you to be trying to put your th son through that level of breaking fear as to shoot at him, you've got to know that this is going to become your son's destiny. He's got to know that. And I enjoyed the way they introduced Hal Jordan, um, played by Kyle Chandler, folks who did Friday Night Lights. And this show has somewhat of a feel of Friday Night Lights. The first episode does. Anyway, I've I've enjoyed it so far and I've enjoyed the going back and forth in time. I think it really fits this story and I am so happy DC and Warner Brothers decided to present this story in the way that they did. and be Avery mentioned his apprehension about John Pierre Paul paying um Steuart Lanner. I had the same reservation, folks. For some reason, I didn't care for the actor um and it was all based on bias because of what other people said, >> but now that I've had a chance to see him in action here, oh, folks, he's going to be he's one of he's he's a great choice for this. Okay, hands down. I'm enjoying his his presentation of this John Stewart. He's gonna be a member of the Justice League when they put it together. He's gonna be the best for the team. >> Right on. Something um and I'm I mean I love I like DC, but I'm more Marvel as far as my knowledge is concerned. Um I was always under the impression that both Hal and Jordan uh Hal and Jordan both Hal and John could be Green Lanterns all at the same time, but it doesn't seem like that's the case here. Um, also when we're meeting them, when they're together in I don't want to say present time, it's 2016. Um, I'm How How did you feel about like he says that the Guardians chose who they are? I thought it was this the the sentience the sentient mind of the ring that chose people at random who they thought was worthy. I didn't know that it was the Guardians. Am I incorrect or are they comic accurate? And does it even matter to you? Do you even care? >> Doesn't matter because you both have been presented in comics. Both have been presented in cartoons. It doesn't matter to me. I kind of look at the ring and the guardians is interchangeable. >> They they created the rings. The consciousness of the rings are the guardians. So I I consider either one is fine for me. >> Okay. Are you cool with um John being a trainee of how or did you kind of want them to be at the same level? >> I'm fine with it. Um on on paper, I'm probably more kind of no, but the way that they've introduced this and just the level that John has pushed back against how but has also shown that he respects him, but he's not going to take jump from him. I like where this is going and I feel like they're setting us up for the comic run that me and you have seen on the cartoon stage, but I've also read in the comics. >> I got you. Um, and this it was pretty intense the training. You know, John is like, "Hey, we've been doing this for two months now. I haven't even worn the ring yet." Drives off a damn cliff while he does a burrow roll out the car. I was like, "Whoa." And the thing is, we saw we've seen this this advertised in the trailers and the marketing a ton, but it was still very impactful for me. And I was still like, damn, I can't believe he did that. I wonder what construct that he made. I like that they teased us just a little bit at the very beginning. I love the way that that was shot uh well performed by Aaron Pierre, but he grabbed the ring, put it on, and thought of bubble wrap. That's what we found out later. And I also uh again, I like the way I like the lore. I like the world building. As soon, you know, as Aaron Pier, as John Stewart is coming back, he gets the hologram of Hal, uh, trying to trying to send himself a message. I like that. And also, when he catches up to him at the taco stand, you know, Hal is a celebrity. Everybody knows him. He's been around for more than a decade, you know, saving the world. Everybody's trying to take pictures, get selfies. I like all of that. Even up to the end of the scene where he says, "Hey, there's Hel in Nebraska. pay the check and he flies out of there. I like that. That was cool. It was neat. Um, there wasn't a lot of green, but I still like the effects of him flying off and the reactions to everybody as well. I know that was a lot, but like how do you feel about all that? Do you agree or disagree with anything I said? >> Oh, I agree with that. Um, and I actually like the fact that they're not with letting him wear the suit in the very first couple of episodes. like he's just >> kind of like a international space cop or space detective because that's what we're getting here. >> He feels in his heart of hearts what's going on with where we're going is a it's a space crime. But everybody else in the situation don't feel that way. And John Stewart is just kind of like, you know, he's just going off of what he's learned about the lanterns, what he's learned of how. So, he's kind of just still using rational sense to make sense of something that maybe only Hal can make sense of. >> Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And y'all let us know what y'all think in the comments section. Do you agree or disagree uh with anything that we are saying? Um and I like the wisdom uh coming from how too as like why he doesn't wear the suit that much anymore. Uh referencing a tie. Um, I know we had the Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern back in 2011, 15 years ago. Wow, that's that's crazy. You know, they were CGI suits, [clears throat] but we don't we haven't really got a full shot of the suits um in this adaptation just yet. But in the intro scene, we kind of got excuse me, I'm sorry, a shot of how like shoulders, chest up. I don't know if you caught that or saw it in the trailer. How you feeling about that so far? Do you want it to be more of a practical or CGI like it was 15 years ago with Ryan Reynolds? >> I think that where we're at in technology, we can get both. I rather the suit be practical. Um, probably it's not going to be practical, but if it is CGI, as long as it looks good, I'm fine with it. Like the issue with Ryan Reynolds, it to me, I actually like that movie. But folks, you got to understand, I am one comic book fan who tends to like a lot of things that these other brothers don't like. I like Thor, too, whereas some people's like, "Ew, Lamont, you're nasty. Ew, you eat that?" "Yeah, I ate that." And I tend to like Ryan Reynolds um first, Green Lantern. But where the where the overall movie went bad was not per se the CGI, it was just a bad told story. Um the villain setup was bad. And if in this series we can get a good story with good CGI, all is forgiven and we'll like it. >> Right on. Right on. Right on. Now, uh we have a new character here. Uh new to me at least. Uh she's funny to me. >> She may be funny to you, too. >> Uh you're laughing, so you may know who I'm talking about. Introducing Miss Sheriff, uh Kelly, uh played by Kelly McDonald. Um she's like, "Hey, man. I got this. Okay. Y'all coming over here scaring people, making everybody nervous. All right. These are just a few hooligans that was drunk, got high, and killed each other. This ain't got nothing to do with no aliens, man. How do you know? I I have a feeling or feel and feel my ass is basically the energy that she's giving uh John and Hal. Uh but yeah, man. They they pull up to um to the stadium, man, and people getting shot in the chest at a at a Friday Night Football. Lamont, what what is going on? Okay, that this is supposed to be fun, but people people are dying off of dumb stuff here. And uh they want to know like how what you tripping on, bro. Like um why you you flew here. You you're spooking people out. How'd you feel about this scene, man? And also uh how how it ended and everything revealed itself. >> I love it, man. I like the way they're doing this. Like you wouldn't think that a kind of a murder mystery would fit a comic book story, but the beauty of comic book stories and how you bring in other audiences is if you can tie you're going to have the nerds. If you give us the nerdy part, you can get us. But when you add other things like uh murder, mystery, romance, that humor, that type thing, you get in novel people. And what they're doing here is a Friday Night Lights uh mystery murder mystery right here we got going on. And the only one who thinks he knows that it's alien is Howal. I really enjoyed the way John Stewart behaved and conducted himself because he's still following chain of command. He wants to do things the right way. He's green. He's wet behind the ears. And he wants to go talk to the sheriff and let her know, "Oh boy over here, I done seen all this evidence." And old boy over here knows something. So I want you to know and how being the old grizzled veteran who's lived life and knows that trying to do the right thing all the time ain't going to work. Let's Mr. Green Stewart go down there and do it. And you saw what happened. Old boy runs. The sheriff got to run with him. And then in the very end Stewart used his brain to go around popped old boy in the mouth. And I'mma just go ahead and make my first prediction. Be Avery. >> What's that? The guy we saw run has nothing to do with these shootings. If anything, he was mind controlled. You pulling out the notepad. Oh man, you know I keep the notebook fresh and handy by the death. And I got my black notebook since the our green lantern is black. Got the black notebook, ladies and gentlemen. >> Y'all, if you didn't know, when Lamont pulls out the notepad, even though I encouraged him here, he's usually right. It's it's he he has a crystal ball over there. But we going to see. We going to see. We got seven uh seven episodes to go. Something that I did like right now in this se in this sequence right here is the score >> when he was running doing the doing the school. Um that caught my attention. Um I really did like that. I probably should have looked up who composed it, but u great job there. Uh but we get more of the origin of how um coming up after this when these gentlemen are at the bar. Uh, it's quite funny his plan of I want to go to jail, so I'm gonna get my ass whooped. So, I'm going to play this annoying song 15,000 11 million times and get into a little bar fight. But during this exchange between them, uh we we got a little origin of how um when a number of years ago he was on base, the room started vibrating, a bubble took him uh ever so many miles away. And um he found Abinsur, the purple pink u Green Lantern. Uh if you are a comic nerd like us, you know who that is. It would have been nice to actually see this. Maybe we will later on. Uh I don't want to jump to any conclusions. Uh but if we don't, uh I I'll still be okay. Um but I I again, Lamont, I like how they addressed all of this in the first episode and we I don't even think we're at the first 30 minutes yet, you know. Uh and so a lot of lore, a lot of backstory, a lot of origin. Um a very effective storytelling. Uh mixing in the comedy with with the fight um later on as well. Oh, also now I'm I'm I'm I'm going to let you go there. All right. You you may you may take the lead on that one. Um but h how are you feeling about everything I just said? And uh I'mma put a note in my my my end point right there to bring another something else up. But yeah, how how did you feel? >> Loved it, man. Like [clears throat] my fear with HBO sometimes is that when they they start out kind of quiet building the narrative on their shows on their great shows and sometimes people who are like big fans to the original lure they kind of want you to get to the meat and tats and the nut cut and quit but if you are a fan of HBO series you know that they tend to start out the first couple of episodes building and that's what they done here except for I feel like from the norm. They're building faster with this show with the flashbacks and the time jumps and everything that's going on now to we get to this bar scene where John Howal knows good and damn well that old boy that's in jail knows something and he's going to get himself trapped. He takes the ring off so he can get beat up because remember folks, that ring on your body is almost like your white blood cells. If something starts happening to you and you unconscious, that ring will help you out. Okay? They even mentioned John Hal mentioned this is like one of the strongest weapons in the universe, whatever. And that's what that ring does for you. And so he took it off to go get beat up. But also during the end this scene, folks, did y'all see how he made counterfeit money? Now, is it real counterfeit money if the minute you decide to relinquish the thought, it just disappears? Either way, you're stealing because you stole the record that you were supposed to pay for. So you did steal that. So, don't make no mistake, folks, in your data. He stole that damn record. And when he got beat up and the the stuff hit the fan, um, and our boy John Stewart minded his business trying to be a good good Robin meets a woman. Okay. And it was clear as day to me from jump. >> Number one, I can't trust that. >> Uhhuh. Oh, it was clear for me. Number one, we can't trust that broad cuz she's asking too many questions. She's over there asking like she's the damn feds. And Steuart being green and wet behind the ears is answering all her damn questions. So that's a knock on him. But then number two, I was like, not only she asking questions, but look at the way she's looking at him now. She's a little older. Okay, folks. And you know, we don't discriminate against our geriatric population. You fine. You're fine. Okay, we'll some of us going to get them panty draws even if they geriatric draws. >> Get the draws. >> John Stewart, >> I said to myself at some point in time he's going to get them draws. Lo and behold, >> very next scene he's in the geriatric draws. Floor is yours, Bever. >> Yeah, man. Um I I didn't see it coming. Um and then when she was she was like, "Can you walk me to my car?" I was like, "Wait a minute." And then you know it cuts to them in the truck. I was like, "Wow." And what's also funny, she's like, "You you going to give me a lecture now?" Like I was like, "Damn." He's [laughter] like, "No, man. I'm I'mma give you a light, you know." Uh it's crazy. Um she's obviously not happy. Or maybe she is. People just live live different lives. Uh because we find out who she's related to uh a couple of scenes later. Uh and that's funny right there. I can't wait to um hear your your um your commentary there. But that yeah, um Hal is arrested. He goes to jail. It's obvious to everybody what his plan is. I like that. Um John showed up to the sheriff office the next day. And the cop knew that herself, just like, you know, hey, um it's like he wanted to get put in jail on purpose, so I put him next to the person that he wanted to talk to, you know, excuse me, intentionally. So again, I just say out to say I I like uh Agent Carrie or whatever. She She's cool. Um she's she's cool. She's cool. Now, um we we're at court now. Okay. Um we're trying to find out what's going to happen to Hal and somebody springs him out of jail. We end up meeting him. His name is uh Will Min and goes to the house. Now, for somebody to drop $200,000 at the drop of a dime like this, they're quite wealthy, Lamont. >> Um they have an agenda. Um, >> was the suspicions rising for you initially when this mystery person with just buttloads of cash popped out of nowhere? >> Um, or like what what what was your thoughts? I'm curious. >> Oh, of course. I mean, like, you know, you know, I can't say Spidey senses cuz we're talking about DC characters, but you know, my bat tingles. My battle rangs was tingling when he got, you know, moved out of court for the stepfather of the the lawyer, the dad, the lawyer that the Let me get this straight. So, first of all, we had a lawyer pop in and that happens to be the husband of the sheriff. >> Correct. >> And the person springing out, how Jordan happens to be that lawyer's dad. And you know immediately be Avery you know I make lists of people that I don't trust immediately I don't trust nobody in that family and I don't trust someone who we'll speak about later that I didn't trust from the jump. The only one in that household I trust is the sheriff. Everybody else in that house I don't trust. I don't know if they have been corrupted by yellow energy. For those that don't know, DC, yellow energy is the ring of fear and um it was created as a way to beat down the Guardians and I think we've got some people injected by Yellow Fear working on behalf of that villain and we shall soon see. >> Yes. And you know, we did see Sinestro in the trailers. Um so that's that's brewing up right there. Lamont, uh that was a large body of land that they had too, man. How many acres was that when they pulled up? Yeah, man. That was me. That was like 100 100,000 acres, which tells me that which lets me further know that there's something going on on that property. Fenced in property. You got goons at the gate be something is going on. Yeah, something is going on up there that they don't want us to know about. >> And he's trying to get some information out of the Green Lantern. So, something's a foot. >> Definitely something's a foot, man. Um, you know, if you got land, bread, militia like that, you know, tofu steaks at random, you know, um, and you're curious about um, being taken over, you you you've been your people been the bully for the longest, but you don't want to be done to you, you know, saying that there's thousands of planets out there with intelligent life. I like how was like, "Oh, it's pretty peaceful out there." Well, if it's that that's the case, why the hell space cops necessary? So, uh, point taken right there. Yeah. But he was like, he was like, colonization, man, it's very bleak for the people that's getting colonized. And I don't, he don't want to get caught with, um, the banana and the tailpipe. But it's more than that, you know. It it's maybe he teamed up with the evil alien race, you know, thinking that he was going to have some type of comeup and it's not playing out the the way he wanted, the way he anticipated, and he's trying to save face in some way, shape, form, or fashion. >> I don't know. What's up? >> Let's Let's throw a theory out there for the audience, >> okay? Since this is the Since this show also pertains to the new gun DCU, there's always a chance, folks. Now, y'all, my comic book nerds, follow me, regular audience. I try to clue you guys in on this. There is a huge big villain to Superman and the Justice League and a lot of people in DC called Dark Side. And dark side likes to take over um planets. And when he does take over a planet, he terraforms them. He puts these giant holes in the ground that go to the middle of that planet's core and it spits out fire. >> Could this man be working with Dark Side and have all that land? because that's going to be one of the places where he's going to use to terraform our planet. >> You know, cuz Dark Side has often got little minions that work on Earth. Mr. Mannheim for >> Yep. and parody demons. And he also has minions such as Mr. Mannheim set Earth up for his arrival. Make it weak. And that could be what we're seeing right here. The Lanners have had to deal with Dark Sign in the past. So, we could be seeing that as a villain, too. >> We could be. I am entropy. I am death. I am dark side. Yeah. Oh, I can't wait to see uh Gun's iteration of um of of dark side. That would be amazing. That that would be amazing. Uh but you know, he's like uh hey, Will is like making us like, "Hey, how I just want to make sure that you know we on the same page." And you know, um but he's like, "I don't know if we're what page wrong." and he's like, I'm I'm just trying to protect Earth from people that wasn't born on it, you know? And so that's fair, that's commendable, that's respectable. Uh but it's also vague at the same time. But riddle me this, bro. This dude ended up smashing old old dude's wife and he knew about it. He had he said those words like it ain't nothing like eating off another man's grill. I was like, damn, how does that even how did he even find out? What is going to be the repercussions of this Lamont of of how not how but John smashing Will's wife? And then the joke that how it was funny. I laughed like damn, we ain't even been here for 24 hours and you already smashing people's wives. I'm impressed. What What's going is is is this going to blow up in his face or or it's not going to come up again? Well, how can it blow up in John Stewart's face when the wife didn't tell John Stewart? So, if a conversation is ever had, you can't blame him. He didn't know. But the fact that >> the husband knows so quickly tells me that this was wanted. He wanted this to happen. Um, this is this is not corporate espionage. This is intergalactic espionage be because he's trying to find a weakness. >> It's easy to know what how Jordan's weakness is, but John Stewart is the new lantern and they want to know what his weakness is and potentially Hanny draws is his weakness. Now, mind you folks, in the comics, John Stewart, he bangs some bodies, but his but the person that made him fall in love was Shy, better known as Hulk Girl. And boy, the DCU has one of the finest women on planet Earth playing Hawk Girl. So, I can't wait to see that little relationship start to play out. But to for him to know that quick be able she just got home. I mean, unless unless she called him, which she could have, I think that there is some telekinesis going on. This is all a crap. This was planted. This was meant to happen. And I don't trust nobody at that ranch except for the sheriff. >> Okay. All right. Y'all let us know what y'all think. Uh, is this going to come back and bite John in the butt or no big deal at all? But out of all of this, man, they worked it out to where the sheriff is going to allow Hal to talk to the supposed the alleged alien, you know, at the police station. And he goes in there and uh yeah, man, he's a good interrogator, man. Um the way he's drilling them, it makes sense. Like, okay, yeah, you're you're learning all these specific facts, the first paragraph of Wikipedia, but you don't know the culture cuz everybody should know about Harry Potter briefly. And you know, Obama was the 44th president after George Bush and there's controversy about his uh his citizenship, you know, like what? Who talks like that? Especially the way you look, you know. Uh but he was going to get out of there. Hey man, I'm going to blow this place up if he don't let me walk. He was right the whole time. I'm an alien. I you I know about your ring. I know about the little song y'all sing to power up and all of this. You know, I got plans, man. And you messing them up. Okay. and say, "So, you want to throw a gear a wrench in my gear, man? I'm just going to blow the whole place up. You don't know if I'm going to blow up this room or the whole town." But how I got to say, "I told you so." Thoughts, Lamont? Thoughts? I was happy because I knew he was right. Um, you know, everybody else wanted to try to play this story as if he don't know what he's talking about. He's been a Green Lantern since the 80s. It's 2020. It's 2016 now. This man has been saving y'all this long. He's never had an incident of going rogue. He's never had an incident of going bad. He's done nothing but stick his neck out for y'all. And y'all don't want to give this man a benefit of a doubt. >> Yeah. >> I was happy this happened. I was happy that he was proven to be right. And now I just can't wait to see what the next steps is going to be. >> Yeah. Yeah. Um Tick and Tom Bomb blew him up. Contained it. I like that he contained it with a shield, but then went over there and tried to uh use more of his energy, more of his will uh to make sure that it didn't explode and expand. And that I I like the effects there. Um and that was the most in the episode that we saw of the green CGI, the green constructs that they make from Will. Um my one criticism about the show so far is I do wish it was more green. Uh do you agree, disagree? How do you feel about the constructs that we got in the first episode? >> Because the storytelling was so good, I am fine with the minimal amount of constructs they did. I think they stuck enough in there. Enough in there to let us know that, hey, >> comic book fans, we ain't forgot about y'all. We ain't forgot. And I I gotta say, behavior, these constructs, maybe they decide to put the budget on higher quality, but they look really really good. Um, when they did show some stuff like the soda opener he did, the dollar he made from just what you got finished talking about, they all look high quality like it could be something that happened in real life. And so for now, behavior, just this first episode, I'm okay with the balance. >> Gotcha. Gotcha. Okay. Appreciate you. Appreciate you. Um, but yeah, man. All this took place in 2016, but then we jump forward to 2026, present day, >> and John pulls up 10. He he been in the game for 10 years, man. He's a pro pron now, a vet, an expert. But he pulls up on Hal Jordan. Not only is he dead, but he's frozen outside with a bloody face. Lamont, what gives? Bro, what's going on, bro? I was thinking, are we really going comic book arc here? how are we doing this? And just I was thinking like how does this tie to the DCU? Now mind you, DCU is 2026 2027. So some of the events of Superman's movie have happened now. And so I'm trying to figure out how does that tie into what we John Stewart is seeing in a more galactic universe. But I was thinking to myself, okay, how much of this particular year are they going to give us? And do we have to wait until the very end? Because now we've got two murder mysteries going on here. And I'm I'm ready to see them both. That's what I was thinking. >> Yeah, I am curious with the timeline. Uh cuz I'm assuming Superman, you know, that was in 2025. Supergirl came out 2026. This is 2026 now as well. So, you know, Green Lantern and Superman Supergirl should be crossing paths in some way, shape, or form, >> right? And Superman has to know about Green Lantern because he's been here since the 80s and 90s. Everybody else knows about him. So why wouldn't Superman so? >> Well, he knows he knows about Guy Gardner. Superman. >> That's true. Yeah. Guy Gardner. And God Gardner is going to pop up. He was in Yeah. Yeah. You're right. I'm I'm tripping. I forgot all about that. So I'm I'm also I'm kind of curious because this is 2026. So maybe No, that's 2025. So where was Hal doing the Superman movie? He might have been intergalactic because um James Gun came out and said that when you see John Stewart in 2026, that is the year in their story, that is the year that Superman made his his drop on Earth, 2026. Even though the movie came out in 25, >> he's saying that the the origins of that Superman movie are 2026 moving into 2027. Okay. Yeah, cuz this how our show could take place. So, you saying this how a show could take place before the events of Superman movie? Um, that's possible, too. Okay. Okay. Uh, you have any final thoughts, sir? >> Fantastic. People, hang in there, folks. HBO when they shoot, they don't miss. Y'all see me and be able review Penguin, and it kind of, even though I felt like the first episode of Penguin was great, there were some people like, when is it going to pick up? Bear with it, folks. Penguin won an Emmy, so this could be the Emmy winning show as well. Just bear with it. >> Yeah, I really enjoyed myself. Um, I'm looking forward to seeing what happened next. What happens next? Um, yeah. So, subscribe. Let us know what you think, guys. Thank y'all so much for tuning in to our Lantern recap for episode one. Uh, if we can, we will try to be here same time, same place for episode two. Um, follow subscribe to Lamont on his YouTube channel. We got movie and TV breakdowns and also his political channel, Lamont Tyson. Links to all that is in the description. And if you're watching this on his channel, subscribe to both my channels. I got my main channel right here, uh, just my opinion reviews, and then I have my reaction channel right here where I just do nothing but reactions, you know, reacting to trailers or various episodes and things of that nature. And um you know, I've been covering the the D23 stuff uh as well. 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