Lanterns Episode 6 Recap | CUT THE CHECK!!! | HBO Max

What is going on everybody? It's your favorite duo and we are back be Avery and Lamont. This is Lanterns episode 6 titled Bad Optics. John partners with brother Marcus to land a major investor for his panic room innovation. But in an unexpected call pulls him back to Rushville and his past. Lamont, I was supposed to bring up a book in reference to this episode, but I forgot. Maybe I can pull up an image or something like that. Yes, guys, we are talking spoilers. You probably already know that, but if you're new here, if you haven't seen the episode, Turn away now. Oh, Lamont, the crap hit the fan. Episode 5. We talked about, "Hey, 2016 is over. Now we picking it up in 2026." And that's where we are right now. Sir, how did you feel about the episode? Did you like it? Did you hate it? Are you somewhere in the middle? Please let us know. let us know. I'm dying to hear it. >> Well, ladies and gentlemen, first and foremost, I want to ask that y'all forgive me for my rudeness. My daughter, who stood be in bed right now, is trying to call me, and I'm a stickler for perfection. Um, and and trying to get these things going. So, y'all forgive me for my daughter calling, but I love this episode. Um, just think of this phone ringing as Green Lantern calling me because he want me to come help him bail out Sinestro. That's what's going on. I I thought the way Aaron is playing John Stewart, folks. You are watching greatness. That's I I mean, I don't know how else to tell you this. I am loving the way he's portraying it. And I think that it could be good, but I'm also afraid of this audience and be Avery. He's doing such a good job with this series. >> I am really afraid that when they bring the Justice League together, the story that they'll use to bring them together is going to be Sinestro and the Yellow Lantern Corps, maybe Parallax, maybe some of the other lanterns versus the Justice League. I don't want to see that. Not not I don't want to see that as the first team up for the Justice League. We all know what we want to see for the team up. We want Dark Side. Don't play with us. And now that Paramount has fully got a deal on the table and is going to be buying Warner Brothers, there's a great chance James Gun and this team we have right now might go and it might change the direction. But if they can keep up with what they're doing, I think they've got at least this TV series could go at least another four more years. >> Okay. Um I'm with you. I don't think I would want to see that either. Um I do agree with you as far as saying the way that um Aaron Pierre is playing the role is fantastic, but I I have a lovehate relationship uh with the show right now. I mean, it's good. M >> I I love the writing, >> but this is not the adaptation that I want to see. It is still a bit too grounded for me. We have eight episodes and uh this is number six. We got two left, but we just really don't got no aliens. We have not seen one alien in the whole show. And you know that Green Lantern is all about the extraterrestrials, the aliens, killer wallog, I mean all types of species and we're just not getting that. And that that bothers me. The there was even a line of dialogue where they said God Gardner was in China or overseas and he moved some pandas in a bubble, but we didn't let them know that the bubble didn't have to be all green. It could have been clear or whatever. Even when we was seeing fly, how fly, it was no highlighting of green or anything like that. So, this would be very palatable to somebody that's coming into the show that's not familiar with the lore. But that's really my my biggest gripe right there. Again, then there was some things in this episode that I absolutely love that we going to talk about. I love that Aaron Pierre, John Stewart was able to whip those five five white men ass with ease. I mean, it was it was just a cakewalk for him. Like if you don't turn that off, we're going to turn you off. One, two, and then he going to say three and then swing first. I mean, I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. Uh but you know what I just mentioned, that is my main criticism. However, I did love the way that the episode ended with um you know, we we we don't have to jump ahead too far there, but um I'm based off your body language and you saying Uhhuh. I'm I'm assuming that you do agree with what that last part I said. Is that is that safe to say? >> I agree with a lot of what you said, but I'm kind of at a place now in life where I have the space for two things to be running congruently. You know, if you don't know or if you're new to me and be Avery, we're both we're we're nerves for this thing. We're both rooted and grounded in the cartoons and the comic books. And so Green Lantern, like he said, is a more spacebased intergalactic hero. Earth is just a speck of a sector that they are supposed to be defending. And so, while me and B Avery for years have complained that when you make these movies and you make these TV shows, you don't give us what's really in the cartoon or the comic book cuz you're trying to save money. And this is clearly an example of they're trying to save money. However, as much as I would normally complain about that, ladies and gentlemen, the the storytelling and the writing and the dialogue in this show has been so good for me. I'm willing to overlook that gripe that I normally would have for this series. Now, they should do more with the ring. Like, we we we we should be if we're not going to get more aliens, we should definitely be getting more usage of the ring. And maybe they're gonna s save all that be for the very finale or something. But I think the thing that the audience might want to consider, this is just season one. >> They wanted to make sure they got it right and maybe in season two when they be like, "Okay, the audience loved it. They can break out the coffers and spend more money, we can get more of a space-based battle going on." >> Okay. Yeah, I I can dig it. I can dig it. But we're 10 years ahead now. Um John Stewart is having a board meeting or some type of meeting and uh he wants $30 billion. I know this may sound crazy, but this $30 billion that y'all have set aside over here. Give it to me. I can build 40 of these cities on the ground, 20,000 people each. If my math is correct, that's about 800,000 people. And they did say that that city is in the millions. Um he said that, you know, they don't have no Superman in their city. And we gotta watch out for John Starfish. So, of course, they referencing Superman, also from Suicide Squad. We also got a Batman reference in here as well. What do you think about the opening? Also, you know, Marcus is grown now. Uh, one of the older brothers. We saw him. We didn't get to see Aaron. You know, he's over there being Haiti Mater calling John Mr. Chosen and all that. Uh but what did you think about um you know this this gentleman this white man here with the suit was like hey you got me convinced but I can only control the city council or or the mayor or whatever he said but you got to convince the the govern the the government they control the money. What did you think about that intro and John just be like hey I was on the Green Atlanta for five minutes uh but I want to be an architect you know that that's uh up his wheelhouse. How did you feel about that opening right there? Um, it was just good to see my man on his business flex. Um, controlling a room, letting y'all know that he has the business acumen that can stand in a room with Bruce Wayne as well as be his own man. He doesn't have to have a ring to be a power broker, so to speak. And so, I enjoyed the way that went down. And it also showed that with his mind, his creativity, he's probably gonna be one of the greatest Green Lanterners ever to come and will eventually be able to construct things without needing that ring. So, just be on the watch out. I think that this that opening scene and the way that they showed that design bunker that he had, cuz folks, make no mistake, that was a damn bunker. Okay? It was a bunker. Only thing he didn't do was include food to go with it. You might as well do that, too. And um he's going to be able to make these constructs that are going to be unbelievable. And my question is, be Avery is built to survive alien blast, alien invasion. But can them bunkers handle Superman? Do we have anything on planet Earth that's strong enough to handle a Superman that would come through fast as he can go? Let's say he run around the earth twice to get that speed built up and come straight for one of them bunkers. Is that going to survive Superman? >> Absolutely not. I think these bunkers are just for like collateral damage, you know. But if Superman wanted to get in there directly, I think that'll be a cakewalk for him easily, you know, unless they got u kryptonite steel beams or something like that, you know, that'll repel them. But I don't I don't think that's the case. I will say this, and I'm pretty sure people are going to get mad at me. Bernardet is annoying. Um I don't like her. Uh, I mean, Jesus Christ. I want to know what happened between her and the father. Um, he he's what was the name? LL at uh Campus Crave or Campus Grove or something. You know, the director uh he blowing he blowing uh revolver shots out the window, complaining about his window uh being too small. My window too small. But man, as soon as the meeting was over, he shook a couple of hands, picked up his cell phone to call his mama, and she already calling like, you know, hey, uh, is that all you got to say? I'm like, man, will you let this guy breathe a little bit? Like, what are you doing? I I I just I was really annoyed by her. Am I tripping or or you feel the same way? >> No, I mean, John Stewart feels the same way. That's why he's calling her Bernadette, not mama. I mean, like, there's a limit to all this stuff. And the kind of mental health trauma y'all put me through as a kid and then to learn you still fratonizing with how come on, man. >> Yeah. >> Like, you should be happy I even pick up the phone. And so, be Avery, you're not wrong, brother. You right on pace. >> Okay. Okay. Um, why was Hal Jordan in jail? I mean, I have my answer that they told us, but I want to hear in your words. Why was Hal in jail for 10 years in your opinion and if you think it was valid or not? >> Because they blame him for what happened in Rushville. Um, somebody had to somebody had to take a dive and so he took the dive for basically taking out um uh golly, sexy grandma robot. I can't even manhunter. And the town hated him. Zoe. Yeah, Zoe Town hated him. He was the perfect scapegoat. All the damage, Zoe being dead, he was the one that they wanted to blame for it. That's why they stuck his butt in jail. >> Right. That's That's fair. I I just think it's a bunch of BS. He couldn't like going back to episode five when Carrie um emptied the magazine and he held the shield. He couldn't She was like, "Leave, leave, leave." He could not leave because Anton and his gang was going to blow the place up anyway. So what was he going to do? Well, he could he could have left and let Zoe fight Anton and them and it still would have been uh destruction. So he could have he could have stayed. If anything, he he's yes, it was still a lot of death. It was still a lot of mayhem, chaos, and coinage, but it would have been more if he wasn't there. Everybody would have been dead. There would have been no survivors. I know Maggie won reparations, and we going to talk about that too in a second. Well, later on in this recap review, but I'm just like, "Okay, hell no." Then you get out of jail and you trying to go and give deliver groceries and mow people's lawns and stuff and I got a Green Lantern, too. No, I'm putting my foot down. We got to get some stuff straight here. Okay. I give me some goddamn respect. Y'all not going to be spitting in my face and over my grave, you know? Like I I That was a very That was very very annoying to me. I did not think that we was going to see this how this side of how um as well uh when he was in the restaurant in the diner too. Uh I mean he no he did not apologize to John and John didn't give a damn. Spurred them just swung on them in the in the in the um in the nose. But before that though like f all the people at Rushfield. Oh yeah. Yes. Some people died but it would have been worse if I wasn't here. Y'all need to respect me. Am I tripping or am I am I missing something? >> Well, I mean, yeah, you missing the fact that the town blames him for it because Zoe was funding everybody. You got to keep in mind, Zoe had everybody in her back in in its back pocket. And so, they don't give a damn what he's saying. The person that was our benefactor, you took out. We don't know if any of that stuff you're saying was going to happen, but we know what we was getting from Zoe. >> We know what we was gonna get from Zoe. That's true. That's true. That's true. Uh Hal is dead, bro. I really wish that I mean it. Well, yeah, but the writing is on the wall, man. I don't know how I don't know what type of Jedi mind trick force powers they going to pull to make him alive. But is he really dead? Cuz that that bothers me because I mean I trust me, I want to see a black John Stewart Green Lantern. You know what I'm saying? But at the same time, how from the the comics and the cartoons and all that that I know, how was still a G. >> And you know that he is walking around with a stick up his butt, getting on everybody nerve, and now he dead. I mean, we have not are we ever going to see how Jordan really go off as Green Lantern, really, you know, team up with the Justice League and everybody else. It doesn't seem like that. >> Doesn't seem like that way at all. be because bro, if he's not if he's not dead, he's not dead because he's done gone dark side with Sinestro. And you remember his his story arc in several comic book runs ends with him going rogue and John Stewart having to take him down in several I mean they've even done an iteration in the cartoons of one that me and you reviewed maybe what maybe two three months ago. >> Yeah. Um beware my power. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, I I think that we the only good look that we got from Hal was him at that dinner table getting his nose broke the hell off. >> Yeah. Yeah. Uh he he ate that. And what's crazy is two hours after that where it seemed like John was just detested >> by Howal. He he really cared for him. Just the way that Hal hated Sinestro but still loved him and the Guardian hated that. Jon still loves Hal to a degree. He just mad and frustrated because when he got the call from Carrie, he came running. And matter of fact, I did not see that coming either. Uh Carrie and Billy are divorced and or separated. And um Hal and and Carrie been getting booty. They've been smashing each other for for a little bit. You know, he started out writing little love for pay love letters, you know, and like a little wooy wooy woo in her ear and she Oh my god. Now, you know what? What got the panty draws? cuz you like I did not see that coming at all. A Lamont, the floor. >> I told you. I told you it was going to happen and you told me I didn't know what I was You told me I was seeing stuff. >> Did you really say that? >> I told you that. Yes. Episode two review. I said them two got a thing for each other. You was like, Lamont, you always say that. You always think somebody want panty draws. Well, be able. This is life, buddy. Men always want panty draws. Okay. Yes. That's what that is a fundamental to life. We wouldn't be here if somebody didn't want panty draws. Okay. It's going to always be there. It's going to be in just about every story. And they're going to always find a way to weave in some romance. And that's what we got from him. >> Yeah. That that is what we got. Um that is what we got. Um now Maggie, she wants the panty draws too or the boxer briefs uh from John. Um, do you uh do you trust her? Do you like her? She's always sitting on the curb somewhere with a Shirley Temple haircut. Now, that was the same little girl that saw her mom or dad blowing to bits at the last episode cuz she said she was nine, right? >> Uh that was crying at the end and he was like, "I'm sorry. That's the same. Is that the same little girl growing up?" >> She was 14 years old or 12 or seven or something like that back then. Yeah. So, is she mad at John or does she want to get inside? Because, you know, she was winking at him or was she playing possum or something? >> Oh. Oh. Oh, no. Um, you know, they they portrayed that girl pretty deceptively. And I like the way they did it cuz at first you thinking this chick is a little crackhead, >> a little attractive crackhead at that like >> Yeah. Yeah. >> I was like that's that's a little cute crackhead, you know? And then next thing, >> wow, >> she's in there. Um, and shout out to Hunter Biden. That's my favorite crackhead of all the people. But she gets into the restaurant and then she's working there. She giving him coffee and stuff for free. Then she show up and this talking about she want reparations. Now, I ain't mad at her because she let us know that the town is not racist, but what you did to my family hurt me. And I'm thinking to myself, how you going to run? First of all, the terminology reparations, >> girl, just just say give me some payback because it's not like this man came in here and destroyed a whole generation of people. Okay? He didn't do that, you know? If anything, you should have just said, you know, um, I couldn't get my life insurance. Uh, my life is torn up. You see, I'm working at that dingy ass diner. Just help me out. Give me $400,000. Let's call it a day and then I might give you some panty draws and we keep it moving. Boom. >> Yeah. >> And he didn't give her no answer. So, we don't know what's he going to do. I don't think he gonna give her the money. I think he's going to help her. Don't get me wrong. I think somehow someway he's going to help her, but in terms of giving her the money, I don't think he doing that. Where do you think she got that figure from? It was very exact down to the cents. 57 cents or something like that. 312,000 something something dollars 57. >> The reason why I asked >> Oh, go ahead. Go ahead with your answer. Go ahead. >> I'm thinking that might have something to do with the value of life insurance, the value of damage. Um, the value of what she lost and she's adding interest to it year over year. It's got something to do with something something like that that she lost. >> You know what's interesting is uh we're recording this on Tuesday and I first saw the episode Sunday, but it was the episode was really watching me more than it I was kind of halfleep, but when I heard $300,000, I was just tired. I was tired. >> When I heard $300,000 in reparations, it perked me up, >> Lamont. >> Okay, >> that figure is not random. Okay, I got to research on who wrote this episode, but that is a close rough estimate on how much black Americans are owed in value for reparations. Now, I don't want to say $300,000 in cash, but $300,000 worth of resources that does include land acquisition. Now, mind you, the devil is in the details and this is a very multi-layered, multiaceted endeavor, okay? That $300,000 is only what the American government owes black Americans for Jim Crow and the years of slavery. There's still a dollar amount that foreign Europe uh u foreign nations owe us as European nations owe us as well. I don't have that figure. The only economist that I know right now that would have a remote inkling of that is uh Thomas and yes who wrote this book. We going to go to school real quick. Uh who wrote this book right here called Capital in the 21st Century. He is French. Okay. This book is around 750 pages. Yeah. Thomas Um, they had a documentary on Netflix about this a couple of years ago. Uh, and it was long and daunting if you're not going to read the 750 pages, but there's probably other economists out there that knows the the foreign the amount that foreign nations owe us. I I I I have no idea. I haven't d dove it that deep into the uh the rabbit hole yet. However, but somebody that does know um that came up with the 300,000 is this guy right here. And I know you know who he is, Lamont, cuz we talked about him. Dr. William Sandy Darity, a black American economist from Duke University. William A. Sandy Darity Jr. is a prominent American economist and the Samuel Deose Cook Distinguished Professor Emirates of Public Policy, African and African-American studies and economics at Duke University. Uh he wrote the book uh from here to equality, reparations for black Americans. The first chapter of the book talks about the first reparations movement, the pros and cons of that. Uh, I'm just going to say that to say read the book. Uh, if you want some education on that. Uh, but in short, black, if you are a black American and you can trace your ancestries back to the census, uh, which you know, my dad did a great job. He can, uh, the American government owes you $300,000 worth of resources. Uh so don't argue with me, argue with him. You know, if anybody tries to argue with me in that in the comment section, I will block you unapologetically. Uh but uh when I saw when I was saw the episode, I was like, "What is going on? This is this is crazy. Did a black person write this?" Okay, but you know, anyway, uh but that's just good information. What did you think about the mortician uh or the morg that that was like, "I'm ignoring you and uh it's going to take four months to get this blood s back." She was a She was a mean cockatu. But what did you think? >> Ain't you very nice when you reference these ass people? Ain't you so nice? You're a very nice gentleman. That lady I mean I understand why she's mad because her benefactor is dead and she blames it on the lanterns. I get it. But at the same time, one of the people you blaming is laying here on this table dead. and we can expedite him getting going to wherever he need to go at if you give us a little help and stop being a butthole. >> And eventually she did give a little help, but then she went right back to being uh a um Waller style butthole. >> Yeah. >> And um I wonder if we're going to see her again in the future. >> Probably not. Probably not. Uh but y'all let us know what y'all think. Um as well as also I want to know the the reparations conversation too. say, "Man, what kind of security device did H have on his um uh fortress of storage? >> You know, this is your first and only warning. If you try to do it again, >> I'm like, damn. Is it going to blow up or shoot some acid out? What What you think is in there?" But probably the lantern, >> uh the charge the charge battery. What else you think he got in there? Cuz that was uh that was pretty secure right there. And yeah, we going to get in there. What you think? >> Maybe he got a new suit in there. He's got definitely that that lanterns in there. >> Um >> I don't know what else could possibly be in there. All I know is he didn't do a good job of having a transition plan for his meat eatating flour. >> Yeah. >> And I guess John Stewart >> I guess John Stewart is going to have to adopt the meat eatating flour. They're gonna be sitting there eating meat together. They can be eating chicken nuggets right beside each other dipping it in sauce now. >> Yeah. Yeah, man. What's up with uh what's up with um John's parents though, man. Burn the dead and daddy. Um John Senior, >> are they still together? >> They're nuts. >> They ain't together. I mean cuz dad is in the retirement community. >> I mean he Yeah. And going cuckoo for cocoa punch, but I mean they could be separated or they still could be together. It's been 10 years. I don't I don't know. Um and something's telling me that I'm missing something here and I know some Brandon come. You didn't pay attention, Brandon, at the 26 second mark in the episode. Um, why what is he going crazy or is he playing possum too? Because >> his brother was like, "Hey, man. He Aaron was like on on the phone like, "Hey, man. Uh, he's just doing this to get attention." So, do you really think he's trying to get attention or or um or or is there something really wrong with him? you know, have some Alzheimer's or or, you know, some cognitive disease, you know, and what exactly did what exactly did they do to piss John off so much to where he just like, "F y'all, I don't want to talk." What what's going on there? I think that that's just, you know, after he turned down that ring, he just kind of feel like y'all made me go through all that hardship. Um, you know, beratement, death, shooting apples off my head and stuff for what that ring brought and I'm supposed to be cool with y'all. And Bernardet was the worst of the two, you know, at the end of the day. So, I can I definitely understand why he's not trying to call her mama, but I I think that I think that somebody's messing around with the daddy's head. I think that maybe Sinestro or somebody's fooling around with him to drive him crazy, and that's going to come out maybe later on. >> I'm pushing back, sir, because they didn't take the ring away from John. He turned it down. It was right there. He He chose not to do it. It it was it was from no influence in them. They was like, "Hey, son, we're cheering you on. We finally made it to the finish line." Oh, I don't want it because it corrupted Howal and made him ugly on the inside. True. But that doesn't mean that it's going to do you that way. And you clearly want the ring now because of the way that the episode ends. So you could have been, you know, flossing for 10 years now, living it up. >> Don't be Who the only person you should be bitter with is the person in the mirror. >> No, man. I mean, what if Papa Avery for years was shooting apples off your head and then the specific reason he had apples being shot off your head, you see the power and you see how that power corrupted corrupted someone else >> and you be like, "Dad, you made me go through all this." >> No. >> For a power that can corrupt, >> power to corrupt. He chose the He chose that himself because episode one, we thought he was the daddy being a hard ass, but John was the one that was like, "Hey, daddy, put an apple on my head." And remember, uh John Sior was like, "Hey, man, he's going to hate us." It was and y going, I know the women especially going to be mad at me for talking about Bernardet, but Bernardet was the the wrong one pushing them like I don't care if he hate us. You know what I'm saying? >> Uh John Sena seemed like he had a soul. So I I I don't >> I don't I mean okay a lot can happen in 10 years >> but >> I don't we don't I don't know you know where the disconnect is and why John don't even want to take phone calls now from his daddy. Um maybe because Aaron's a hater. I don't know. And you know I wonder what the relationship between Aaron and Marcus is too. >> Um me too. But I am cur I don't know. Do y'all think that Sinestro is playing with and I don't want to call Lamont crazy because I do and he end up being right. So, but I think Sinestro is playing mind games with Hal. Not with Hal, but with John. Um I don't I I would just like to know that, man. I I would just like to know that. I would just like to know, you know. Uh but talk about this right here, man. Um he he calls the bat signal, not the bat signal, but the Green Lantern signal. So, they say that we, you know, he copied off Batman and uh these five dumb asses want to run up and uh tell us what happened, Lamont, and and how you was feeling watching this scene right here. >> Well, uh one of them just happened to be um the father of the kid of the sheriff and >> Noah and Billy >> runs up there, Billy. and and John is thinking that he's going to be able to have, you know, a kosher conversation with him, you know, almost as if we in Jerusalem. It's going to be very kosher. And then he runs up on him, he starts talking And next thing I know, he basically gives him a choice. He was like, in essence, he said, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way." And Billy being about 5 foot one and a half, soaking wet, decides he wants to do things the hard way since he has an advantage in the numbers he's thinking, >> right? >> But you don't know this man's military background and training. You don't know this dude is a stone cold killer, >> right? >> And so >> they p they persist to get into a little fisty cuffs and they start a countdown. Now folks, if you get into a real fight with somebody, do not start a countdown. The minute somebody else open their mouth to count, you need to fill their mouth with teeth from your fists. Okay? Just like John Stewart did. John Stewart let that man get to about two and three/4ers and he laid him out. He beat they ass so fast I thought he was the Flash, not the Green Lantern. That's what I was thinking. >> Yeah. >> He wo them out. And then I was worried somebody was going to pop out from behind some wood, some bushes or something. Like I was like, "This can't be it." And it was. >> It was. And send him to jail when he was trying to get Guy Gardner to come on down and talk to him. >> Yeah, man. It was glorious. I definitely did enjoy that ass of him right there. I knew he was going to win, but Oh, it it was just beautiful. I think I ran that back a few times like Yes. You know, I I love that. But Lamont, this is some bull crap, man. I would not be in jail for this. No. No. I mean, how first of all, how you going to get your ass whooped and then calling Tattletail? You know what I'm saying? Like, that's just really ridiculous to me. Hey, he jumped us, you know, like I I really wish I would have heard that 911 call to that dispatch to to hear these weasels crying, you know. >> Are you serious? Be a That's why John thought that the city is racist cuz that's some straight up MAGA right there. You have the advantage on somebody. You think you're going to jump them and beat him down. You get your ass whipped. Now you want to call the police. >> Yeah, that's that's awful. I I'm I'm pissed that he was in jail, though. Uh he's a big he I would have fought uh that that's and I'm kind of annoyed with Carrie too. Like >> okay yeah you're saying that the whole town is looking at you and you got a safe face but she didn't have to charge him up like that in the house >> like that was that was a bit unnecessary and what you care for anyway. Billy is your ex. So come on Carrie you kind of you kind of dropped the ball right there. Uh but we still we got God Gardner here, man. Uh he called Hal a or uh for calling him a a gym teacher. He was like, "I am an athletic director." And and John John was trying to cater to his feelings. Uh may he may have been an athletic director. That may have been the actual title, but he was offended by that right there. I love the dialogue. He's like, "Bro, you only got what you got because I turned it down." >> He couldn't do He couldn't do nothing but change the subject. So, did you hear what happened on Shakazam? They bust out of jail. >> He was like, "Ah, you got me. All right. All right. Uh, but no, man. Uh, what you think about that right there?" And also, who who bust uh who bust out of jail? Man, that belt was so funny to me. That It's hard for me to look at Guy Gardner in that cereal bowl haircut for it. It really looked like somebody put a bowl on his head and took some scissors and went around it. I mean, that's the butt of a lot of people's jokes during the 90s and 80s, man. >> Yeah. >> And then he's got on a pat leather suit of all the Green Lantern. He's got he got to have the ugliest ass suit of all of them. >> Right. >> But hey, it looks like gym teacher apparel if you was a Green Lantern. So, I give him credit for that. Um, I love the way John had to put him in this place and let him know, dude, if it wasn't for me, you still be a gym teacher. Oh, excuse me, athletic director. You know, you still be climbing up ropes, as how Jordan said. Yeah. Yeah. That's what you still be doing. And you could do me this one solid. And you know, I'm I'm grateful to hear the stories of how you met Hal and he was in jail. But you're dag on right. This man deserved to be in his suit. He deserved that ring because he was the first damn Green Lantern of Earth Sector. So you take your butt up there to them lanterns. I mean to to to the Guardians and you get me what I need and don't come back to Sweet. Get out of here, buddy. And get a better haircut while you gone. You're on mute. >> Thank you, sir. My fault. We found out uh that the high security facility that uh Sinestra was in is not on OA. I thought it was, but it's a completely different place. But do do you have any, you know, idea, speculation on who brought bust him out, bust the Sinestra out? >> Man, it can only see >> it could be anybody. There are a range there are a range of people in this story that could have done a couple of things. Like we we're still trying to figure out who killed Hal. Then we want to know who bust out Sinestro. And there's one individual that could have done both. And that's Lyanna the Guardian. Cuz I told you I don't trust her. >> I don't trust Lyanna the Guardian. And then when it comes to who could possibly have shot Howal or who could have been in cahoots with shooting Hal, I would say Billy's son is probably a top suspect for that. But at the end of the day, I think it's Lyanna because we've not seen her have a conversation with the other Guardians. We don't know what the other Guardians thinking. We don't know what she's really thinking. And we know she hated Sinestro. We think she hated Hal. We think it would be very rich to see her team up with the people she hated because the folks she really hate are the Guardians. Could it be Maggie? >> Because she she threat but the reason why I asked because she did threaten John. She because remember when he was at the diner, Hal was like, "Hey, don't tell nobody was here talking to me." wonder why she was outside and saw that. Uh but when they was having the conversation during this scene when she was asking for the reparations, he was like, "Oh, that's why you cover for me. Give me the money or I'm going to tell the sheriff any everything like that matters." Uh but yeah, you know, at this point we knew that we couldn't trust her. Um you don't but you don't think it's her. >> It's not the cute crackhead. No, >> not the cute crackhead. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Um, man, I have never seen a funeral uh with with nobody there. Uh, that's crazy. It had a It had a num It had two people. No, three people. Who Who is this other white lady here? I forgot who who who is this? >> Her name is Car. They said Carol Ferris. Um, but you know, y'all gonna be mad at me. You be you're not paying attention. But um who who who where where did she ever pop up before? It's probably very obvious. And you know >> I don't I don't I don't recall seeing her pop up before, but they had an intense conversation with her. So she's definitely somebody we need to be aware of. >> Yeah. Yeah. We we definitely need to be aware of her. Um now let me ask you this. Going back to Noah, the son of Billy and Carrie, the sheriff, he wants to be a senator and uh was doing the good work, his uh doorway to the presidency. For some reason, I feel like that's an important little nugget, Easter egg that they throwing in there for the future. What say you or am I looking too far into this? >> Oh, no. 100%. like some of these characters probably going to cross over into the cinematic universe and he definitely is probably going to be one. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um what else, Lamont? Um I've been driving the bus. You know, you've been in the passenger seat. What else stood out to you? Um you have any comments on the eulogy that Hal wrote to himself at the funeral as well? And uh you know also I just also gotta say it's really interesting to me when people put on the front because at the very beginning you would have thought that John would have blew how face off on site with a shotgun you know. Yeah he did swing on him but he showed up to the dead body. He showed up to the morg. He put on the funeral. Um what what's going on there man? He really loves this guy. >> Yeah. Um, I don't think there's much there, my brother. I think that that's just one we're going to have to see them continue to flesh out. I think that what's interesting to me is now that Jon, you know, has perpetuated his plan, he's got the ring, and he used that trick to get 5% more energy. Now, we're going to be stuck with the AI bot that actually likes John. Mhm. >> And I'm interested to see if Howal did any more recordings over the last 10 years. And I think it's safe to say that that AI bot is what's going to be able to open um how's um bot supports um servitude. >> Okay. Yeah, cuz it got 5% left. We thought that the ring was decommissioned and with his 5% man the uh hologram the AI bot man. Say the say the uh say the what's it called? I can't think of the name. Say the oath. Get the power. >> And brightest day and darkest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Beware my something something. Green lantern's light. >> Yeah, say it and get the power, man. Uh I mean he may he using up all the energy on the on the AI bot. Um that did excite me. I mean, I'm the episode wasn't bad, but you know, from my criticism in the beginning, I want to see more alien stuff. And so, I'mma be disappointed if by the end of this season, John is not a lantern. He's not a Green Lantern, you know? I I They need to really go off, but they trying to save money, you know. Um or they just don't Well, I don't want to say they don't have faith. But that's interesting, man. Uh, I cannot wait to see what this AI robot is going to be talking about in the next episode. Hopefully they don't jump to the year 2037 and we got to wait till season two to find out what happened after this cuz this timeline is like a whirlwind. But man, um I I I'm I'm enjoying it. Um, but does this make sense? There was nobody at the funeral at the wake. God Garner left. So, why didn't you just Were you not able to take the ring before they was buried? Before he was buried, was nobody gonna say nothing? Was nobody there? And what what am I missing? Am I tripping or what am I overlooking? >> No, that was a nitpick for me, too. It's like, dude, guy going um if you take that ring, who what's who gonna say something? A pawbearer? What what they gonna say? like you instead you had to be all dramatic, go digging in a hole and then get the ring that way. Come on, man. Like, yeah, you could have saved all that. >> Yeah, I'm I'm pretty sure I'm missing something here. Um but >> I don't think you're missing nothing. >> Cuz it's like, bro, like cuz look, even when he was walking away, one of the people was going over there shutting the shutting um the casket. >> Okay. I Okay. Okay. because I I was responding to some important text messages towards the end of this. So, I'm just keeping it real over here. So, sorry guys if if I did miss something, but I really did like the the the conclusion of this. You What are your final thoughts, sir? If any at all. >> Bring on the final two episodes. I'm ready to see John Stewart in a Green Lantern uniform. You have to do that. >> Yeah. Yeah. I'll be kind of disappointed if uh if we didn't get that. But ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, that is going to wrap it up for our lanterns recap review reaction for episode 6, Bad Optics. We will be here same time uh same place uh for episode 7 and hopefully it's going down. And um you know, they did give me episode one early, but they didn't give me the other episodes. 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