LANTERNS finally leaves Earth behind in Episode 7, “The Jordan Boys’ Legacy” — and weirdly, that helped me figure out what I’ve been missing from this show all along.
I REALLY liked this episode. We finally get much more characterization for Hal Jordan, including a fascinating look at the younger version of Hal preserved inside the ring. More importantly, we finally get some of the Hal Jordan/John Stewart relationship I’ve wanted all season: Hal actually TRAINING John to be a Green Lantern.
Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre continue to work incredibly well together, and this episode gives their relationship more weight than I think we’ve gotten through much of the season.
But there’s also a problem.
Now that LANTERNS has finally taken us somewhere that feels genuinely alien and cosmic, I’ve realized just how badly I miss GREEN LANTERN.
The grounded TRUE DETECTIVE-style approach has been an interesting experiment, and I think it has largely worked. But I don’t want this to become the template for Green Lantern going forward.
Give me the Corps.
Give me impossible planets.
Give me bizarre aliens.
Give me enormous constructs.
Give me the gigantic, ridiculous, wonderful cosmic universe that comes with Green Lantern.
In this review, I talk about why “The Jordan Boys’ Legacy” is one of the stronger episodes of the season, why the Halogram works so well, what the episode finally gives us between Hal and John, and why LANTERNS has unexpectedly left me wanting the NEXT Green Lantern story to go as big as humanly possible.
⚠️ SPOILERS for LANTERNS Episode 7, “The Jordan Boys’ Legacy.”
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