In Brightest Day...
Hello everyone! Mike here, aka mpowell: one of the two founders of Criticker. And I have a confession to make. I'm a major Green Lantern geek, and have been all my life. I've read all the comics, and could recite Green Lantern's oath in my sleep. Ask me who my favorite member of the Green Lantern Corps is, and I'll happily give you my Top 20.
So, you can probably imagine how excited I was back in 2011, when a live action film of my favorite fictional character was released in cinemas. And then imagine my anguish when the film was such a critical and commercial flop, that it quickly became a running joke. My childhood hero had finally entered the public consciousness, but only as something to mock and jeer at.
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Bringing us to the present day. I met the announcement of HBO's new series Lanterns with a sense of dread. That feeling only intensified after hearing it would be in the vein of True Detective -- a great series, of course, but one that has nothing to do with GL's sprawling, interstellar mythos! This had all the makings of another embarrassing mess, and my soul couldn't take it.
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But then the rapturous advance reviews started to pour in, and the first episode of the series was met with almost universal praise. Realizing I wouldn't have to pretend to love this version of GL, I breathed a long sigh of relief. Kyle Chandler makes for an excellent Hal Jordan, absolutely embodying the character's mix of charming arrogance and charisma, and Aaron Pierre is just as good as John Stewart, Jordan's younger trainee. The show's central mystery is shaping up to be intriguing, and Lanterns seems to have a social conscience as well, with an underlying commentary about how hard some have to work for the positions and privileges others take for granted.
I can't wait to see what the rest of this season holds... and to see if its success finally allows pop culture to stop equating "Green Lantern" with "failure".
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