LANTERNS Ultimate Breakdown | Every Easter Egg and DC Comic Book Callback in Episodes 1 - 8

Welcome to Heavy Spice Show, I'm your host Paul, and this video we're breaking down Latin season one. So, all the episodes are now out and I thought we'd release our ultimate breakdown to go through every single one, point out all the easter eggs and references to other things in the DC Universe. This is basically just a compilation of all our breakdowns and full prosperity, I will leave in all the theories that we got wrong. That includes stuff like William Macon being the hand, Zoe being Sinestro's daughter, and though it didn't come true, I think leaving that stuff in where we talk about the comics and what happened in those, it just kind of fleshes things out so you can understand more of what happens in the season.

But yeah, huge huge thank you for clicking this, we really appreciate you watching it, and yeah, I hope you enjoy the compilation. Let's get into episode one. Are you here? Why else?

Legends. Now we start this episode off with a little blast from the past as we meet a young John Stewart in 1996, along with his two brothers, they're watching a 60 minute segment where Hal Jordan is revealing his identity as Green Lantern. How about while John is glued to the screen, his brothers start freaking out that their dad is coming home, and yes, father of the year right there. But in this something, we get a rundown of Hal's backstory.

Inside to John's as well, but yeah, we kind of learn about how Hal became the Green Lantern. He explains that he first revealed himself 10 years ago when he stopped a meteor from destroying a town called Victoria Falls. Now the first thing I want to point out here is that Hal's Green Lantern costume here seems to be inspired by the suit he wore in the alternate universe Earth One storyline. Their Hal is an astronaut near future, and he bases it off his spacesuit, which I like here for the show as well as a human being, a Green Lantern is sort of an extreme version of an astronaut.

The story about him revealing himself after stopping a meteor also seems to be a reference to Hal Jordan's first appearance in 1956's Showcase issue 22. There he first revealed himself to the public by stopping a missile from hitting his home in Co-City. During this, the citizens on the ground have seen watching in awe as a mysterious and powerful hero emerges, and it's from this point he becomes a beacon for the people. Hal then tells the world about his history of being an Air Force veteran and also a former test pilot.

He's basically following in his footsteps who we learned during a test flight when Hal was young. Death kind of follows Hal throughout the episode, and him talking about death here somewhat foreshadows the reveal at the end. Hal then looks directly at the camera, and we see John still glued to the screen, making it seem like Hal is talking to him directly. He then says he wants people to know that he's just a regular person, and the entire episode is basically a grounded Green Lantern just going about their day.

We'll see how John's feeling is towards Hal drastically shift as he grows older in just a minute, but I love how they set up this dynamic between John and Hal Ilion. This shows that at one point John idolized the character. We then get a quick explanation of what the Green Lanterns are, and Hal says they basically be cops who have their own chunk of the galaxy. He's also the first Green Lantern from Earth, and it creates a rivalry between John and Hal later.

Hal also mentions that the only question he was asked for the job is if he was afraid, to which he said no. He then explains that after losing a parent so young, there isn't really anything left to be afraid of. Just opposing the side of fear when losing a parent, we then see the fear that the sewer kids feel around their father who was actually still alive. The dad pulls up on the driveway, but notice how John doesn't shut off the TV until the very last possible second.

This shows how John is already fearless at such a young age, and foreshadows his feature as one of the most powerful Green Lanterns. However, before that, he's got to take some shit and some shots from his dad as he comes into the room and immediately knows that John was watching the segment on Hal. He asks him if he's going to tell him his real name, and John says Hal or something, which we know he's lying because the kid was literally about to jump inside the TV. There's no way he forgot his last name, but for some reason he doesn't want to tell his dad, which we will theorize about why that is in just a bit, but we also see that John's dad's in the Marines.

This is a pretty big change up on the comics where a lot of the time John's dad isn't really mention much, and he's raised by his mother. He's a very good guy to show his dad, who along with his sister Ellie died when they were young. We do see John's dad featured in a few issues though, and it seems like he wasn't a great guy, so it seems like they're basing it off that. But that comes from stuff like the recent Green Lantern Corps issue 15 where John's possessed by the fear entity known as Parallax.

During this, he sees himself as a kid about to take a beating from his dad. Havadesi Comics has also rebooted its comic book universe a few times, and the innovation of John's origin where his father's in his life. Though it never specifies that he's in the military. There though, he is a civil rights activist who's really harsh on John.

John's dad in the comics is also named Henry, and while we don't get a first initial in his military uniform, the cast list him as John Stewart Sr. Which is super interesting as well, and I'll talk about why that isn't in just a moment. We also don't see any sign of John's mum, but we do see in a moment that his dad wears a wedding ring. More so Pratia, there's a picture of her sitting on top of the TV.

But this makes me think that they're pulling from this older origin of John, where his dad mainly raises him as his mum's dying of cancer. I don't feel as well that will be something that we see with the young John, and it was potentially full of shadow to us with howls lying about how every kid's worst fears losing a parent. John's dad then orders him to guard side where he sets an apple on his head before pulling out his gun. And whoa, the kid was just watching some TV.

You can also see a bunch of bullet holes behind him showing that this has happened many, many times before. A really detailed detail here as well is that the bullet holes go up the wall in the vertical line and the last one stops right at John's height. It reminds me a lot of when the apparently supermarket height on the door frame and it shows his dad has probably been doing this for a couple of years. It's clearly playing off the story of William Tello who is known for shooting an apple off his son's head.

He also assassinated the tyrannical Austrian Duke, Albrecht Gesler. Due to the setup here and what we get at the end, Adele Wunder if John Stewart Sr. had something to do with Hal's death. Especially due to the way it looks like Hal died.

John's dad then asks John if he's afraid and he says no sir as his dad shoots the apple from his head. John doesn't even flinch and he just calmly walks back up to his dad who then tussles his head. He then says let's get a burger like this with some proud family moment between father and son. Now I feel like we have to break this down a bit before we move on because what a way to introduce us to John.

Like I said in the comics John's dad's belly mentioned but I feel like the switch in the show is meant to create another later Hal and John's relationship. Hal is sort of playing a different type of father figure to John than the brutal one he had growing up but both are pretty bad. Also is it just me or does John Sr. seem to know a little too much about the Green Lanterns?

The 60 minute segments said it had been 10 years since Hal first revealed himself as the Green Lantern and it's very clear that the Stewart house has had conversations about the Emerald Hero before. The kids seem terrified of being caught even watching him on TV except a little John though who is cold as ice. The biggest thing however is how John's father asks if he's afraid before shooting the apple of his son's head. We know that that's the only requirement to be a lantern because of the lore around the character and the fact they tell you it during that 60 minute segment.

How about John Sr. didn't catch that program. So how would he know about this and why would he be clearly training John from an early age to not show fear? Well I'll tell you my theory yeah.

Now I know that the show literally just started but John Sr. really has my wheels turning for some theory time. Again changing his name to John Sr. instead of Henry feels like a very deliberate choice.

This makes me think that perhaps John was once a potential recruit for the lanterns himself but something prevented him from securing his ring. Which I would guess might be due to the loss of his wife. This could have created a fear in him of losing the rest of his children and this would have prevented him from becoming a lantern so now he's training John from a very young age to never have fear so that one day he may be able to take his place in the core. The place that should have been his.

Now I know that sounds out there but it would explain how John Sr. has this inside knowledge of the lanterns and him seemingly having some kind of beef with Hal. As weird as it sounds as well I think John Sr. could actually be playing a version of John Stewart from his early appearance in the 80s.

There John was straight up chosen off the streets by the audience to be a replacement for Guy Gardner in Green Lantern issue 87. In the issue Hal takes John on a mission as part of his training but the different ways of going about the job make things a bit tense. John uses the ring to embarrass the senator who preaches about white supremacy but later saves the day by and covering the senator's plans to fake an assassination attempt and blame it on the black community. The issue then ends with Hal admitting he was wrong about John and the tagline saying he will return.

At some point, Hal but after that John hung around as a backup for Hal and Guy Gardner and he popped up in a few issues of Justice League during the Infinite Crisis event. How that Wasn't Until 1984's Green Lantern issue 182 that John Stewart returned as an official member of the core. He was officially given the job by the guardians after Hal quit the core issue before. So what I'm getting at is that John Stewart Sr may have been the original Green Lantern who was approached by the guardians and he trained with Hal in his first appearance.

But John Stewart Jr who we follow in the show is John Stewart when he officially gets off of the job in Green Lantern 182. Having John's dad be of Green Lantern never was if that is indeed the case without a lot of depth to John's growing and rocky relationship with Hal along with his own motives for wanting to become a lantern. Getting back to the show we then fade away from a young John to an now fully grown badass John in 2016. If you're keeping up with the DC timeline as well this would be 9 years before we met Guy Gardner and Superman which takes place in 2025.

John's workout is then cut short when we get a call and we see him getting picked up by Hal. He screeches around the corner while blasting booty shoes by Casey in the Sunshine Band and though he's late in Hangover and John should be pissed he just is completely nonchalant and clearly doesn't care. It just shows that he's got a handle on his emotions and a detail I love here is that John doesn't even put in a seatbelt which again is playing with the idea that the character has no fear. As Hal then skids out he continues trying to provoke him saying how he disappeared for two weeks and then showed up with a hangover which should make John mad but John refuses to let anything phase him.

How even in just the first couple of minutes of seeing John and Hal together you immediately can tell what kind of relationship this is and not in a good way. Square the Hal is kind of a piece of shit but you can see how he's subtly testing John constantly. He wants to see if he loses cool but John is fully aware of this and just wants to get his training done as soon as possible. Also love this kind of lethal weapon role reversal here where Hal who's at the older cop is the impulsive renegade whereas the younger cop seems more mature and more of an adult.

Hal also mentions that the reasoning disappeared is because he was off on the planet Farron 4. He calls his shithole and says he got a code of celebrating after stopping a civil war on the planet. He says he's been taken over by a race of shapeshifting in sex called the Farroids. Hal then turns out that one of the Farroids called Greenland to help them in their war against another alien race called the Dalgova.

Hal then brings between the two factions by bringing delegates together from each side to fight each other in single combat. At this point they discover that they don't even remember why they're fighting and Hal makes them sit down and figure out their problems. So Subanish reference brings this up as it's the only issue featuring that planet but yeah I appreciate it they touched upon it. Hal then says this story just kind of pisses him off.

He says that they've been doing this for two months now and he still hasn't even worn the ring. To which Hal says hold on a second kid the ring will choose when he's ready but Jon claps back saying the guardians already chosen. Hal again tries to bring Jon back down to saying despite the big blue guys thinking he's hot shit he's nothing but a substitute teacher. Now I'm gonna be honest this well that would have annoyed me.

Hal then decides to give Jon the chance tosses the ring and tells him to meet him at a tackle stand up the road. He then jumps out the car as it goes off the cliff in a kind of sinker swim style of trading. But this forces Jon to learn on his feet and use the ring to survive the crash. Now if we look at the parallels of this and it's kind of playing off how Jon is always being trained in situations that are literal life and death.

We then cut to Jon walking down the desert road which is when he calls his dad. Then he bends to him about how much of a jerk Hal is and that he tried to kill him. But Jon's senior shares him that Hal is just trying to provoke him and that he needs to just breathe in button down and be cool. So we see that not only is Jon's senior still around but he's actively involved in Jon's life and training.

Jon's senior also mentions how Hal and the other lanterns are allowed to have tantrums but they aren't. Now this could potentially be hinting at Jon's senior knowing this from experience along with how he knows Hal's antics are just his way of testing Jon. Jon is farther not having the privilege to have tantrums as well. Also hints at the racial inequality that I think this show will likely be playing upon.

It's clear men have forced for immigration later on and Damon Lindelof was behind Watchmen which tackled a lot of ideas around race. I do also wonder if they're going to bring race into it more down the line and how Jon may be perceived by the public. Now, if they're getting a little pep talk from pops Jon continues his way down the road and the ring starts to beep which is when it materializes Hal. Who you can see looks a bit younger.

He's not got the grace streaks in his hair and he panics and asks Jon if he's dead. This is also foreshadowing the ending. I think that Jon will likely get in touch with his consciousness at some point down the line. Initially Jon just brushes it off thinking it's another one of his silly games but we can't see that Hal is genuinely confused.

He actually seems like a nice version of the character too and apologizes if he's done something to annoy him. We then learn that this new Hal has a backup of his consciousness combined with the sentience of the ring. We also discover that laddens are a quiet upload weekly however Hal has not been following protocol and hasn't uploaded to it in 10 years. Hal's consciousness is also very surprised that Jon doesn't know all of this already saying that he should have taught on these things by now along with how to fly.

So it's clear that Hal wasn't always an arsehole but something happened over the last 10 years as turned him away from his responsibilities. Also getting stuff in 10 year gaps as well and the end of the episode is 26 and I do think that we're going to go back in time to 2006 and see what happened with Hal when the last time you upload his consciousness. In the comics as well as Projection of Hal's consciousness is called an energy twin but it actually works a bit differently. In the books a green lantern can create an energy twin of themselves that can travel at far greater speeds than that of the ring wielders physical form.

However while the energy twin is active the ring wielder remains motionless as their life forces needed to guide them. That definitely isn't the case here though as Hal is just up the road smashing some tacos. With Jon enabled to fly Hal's backup gives him the cryptic message. He says that the real Hal will know what it means before he disappears and Rush will become a prominent place in both 2016 and also 2026.

We then see as Jon finally makes it to the Tacos stand where Hal is living it up as a celebrity superhero. People are taking pictures, hitting the thumbs up and subscribing and Hal is signing autographs. How about his attitude quickly changes when Jon gives him the message and he tells Jon to pay the bill before flying off. Also a funny moment here comes when Jon says he conjured bubble wrap to survive.

While this seems a bit silly I feel like this plays in how Jon's constructs are typically more practical than most of the other lanterns. Also this most likely comes from his inexperience with the ring as he's never made something purely from his imagination. So his first thought is something totally normal. Now I couldn't find a specific example of a green lantern creating bubble wrap in the comics but I did find this hilarious comment on Reddit.

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Finally arrives to a massive crime scene at the local high school football field where Hal is waiting for him. He says he was testing John to see if he could find his way there on his own which is a pretty shit lesson even for Hal. Like I'm pretty sure Jon knows how to book a plane ticket. We're then introduced to the town sheriff Kerry Kane who is definitely not a fan of Hal.

If you recognize her then it might be because she was in no country for old men and I also found out on breaking down the movie that Kelly McDonald is actually Scottish. Anyway she basically tells him that he needs to leave as lanterns that only authorize to deal with extraterrestrial crimes. And this is just a regular old earth shooting. How about Hal is convinced that the victims on the field are alien.

He notices that none of the people around seem to know who they are and no one has taken the bodies. One quick detail I want to bring up here as well is that on the surface this does seem like it might be the first time that Kerry and Hal have met. How about Kerry does say that she can't do this again. Now she could just mean having to explain again to Hal how we need to get the Hal out there and to stop freaking people out but it also could hint that this isn't her first time dealing with the lantern bullshit and we'll be going back to 2006 I swear.

No else here of Kerry is not happy about it. She sort of gives Hal permission to investigate. I also couldn't really find a good kind of pop of Kerry in the comics but I am thinking that she may be based on a character named Rose Hardy. She's a small town girl from Hope Springs West Virginia and she in Hal had a brief relation to the internship when he tried to return to a normal life.

How about it quickly came to an end when she found out he was a Green Lantern and Rose was also introduced in the 1990 Green Lantern run. This seems to be like a big inspiration for the show and it follows in older Hal Jordan 15 years after he first got his ring and he's basically trying to get back to a somewhat normal life. He ends up going on a road trip across America while John Stewart takes the lead in space and Guy Gardner's recruiters the Green Lantern of the Justice League. How about the order of this run was arrested for some really awful stuff in 2018 which he did go to prison for so DC pretty much deleted it from existence.

I am just going around the subject but it is very bad if he's going to prison for her and you can look it up yourself. But yeah I don't know if they're going to adapt that fully because of how bad the author is. But yeah Rose looks identical to Kerry here which is some great casting if that's the case and I did wonder if that factored into the equation. Hal then gives John another little training exercise and has him give a rundown of what happened.

John insubates the scene and breaks down how everything went down. Hey that's my job. Noticing the kicking block still on the field in the Broken Fence, John determines that the home team must have scored a game winning field goal which caused the fans to storm the field and this resulted in four members of the visiting side being shot in the commotion. Now I'll allow you to see both John and Hal's detective skills here as Hal up until now seems like a pretty shitty role.

But yeah he shows up why he's the Earth's only Green Lantern and he's basically humoring Sheriff King and John because he knows he's right. John then notices one of the victims sweaters on the field and figures out that one of them must still be there. Hal already knows this and has been watching this suspect the entire time which is why he's just been there riding the bench. How about like Hal?

John is a goody two shoes and says I have to respect the chain of command. So he tells us that Kerry turns out she also knows this and has been watching him. And John coming onto the field has screwed up this whole thing. So the guy bolts whoops and Hal was right again but this leads to Jason which John out smarts him and though he's got a lot to learn I also love how he sees military training coming into play here.

And Aaron Pierre to the list of all time great on screen sprinters. You're not as good as Tom Cruise yet but you might get there one day. Do this flying look at that arm control. But with the alien suspect now in custody Hal and taste John out for a drink to celebrate.

We then see him using his ring to create a $20 bill and he puts this into the jukebox. Now this is a hilarious and brilliant use of the Green Lantern ring that I never really considered. However yes I did find an old issue of Green Lantern where a low level criminal named Bill Braggart briefly had Hal Jordan's powering and gained the ability to channel his power. He used it to create fake money and after getting out of prison in 1969 Screen Lantern issue 67.

He basically went on to live a life of wealth. The issue also shows the Green Lantern terror game the fake money using the ring which is absolutely hilarious. On the jukebox he also plays a song a brand new key by Maloney from her 1971 album Gatherme. Throughout this episode there's been loads of old songs whenever Hal's been on screen and I just love this aesthetic.

As Hal and orders some drinks maybe for himself John then asks him about how he got his ring. Hal and says he got it the old fashioned way by being chosen. Not by doing some lame interview with the Guardians. This is of course reference to how John became a Green Lantern officially in the comics so and this happened after Hal Jordan quit the call which happened in Green Lantern issue 185.

John says that maybe he should have interviewed because he's kind of an ass. We then get a sort of extended vision of the story Hal told on the news where he says he was woken up by a giant green bubble that asked if he was afraid. When he said no the bubble flew hundreds of miles in just 10 seconds. Then took him to Abin Sur who as Hal described was super messed up.

He was pink, bald, bleeding all over and he gave Hal his ring. Using his experience as a pilot Hal and flew to none other than Good Old Nebraska which just so happens to be 20 miles away from Rushville. Meanwhile, while Hal is telling the story the jukebox once again starts playing brand new key which pisses pretty much everyone off in the bar but it's a banger what the hell's going on. The fight is ready to throw down but Hal just ignores him and continues on.

Hal goes on to say that once he put the ring on he could understand everything the alien said. Now this was my name is Abin Sur responsible for maintaining the peace and sovereignty of Sector 2814. This responsibility is now yours as the ring has chosen you to be my successor and then his last words were either good luck or oh fuck. Now I feel like Hal isn't being entirely truthful here though this is pretty much how he got his ring in the comics in 1959 Showcase issue 22.

Abin Sur crash lands in California and Hal is then taken from Ferris airbase while working on youth like this trainer crafts. Whew, bit of a mouthful there. But Hal says that it's basically a shit hole planet that the audience never even took into consideration. They didn't even have it in their jurisdiction and Hal being chosen was apparently just a fluke.

This gave him the feeling that Abin Sur's crash was never an accident so ever since he got the ring he's been monitoring Rushville for any more alien activity. This is why he created the hologram which is what John calls it. And hey John's got jokes. Unfortunately they're a little bonding sessions interrupted when brand new key once again starts playing in the bar and the guy who yelled at him before says he's got to kick his ass at the song plays again but Hal just keeps ignoring them.

We then say that Hal is actually being an asshole on purpose this time as John realizes he played the same song in the jukebox over and over as he wanted to get in a fight. This is so that he'll get arrested and locked up with a suspect from the football game so he can slowly start to question him. Which John is 100% cool with if it means Hal gets his ass kicked. It's a bold strategy cotton.

Let's see if it pays off for him. He then gives John his ring and goes over for the fight which is when John notices a woman at the bar giving him the good old eye shag. She then asks if he's going to say yes to Hal. John says he doesn't think that Hal wants him to have it and that he's been testing him and the lady asks how he's being tested.

Which whoa lady who the hell is you and why are you asking so many questions. Now I was thinking may I should be a space cop yeah cause I was super suspicious about her. But it doesn't seem to set off any alarm bells for rookie John. He then shares a drink with her shags are outside which I don't think is protocol and John also shows off of it by using the ring to light up a cigarette.

Which I will say was pretty smooth. Now am I the only one who thinks this lady is up to something right? Especially with what we learn later. I mean let's roll the tape back and hear some other questions she asks John.

You don't say yes does he have. She even calls him a space cop before John tells her he's in training. Please be scared for me to use as a young baby. It's like an interrogation.

Also not it's the last thing that John tells her before they go back when she asks what happens after training. Yeah he says earth can only have one green lantern so he's being trained in case something happens to Hal. You might have screwed up there John. That doesn't seem to be like something you should be telling random people you meet in bars.

Let's just say this lady is some kind of near do well and knowing that earth only has one space cop and his replacement is still in training. That would be a pretty great thing to hear if you're trying to take over the planet. I also love how happy Hal looks here while he's getting rested after getting beaten across the bar. Like yes my plan worked flawlessly.

We then cut to the next day where John goes to pick up Hal from the station. They're saying the Sheridan County Sheriff's Office which is because they are in Sheridan County. Obviously but it could also be an odd to DC writer Tim Sheridan who wrote 2024s Alan Scott the Green Lantern who also discovered that Sheriff Kerry has locked Hal in the broom closet because she knew he had a plan to get arrested so she decides to make an example of him. She brings him in front of a judge from peeling on her investigation and I love how Hal is like hey come on I'm a Green Lantern.

I'm the Joker baby. Also you can see the judge's name is Janet Sloan which could be a super son or not of the original Mr. Terrific aka Terry Sloan. How about despite Hal flashing his Green Lantern status the judge is not having it until Jason Ritter with a moustache comes to Hal's defence with Ernie's Billy Makin who is a lawyer that quickly gets Hal on bail and he's also the husband of Sheriff Kerry.

Ooh and that is going to be a pretty awkward conversation later. We then see that moustache Jason Ritter is not just a good guy in a Green Lantern fan but also a typical slimy lawyer. He was sent by his father to bail Hal out and invite him out to his ranch for dinner which Sheriff Kerry is not very happy about. We then see John and Hal arrive there and see that it's not just your average farm but a full on compound.

It's complete with an armless shirt, training grounds and once there we need to carry him Billy Sonoa who I only mention because it's the same kid who played Frankie in Spider-Man War and also Alex in weapons and I love that show and film. Sheriff Kerry also warns Hal that her father and all knows all about him and that he's not someone he wants to fuck with. So yeah it's clear something mischievous is going on here but I'm super curious to see how Sheriff Kerry fits into all of this. It seems pretty clear that she's not really down with whatever her husband and father are doing but she clearly doesn't want Hal's help and is trying everything she can do to get rid of him.

I didn't even get flashes of Linda Lough's watchman TV show during this and in that we had a militia group based around Rorschach that would try, well I'm not spoiling but it's something similar but this doesn't deter Hal at all and he then goes to me Billy's daddy William. We learn he was a sniper in the Marines and it's disappointed that they didn't look him up. He tells him that despite having a weapon of mass destruction and walking into unknown territory is either trust or arrogance and yet this guy is definitely a bad guy. We then learn that this isn't even his compound and that he's working on behalf of a mysterious employer.

He can't legally talk about, identify. Yup classic bad guy mystery stuff there. Thinking he's just some doomsday nut job against the government Hal then tries to shoot him down but making reveals the reason he called him is that he knows all about the aliens. Taking Hal out of the grill he then says that when Hal revealed himself to the world as a green lantern he realized that Earth was just waiting for some alien species to come and take it.

He compares it to how the land they're on right now once belonged to the natives who were unaware that ships were coming from across the ocean to take it. Realizing that he's dealing with an ancient alien theorist Hal tries to assure him that he's been all over the galaxy and it's a relatively peaceful place but making says if that's the case why do they need space cops? Then he shows Hal that he's not some crackpot with his head in the sand but a student of history. Which I feel like exactly what every crackpot conspiracy theorist says.

But basically making his convinced that aliens are coming to colonize Earth. I do want to know if this is going to play off Superman as well as how we learn that the House of L actually had plans for clock to come and invade and have a harem of women. He says the guy is sitting in Sheriff Kerry Sal is part of an advanced team but of course can't disclose how he knows this. Now I did think the subtext was a bit heavy handed here especially when he's like we don't want people along this planet who wasn't born here we don't take highly the old kind around here but I'm interested to see how this is going to go over with the internet.

The greatest place for new ones discourse. Meanwhile John teaches Sheriff Kerry's son to throw football because the kid throws like he's got two left arms. He tells him not to aim the ball but just to imagine it going through. This parallels how a Green Lantern crates their constructs through their imagination and well and I love how John starts to tell a kid that he'll end this by his dad shooting apples off his head.

Like it's a totally normal thing but John is interrupted by the arrival of Noah's grandmother who is dun dun dun the lady John shag last night. We'll end that she's a cool Zoey makin and is the wife of the alien Wackle cowboy. Ooh and it's going to get awkward. Or maybe it won't which we'll talk about in a bit but we then get to after the party where makin walks John and Hal that they call and tells Hal that he talked to the sheriff so he can question the alien suspect.

That also makes it very obvious that he knows that John shag his wife was a bit weird. But he's also kind of cool with it. I don't know but yeah makin is for sure a bad guy I know that. Now there have been some rumours lying about that.

Willy makin could actually be William Han from the comics also known as the Black Hand. He's a classic Green Lantern villain who became obsessed with harnessing the power of the ring. He created a device to drain the power from Hal's and later gain the ability to drain people's life force directly from them. This happened after he was experimented on by aliens and this could be what they're doing in the show.

Again DC has rebooted its comic universe a couple of times at this point but in Black Hand's original origin he grew up in a very wealthy family but ended up paying them and uses resources to turn to a life of crime. Which I feel fits with at least a little bit we know about William makin so far. Despite him just looking at the property as well it's clear that makin is very well connected and clearly obsessed with aliens. How that we see makin is also interesting in the Green Lanterns as Billy mentioned that he was a huge fan of Hal.

Kerry even said he had papers on him and I think it's interesting how he calls the ring a weapon of mass destruction when he first met Hal. Now it's kind of hinted to me that he's not impressed by the ring's power but more so afraid of it. If makin is indeed playing a version of the Black Hand from the comics I think he's going to be out of those rings and could see them as a threat to humanity despite the lantern's job being to protect Earth. This could be why it's missing at the end and makin may have been the one who's taken it.

Plus we've already seen his wife cozying up to Jon and it goes back to those very specific questions that she asked about at the bar. I feel like Zoey may be playing an even bigger game in all of this but if she told makin anything about what Jon had told her that night then he knows that if he takes that Hal Earth will be left with its untrained backup. Which is not good. We then see Hal and Jon arrive at the police station and the suspect who we learn from Sheriff Kerry is supposedly just a random truck driver named Will and Sanders.

Kerry believes this and has checked him out and knows from his x-ray that he has human organs. How about Jon and Hal also convinced and they say there's currently 14 species with a technology to pass as humans. It may be some Kryptonian invasion shit but it doesn't seem that strong. But everything from x-rays to MRIs and blood work that's all been done and it's plenty of the idea in our heads that aliens could be anyone.

And I'm looking at you mustache Jason Ritter despite having no way to prove that he's alien Hal's convinced he can get him to confess and he leaves Jon to give him his next lesson. Also I love how when Hal is going to the interrogation room he tells Jon to stay back and you can see Jon's reflection on the two way mirror which makes it look like he's sitting across from the suspect. This symbolises how Jon will one day take Hal's place and be the one on the other side of the glass. You'll also see Jon is somewhat of an artist and he makes a sketch of the suspect which is actually pretty good.

We haven't really learned much about Jon yet but in the comics he is an architect and not an artist. So this feels more like it could be another Green Lantern Caloraina. In the comics he was actually a freelance artist before acquiring his ring and most of his constructs are based around his artistic imagination. As Hal enters the interrogation room he starts shooting the ship with a guy and asks him where he's from and why he came out of the bubble cane.

He says it's because he's just a big fan of football and Hal starts quizzing him on the Nebraska football facts. On the Nebraska football. I'm a lot of but I'll admit it. He then gets them all right.

How about things change when Hal and asks him what the name of Harry Potter's school was and the guy's completely stumped. Also I love how he goes Harry Potter the boy wizard. It reveals that while aliens are really good at studying up with their specific roles they neglect to learn common things that most humans would know. Snake kills Dumbledore.

Now that was pretty clever but Kerry is still unimpressed. She asks Jon how he can work with someone that he doesn't respect and says that Hal isn't fearless but lonely. Also I know it's my job to literally over analyze these things but it seems to me that Kerry is trying to get Jon to shit talk out here. Notice how Kerry's reflection hobbers right over the alien suspect as well but we can't see Jon's reflection on the other side.

It's almost like she's been interrogated by Hal. Now I'm not be reaching here but this possibly could be hinting at Harry being one of these undercover aliens herself. This would explain why she's been trying so hard to get rid of Hal and keep him away from the makings. But that not a kid he was a little too polite wasn't he now I think about it and he's also a star football player when he grows up.

He's using his alien powers for profit. Now if Kerry does don't have to be an alien I don't think she's involved with whatever makings planning and is possibly just trying to hide herself and play sheriff on earth which could even build off her line of. When she first met Hal back to Hal's interrogation the suspect tries to scramble as Hal continues to ask him pop culture facts. He drops the act though after giving Hal a wicker-peded description of Barack Obama.

He then says that if he was an alien who took the time to hide himself and learn about stupid human shit like football it would be for a very important reason. This is a reason that would need to be kept secret from an intergalactic peace organisation because it doesn't involve peace but instead involves war. Now listen they're like I'm getting over now this room at this point. He then says that if he was taken by such an organisation he would have to take drastic measures to ensure his mission wasn't revealed.

The alien suspect then reveals hypothetically of course that he has a biometric neutron device woven into his skeleton that he can activate with just a thought. Hal then says that he can just contain it with his ring but the suspect asks how much power he has left it. He also knows that he's been in town for the last 48 hours and that the lanterns have to recharge their ring. The alien knows ball.

Now in the comics and I'm guessing the show too, a green lantern ring basically has to be recharged every 24 hours. So this alien knowing that shows whoever this guy is or who his people are they've tangled with the lanterns before and have probably already been watching Hal. Tired of the games Hal's ready to get the party started and he asks if they're talking or exploding and the alien then provokes him by starting to recite the green lanterns of which it does get to Hal and he throws the guy up against the wall saying. Harry Potter, wait a minute, fuck.

Which is basically gonna be probably the summary of my Harry Potter breakdowns. If we do it I don't know if we're gonna do it. It seems like a fucking nightmare. However the alien suspect then just gives a chuckle and says he's here for vengeance before his art starts bleeping.

Hal and throws him across the room and contains him in a bubble before getting a well deserved told his soul. We then jump ahead 10 years at 2026 where we meet an older John driving into Rushville to meet Sheriff Kerry. John's also rocking a stick. Goatee which references his John Stuart Luck and the animated Justice League series.

We can also see that something bad must have happened there over the last 10 years as John drives past. What I think is the making range but it's now being completely destroyed. Could be wrong on this so I need you guys to confirm it and I did also wonder if it might have been the police station here but I did double check that. The explosion wasn't that bad.

It's still standing so it wasn't that. John and Kerry also seem to be glad to see each other with John asking about Noah who Kerry says is now the team's quarterback. Sorry, he wasn't playing in the big leagues but I was rambling there. That was the first thing I came to mind.

But I guess John's lessons really suck with him and interestingly there's no mention of Billy or William. Kerry will of course come around to their side by the end of all their spots. I'm still not convinced he's not an alien. We then see the reason for this little reunion as they make their way under the field and we see Hal sitting in the stands.

How about this time Hal isn't just taking in the sights but he is in fact dead. His body's frozen solid and the ring is also gone. We then pan away and hear the song, Can you buy Scood Man Boys which takes us to the credits? And what a way to finish the first episode.

Also, notice how they kind of toy with this year as we can't see if John has the ring now. They cover his right hand with Hal's when he's checking his body and we also have to remember that this would be a year after the events of Superman where Guy Gardner is the current Greenland of Earth. This episode made it pretty clear a few times that Earth can only have one Greenland but maybe they expanded the roster. If not though, we do get a bit of a mystery here with who killed Hal and what John's current status in the course.

Now Hal has died in the comics a few times before but it was way more dramatic. Most famously after he was possessed by the fear of ending known as Parallax in the 90s, he ultimately sacrificed himself by using all his powers to reunite the sun. Which is a bit more bombastic than this. So this seems like a new storyline for the show but I'm sure we'll get some more clues as the season goes on that will help us figure this one out.

Now I am pretty stumped so hit me with those best theories in the comments. That brings us to the end of Latin's episode one and I've got to say I was a little on the fence about this going into it and did kind of struggle with the pacing up points. I am expecting the season to ramp things up but I wasn't initially hooked by the main mystery in the episode and it was only by the final scene. I was like alright this is very intriguing I will watch this next week.

I will say that Aaron Pierre is just fantastic as John Stewart and I love the dynamic he has with Carl Chandler's Hal Jordan. That's sort of contempt mixed in with respect. It just makes the dynamic. I think the relationship between the pair that's going to be what the show's built upon.

I also really love the true detective vibes of the episode. I've been very open about saying that in Fluins without even being what was in the original pitch but it helps to lean more into the cop aspect of the Greenlands and make some different to Superman and Supergirl. The first episode also sets up things pretty well for the mystery to continue and as someone who likes Lynne Lough's work, I'm interested to see where it goes. It kind of felt like the police chief hanging scene at the end of the end of the Watchmen episode one and if you've seen that series it opens up quite a lot of things but I don't know, something about it feels a bit drab especially for a premiere where it's supposed to really grab you and suck you in for the next eight weeks.

Another show has been criticised for how dull it looks and yeah it's kind of impressive they've managed to do a Green Lantern show and the only Green I saw in it was the basket at the tackle place. I'm guessing it will open up though or at least I hope it does but I don't know I found elements of this kind of boring is the only word I can think of but it is early days so I don't want to be too harsh as well acted. Lynne Lough again I like him and yeah we'll see how it goes. It's also clear the show is pulling from lots of different Green Lantern comics instead of adapting a specific run or arc so I am excited to see more of what they do with the source material and how this builds into the future of the DCU.

As I'm sure you guys have seen from the videos I'm still a bit funny on the DCU yeah they haven't quite won me around yet so we'll see how the series goes but I am interested to see where it takes things next and yeah I'll hopefully see you back next week. Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show I'm your host Paul and this video we're breaking down lanterns. In Blackest Day, in darkest night heavy spoilers jokes are surely going to be laced throughout this video as we talk about episode 2. Coming back after the major Clefanger of last week this entry takes us back to 2016 and it we see as Hal and Jon continue to investigate the seemingly alien invasion of Rushville.

However as the mystery continues to unfold both Jon and Hal are confronted with the realisation that they could be at the centre of a massive conspiracy centering around Hal's predecessor. Just like with episode 1, episode 2 is loaded with easter eggs and references to the comics and throughout this video we'll be breaking it all down and talking about how this entry sets us up for the rest of the season. If you admire our work then please hit the thumbs up and if you admire our work please subscribe as we will be covering the show every single episode. Without the way though thank you for clicking this now let's get into lanterns.

Sinatra Hal. Now we start this episode in the year of our Lord 2016 Jon is taking a much needed nap after the events of episode 1 until Hal comes in and gives him a little wake up call by dumping a bucket of water on his head. Right from the off the guy is just a dickhead. I thought a guy got no as bad as a dear me.

As a man who's been woken up by a bucket of water before this also killed me but Hal is ready to get today's training started which will probably also be terrible for Jon. Jon was asked how what the Guardian said about everything that's going on in Rushville but he says he didn't even bother telling them. This shows once again how Hal is sort of this renegade cop while Jon wants to follow the proper chain of command. This sort of builds up the back of how he sort of went over Hal's head back at the football field by wanting to tell Sheriff Kelly about the alien that was still there which we saw didn't work out too well.

So maybe Hal has a bigger reason than just being a shitty lantern for not wanting to call the Guardians just yet. If you saw our last video as well then you will have seen that we did a theory about Jon's dad Jon's duet senior. We did think he might be connected to the lanterns and may have been the original one that was supposed to get Hal's place. Huge shout outs to Colours' Adore 9-7-8-5 on our last video as well who pointed out that Hal keeps calling Jon Jr which I think highlights that Hal did indeed know his dad.

Hal then takes Jon outside to finally give him his first flying lesson which is basically just him giving him the ring and telling him to fly. Great training! Jon is reluctant though and kind of just wants to focus on the mission because that's the priority. Also love how Jon puts the ring on his middle finger and shows it as a way of flipping him off and Hal kind of steps back for a second.

Wait, did you just do what I think you did? Hal then proves once again how great of a teacher he is and he doesn't give him any other advice than to just fly. He says how he was a fight applied so he just thinks of flying and it happens automatically. So all Jon needs to do is focus and think of flight.

Now that sounds easy enough but as we see Jon struggles to take off. He lifts his heels up the ground and just ends up going nowhere and you may have seen the fan edit that people thought was real where Jon fought it whilst doing this. Part of me did wish it was real. Well Jon isn't able to get off the ground we then see his intense focus on flight manifests itself as a bit.

This guy impresses Hal and he's clearly taken aback when the bird is still there after Jon takes off the ring. He will never admit that and says the bird is just a one time party trick because the ring is low on power. He then slams this on the trunk of his car to give it a little extra juice which is kind of like hitting a battery and it's also like one of the most powerful weapons in the universe where we see how he treats his stuff. Now we will talk more about this in just a bit but it is a very important thing and the reason Hal looks so shocked here is because creating a living construct is not something that every green lantern can just do.

Now the way it works is the ring can create anything the wearer can imagine and as long as they have the will to bring it into existence it will come forth. Because of this the construct is only as powerful as the will power of the lantern who created it and it can only exist as long as it's being fueled by the lanterns will regardless of its appearance. So, you know something like a tank that would be more intricate in design but creating a living construct independent of its creator like a bird that would require an immense amount of willpower which John did almost instinctively. This is the power that Hal has been shown to have in the comics but it was only after he got a massive upgrade after creating his own ring from the willpower of an old man hunter.

Hal's living construct also worked more as an illusion rather than an independent construct and if you want to check that out, Green Lantern issue 3. Why ring that up though is because we can see that isn't the case here as the bird flies around on its own without John even looking at it. Also, feel like this is a good example of the difference between John and Hal. Hal says he's a pilot so things like flying or evading danger comes naturally to him.

Just opposing this, John is a soldier who's had to face his problems head on and figure out the most practical solution to overcome his obstacles. Whether in the military or just throughout his life, John has never been able to just take off and escape quickly. He's always been a foot soldier. So, it's hard for him to envision himself flying away from something and instead his thoughts of flight manifest as something realistic that actually does fly.

But right now, he's still grounded and Hal sends him off to his home in Co-City. This is in order to retrieve his lantern so he can recharge the ring. His enhanced John at plane ticket which he's already paid for, he's showing that even if John was able to fly, he would have still made him travel by plane. It's just another bullshit errand to mess around with John while Hal screws around Nebraska and he also says to make sure to feed Earl who we'll meet in just a moment.

But on that, he must also take the bird with him and keep it alive on the journey. He says that if John loses his concentration, it disappears and he fails. Also, there's an admitted stretch here, but we can see Hal is staying in room 16, which could be a nod to Green Lantern issue 16. There, John and Hal team up to fight the rogue lantern Mogo who's been corrupted by the Red Lanterns like a rage.

Now normally, I try to avoid doing stuff like, there's a number there so it must be a reference to this, because often random. But we do get a Mogo reference later in the episode and eh, we're just, I want to cover all our bases here at Heavy Spoilers. We then see Hal back in the football field where he's once again just surveying the scene. He looks at the scoreboard, the broken fence and the blood still left on the field which all things that John pointed out last week.

This made me think that Hal is sort of going through it in his head and double checking John's work. And he might even be thinking, God damn that kid is actually pretty good. But this scene also has a much darker undertone to it as well, given that we know this is the place that Hal's body will be found. With him even sitting in the exact same seat on the beaches.

As Hal then continues his investigation, he becomes interested in the metal detectors and realizes that he doesn't set it up when he walks through. Hal then decides to further this test by prying the grill of his car and taking it through the detector, which also doesn't set it off. Knowing that something doesn't quite add up here, we then see Hal driving through the town as he tries to call Sheriff Kerry. He does an answer and then he notices Rushville as it goes town so he hovers up and spots everyone's cars at a building opposite the police station.

Which is basically where our next scene takes place, how about before he's able to fly on over his ring and dies. Well so I couldn't find out who voices the ring in the credits, but it did sound like James Ortiz who recently did the robotic voice for Rocky and Project Hail Mary. But that is just a guess. This ring goes to a run out of charge.

My first door was a hit sounds like kit from Knight Rider, but that would be insane because William Daniels is like 90. They're gonna make him do this until he's 90. And Hal would never let you retire. But Hal then crashes the town's meeting where they were obviously talking about him.

He also notices another metal detector that doesn't go off as the end of the building and despite Sheriff Kerry telling Hal to politely fuck off, he decides to stick around and find a seat. I love how brash and direct that Hal is as well and how he chooses the most awkward seat possible. Even though you can see there's an open seat right at the front of Kerry. Billy-Macon then creeps in to tell Hal that his charges have been dropped and that he's free to go home.

Which is not so subtle. Yeah, leave please. How about Hal is more concerned with how Billy's adding you to the aliens were on the football field and how they were able to identify and kill him. This causes Billy to kind of scramble until Kerry interrupts them for continuing to disrupt the meeting.

Hal also shoots his shot with Kerry again right in front of Billy when she calls out Honey and Hal responds. Which I respect. Was I love how annoyed Sheriff Kerry is by Hal with her grabbing the mic super close and so he's saying the meeting will take as long as it takes. Now we know from the events of last week that Sheriff Kerry at least stays in touch with John after the events of 2016.

So I'm very curious to see how this dynamic between them shifts throughout the series. She may even be an alien disguised as a human and I'm gonna say it while all thinking it. Noah is an alien as well. But nah, I didn't know it was that throughout the episode that they kept referring to the big bad as he and a little trick and screenwriting for you guys there.

If you're doubling down on something to reveal a twist or something, normally you keep saying the gender over and over again if the gender's different. So the fact they kept doing that kept saying he all the time assuming the bloody gender that did make me wonder if the identity of the alien was gonna be revealed to be a woman. It might even be Maken's wife but we have another author theory for that instead. What a set around Fuxus.

It does seem like it makes sense. What's the one point out that we can see the town meeting as being held at the Legion post 161. Merigal Legion posts up pretty much in every town in the States and in some parts of Europe's but I wanna point this out because it may be a subtle reference to a character called Legion from the Green Lantern comics. In that the Green Lantern cause discovered an aggressive race of insects on the planet and the lantern stopped them from spreading throughout the galaxy.

The send force then tried merging to a hive mind using a new mechanical body and they named themselves Legion. The line bring this up is because Legion was actually the ones responsible for Abin's death in Green Lantern's original origin story pre-Infinite Crisis. That happened at the Legion's Swore of Enjonal Lanterns and it managed to kill the lanterns of Space Sector 2815, 2816 and 2817. They then encountered Abin's Ser but they were unable to harm Legion due to its yellow coloring which forced Abin's Ser to escape to Earth.

Here the ring then chose Hal Jordan as a successor. However like I said this was retconned at the Infinite Crisis with Abin's Ser's death being caused by the Red Lantern atrocities. Ooh we will also talk more about later and I do think that teasing him as well. Legion was never seen again and I'm not sure if that was intentional but regardless it's a nice nod to an important character in Hal's history.

Now as Jon arrives at Hal's place in Coast City he calls Hal because he can't find a key. We then see that Hal lives in a giant mansion which makes the fact that he hides his key in a fake rock. That much funnier. Hal's joke about the rock having either a smiley face or a frown could also be a subtle reference to the Red Lantern's lonelier socks and his Green Lantern counterpart Gailus said, The basically giant heads with limbs and Zillius pretty much looks like a boulder with teeth.

Another Hal admits to Jon that he got the house for free after serving some rich guys kid and we can see various pictures of him with powerful people such as the Pope, former US President George W. Bush and the cast of Harry Potter which is quite funny and explains why Hal has the alien suspect about Hogwarts in the last episode and he has the full picture on the screen right now if you want to see it. As young goes through the house he also gets Hal going through the morgue which sort of creates a parallel between the two. We then get some penis because it's HBO and legally they have nudity in every show and Jon also comes across something phallic shaped as well.

But beyond that we have him mirroring Hal's steps and he will literally be following his footsteps. This guy that Hal doesn't really say that often and I feel like this is a mental parallel to Harry's line in the last episode about how Hal is very lonely and no one cares about him. He's not fucking fearless, he's lonely. Looks like she was pretty spot on as well as the only thing he really has is a mattress.

And his Harry Potter picture of course which isn't even hung up. How about we don't see any photos of Hal with his family of friends and instead it's simply him meeting famous people in the 60 minute segment he talked about how losing a parent is the worst thing I can ever have in you and I think since then he's decided to shut himself off to avoid the pain. I think this line also connected with Jon as potentially he lost his mother as well. As Hal is dragging the alien body out of the morgue Jon then finds Hal's closet where he keeps the lantern but first he stops to check out Hal's green lantern suits.

You can also see his little eye mask sitting on the table behind Jon and when they get some more foreshadowing as Jon puts the suit up to himself in the mirror and imagines himself as an official green lantern. Kenzie just how much he means to him with how he handles it so generally when taking it out of the closet and almost looks at it in awe. Just shows how much respect he has with the job and it's like a great parallel to how the young Jon was mesmerised by seeing Hal on TV. Even sneakerly asks Hal if he wants to bring it just in case and it's clear that he's enamored with seeing it in real life.

Having a physical suit is also somewhat of a change from the comics is there, it's manifested by the ring. And it's not like an actual piece of fabric which is probably why we see Hal has three different versions of the same suit. As you know, watching them is not going to be easy and I doubt he's doing it regularly. You also get a funny line from Hal about how hard it is to take a piss when you're wearing the suit.

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Plus we've got a sale on put the sum out where the more you get the more you're saved. Plus Hal holds up the alien body to his car John finds the box containing the lantern battery which leads to a pocket dimension and the comics most laddens keep their batteries and pocket dimensions to keep them safe but they can really hide them anywhere and Hal originally kept it in a locker up various air force space. How about the Green Lantern ring is also sort of its own pocket dimension within itself with steel telling John's to in Green Lantern war journal issue four that the ring is a pocket dimension given by the mind instead of the laws of physics. Pocket dimensions have of course also appeared in the DC before and I like that this constant thing throughout a lot of the projects.

How about to access a dimension John needs to pass code and Hal says the phrase over the phone which is Mogo doesn't socialize. Again this is a reference to the Green Lantern Mogo who was tasked with guiding rings to a new sentient being when a host dies. Mogo first appeared in the backstory for Green Lantern 188 titled Mogo doesn't socialize by Alan Moore. But why doesn't he socialize Paul?

Well thanks for asking but the reason that he doesn't socialize is that he's actually a sentient planet and he's unable to attend to Green Lantern meetings because his gravitational pull would rip apart everything that it got close to. The issue is also where John reveals his true identity to the public after officially becoming Green Lantern so having that be the password used for John it feels quite fitting. As John reaches into the box to find the lantern we then see the pocket universe as a black anti-voy that goes on forever. While John is able to find it pretty easily, notice how the little bird flies in the box when it first opens almost as if it's leading away.

The lantern battery is a source of the lantern's powers so it makes sense that a construct would be instinctively drawn to the battery. So like how canaries used to detect dangerous parts of a coal mine. How about this also shows how strong of a construct that the bird is as it leads John to the battery without him even being aware that he's doing it. We can also see John showing the same level of respect and awe to the lantern as it's one of the most powerful objects in the universe so he probably wants to handle it with care.

I can imagine Hal just smacks it about with stuff. With the lantern secured we then meet Hal's mysterious pet Earl who turns out to be an alien plant. Though it seems vicious at first it's actually pretty sweet and just chows down as John shoots the ship with him. John also brings up how burgers it used to be his thing too.

Now this is a nice little nod to how his dad took him for a burger after almost blowing his head off last week. Yay some father and son time. Also I love how John is trying to connect with Earl here as both of them are clearly neglected by Hal. Earl is also a super deep cut reference to one of Hal John's earlier side kicks.

This was a little starfish plant alien that Hal picked up in 1959's The Flash 2 3-8. Hal just sort of took it everywhere with him for a while and it held him out on his adventures until it randomly died in Green Lantern 104 which rest in peace anyway. We then come back to Hal and Rushville as he arrives at the football field with his car full of dead bodies which kind of killed me that he just kept dragging them around. Hal then realizes that these set up the metal detectors and also notices a little camera watching him from the corner.

Now able to prove how making new huditogate at the game Hal starts to head towards the ranch and this is when he's pulled over by the sheriff. She tells him that it's a very very very bad idea to confront Macon and that she already knows all about the detectors. Which I get that Carrie hates Hal but she would have saved herself a lot of trouble if she just told Hal this from the beginning. Hal about Carrie decides to go with Hal after he asks what side she's really on.

She stipulates to let her do the talking but once at the ranch Hal of course can't keep his mouth shut. The guard then tries to get them to leave which is when making rights on his horse. How about Macon isn't interested in being grilled butts with Hal anymore and he tells them to get the hell out of his town and even has a Kevin Feige style sniper waiting in case he doesn't back down. Hal then tries to question him about the only detectors saying that he's been all over the galaxy and has never seen something so sophisticated.

He says the detectors were a gift from his mysterious boss but can't say anything else because of the NBA. Hal also asks if Macon's boss is even real or if it's a... This is of course a reference the 1990 film the usual suspects and that Kevin Spacey's character Roger Kind helps the cops in their investigation of a crime lord named Kysusosay. But by the spoiler alert, well we all get a spoiler it's 1995.

At the end it's revealed that they're actually the same character, the same person spoilers for that movie. So the pair then argue with him calling Macon's bluff about the shooting while making also the same thing to him. He then flashes his ring and says he can just stop the bullet which we know is not true because it's dead. But Volhal can even finish the sentence he then gets shot and I know these other bad guys but Hal did kind of deserve that one.

You can also see when the camera zooms out that there's a sign above the Macon property that reads study the past. This plays into Macon's obvious obsession with history and colonization and it's just a nice little bit of set aside. Meanwhile as John's leaving Hal's mansion he gets jumped by three dudes who take him hostage. We get a nice little action scene that leads to a highway and also get some of Aaron Pierre's running again.

Which he is a fantastic runner we know that from episode 1. My name is John Stewart and I'm the fastest greener. There's also the baddie showing how powerful that they are and we get a whoosh sound effect that you often get with a superhero landing. We then see John waking up surrounded by the goons in their boss.

Although we don't get his name here the credits do list him as Anton. He apologizes to John for the violence he took to get him there and asks Hal's able to project the construct when he's so far away. The shock to learn though that this is John's and it just highlights how strong his will is Anton and then reveals the reason they took John is to find out what he knows about the man hunters. Which he says super dramatically but I do think it might be a misdirect because of the way they talk about them and build them up.

I do wonder if the surviving one is going to turn out to be someone who just wants to lie low and that they might not be the threat they've been built up as being. Kind of like what they did with the scrolls in the MCU. How that Anton thinks John is just playing dumb saying that it's hard to believe he doesn't know anything about the man hunters giving his proximity to Hal Jordan. Which John clarifies that by proximity he means closeness and that obviously human is an F.S.

language because he's nowhere near close with Jordan. Also love how this sort of parallels Hal's interrogation with the alien suspect last week except this time John's in hot seat. But last week the guy's ignorance of Harry Potter completely blew his cover but he had John's able to juice these people that aliens from just one slip up. And may I start questioning myself as well?

I say proximity a lot too. Heavy spoilers isn't alien. I do think you should have double checked by asking if he knows Neville Longbottom but yeah these guys aren't human. John then says they're about to torture a guy who doesn't know anything but Anton is sure of him and they don't want to torture him.

They want to recruit him. He says there's no time for subtlety and that one of the most dangerous beings that ever exist knows it's been found and is preparing its brutal response. He then asks if John really thinks the Green Lantern came first. Realising that John really doesn't know what's going on.

The alien boss says this is actually a good thing because he doesn't need to change John's mind. Simply just to enlighten him. We then get the rundown from Anton that there was a time of chaos in the galaxy until the man hunters came on the scene. He was mysterious, synthetic beings able to take the form of any species and embed themselves within the society.

Able to build technology far beyond the planet saying how did the man hunters carry out their own form of brutal justice that destroyed entire planets until they mysteriously disappeared. How about the boss says that one of the man hunters stayed behind and quietly orchestrated a holocaust on their home planet. He asks if John has ever been betrayed by someone he loves and that if he has then he'll understand when he experiences what the man hunters did to them. We then see the alien goons loading up what looks to be a laser gun and throwing John on the ground before stabbing him with it in the neck.

This then makes him scream in pain and we see the gun flooding his brain with what I'm assuming are brutal images of the alien genocide that Anton was just talking about and definitely our pictures of Ryan Arie which would have sent me over the edge. But yeah we just had a lot of stuff throwing at us at once. Well what's stuff throwing you stuff. So let's take a moment to talk about these man hunters.

Knowing the comics the man hunters were the guardians first attempt at creating a galactic space core. They built a race of alien androids that they called the man hunters who were meant to be the ultimate force of good in the universe. They then gave them stun guns powered by the Greenlandans power battery and sent them off across the universe with the oath no evil escapes the man hunters. No while the man hunters were filled their duties for almost a millennium their programming was altered by a rogue guardian known as Crona.

This led to them developing a narrow definition of evil in which crime is a result of emotional responses. In the end this caused them to realize that the only logical solution to stopping crime is to kill all organic life. That's one way to do it. The oath was then changed to no man escapes the man hunters.

They then declared war on the guardians to take that power for themselves. This didn't go well for them though and when they tried to claim the central power battery it destroyed all their stun guns and lantern batteries throughout the universe which left them powerless. The guardians then banished them to live on whatever planet they'd been recently inhabiting and they believed that without the powers of the central battery they would never be a threat again. However over time the man hunters began to regroup and discover that the guardians had replaced them with the Greenlandans.

They then vowed to get their revenge and this would come out to destroy the Greenlandan core. The man hunters then quietly continued dealing out their special brand of justice over eons as they regained their numbers. Eventually they made their way to earth during the Middle Ages and discovered it had been abandoned by the guardians and had no Greenlandans to protect it. Which I always thought this line in justice league was a little bit of a reference to.

No protectors here. No lanterns. No plutonium. But this made it the perfect place for the man hunters to hide themselves until they became powerful enough to take on the lanterns.

Interesting comic history fact as well yeah the man hunter was originally a character created by Jack Kirby in 1975's first special issue 5. There was a man named Mark Shaw who discovered an ancient society called the man hunter cult and after joining them he then took on the mantle of man hunter and started fight crime. It wasn't until 1977's Justice League 140 that sure returned as the man hunter to a rest hell after he accidentally blew up a planet. The secret origin with the guardians was then revealed in issue 141 now.

I think this mind control gun that hand is using on John here might actually be one of the man hunters original stun guns. While the ethics of it are debated amongst the core the lantern ring is also capable of altering someone's mind and it can project information into the mind of others. So if this is one of the man hunters stun guns it seems to have just a little juice left or Anton was somehow able to recreate the power somehow. You also notice that the light on the gun is orange and green.

In the comics this often corresponds to green on the emotional spectrum and in case you not familiar with green land lore the powers of the various lanterns come from energy created by the emotions of sentient beings. This is called the emotional electromagnetic spectrum. Green is powered by will, red by rage, yellow by fear and so on and so on. Not really sure how green fits into it and how they're projecting these images into John's head but given everything in the green land world and how it revolves around colours.

I couldn't help but go down this road of reaching. This leads us into our next part of Anton's little speech about how his world was destroyed by the man hunters. He said this resulted in the death of an entire species. In the comics this event was known as the massacre of Sekhita 666 or 666.

You get the subtext there mate. During 2008's Green Land in issue 33 it was revealed the man hunters went on a full on murder spree before being stopped by the audience. They killed all sentient life in the entire sector and left only 5 remaining survivors. After the man hunters were exiled the guardians then refused to accept their failure and basically covered up their crimes.

They forbid the massacre for being documented in the collective history of the guardians and basically green washed the entire thing. How about the 5 beings who survived the massacre came together to form a group known as the 5 envisions. Led by being known as Etrusseus they swore avenge on the guardians of the universe for creating the man hunters. Over the years Etrusseus became so consumed with rage that it got to the point that it physically manifested into a red lantern.

He then used this to bludge in one of his fellow envisions to death and discovered the red spectrum. Etrusseus then killed the rest of the envisions and used their blood to create a red central power battery and also the red lantern rings. Based on what Anssens says here I think it's clear that the massacre of Sekhita 666 is what the character is talking about and it means that he might be or could be connected to Etrusseus. My first thought was that this little crew of his were the other 5 envisions but we can see that there's 6 of them.

We also have the 4 of the members who were killed in Rushville so I am thinking that these might be the members of his red lantern corps. Which could also be why Anton says they want to recruit him. The gun could also basically transfer Etrusseusususus rage into Jon and this would expose him to the red spectrum and would allow him to become a red lantern. After getting his mind blown by the horror shell they then picked Jon up and Anton tells him the effects of their collective loss will remain in him for some time.

Anton then continues on with his story saying that eventually the guardians became aware of the man hunters crimes and sent a green lantern to arrest him. Which also apparently guaranteed them he would be executed. Father Anton and what was left of his people thought this was bullshit and believed the man hunter was still alive somewhere. So they spent years searching for it until they discovered a radiation signal specific to the man hunters on earth coming from good old Rushville.

And I like I've been saying no where is the man hunter. How about since the man hunter is able to disguise itself as human they had to send a recon team into locate it. Which obviously we know ended pretty badly and they were shot up by a makin's crew. However after they were killed who just so happened to show up even not an hour later but Hal Jordan.

This is led Anton to believe that the lanterns are protecting the man hunter and they basically want Jon to be their inside man so he can identify this figure. They have an ultimatum that if he can't find the man hunter in the next 48 hours they'll have to resort to drastic measures and blow Rushville to high hell. Yeah Jon is pretty screwed and considering we've seen what the place looks like in 2026. I'm not sure if it works out well for them.

If right and it's a big if but yeah if our lantern theory turns out to be true as well I think it would be a really cool way to test Jon throughout the series. This would present him with a choice to give him his anger and resentment which we can see clearly has for Hal or if his will can overcome it. Red or green pill Jon you decide. There's still a lot about Jon's backstory that we don't quite know yet but I do imagine based on what we saw of his childhood that there's a lot of trauma to unpack there.

Especially regarding Hal Jordan and how he was found by the audience. One last thing as well because I know we've gone on a massive green lantern lord dump there but if it wasn't obvious the lantern and tan is likely talking about I think it has to be a been served as well last week Rushville is where Hal found a been certain claim the ring which also plays perfectly into our Atlanta theory as we touched upon earlier as well the infinite crisis event retconned a been says origin with Legion and instead had it at the hands of a trusted is the villain was captured by a been served but he was able to instill fear in him we can his willpower and this then gave a trusted is a chance to escape he morally wounded him and left him for dead on earth and an and tan is a trusted is this would be a great way to test how alongside Jon because then learn the truth about a been says death and the guardians role in the death of the entire sector and how they've unknowingly played upon their cover up how even said last episode of a been says crash never sat right with him and that he believes it was an accident back in Rushville we then see Hal waking up in hospital after being shot by making and Kerry then asks about Sinestra yeah how does she know that name she's not authorized to talk about it however Kerry says Hal talks about him a lot in his sleeve and pulls Sinestra up on Google he then gives a bit of backstory saying Sinestra was a green lantern who attempted a coon killed the guardian before being stopped by Hal which all jokes aside yeah I'm curious as to where Kerry looked up this information I don't know if Google has access to green lantern history and it would be a bit weird if you could just go and look this up does also make me wonder a couple things about Kerry and as I'm sure you guessed I've still got my suspicions around her now if you aren't familiar with Green Lantern lore and Sinestra was basically Hal Jordan's arch nemesis in the comics Sinestra was once considered the greatest of all green lanterns and he kept his home planet Kuraga on set up 14 17 completely free of crime under his protection trained by Abensur Sinestra became Hal Jordan's mentor and the two quickly bonded Sinestra became sort of a father figure Hal as he learned how to control his anger and master the ring they even got in trouble with the guardians of being two good old friends and there were two guys I basically always hit the thumbs up and share these videos how about back on his own planet Sinestra became obsessed with making it a paradise free of all crime and proving the true potential of the green lanterns power this then turned him into a dictator and he ruled through fear and when Hal became aware what Sinestra was doing he called the guardians for backup Sinestra was interested stripped of his green lantern ring and banished you an anti-matter universe Hal back during his imprisonment Sinestra swore of engine guardians and Hal Jordan for their betrayal and for the first time in his life he fell fear with the help of weapons amidst from the planet wards Sinestra manifested his fear into a new yellow power ring and became the first yellow lantern he then harnessed the power of fear and the yellow spectrum of power which is the opposing power of will and why green lantern rings don't work on things that are yellow Sinestra has done lots of awful stuff in the comics though but I couldn't find an instance of him murdering one of the guardians as Kerry mentions here so I am interested to see how they'll change things up and basically alter Sinestra and Hal's history together also since we're talking about Sinestra where I mean you may have this little chat about Sinestra where this will be an admitted reach I'll admit that which is kind of becoming a catchphrase of the video but the little snowflakes on Hal's hospital down here did look a bit like the Sinestra core symbol I know they're just snowflakes but it was just nice to think of this as a little bit of visual symbolism anyway whoo back to the scene share of Kerry then lays down the law and tells Hal is time to cut the shit and start listening to her every time he goes rogue all he's doing is making things worse and also undermining Kerry going rogue just reinforces the idea that makings the one who really controls Rushville and that carries some sort of standing sheriff which surprisingly Hal actually agrees with and even apologizes for you can also see they kind of have a little moment together to that indicates Kerry is warming up to hal a bit how that Kerry also makes it clear that she's not on Hal's side or makings but it's just desperately trying to hold the town together with NC as a to have a little truth bonding session where Kerry reveals the reason she was trying so hard to get Hal to leave she didn't want making to use the incident to make everyone in town paranoid about being invaded and Hal then tells her the reason that he refuses to leave is because he has a good feeling that something more is going on here but he agrees to say how to Kerry's way now that their friends in a moment we also see Hal trying to bond more with Kerry and learn that she's originally from Gotham this is obviously a nod to Batman mate well let's give ourselves a pat on the back for spotting that one but we also learned last episode that Kerry's last name's Kane Batman was of course co-created by Bob Kane and Bill Fingar and this sort of made its way into the comics the Kane's immediate family of Bruce's mother Martha and some of you may also recognize the name Kane from the character Kane that's Bruce's cousin who eventually takes on the mantle of batwoman in the comics so the name Kane is pretty important now no before you start me I've done enough reaching in this video and I don't think Sheriff Kerry will be batwoman but it's a cool little notism DC comic history. Halap despite Hal and Kerry's newfound understanding as they go to leave the hospital Hal notices that he's the only patient Kerry just brushes us off saying it's a small town but Hal also points out how all of the equipment looks like it just came out the box so it seems like Kerry may have some more secrets up her sleeve and I've briefly figured it out she is in fact the man hunter we end me back up with John as he's getting back to Rushville and he stops at a diner for a quick bite to eat and who just so happens to be there? Macon's wife Zoe she just chalks it up to being a small town as well and invites John to sit over there now I really hope that we live in a couple of episodes that John was on to her from the start because come on mate this lady is very suspicious she is the man hunter you can even see she's already watching John before he notices her and the only thing she has is a coffee also notice how John's bird flies over the light directly across from her and not onto John's shoulder almost like it's watching her too but John seemingly takes the bait and sits down he tells her that he wouldn't have slept with her if he'd known she was married but she isn't very sorry about it Zoe then goes into explaining the reason she's making is for the security that adolph is and despite him being rich guy laughing as a cowboy they do in fact love each other how that she quickly brings the conversation back to Hal and John admits that he's still trying to figure out if he can trust him which Zoe says if you have to ask the question then you already know the answer now I know I've been super suspicious about Zoe since the first time you met her but come on mate she just shows up to this random diner John just so happens to stop out on his way into town brings up Hal the first chance she gets and even tries to slowly pit John against him to me it's clearly she's trying to play John for information about the lanterns the most obvious reason would be that she's working on behalf of her husband who clearly has a thing for aliens but I don't think that's much fun so what we're going to do is the biggest theory time of the video and that is that she is in fact the man hunter now I actually have a while of theory than that and I think that perhaps that we making could be the daughter of cenestro this is someone known as Saranek Nathu and you might be thinking all that well excellent nail the pronunciation but you might have also lost it this time so let me explain so this scene comes right after we get our first mention of cenestro and the place is filled with lots of yellow things like we talked about earlier this is the color of fear and I do think it is some kind of visual foreshadowing specifically where Zoe is sitting you can see a bottle of muscle on the table and there's a chicken statue behind her that appears yellow due to the lighting when John notices her from the bar we can also see two more mustard bottles with John framed in the middle of them I mean for Christ sake even though the wallpapers yellow I want to go mix when cenestro was still at Green Lantern and best friends with Aben sir he fell in love with Aben sister Aaron sir together they had a daughter named Saranek but when cenestro started becoming more and more he knew that Aaron secretly gave her away to save her hidden from cenestro Saranek grew up to become a neurosurgeon on their home planet after cenestro and enslaved the planet using his Green Lantern ring the lanterns became a symbol of oppression how that saranek eventually became a Green Lantern hisar after a ring came to her following the death of the new slant of sector 1417 it was later revealed that after cenestro went full on bad guy became yellow lantern he found Saranek and marked her with a family coat of arms and I'm trying my best to get their pronunciation as cool sounding as possible but this kind of arms contained a micro transmitter that basically meant he could secretly watch her and follow her her entire life wasn't until a prelude to the blackest night event that cenestro then returned to her and revealed his true identity to his daughter and while she remained with the Green Lanterns and is typically on the side of good saranek later joined her dad and even became leader of the cenestro core herself for a time after he was injured if so he does turn out to be here it would then explain why she's so interested in Hal Jordan and trying to cozy up to John given that we just learned from Kerry that how was the one he took cenestro down it is possible that she blames Hal and the Green Lantern core for what happened to her father she could also be trying to use John in order to get Hal and freeze an estro and there's also the fact that Hal's predecessor Evan sir is Saranek's uncle since even Hal believes there was some kind of cover up involving his death in Rushville the pieces would all fall into place this would give her even more motive to come after John and Hal either for revenge or to find her own answers as to what really happened to Evan sir this would also explain why Zoe came to Rushville in the first place and got with the one guy who is on constant alien watch who now I know I'm filling in a lot of blanks here I've seen your comments last week about reaching but I think this would be a really cool reveal if it happened to be true she's obviously playing some kind of game with John here and I just think it would be kind of underwhelming if she's just trying to get info for making there's even a recent storyline in which Saranek's possessed by the fear and any parallax and transfers it to John which I don't think that's where they're going but hey who knows so yeah went on a went on a bit of a crazy theory time there especially this early in the show but I think it would be a great way to give Zoe a bigger role in the series and another way to test John the show very much emphasizes the whole Green Lantern's con have fear thing and John having to prove himself by facing the literal embodiment of fear be such a great way to show how John was always destined to be a Green Lantern speaking of John's destiny as well we then see Zoe drop him at Hal's Motel there he gives Hal a lantern and gets caught up on Hal being shot and his theory that makings hiding something on the ranch you also see how recharges ring and I love how he just goes through the oath very very fast I let it's clear that John is still trying to decide if he trusts Hal and tries to just go back to his room which is when he notices blood all over the rental car Hal and cracks a joke about the insurance which John does not find funny and he decides to confront Hal about the manhuntists he immediately drops his shit though and asks why should I matter he then rushes to recap of what's just happened and says how they suspect Hal and the guardians are the ones hiding the manhunt how about we can see that regardless of what the guardians are doing Hal is not a part of it he then takes this as confirmation that is gut feeling was right and that Abin Sir must have been killed by the manhunt while bringing it to earth John then tries to ask Hal more about the manhunters but he brushes him off saying it's simply above his pay grade how about John says it very much is now and that the kidnappers also told them that creating a living construct and keeping it alive without wearing a ring is so advanced that it's practically impossible John says it can't be true because if it were Hal would have at least acknowledged it to which Hal sarcastically gives him a who are he then asks John why he manifested a bird and says that he brought it to life from his subconscious so it must mean something to him John says it's just a bird and it turns to dust in his hand which you can see despite what he just said seems to make both him and Hal a bit sir made me be sad that like I was kind of hoping John would have a little bird sidekick for the whole series but I do wonder getting serious again if this comes from his past and he's just acting nonchalant as it might cause to remain him and then make him feel fear like I mentioned before as well creating living constructs is not something every Greenland can do and this is what makes John Stewart one of the most powerful lands to ever weathering in the comics Johnson same level of willpower makes his construct some of the most powerful of any lantern designs them from inside out constructs and piece by piece and this is all in order to make them work practically on a much stronger level John's willpower is so great that he's even able to channel the power of will without wearing a ring this is how he was able to maintain the bird constructs throughout the episode and my aunt Anne said it proved John could do the impossible John has even will the ring into existence from nothing and this happened when he was part of the justice league in four against the next row now I'll John another Latins have made constructs of people before it wasn't until Philip Kennedy Johnson's Green Land War journal that showed that John could also create life he created a construct of his deceased sister Ellie to watch over their mother who was suffering from dementia I like the other constructs Ellie was fully sentient and was able to exist and make decisions entirely independent of John so while it may just be a little bird in the show this is no small feat and shows how insanely powerful John's will is so something how probably doesn't really want John to know either and you almost doesn't want to give him that acknowledgement as it would be like admitting that he's better for the job and John Kels is bird and retires for the night how isn't quite ready to just sleep this all off so he grabs his bag and puts on his suit for the first time in what I imagine is a very long time before then flying off into space we then see how flying over what looks like a desolate planet with a gigantic crack in the middle I didn't even wonder as well and when the trailer came out if the crack that we see in the shot was created by a like sluther and Superman and but yeah this is taking place in 2016 so I don't know why I'm telling you this but I'm debunking my own theory we then see him walking through some kind of alien prison and in the comics these are called sign cells this is where the guardians keep their most dangerous prisoners and this is because they refuse to kill any sentient beings because yeah life is precious each sign cell is also specifically designed to contain each villain and neutralize their power how about in the comics sign cells are also located on the guardians home planet Oha which I don't think is the planet we see here I mean it could be ever in the comics has a massive city with oceans and forests and all kinds of regular planet stuff this place looks frozen in time at least from the birds I view that we get here this makes me think the show could be pulling from some early Greenland comics where the guardians sent their prisoners to a prison planet there they created artificial kind of visions to stop the criminals from ever escaping or contacting each other and it's also prevented them from aging and basically made their imprisonment eternal as how makes his way through the prison we then see him come to a cell that he has to unlock by stating his identity and it's at this point where introduced to the infamous Sinestro Al has come to question him about the man hunters how about Sinestro is a bit insulted but Hal doesn't even ask him how he's doing he then says that if a man hunter still existed it would be the second biggest problem he's facing before asking him to tell him about John Stewart that's where we end the episode and we have a lot to unpack there but I'll try and make this a very quick because we've gone through a lot of comic book lore already today the way Sinestro asks about John seems to imply that he's Hal's biggest problem next to the man hunters I think this is more of a loaded question than it seems though and given everything that we've talked about in this episode with Red Lattens Sinestro his daughter Abin Sir and so on and so on I think the real problem in that Sinestro is referring to here is the prophecy of the Blackest Knight in the comics the Blackest Knight is something that tells the end of the universe after the seven cores of the emotional spectrum fight in the war of light that would awaken the primal darkness of the universe and destroy completely everything while the guardians were aware of the prophecy they refused to believe it and hit it in the last chapter of the book of our have after atrocities and the other five inversions were imprisoned by the guardians they performed a ritual that allowed them to peer into the future and discover the prophecy themselves it trusted us and the other inversions then told the prophecy to Abin Sir when he visited their planet on a rescue mission along with how he would die and be replaced by Hal Jordan but he was forbidden to speak about the guardians who told him that the inversions were demons that told lies.

Abin Sir then continued to visit the inversions to learn more about the Blackest Knight and a Trusidus convinced him that the source of the Black that would consume the entire universe was located on Earth this is when Abin Sir took a Trusidus captive on his ship which resulted in his death the prophecy of the Blackest Knight was also the reason that Sinestro became a tyrant and what led to him becoming a yellow lantern there after he and Hal arrested a Trusidus for the murder of Abin Sir Trusidus gave Sinestro a prophecy of his own of how his homeworld would ascend in the chaos this then led to him becoming a tyrant out of fear becoming true and that kind of works everything together and fits perfectly and Paul you are a genius now and no one kind of working on the assumption here that all our previous theories are right which they're probably on but it seems like this is possibly a direction that the show might be taking us Blackest Knight is widely considered one of the best Green Lantern stories from the comics and so it wouldn't be surprising if that's something they were adapting to massive event that spans across multiple titles but another major character that sets us all off is the Green Lantern Bill in the Black Hand who we theorized last week could be William Macon this scene with Hal visiting Sinestro in prison also seems like it's directly pulled from 2005's Green Lantern issue 28 their Sinestro tells Hal about the Blackest Knight and sets the whole event off following the Sinestro cool war obviously I think a lot of what happens in the comics will be changed for the show but with both of these first episodes putting such a focus on Abin Sir's death and connecting it to what's going on Rushville I feel like it might be a safe bet but that wraps up our episode two breakdown of lanterns and though I wasn't fully sold on the episode last week I really enjoyed this one I love the new factions coming in and pacing-wise this is kind of what I wanted from last week coming from a comic book no perspective as well I'll have all the little details and references that the show's throwing out there to hint what we might be seeing moving forward I know it's my job and all that as well to point this stuff out but I was really surprised while going through the episodes at how many references and storylines that they're kind of stitching together here I mean well only two episodes in and we've got like five theories going already but that's what makes it fun isn't it I am a little disappointed that we didn't get at least one scene in 2026 though especially since yeah last week's cliff hangout was such a massive moment all in all though I'm way more on board with the show than I was last week and I'd love to hear if this is done at the same thing for you or if you've been turned off even more by the episode yes the check cleared as well by DC let the spoilers spending spree begin welcome to the heavy spoiler show I'm your host Paul and this video we're breaking down London's after the reveal of the man had deciding on it last week episode three gives us a classic DC secret origins of John Stuart it's a cracking episode and for as much as I thought episode one was a bit me and episode two was slightly better this really got me hooked on the show I actually think it's one of the best hours in the DC you so far in it we see how John was chosen to be house successor and what he's had to do in order to become fearless parents of the year right there but I do think the episode is very much about John Stuart's senior's failure his mother trying to support his feelings of inadequacy and ultimately they put their son on a path to make up for his failings rather than trying to make him happy they decide to make him fearless and we have seen through how that this leaves you alone and isolated as always this episode is loaded with easter eggs and references to the comics as well and throughout this video we'll be breaking it all down we've also just launched our green lantern themed arsenal t-shirt at the merch store below and have our doom inspired one and lots of other things inspired by movies and tv shows that all help videos like this get made so pick one up and if you pick up two you save more money wait I asked for crayons now we begin in 2016 and sell the episode with John free falling into an empty mall and landing on a stack of mattresses as we learn John had to take a leap of faith to get here and he had to jump into the void to have a moment of transformation John also has to take a leap when he's going on his mission and he's having a transitional point in his life where things aren't exactly as they seem with Enzi John making his way through an apartment store but not before getting off first the least wreck the John walks into the store you can see a sign on the back for Janus cosmetics this in the comics was a business owned by the Batman villain Roman Sionis aka black mask he inherited the business after killing his father and turned to crime when the company was bought out by the Wayne Foundation you'll also notice the ad next the Janus cosmetics shows a woman whose face is half covered with black snakes or something on her face but this further plays him in the black mask I feel like this is also meant to symbolize how not everyone in the show maybe who they say they are as Janus is a two-face god which I'll in from gold and I like everyone else but this goes back to like what we learned last episode that the man hunters could be anyone including no app the idea of people hiding who they are though can really apply to pretty much every character we met in the show so far Sheriff Kerry always seems to know more than she's heading on and Tan and his mysterious group of alien refugees of course have their own plans there's William making with his mysterious boss and hell even Hal guardians could also be hiding the man hunter on earth and they even recruit John to keep an eye on his partner so there's lots of duplicity as John then makes his way through the department store he goes around the back to find the manager's office there he's met by woman played by Lorelani who you might recognize from the Truman show Ozark mystic river and much much more primal fear that as well she's someone who always seems to play duplicity characters with a sweet smile and she perfectly fits what's going on here we watch as she shows another person out and learns she's a guardian recruiting the next Latin of earth before we get to that though I want to point out this dude leaving obviously we have no idea who this is but I'm going out I'm going out on a limb here this is a limb and we're gonna throw out there that this could be Charles Vicar in the comics Charles Vicar was an actor who played Green Lantern TV but got the shot at the real thing after a group of space villains mistook him for the real emerald hero this caused the death of his brother and resulted in him joining Hal Jordan to track down his killers however during adventure Hal gave Vicar Green Lantern ring and he was appointed a temporary lantern he then proved himself in the fight enough to impress the audience and was then made a full member of the Corps. Honestly I came to Vicars because we know it's not God now and I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be Carl Rainer so this narrows it down to Vicar among the earth greenlands. Halah just to cover our bases it could also be a character named Daniel Young he became a Green Lantern for like maybe five minutes after Abbinsur crashed on earth in 1873 and the ring came to him he just used it to protect a local kid from a group of outlaws and the ring then went back to Abbinsur and he if this is all the screen time he gets that would also time with an 1873 year before you start as he leaves Laurel in he then that's Johnny and tells him to have a seat he says that she'll be right back and John just sits there and sits there and sits there all through the night he barely even moves and only shifts to unzip his jacket and check on his watch for the time you can also see a bird fly into the window which keeps John company throughout the night we'll learn a lot more about birds like her in this episode and they kind of build up the construct last week but right from this moment you can see why John was chosen to be a lantern out of left like two minutes into it John is just a stoic dude though and even in episode one he told so i'm just being trained in case they have a majority also little note yeah the guardians in the comics don't really have individual names so i'm just gonna call her Laura Lenny or the guardian throughout this video Laura finally comes back and is surprised to see John still sitting there but you did give him an order i love how John's entire life has basically been tested cbs where they though and he's constantly getting pushed around by his parents and how even something like this is someone seeing if he'll obey and he's just used to being told what to do you might also notice as Laura comes in that there's a whiteboard that says any Adams this is a reference and a marsh to comic artist Neil Adams who co-credits John Stewart alongside Ryan Adani O'Neill in Green Lantern issue 87 the top one is also a lot harder to make out but to me it looks like you can see an L and N possibly even an I in an E but line doesn't really match up with anything so we might be reaching but my best guess would be writer Len Wien who wrote Green Lantern issue 182 where John officially became a Green Lantern that happened after he was interviewed by the guardians which is basically what this scene is yes we are reaching Laura Lenny then asks John if he knows who she is and he gives us a basic rundown of the guardians John also mentions that there were originally 12 of them but that one of them just died recently is of course plays up what happened with Sinestro and the characters being jailed for the crime who also says that they're all blue which is actually a pretty good summary of the guardians from the comics and that's supposed to be my job but in the comics the guardians originated on a planet called Malthus and it is thought they were possibly the first intelligent life forms in the universe initially they were constantly wrapped up in conflict but they became more altruistic over time and turned into scientists they then saw the knowledge of the cosmos and began experimenting on nearby worlds how about one of them named Chrono took things a bit too far and walked time to be able to observe the beginning of the universe this resulted in entropy flooding in the beginning of the universe and basically kicked off time and everything you know today blaming themselves for his actions most of the Malthusians then relocated to a planet at the center of the universe called OA they'd about themselves to creating order in the universe and took on the name the guardians of the gaudians of the universe they later discovered what they called the glow which was the collective willpower of the universe and from this create the central power battery Chrono was also the one behind the malfunction of the man hunters that caused them to murder all sentient life in sector 666 we discussed this last week in our theory time of Anton and how he was possibly the red land in the Trusidus this would make him one of the only survivors of the man hunters massacre so while i don't think the dead guardian is Chrono if it turns out to be true it deserves a mention and a pat on our back as per usual i will not point out when i get stuff wrong it's also possible that if Sinestro killed him then it's a reference to the sacrifice of an unnamed guardian who blooms up to destroy superboy prime during the Sinestro Cold War this ended with Hal taking Sinestro into custody and it was a lot like what Kerry said happened when reading her little origin on the villain the fact there's 12 guardians as well actually whittles their numbers down quite a bit and there's a lot more in the comics in those the guardians have been taken out a few times most notably during DC's infinite crisis event where the numbers went from 36 to 22 they were also completely wiped out after parallax possessed Hal and the guardians combined all their power into the guardian gantit they were eventually then reborn after the green latin calorayna recharge the central power battery in green latin issue 150 so they may have just reduced this number for the show and for them to be more like a council but it could also mean that one of these tragic events may have already happened they also indeed blue like john says and look like little dude jonn asks laura since london's chosen by rings why are they even interviewing him why well it's because she says of the condolences he gave we talked about this in the previous episode but emotions are everything in the green land world like everything the guardians chose sentin beings after the failure of the man hunters specifically because they had emotions how about given that we know sinestro killed the guardian i feel like this is also meant to show the guardians are expanding their parameters to find someone not only fearless but also someone who has empathy this is why they're interviewing john despite how jordan still being around as they see their system is flawed then he then says this is usually the part of the interview where the person asks why them but john says he knows exactly why he was chosen it kind of juxtaposes the usual um superhero origin thing where they have thoughts of like why me why is this happening to me here though john is instead aware of exactly why he's being pushed for this position we then cut to a baby john steward in his crib and see both of john's parents sleeping in the bed when one of his brothers calls out for their mum actually leaves the room we then see a green light cover everything and it asks are you afraid we then hear john senior saying yeah yeah the guy has absolutely no idea what's going on and to be fair i think everyone would be exactly the same john watch this all go down as well and though he probably doesn't remember it it's very much his origin story too but i am gonna say it as well this is a motherfucking theory time confirm motherfucker well sort of no but we theorized in episode one that john senior knew a bit too much about the lanterns and said how the show could be splitting john's origins from the comics between him and his father there we thought john senior could be a vision of john's steward from his first appearance in green lantern issue 87 we then thought that john jr could be the version of steward from when he reappeared in green lantern issue 182 and officially became the official green lantern so we see here that john senior was indeed in the running to be earth green lantern he didn't really understand what's going on though and didn't get a chance to even ask questions to find things out which to be fair as well the test is a good way to test if someone's scared this ain't like the hell claiming the ring instead because he answered no we then cut a john senior watching a news program on how the green lanterns say the day once again but john shoots a tv as a reporter starts reading a statement from how about how he is fearless and will always fight against evil you can also see by the bullet told left that john shot directly at how on screen showing the resentment he has towards him this kind of builds up why john's brothers were terrified about being caught watching the tv as this is how their dad likes to turn it off we also get a quick picture of kal chanlight in the classic green lantern costume and domino mask we saw this in his closet in the last episode and having this image here represents a more idealistic time in his past where he was sort of more honest and less of a jerk I guess this costume has now been put in the closet other way and they've now got a much more grounded look at the show that really isn't um like it's being pulled from some comic book his wife then comes in screaming that he needs to get his shit together now a few time confirmed we got one wrong so in episode one we did think that she might be dead and that it was potentially at john's hands when she was lining up the apple shot later a part of me also thought it might go down there and it might parallel the death how experienced and how it made him fearless but the other time uh debunked and we see that she is not only very much alive but she's highly involved in john's journey to becoming a lantern to an extreme in fact but seeing it is unable to let go of the opportunity you missed and its distancing from his wife you'd heard not believing it happened also I forgot to mention this in episode one um but when how tells the story about getting the ring the green bubble that picks them up I'm pretty sure is based on the green glob in the comics while not as well known as the man hunters the lantern the green glob is another creation of the guardians to teach lessons to a specific person the guardians have chosen made of a cohesive plasma the globes are released into the universe and use their power intelligence to alter reality around specific individuals to teach them a lesson or give information oh mouthful there but after telling john's senior to get the hell out we then see missus stewart later that night taking out the trash while holding baby john here aline approaches her apologizing and reveals her true form tonight's way to just save on the budget while also giving us aline performance as this kindly a woman who seems to be a bit sinister also like how she gets a little offended when missus stewart calls her an alien and clarifies i'm an intergalactic species non-native to your earth yes clear they don't like the other ring of that term and it kind of calls back to the earlier episodes with stuff about how well all aliens depending on what planet we're standing on and some people think humans are actually aliens on earth in the first place breakdown of the ex-files on screen below right now now we don't get to see the guardian face but yeah big and blue just like john and hell described now mention before how the guardians in the comics are basically little old blue dudes but it made me realize that hell has referred to the guardians as the big blue bosses now initially i took big there as being as in they are important but no he meant big as in big the guardians in the comics also typically don't have names as they reject emotion and individuality but i think laura lene could be playing the guardian on his gantas he took a name at a developing human emotions which came about after interfering in the lives of holland other lanterns despite the guardians typically only being observers so like the watchers at marble who they often get compared to you can see here that lanny seems genuinely sorry about the mix up with john though and she offers mrs. steward a fat diamond for their troubles this also makes me think that maybe lanny's on a little solo mission here with the guardians unaware of her trying to make amends are the ones who fail the test that's kind of gantas whole emo in the comics and he's always going off on solo adventures when the guardians fail to act basically yeah if you see a solo guardian interfering with events in the comics it's usually gantit now if guardians are as emotionally distant as they're on the comics i don't think they would be sending their condolences for scaring a few people on earth which help set himself they view as a backwater shithole turns out her's way off green out of their jurisdiction clacking fucking backwater but anyway mrs.

steward realizes that john's senior isn't actually crazy and she invites the guardian in for coffee there lanny further explains how the guardians never had a lantern from earth and discover that the selection process is a bit unusual for humans how about mrs. steward says that this has completely destroyed her family and that everyone thinks john is crazy she asks the guardians if she understands the difference in race on earth and explains how it's pretty much impossible for a black man in america to not be afraid every day they're terrified of persecution and the green light could almost be seen as being like a police spotlight or something like that lindalloff of course tackled race a lot in the watchman show and it's clear they're pointing out the flaws in the system that even next level beings like the guardians have even a space y'all don't consider us this also calls back to john's senior's conversation with john in episode one where he said that people like how are allowed to have tantrums but they are not obviously people of color being overlooked and having to do more to be recognized or to get opportunities is what this episode's getting at but i also love how they apply this theme to john and his journey this episode is a lot about exploring societal fear and what it truly means to be fearless for john versus how i also think this is a great adaptation of john's comic origins i mentioned before how john origins have changed a few times throughout the dc continuity but in nearly all of them he's shown to be a strong civil rights activist he's unashained of who he is and is committed to lifting up his community by example you can see from this iconic panel from his first appearance where he refuses to wear a mask saying he has nothing to hide john is someone who wants the world to see a black man as a hero and inspiring others and this is why he didn't want to wear one john's activism is also one of the reasons he joins the military as he felt that protesting without action was simply not enough mr mrs. steward also shown to be strong civil rights activists themselves with some of john's origins showing his father being really hot on him because of this he basically drove it into his mind that they had to navigate in the white man's world and has changed how john viewed things in his most recent origins john's mother is also an activist and community organizer who didn't want john john in the military as he felt he was simply contributing to the american military industrial complex the guardians and take notice of john saying that humans have relatively short life spans which could present opportunities whatever the ringsaw and john's senior is in his genetic makeup and this means that one day john jr could potentially become a lantern and possibly take over how that old s bich the gaudian then says that if he can learn not to be afraid if that day comes john will be given a fair shot so let's dedicate our entire life to shooting apples off our kids heads but this then brings things back to the interview and he asks lenny if she's the guardian who came to visit his mum he says that the diamond she gave her got her in a lot of trouble with the police as they didn't believe it was really hers and again it just shows how little the guardians actually know of humans and how we think lenny then apologized for this but it's possibly meant to show that john could hold some resentment towards the guardians which we'll see more of throughout the episode lenny then asks john about his time in the military but john says that it was all part of his path to one day becoming a lantern with emplash back to john during his time as sergeant major where he meets one of his superiors at nopac he praises john for his impeccable kill record and offers him a opportunity to assassinate a high profile target he calls him the great wolf and says he's impossible to find and tasks john with watching over one of his bases submission the general says could take weeks or even months but all john wants to know is how many people they've sent him before him this is because they have detailed maps of a supposed unknown location meaning that someone has had to have been there before the general and confesses that they've sent three different operatives but none of them have returned he promises john that this time they'll do things differently and they provide him with a panic button if he needs to be extracted how that john says he doesn't need it as i don't do panic sir we've seen how john still has this unwavering sense of duty with how but i love how john is just all business here he doesn't care about the details of the mission and is just very much okay where do you need me and who do you want me to kill i feel like this also shows how john doesn't really care about the military and as he said he only sees it as a path to becoming a lantern this was a place in the resentment that john may still harbor towards the guardians the general says there aren't many snipers like him left and it showcases that john has had to sacrifice some of his morals on his way to proving himself as being fearless as john leaves the general also asks them how his father is doing mentioning that they serve together and he heard he had some struggle switch he can see sort of stuns john a bit but he just says that he's doing much better this is also a grim reminder of why he's being put on this path and potentially what could happen to him if he fails and that's something big may have happened that has just sent his dad over the edge recently now before moving on there are a few details to point out here the general refers to john's target is the great wolf which could be a reference to a member of the bad family named the great wolf in the comics he joined a bad man incorporated after helping save a small town in Chechnya and though i don't think that's the case it is worth bringing up you can also see in the file that john's looking over that his real name is arcadey van over which pethrog which could have multiple layers to it but sticking within the DC universe this could be a nod to a few different characters the first of these being another batman character called arkady dual who was in the batman animated series and was the son of rachel gool he became an international criminal when his father determined he was not fitting up to lead the league of assassins it's also goville of honour beach who was a member of the russian superhero team rocket red brigade last up we have alexander petrov who's a criminologist and small-time flash villain who used weapons designed by mr eleman to become a mass murderer how about the name could also be an amorged to arkady even if one of each should be a bit of a wrong who's the main antagonist in dusky fskies crime and punishment the names on this killing me but in that the main characters haunted by mental trauma and moral dilemmas which parallels the moral sacrifices that john has had to make in order to become fearless it's also a russian artist named arkady i van der vich petrov which i'm not sure how it connects but with a mention and maybe he draws some comics or something one time we then come back to baby john and mrs stewart who wakes up john cn to apologize for not believing him now while john cn eh who i'm so close to saying john cn was never going to be able to claim the ring mrs stewart says that baby john could have a chance to set things right since john's brothers are old enough to already understand p.m mrs stewart says they can condition baby john to not be afraid by traumatizing him from day one so he just thinks it's normal yay but cn is well aware of how it will just cause him but his moment just says fuck it and i was actually kind of surprised at how much she was the one pushing it also want to point out how after the stewart's side they're going to traumatize baby john learning flashes and you can see a sort of yellowish light from the window reflecting between them yellow represents fear on the emotional spectrum and this symbolizes that while they might be able to train baby john to be fearless they're still afraid of where this path might lead and also just like a yellow lantern ring thing with pointing out all the easter eggs now i feel like this dynamic between john and his parents is also meant to represent how generational trauma is past down also think it shows how a toxic and a piece of relationship can often develop from parents trying to do what they think is best for their child in reality though it's for their own selfish reasons often because of something they missed out in their own lives they're forcing john to become what they wanted rather than to be what they think he wants to be we'll see how this develops as john grows older but it brings so much context to what we've seen of hallen john's relationship john has a clear resentment of the character which we now know is not just because he's a dickhead that never hits the thumbs up but because he basically ruined john's entire life the moment he became the green land we then come back oh i guess forward to john in the military on his way to his mission we see that his parents conditioning has been pretty successful as the other soldier preparing him for his jump says the weather is shit for a drop but john just says it's perfect because it will be harder to spot him he also disregards his instructions about hating the panic button and just says he'll see him when the mission's over he then jumps out the plane which feels kind of like captain america in winter soldier and this idea was then echoed by falcon down the line just a great shot though to kick things off and they do this in a lot of spice not like mission impossible issue is then hit by lightning again that lightning symbolic and this sends john into freefall he still manages to remain calm even when he's drowning though and he pulls himself out the water to continue the mission we then quickly jump back to john's interview with laura lenny where she questions him on why he was discharged she fears that it's an indication of disobedience to authority but john assures that there was no disobedience he just simply failed the mission he tries to skirt around why but we learned this is also something that's pitted him against hell lenny then asks john what he knows about tenestro and the use in form of that he went rogue and killed a guardian which resulted in hell kicking his ass and locking him up she then asks john what he thinks about him to which he says nothing it's a lot like how is father has to matter the 60 minutes interview and i feel like he might have even trained him to deny this knowledge because questions like this might have shaken him up john ultimately keeps his cool-o and just says that as he was chosen instead of his father that is father served his country honorably and taught him to respect anyone who protects people lenny then reveals a john that tenestro is hell's mentor whom he saw as a father figure obviously since he lost a parent you can't understand why he gravitate towards him and get him to fill his place we learned that he still holds feelings for senestro as well which the guardians find troubling how that john says that it's only human to love people who raised you even if they're crazy and you get the subtext there mate but we had to take a moment to talk about senestro because i feel like this quick mention actually gave us a lot of information about where he and how's relationship is we wondered how Kerry was able to pull up senestro's wikipedia page last week when bring him up to hell and here john says he learned about senestro from the news this means that the events must have taken place on earth and that the whole world witnessed it this seems to line up with senestro called war event in the comics that we talked about earlier where senestro is yellow lanterns along with superboy prime and man hunters launching invasion of earth with the anti-monitoring their quest to destroy the lanterns this resulted in the unnamed guardian blowing himself up to stop superboy prime and how beaten the shit out of senestro without his ring so it seems like the senestro call war or at least a vision of it has already happened in the show which i hope we at least see a bit of it that is the case also i feel like they're changing the guardians sacrifice and being murdered by senestro which i guess you could say is senestro is responsible for in the first place in the comics but hopefully we'll see how it all really played out and while senestro call war is one of the villains bigger attempts to destroy the guardians and their green lanterns senestro had turned bad long before then who's actually vanished to an anti-mannered universe for using the powering to become a dictator on his world and was actually executed by the guardians for his crimes this resulted in his spirit being trapped in the central power battery until you escape by infiltrating john's steward's mind so this event that they're referring to is most likely just the first time earth had heard of him and he was likely ementered of how a long time before that was public knowledge if they are sticking out least somewhat to senestro's comic history as well then this also fits in with the blackest night storyline that the show seems to be adapting they're the senestro call or a callist for the blackest night event which deals with the man hunters red lanterns and the guardians hidden secrets which are things that were seemingly dealing within the show we then flash back to the steward house where they're celebrating john's fifth birthday and oh will you look at that it's a bird cake but this does seem like a bit of a weird choice for a kid's birthday cake but we'll see why this has been done in a moment as young john makes his wish his parents and bring out his present and we see it's a homemade green land costume which is actually pretty sick i would be over the fucking moon if my mum made that how about john is a bit disappointed saying that he asked for crayons mrs. steward basically says that's baby shit and that he's old enough now to learn about his destiny this is when the bomb is dropped on young john that the guardians have picked him to become the next green land birds have been sent to watch over his progress and report back to them which is why john cray the bird construct that how correctly guessed must have meant something looking back our last week's episode as well this also explains why acted as john's protector held him to escape the kidnappers and also watched over his conversations with so he held it was even the one who led him to the land i think it shows how john subconsciously viewed the bird as the guardians themselves and in his mind they've been watching over him and kind of acting as a reassuring force they're the ones who've been actually guiding him with how always leaving him out to dry and not being the teacher that he needs mrs.

steward then says that despite john's love for drawing he has to give that up to focus on his training which pisses off his older brother who says his parents always pick john and yeah i would be pretty pissed too imagine your baby brother getting all this attention because he's supposed to be a superhero when you're the oldest son pro kid probably thinks his parents are absolutely nuts which to be fair they are what are you talking about can you tell the same other mrs. steward tells john that he can't worry about his brother or anyone else beside himself as it would risk the chance of being picked by the guardians they'll think that he doesn't want the job and we then see it as the young john has another little gift as his older brother pulls out of rifle great for kids they're perfect for kids i don't even think i was allowed like keys i age five even the lego if it was like six and above they'll get that away from him but here's a gun john cna then orders him to give it to john saying that now he's got his target it's time for him to learn how to shoot going back to the clearly toxic family dynamic that's forming in the steward household you can see how john's parents are sort of manipulating him they're telling him that if he doesn't do what he's told the guardians won't pick him and also are heavily paraphrasing what the guardian actually told her which she didn't necessarily lie but it didn't make it sound like this was a done deal as long as john does what he's supposed to i also want to point out a very quick detail before we move on with the frosting on john's bird cake being yellow this to me symbolizes the choice that john is being faced with in this moment yellow in the cake represents fear and john has to turn away from his childhood in order to live up to his destiny so instead of getting to just enjoy the birthday cake he gets a rifle instead being trained from this young age to hit the kinds of targets that he has also explains why he's such a good sniper moving forward we then kind of cut back and forth between john's interview his training as a child and his mission in the marines so to make this breakdown a little bit smoother you're gonna know you guys like a schmoover we're gonna we're gonna jump around a bit and talk about each of these sections individually sticking with young john we see him beginning his training as he and his dad are practicing his aim we then see mrs. Stewart come out and mention to john's senior that he should be fixing their satellite dish because they need a way to contact the guardians and update them on john's training meanwhile little john yeah walks over to the garage and grabs one of the apples and tells his dad to shoot it off his head like William tell this is a reference to the folk hero that we talked about in episode one who favors his son apple off his son's head with an arrow as young john then stands there with the apple on his head you can see john's senior is kind of shocked at this but his moment just coldly tells him do it which i love his reaction to this as well like wait what maybe we should practice a bit more first how about mrs. Stewart tells him that fear is contagious and that this is what's best for both of them then see john's senior reluctantly aiming the right blood his son and that mrs.

Stewart tells him to ask john if he's afraid we then get a mirror of the opening scene of the series with john's senior asking john if he's afraid before shooting the apple off his head now even on first time it doesn't phase him at all and just casually walks up to his parents asking if he can have some ice cream how about we can also see that this is affecting mrs. Stewart a bit more than she's letting on looks like she's about to burst into tears and she realizes what they're turning john into in order to not feel fear you have to shut yourself off from your loved ones as you may worry and be afraid of what could happen to others huge ads at the lbg as well on twitter who on our last video brought up our harl guy and john all have one thing in common and that is they have no kids they've shut themselves off from having a family because that's potentially something that could make you afraid this might be why john senior had an extra layer of fear in the first place because he was worried about what could happen to his son which i definitely feel like you can read here when he's having to shoot at him i like how we can also hear how john senior is a bit uneasy with how far things are going and he still feels fear the fact that john is the one who suggests this also shows how well his parents conditionings working going back to john's interview with the guardian we then see how this created let's say a complicated dynamic for the steward family laura lenny then asks john if he holds any resentment towards his parents for his rigorous training but john just says that family in itself is rigorous and that she wouldn't understand because guardians don't have families again this ties back to that theory earlier how that john seemingly became cool with it saying how he still loves his family and owes them everything even things that him getting the job as the real land is way of paying them back as they've trained him to be so sure we then see john's training becoming more intense as he gets older he's in a car with his brothers convincing him to rap and this is to the song atlions ata atlions atlions atlions atlions atlions i don't know atlions i always used to say and i found out the other day it's atlions fake fan exposed but this is by the hip hop group outcast with the name of the episode being outcast as well and it's about the exact same way that they do i actually used to have so many of the albums on cd as well in a big boy i love you on dre 3000 a like on dre 3000 you get that one right thousand but atlions is a play on their home of atlanta and how they felt like outcast and aliens amongst their community and mates i want you to admit if you also thought that it was atlions as well i know you did too they don't mention the word in the song so how was i supposed to know this was before google but this idea of being an outcast and atlion who is an alien amongst their own people this obviously plays in how john's been held back from having a normal childhood to try and get in with some aliens the song is clearly important as well and it ties back to the title and it's also hit at the end of the episode all of a sudden his parents and stop the car on the middle of the street and tell him to get out and walk which is thanks mum this is another example of how john's being forced to leave childhood behind in order to live up to the expectation set for him and it's clearly something that he struggles with his brother also says that his parents force him to listen to classical music but he can hear john listening from the john's other brother also mentions how he can't be afraid of them his whole life showing how despite their trying to teach him to be fearless they're becoming a source of fear themselves and another thing that john will have to overcome quickly detail here too and john's brother gives some shit about how he wraps the song saying he sounds like a white boy named henry with an oh yay or an arthor your hands and aye you know that i'd sound like henry myself but this is a subtle not to john's dad name in the comics which is henry steward we then see john at calmly put his hands in his pockets and watch as he starts walking down the street alone we can see it's not the good part of town and there's graffiti and ruffians all around and even his brothers are saying he can't survive out there we then get a couple of green land references on the wall and graffiti with one reading marrow in the comics at marrow is a member of the core and they first appeared in green land core issue 21 it's also serpent and venom which is a little harder to nail down but this could be a reference to the oblivion or the physical embodiment of greed on the own spectrum soo banish reference but it could also be an odd two a character called zodar from the green land emerald warrior storyline used to be cool with the guardians until i decided to please the universe and he then returned as a villain who used snakes to control the minds of telepathic lanterns there's also an issue of green land during the mosaic story arc where john's mind is possessed by sinesjo who appears to john is a snake how that john does indeed make it and we see him arrive back at their house where his mum's waiting for him in his room she just coly tells him that she left a plate for dinner and leaves john to cry alone in his room which is fucking brutal but again we see how this is affecting her as well she has to collect herself after leaving the room and stands in the hallway for a moment she seemingly contemplating to herself if treating john like shit is really what's best for him and if it's even worth going through this all just to get a job she's also framed directly under the hallway like air which sort of gives up a yellow cue to it and could be another way of symbolizing the fear she has for john if we're reaching as per usual this manifests in quite a subtle and yet cold moment though when the guardians asks john if you'll miss his family they will not miss you he says that while he loves them he spent 18 years living in the same house and always miss them this shows how john had to accept that he was on his own in this journey and shedding the fear of disappointing his parents he's no longer doing it for them but is in fact doing it for himself we then see young john looking for his mother to ask if he can play with his brothers however he finds it talking to the guardians with a homemade hand radio or trying to talk to the guardians this is why she needed john cn to fix the satellite dish and john questions while they are answering her mrs. cn again plays a bit manipulative with my games and says maybe it's because they aren't seeing results it's your fault he says that he's still scared but john tries to prove her wrong by having another apple shooting session how about this time mrs. cn to shoot the apple off his dad's head to prove he's not scared which again a great reaction from john senior here saying clearly does not want to do this and we then see young john grab the gun is his dad puts the apple on his head but he hesitates and puts it down think this is reflected really nicely later where we see he really wants to put his mother through the test instead deep down it's his way of finally getting one up on her and making her see what she's put him through then see a bird fly off the garage and his mum just says that she guesses the birds online that night we have john catching up and is drawing and his mum comes down to sort of apologize which is nice for her thanks for ruining my life she doesn't ask to see what he's drawing and tells him that she knows he wishes he could do it more but john just says he has to train also notice how john is drawing apples with bullets in them which are really good but again it shows how everything that's like revolves around him becoming laddon how about mrs.

duet said that some things just come naturally like his love for birds or loving his father this love for birds thing i don't know if that came naturally as well as he's basically been told they're always going to be watching him small detail here as well but you can see that when john's drawing is hanging on the wall does look a bit like the green lantern killer wog mrs. u then comes clean to john about how she's enabled to contact the audience and that she made up the story about the birds it's kind of a bit like Santa Claus there's any kids about yeah parents you might want to get them out of the room right now but it's kind of like how parents say Santa Claus is some force watching over kids that will reward them if they're good ultimately and are they are they are they out yeah i'm just checking my kids on around you there they they're pulling hide somewhere come in and steal me stuff but yeah the birds thing was basically made up like Santa Claus and it doesn't exist sort of but you just keep that between me and you mate now while she admits allowing to john mrs. duet also assures him that the guardians know who he is and know he's better than how he says the only reason how has the ring is because he was privileged enough to grow up without fear and that despite being overlooked it doesn't mean he isn't good enough he has no idea what how it went through though and i don't care like how much privilege you have you do still feel fear you know what i mean i mean she has a skewed view of the world already because putting fucking apples on a kid's head and get in the shop but yeah she just has no idea what how it's gone through and has kind of put this resentment in her child to this guy who is basically saving the world and being a hero she's just annoyed that her husband didn't get that opportunity even if we go back and look at Kyle chanlight in that first interview i do feel like there was some sadness in his eyes think for him though the lack of fear comes from the fact that he hasn't got anything to lose so he just wasn't afraid of what would happen to him mrs. duet then actually gives john a choice in his destiny for the first time ever wow what a great moment he says that she understands if he wants to give it up now that he knows she lied but that he needs to choose for himself even with his truth ball mak john seems more determined than ever and he tells his mum that he's ready to shoot now so i'll go get your dad no not dead you what such a great line to every by this kid though and yeah he's just straight of calling her out like let's see who's afraid now i actually had to rewind this a couple of times while writing the section and it made me chuckle every time and you we didn't see that mrs.

duet is indeed terrified and she has tears rolling down her cheek as the apple sits on her head and john takes aim but this time he doesn't hesitate and bam shoot his mum dead no i'm just kidding john shoots the apple clean off her head and mrs. duet clearly in shock walks over to him and offers to take him for his victory burger how that john admits to her that he hates cheeseburgers and she tells him that he never has to eat them again this is now john taking charge of his own destiny in this exact moment not out of fear of his parents but purely for himself and what he wants this brings us them back to adult john where the guardians thank john for his honesty about his family but again she presses him about his discharge from the military and says that if he wants the job he will share everything with her even if it makes him uncomfortable now again we are jumping around a bit here but back to john's mission that we see him as he holds his wounds together after his fall and makes his way to the look out there he patches himself up and just like in the guardians office we see john's incredible level of patience it's something that is required of snipers as they often have to wait days without moving in order to observe and plan he survives on bugs and grows a crazy mountain man beard but never once fault us from his post we learn from the general who gave him this mission later that he was out there for nine months and yeah i was blown away by this moment his target then arrives at the house and he gets ready to take the shot however as gray wolf finally emerges he sees a green light shooting down from the sky this then encloses the target in bubble as he blows at the safe house and takes the character into custody now this is what caused john to fail his mission to make matters worse house capture of the gray wolf also expose the government's secret assassination which he learned about from chatting it up with the deputy of the defense secretary at his strip club this resulted in john having to take the fall and being dishonably discharged and john just has to eat it he keeps his emotions in check though but we see that not only has john had to deal with living up to how john is whole life but he's also been a victim of house antics along before he started training with him this adds a whole new layer to the relationship and though he clearly hates how he is willing to deal with him out of respect for the lens this is why he was enamored by the suit as well as this is still what it's all about to him at being discharged we then see john back at home where he questions what he's going to do how about miss a steward gives him the direction he needs and reveals she applied for john to go to art school he then says that john's path hasn't changed and that this is just a detour but that if he just sits there and does nothing it means he's afraid something clearly changes in the character and though she says he needs to be brave he also deserves to be happy now i do like how they saw him miss a steward in this moment i have been given her a lot of shit this breakdown but it does kind of remind us that she is truly doing what she thinks is best for him i think staring down the barrel of a gun it changed her in that moment and since then yep something just snapped we then could have john honing his art skills at university and goddamn it's good to see him just doing something normal the poor guy has not been able to learn a single thing in the show this fall without involving someone trying to kill him it's nice to see him just enjoying himself at once hopefully his art teacher also won't try to stab him or sign him up to something that's going to put him in danger and he just gets to go up and live his life nope not going to happen but you can also see that john is still drawing birds showing that despite it being a lie it still brings him comforted think the guardians are watching him and spoiler alert they are john then goes to what he thinks is an interview with a professor for some big art project and he says they're looking for a well-trained student for a very special thing and that john was highly recommended it also shows the guardians of the issues they caused with a last recruitment and this is a far cry from waking up in the night to see a green light that's asking you if you're afraid yes i'm fucking gam the professor basically then says that this is to see if john's a good bit for the role and the professor has him draw the building there and from memory john does it absolutely beautifully and the professor then asks him to picture his father's watch however instead of having him draw it he offers john green lantern and reveals himself to be a guardian john then uses the ring to manifest his father's watch and we see the constructs the individual parts themselves before putting them together now in the comics this is one of the things that makes john's constructs so powerful as nothing he creates is hollow he uses his knowledge of architecture to build his constructs piece by piece in order to ensure that structurally sound it also reminds me a lot of watchmen where dr manhattan's father was watchmaker he taught him to put intricate things back together piece by piece and this is how he was able to reassemble himself this is also not to his career as an architect in the comics which i feel like is probably what he's going to end up doing with his art degree but unfortunately i don't think john's gonna make it to that point yet or even graduation potentially as after the guardians inspect the watch he reveals that they've been keeping an eye on his progress and now it's time for the real interview he then creates a black hole in the middle of the floor and tells him to jump into it i think this is another test and after he leaps into it we come full circle to where we began this episode with john free falling into the moor we then make our way back to john's interview with florilini who asks john if he blames half of basically basically everything that he's gone through is ruined in his whole life john doesn't hesitate to say that he does and the guardian asks if this has caused him to harbor any ill will for him how that john claims he doesn't saying that how it was just following orders but lenny tells him that he actually wasn't the guardians told him repeatedly not to use his powers to interview with human disputes which john says mmm knowing this will probably just be another test to see if he loses cool the guardian then asks john if he'd be comfortable replacing how they say that how would be under the impression that john was just being trained as a backup and then john asks if those are his orders lenny says they are if he accepts the job which we know he does it also says though that if those are his orders then it doesn't matter if he's comfortable with it but we know he is also 100% fine with doing that fuck how i feel like this is also another example of how john has had to sacrifice a lot of himself on the path to landing this interview builds up our thoughts on his kill streak with the marines and how john was raised to enjoy the most awful shit at the point he was forced to reject what he feels in order to become who he's supposed to be with nc john excitedly coming home to tell his parents how about when he walks in the door he finds him sitting with hal john even this moment of telling them is something that's been taken by hal this is also a hal starts calling john june edit this episode is brought to you by wild horse nine only in theaters november 6 earning rave reviews at the toronto international film festival don't miss this wildly entertaining movie that kricks are calling easily one of the best films of the year starring john malcovich samrockwell steve ushenny arkarpose and tom wates and written and directed by kami award winner martin mcdonagh see wild horse nine only in theaters november 6th spider's parents saying just call him john we already know that hal does not give a shit as he's called john june throughout the entire show hal all surprises mr mrs. steward saying he knows john's going to be great as they're real salt of the earth like the midwest huxibles this refers to the family from the cosbee show and it's just so infuriating to watch after seeing how hal has basically ruined all their lives again i feel like this sort of also plays in what mrs. co is preaching earlier about how people don't see them hal has been seeing with them enough to learn at least a bit about them and then just compares them to a random black family he's seen on tv like he could have said something about john senior serving in the military or anything that actually relates to the stewards how about we see that despite hal being all nice and excited for another parents once outside he sets the records straight with john he does not give a fuck what john is helping for and he says he doesn't want to sidekick and doesn't need backup and be careful what you wish for hal you then ends the conversation by telling john his training starts monday and then flies off as john watches hal fly away he then notices a bird on his mailbox and tells it he thinks hal likes him which i don't know i am kind of in between on how to read things with the bird and i know john's mum made it up but it also feels like the birds are really watching him the first guardian he made did confirm that they've been keeping tabs on him and i think it's more just to symbolize john feeling comfort and reassurance on his way to replacing hal it feels like they could really be the guardians and i do lean more towards them being secret spies because i have all heard that saying where it's like a little birdie told me a little birdie told me this little birdie told me you don't subscribe you're watching me not subscribe please subscribe let me know what you think below because i am very curious on how you guys read this all that brings us to the end of the episode and though i've kind of been back and forth on the show this far this one really won me round i really really like what they're doing at john's character here in the show and while it's a big diversion from the main plot of the first two episodes seeing his backstory put so many things we've seen between him and hal really into perspective hal was basically just given the ring while john had to ensure probably the worst childhood imaginable all in order to prove he was worthy of the same chance that would definitely make me resent someone and it makes me think that john's resentment towards hal will ultimately be the final test you'll have to overcome especially if antan is indeed a red lantern who yet once struck john this could also force him to choose to give him over how his life was ruined by hal or if his will is strong enough to overcome it given what we know now and the position john was left in last week questioning how in the audience i'm also super excited to see how this plays out next week also getting the reveal that john knows he's there to replace hal and not just be back up shows why john put up with so much of his shit it's going to do nothing but strengthen as well as well and he knows that he's been chosen over hal it all ties into how this series have been overlooked and yeah just nicely builds up the theme so far she's really great writing and a great way to adapt john's comic origins and his involvement with the civil rights in the modern day also just yeah it's some really crazy moments with the training as a kid and seeing how much of a badass he is during his time with the marines so yeah all in all really strong episode and i'm glad we took the time to really focus on john here and we're just shoving flashbacks in throughout the series welcome to the heavy spoil show i'm your host paul and this video we're breaking down lanterns after seeing the super secret origins of john's two at last week episode four brings us back to 2016 as john and hal continue their investigation dives into the mystery of rushville and gives us some much needed answers as to what the hell's going on this episode also puts a heavy focus on the developing relationship between john and hal as they both investigate each other while on their search for the man hunter also reveals some pretty massive secrets that sets us up for the second half of the season as always this episode is loaded with these drags as well and references to the comics so like if you're wondering like what those guns are we'll tell you stuff like that we've also just launched our green lantern theme arsenal t-share the mitch store below along with our highlight one as well we also have a doom-inspired one and lots of different things inspired by movies comics and tv shows and picking one up helps videos like this get made plus you get a discount the more you buy it brings always the mind hey i saw just keeping it warm now we begin this episode with an extended scene of episode two's cliffhanger there we saw hal going to see cinestro in prison no hello no how have i been this to me felt the very silence of the lambs with it being a sort of tettet back and forth a tettet if you will which is a phrase that i learned from that book that scene was obviously brought to light brilliantly in the film though and this was also the inspiration for the counterman scenes in batman along halloween i love how bleak the cell is and even the doorways completely blurry so these guys can literally do and see nothing this hanger's are also glowing as well which just adds the sci-fi feel and yeah this is such a cool opening okay so you don't know the guardians in prison their captives forever and hold them in these cells where they just don't age so their punishment lasts for an eternity and i can't imagine what it's being like stuck here forever just don't press play on the screen crush video no the cuffs are also glowing with yellow light this is possibly haning at him still being able to manifest the power of fear even in the guardians prison and this could be how he'll eventually escape this could also be how the guardians are keeping him contained with the signs cells in estros being kept in being designed to negate his powers so they could literally be using the power of fear to imprison him cinestro then asks how about john suet even though the man hunter should be the more pressing issue it shows how cinestros focused on making halo frayed and he uses the sphere to try and manipulate character how questions how he even knows about john with cinestros saying that it's not hard to believe that such big news as halo having a trainee wouldn't find its way to him but this shows that cinestro may have some spies in rushville and there's possibly members of his cinestro course somewhere out there with theorized last week that they may have already attacked earth and this is what john was referring to on the news so that's the case it would make sense that some of the cinestro call members are stuck on the planet and are somehow feeding him info after asking a bit more about john's background and how the guardians found him cinestro then makes halo admit what john really is and he's not his backup but his replacement meanwhile we can see john at the motel where he gets a call from his dad just before this we see a sketch of zoe and some birds and i think symbolically this plays in the idea she's spying on him and that's why she's aligned with these other sketches i think this episode is all about how teachers can sometimes poison their students and we have several mentors negatively affecting their proteges cinestro of course plays into hell sphere and we also have how how is with john beyond that the guardians are poisoning john as well as they're making him spire and how both are aware that only in death will john take his place so you can imagine that tensions would be high john will get what he's always wanted to the downfall of how and therefore they're not really set up to have a good relationship but his dad tells him that the guardians need to speak with him but john says he can't because him and halo working the case which john's dad says is unacceptable so we see that while john is taken as destiny into his own hands his parents are still very much pushing him on this journey his dad even calls to his mum to get her to do it showing how she's the one basically running the show we then go back to cinestro and how where cinestro tells the former student that he knows he will eventually have to kill john how that how says he won't because he's not evil like him and that if the guardians want to replace him they can go right ahead he says that john is too perfect and boring anyway cinestro then gives hell a bit of information that he's looking for in the man hunters kind of playing in the back to exchange motif as hannibal would only give things to glories after she talked about her private life he claims that he knows sin aspects of their physiology that can't be changed when they take in uniform if one was still alive on earth it would be of great interest in the guardians and he says that if how should bring the man hunter to the guardians himself that would disgrace john in the progress it's the villains powers of manipulation on full display here and he talks about john's weakness he says that since all he does is follow orders he'll be easier to control and that his feelings and this will make him arrogant and oblivious to what hals really up to hell then asks sinestro if that's how he fooled him but sinestro says he was never anything but himself and how just refuse to see it now we all know that sinestro is about guys spoiler alert and we can see how he's definitely trying to influence hell here but i love how you can see that how is genuinely coming to him for advice this builds up liana's line last week about how hals still had feelings for sinestro which the guardians found troubling here we can see why though because while hals isn't trying to be friends with him and in his mind he's just getting information he's ultimately being corrupted by the villain on the flip side of this we can also see how john is sort of playing the same game with hals as hals john claims he doesn't speak to the guardians but we see here that's definitely not true so that was a fucking lie the other said that john was specifically being made to make hell believe that he's just being trained as backup which is pretty much the exact same thing sinestro's telling how to do here it paints an interesting parallel between the heroes and villains and yeah let's be honest lorily isn't exactly known for playing morally upright standing characters is that the phrase i don't know but even stuff outside of the treatment show um like mystic river there was clearly a very manipulative character that she was playing and which you can definitely tap into and i do think she was cast for that reason we then come back to rushville as we pan over this sweet little town and john heads into the local gun store by scup what you're selling stranger how that since everyone in town absolutely hates harl the customer immediately clocks john is his psychic he says he can't buy his scope on his own and just needs to buy the rifle too all while his buddy stares john down from behind also i love how he can see john's military training is a sniper and action here and he knows exactly what kind of scope he needs for the job which i feel like is a good example of the difference between john and harl john knows exactly what he needs and he always plans ahead but harl literally literally flies by the seat of his pants he steals bodies from morgue walks onto makings property not even thinking he'd be shot and literally just shows up and announced how that we also see that the shop owners bullshit does not phase john at all he simply just smiles it off and takes his scope off the rifle while handing him a water cache which wait wait where the hell did he get all that money from guessing the guardians have been holding out on harl and giving his salary to john hey y'all are blessed no one quick detail i want to point out here as well is as we're panning over rushville we can see a mural of a rainbow with a bunch of kids playing around it that reads would be kind now i might be reaching i'll preface it by saying that but i feel like this is meant to represent the emotional color spectrum of the latins we've talked before about how colors and emotions are everything in the green lent world with each color corresponding to a human emotion now while this is a happy little mural for this school i feel like this could be also symbolizing that there's some darkest subtext to it could symbolize how the people in rushville are about to be caught in the middle of a battle between the latins and the man hunter and quite possibly some other latins on the emotional spectrum we then see john putting his new sculptor good use as he's keeping an eye makings compound from the rushville water tower we have seen this throughout the series and it's nice how they just use it as a set piece here john also notices a helicopter coming in but half lies down right in front of his legs again showing how john's come prepared for a proper recon mission but harl just thinks he can drop in and find whatever he's looking for immediately this could also be seen as harl showing off his experience similar to him scanning the scene at the football field there john went through the scene step by step while harl had already figured it out this also feels like a call back to last week where we saw john suddenly waiting patiently to find an opportunity to complete his sniping mission which was also ruined by harl harl then asks john if there's any updates on makins mysterious benefactor but john tells him to call him the man hunter as it sounds less stupid so okay i guess we're just running with makins boss being a man hunter which i disagree with we all know it's no way harba john wasn't able to see he was in a helicopter since harl ruined his view he says how it would be nice if harl was actually there since he can't fly however harl claims he was too busy bagging aliens in space which is funny and totally something but we know it's a lie that was a fucking lie kind of shows that harl's all talk but also highlights how his former mentor's advice to manipulate john is coming into play john gives harl a rundown of everything he's observed on the ranch and his four god towers all centered around the same spot which is most likely where they're keeping the man hunter building is a weenie but what is that well we'll tell you it's actually a reference to an architectural term invented by walt Disney which would describe buildings that he'd build his pocks around john said um the good example of this is sleeping beauty's castle but this is actually a real thing as well and originated from walt Disney's nightly routine of sharing hot dog or as he called them weenies with his dog lady who inspired lady and the tram the more you know upon noticing how excited dog was every time he grabbed the weenie and would follow him around it inspired world to create fantastical physical elements in the park that would draw people into a specific space you also get hilarious line from harl about how the man hunter is in makins weenie and john even throw some jokes at himself we will be seeing a weenie later too he does seem to be lighting up after the joke and the gun store though and i do wonder if this is setting him up for his fall later on the guy's now kind of dropping his god because he thinks he's figured things out but ultimately this proves to be his weakness with a possible location on the man hunter harl and john and hatch a break in the makins weenie but harl says he needs to let sheriff kary know what's going on this goes back to that agreement in episode two and john's just like sheriff kary mhm what harl is just him it's just business and then he's not a home wrecker like john harl also offers to give john a ride saying that he can carry him like a baby or ride those back and forth such a funny exchange but all about this scene shows john and harl actually working together for like the very first time harl is actually listening to what john has to say he takes his lead on the plant in full trade makins weenie and they're even cracking jokes together just a couple of mates saving the universe but i feel like this is also showing how john and harl are both playing their little mind games with each other john is trying to be a bit less serious and playing to harl's mortaloof attitude meanwhile harl is being a lot more supportive of john and not trying to undermine him as we've seen him do throughout the entire series which is exactly what sinestero told him to do so while it's nice seeing these two finally coming together it's also kind of sad because we know neither of being genuine we then see harl and john meeting kary and abart if he'll hurt on the plant this is on by billy makin with kary saying that everyone in rushville multitasks which i could be over analyzing i'll admit but i felt like this was kind of a weird response to me it feels like she's playing in a theme of the show and that no one is really doing the job that they say they're doing they're doing something behind the scene secretly we touch upon this in a bit of our breakdown last week but you can see this being applied to pretty much everyone in the series both john and harl are trying to manipulate each other for the title of the green lantern there's makin and his mysterious boss kary who's actually a cane and obviously knows more than she's saying even the guardians hell they even appear to john and his family in human form hiding their true identity plus no one is the man hunter as well this also reminds me of kary just kind of shrugging harloff in episode two after noticing there were no other patients in the hospital and all the equipment was still in his packaging and she's like ah small town you know so yeah something is going on now i do like kary and i don't want to believe she's the villain all this but she is definitely hiding something and whatever that something is it has to do with everyone in rush for a caught you this could also be why she told harl that she's not on his or makin side but is in fact on the town side it's all a giant hive mind of man hunters you'll see that how let's john take the lead and harl carry about the man hunters and their plan to break into the compound this is another example of harl house following cenestros playbook and trying to make john feel like he's accepting him as a partner however we can also see that john and i is another call from his father which we know is about in meeting with the audience so john is also playing the same kind of metal games with harl john and tell us to carry all about the man hunters and how they're on the clock before rushmoles blown to shit by antan really though kary asks how they know she's not the man hunter if it couldn't back be anyone don't worry though kary you are on the list have i'll explain that he knows she can't be the man hunter because he looked her up and found that she moved to rushville before abin sir crashed with a man hunter so whoever it is wouldn't be less in the public records before the crash i'll also confirm that kary was telling the truth about being from gotham and mentions that she had bangs in her photo and wait hold on a second is sheriff kary actually batwoman well after learning that kary was from gotham in episode two we put the pieces together that she must be part of the cane family in gotham this is the immediate family of mr kane and bruce's cousin k kane who is batwoman in the comics in the comics kk wears a wig while in her bat suit but just take a guess at how she wears it in her everyday life that's right bangs and you can see kary has a kind of terrified reaction to this like oh shit don't please don't say anything else we originally joked as well that it would be crazy for her to be kkane and that she was most likely just a relative but this seems to confirm that kary is actually possibly playing a version of cake from the comics this means that she's bruce wanes cousin and may have already spent some time with the bat family which is most likely why she fled to rushville this does seem kind of crazy to me because yeah i can't imagine a sweet share of kary running around on rooftops in gotham but hell we don't really know anything about the dcu batman or gotham in general i never even consider this as a possibility but maybe we'll even get off first look at the dark night himself in this series which a week ago i would have said no way but we basically had a batman reference in every episode obviously you know that he was in creature commandos they could do something like that with this little wett um and yeah what if he turns up as part of something going on here maybe even bruce could she help help save the time or something i don't know but if that happens i'm gonna freak out they might save batman for clay paste though or might not even use him there and while this is a huge bombshell that could lead to nothing i don't think this is the secret that she's hiding from holland john also i didn't point out earlier in the series that she did say hi to bobra and now that we know she's from gotham this is most likely bob record but with kary's secret identity safer now holl goes on to say that they think the man hunter is making some serious boss kary says she's never met him despite being married to billy but that she'll help them break in to find out she wants them that they're only gonna have one shot to pull up this heist so they better not miss you got it batwoman um kary kary everyone's working together and yeah like i said i really like kary so i love seeing her be fully part of the team here it also shows how she's living up to her and to deal with holland being more transparent with her and kary doing what she can't help if it means saving the town back of the motel holland decides it would be better to wait for night all to begin the heist so they head to their rooms and after a little light bligger liana teleports in shows that they can almost be omnipresent and the guardians can arrive at places whenever they want to this makes me think that they could appear down the line at a crucial moment but it also highlights how they choose not to be there sometimes as well they could have easier checking on john's parents whenever they wanted but shows not to so john was constantly put in danger and basically groomed to be a lantern shows again how many people live that they are and we really see that in the scene he's not too happy john's been ghosting her and john doesn't even tell her about the manhantas he tries to cover his ass by explaining that the reason he didn't contact them was because he was worried how would hear him from the next door the anode asks john if he knows where how was last night she then reveals he wasn't out banging some alien birds but instead when to see his former teacher's in a stroke so clearly the guardians have their own ways of monitoring things as well which you would kind of expect in a prison however john doesn't oh shit liana doesn't either and she says it doesn't matter because if anything this is just sped up the process of firing how this means that all john needs to do is take the ring and say the old it takes place as the green lantern and he does kind of get the opportunity later now this is great yeah but john asks why he's the one who has to do it and that's a fair point like imagine you get a new job but you have to fire the person you're replacing yourself how about guardian liana just straight up starts manipulating john she says that maybe they were wrong about him and that he has the same weaknesses as father this is something his mother also clearly pressed on him as well and his entire life he's been brought up to not be like his dad which is wild and yeah i can't imagine what that does to you especially if you're like john senior as well and everyone's like don't grow up to be a fucking bum like this guy it's clearly the guardians using his fear as well and again it makes them parallels to sinesh joss mentions hals reports on john's training where he says that john lacks creativity and is too weak to handle the power of the ring and john of course takes the bait saying that hale is older shit and that the ring has always been his rings always been mine hey i saw just keeping it on then go and get it whoa liana did not make that very subtle she knew exactly how to press john's buttons and he just stayed it up now this also feels like a call back to last week's episode as this is the exact same move that john's mum pulled on him when he was younger he told him that the reason the guardians wouldn't answer him was because saying you john was still afraid this show is out pretty much everyone in john's life is forcing this destiny on him and that he's never really had a choice to decide for himself with nc john really took his meeting with the guardian to heart as he pounds on hale's door and is ready to get the mission going he says that he knows hale is probably planning on making a giant green fist and just flying in with his ass out much like he did during the sniper mission in episode three but john actually has a plan he shows him a drawing of a giant drill that he made up with a plan to turn on the compound from underground which hale is actually impressed by john's obviously just heard that he lacked creativity in his report to the guardians so this is him showing he can do things john's mention of hale creating a giant fist upon his way into the compound is also kind of a joke slash reference to some of the early green lantern comics where hale would often basically just spam this attack which is constantly due like giant fists and boxing gloves to fight crime that was until the writers really started to explore the capabilities of the greenland constructs and they even had a rule where cal right now was not allowed to have the same construct twice in the entire run this could also be a subtle reference slash jab to ryan rental screen lantern where one of the first things he did with the ring was make a giant fist when getting into a fight in a parking lot we then get them outside makings compound where hale offers john the ring and tells him to make his drill what he gonna do who say it say it john say it ready say it mukka mukka mukka mukka mukka mukka mukka mukka mukka mukka mukka mukka mukka mukka mukka mukka we see john hesitate and looks at the ring for a good moment and then at hale while the score gets super intense john of course is a lot of self-control and patience and i think it's actually i don't know a kind of thing of the moment finally arriving and not knowing what to do with it john is trained like his an entire life to take the ring and now the moment's finally here but it's not the way he envisioned it and therefore he doesn't want to do it now you will often find this in real life if you've been training and working for something for so long when it gets to that moment you kind of fumble all your shit's actually happening i better fucking oh fuck kind of think about him like that bit in obsession where niki asks bear if she if he likes her and he's like nope and he realizes he fucked up right after and then ruins everyone's life spoiler alert on that film but he's probably doing the smarter thing by keeping hale around at least until they find the man hunter because even though john could be stronger at using the ring hale has the experience john's never even for an alien before a little on a man hunter so he's making a tactical decision here not because he doesn't want to take it from hale but yeah it just doesn't make sense to do it in this moment but fuck that old guy still he then builds the drill assembling at piece by piece like he did with his dad's watch last week as it turns beneath the ground we didn't see hale and john have another little bonding session as they make their way on the ground hale also asks john about his mum and we learn that hale's mum died of cancer which we see genuinely affects john's concentration he tells hale's sorry but hale just says not being close to anyone makes the job easier i love i can see the news of hale's mum being dead is quite a shock to john as well and that he's kind of looking at hale differently we know from just a moment ago that john thinks hale is a washed up loser who never deserved the ring because he never hits the thumbs up this is a sentiment echoed by mr stewart so it feels here that john is finally realizing that there's more to hale's story than it's the eye in this moment he realizes that he's overcome real trauma i think everyone is kind of making snap judgments in the show almost to a fault hale's surprise to learn john went to art school and the stewart's thought that hale had it easy plus even the way the guardians recruit people that is a massive snap judgment like that thing of showing up and shouting are you afraid and then taking the immediate answer i don't know if that's the best way to pick the right person for the job fuck was i not supposed to be scared hell even john waiting for nine months on his snipe mission and then hale rushing in off quick judgment that all shows that people are just making these snap decisions that ruin everyone's like like how completely derailed john's entire military career so it's just lots of interesting dynamics that make these three-dimensional characters hale and open a bit about his father saying that he died as a hero and was fearless at least that's what he wanted people to think though this sort of he else like hale is also talking about himself here and how he's become so shut off from the world he says it's because he's fearless and doesn't care about anyone but in reality he's lonely and afraid that he'll lose anyone he gets close to this is why hale doesn't answer john when asked what his father was afraid of hale questioning whether his father is really fearless is also a reference to his relationship with him in the comics their hale always wanted if his father died in fear which became a source of fear in himself and it's one of the reasons he dedicated himself to becoming a pilot that was to not only honor his dad but also prove he could overcome the fear he may have felt this is also why in the show hale says he became fearless after watching his father die similarly he was trying to prove to himself that he can be a hero like his father and be fearless almost as a way to convince himself that his father died heroically and wasn't afraid this story about hale's mom is also pulled straight from the comics where she developed cancer this came right after she and hale had a falling out over him joining the air force she died a few years later which hale's brother blamed him for saying his decision to follow in their father's footsteps drove her to an early grave although that's not really the case it's definitely a guilt at hale carried with him for a long time i would imagine this is similar in the show as well as would be another source of fear hale had to overcome now while his life was definitely not as intense as john hale was unknowingly also training himself since he was a child to be fearless this is probably why this also surprises john and he realizes that hale was able to overcome fear without any parental guidance hale likely just answered the guardians question on autopilot and said he wasn't afraid because that's what he conditioned himself to be like john instead had parents who made him that way with him even saying in episode three that he owes them everything i feel like his also sort of sheds more light in the whole fearless concept of being a green lantern where the show has kind of made it out to be like you can never feel fear over anything no matter what how about in the comics it's not so much about being afraid but more so that someone's will is strong enough to overcome their fears even there the ring states that the person it shows has the ability to overcome great fear so this conversation at least to me it feels like the show is hinting at the idea of fear being more complex than the guardians making that to be i think that hale still feels fear over losing those close to him but he's able to overcome it he also feels fear over being replaced by john but that doesn't seem like it's something he can come to terms with this is a lesson john probably needs to learn as well as his whole lives revolve around the idea of never being afraid of anything how about feeling fear and being able to overcome it is what makes someone truly fearless and something john will have to face before he can become a green lantern like he's meant to be i feel but yeah think about it yeah if you've never felt fear how can you really be fearless john hasn't had to overcome fear because he's never felt it and it makes the idea of him being afraid of fear in itself and one that he doesn't even realize he has but some of the scene of them together on the water tower i love how i getting these little moments of john and hale working together despite the fact both of them are trying to manipulate each other it feels like they're both being genuine here and that hale was actually opening up to john for the first time whoo and there was a lot to unpack it now let's get back to the heist so once john's drill reaches the surface it's to army crawl across the compound to avoid the snipers and they make their way to the weenie also know as how hale is actually letting john take the lead he follows him into the weenie as john makes sure the coast is clear and let's him keep the rig which we have seen numerous times how quickly hale takes the ring from john after their training sessions this shows that hale is trusting that john is capable enough to handle whatever they find makings weenie how about once inside instead of finding a manhunt they discover that makin has been building his own arsenal of alien weapons we then see that makin keeps his weenie pretty well guarded as hale steps on the trip mind also notice how just before hale steps on the booby trap he tells john to give the ring back this highlights that hale realizes that this is a real threat that john isn't ready for you can also see john's military experience in action as he knows exactly what it is and warns hale not to move or heal set it off hale also makes reference this happening in a movie which they both agree is great this is a classic trope in a lot of films but given this takes place in 2016 i feel it's going to be referring to 2015's landman goes click they're a group of tourists accidentally step on a landmine and are terrorized by a group of psychos before they escape by replacing the white john and then once again shows his creativity by asking how how much he weighs and creating a constructive a kettlebell weighing the same amount as hale he hopes of switching them before it detonates which john also picks up like a sack of groceries with perfect form hale this indiana john's plan turns out the same for john as it did for in the hale was a little off on how much he weighs a bit like the the movie batman 1989 and the tail sets off the alarms which we can't really blame hale for we've all lied about our weight we then see makings goons rushing carrying the any weapons that she'd add a black mist as john goes to use the ring i'm sure that we're going to learn more about what these weapons do but i have a few ideas from the comics that could shed some light on what these are as hale says these are pretty high tech weapons which could mean they were created by the arm as a court in the comics these are the eternal enemies of the guardians and they learned to forge antimatter weapons that were able to neutralize a positive matter of green light constructs making confirms in a moment that they were designed specifically for the lanterns so this gun could be an antimatter weapon created on core that makings however i feel like this could also be a version of what's called a cosmic divining rod in the comics this is weapon used by the villain black hand that drains the light force out of people and contains the power of the black which represents death on the emotional color spectrum and the absence of emotional light during the blackest night event in the comics the black hand uses the cosmic rod to raise the dead and form the black latin core powered by the black light of the emotional spectrum they serve the primal entity of darkness called necron so if makin is indeed the black hand like we've been theorizing this could be an early version of him trying to develop the cosmic divining rod he could think of it as just being a way to drain the green lens powers without realizing what he's unleashing this would also line up nicely with the comics as the cosmic rod originally drained the power from the green lantern ring it wasn't until much later in jeff jones green lantern run that it was revealed to be devised made by atrocities in order to contain the power of the black the trust is saw a vision that that william hand was the host for necron which could be something that they end up doing here however this could also just be a practical weapon meant to disorientate the lanterns as they require intense focus to maintain their constructs that can be neutralized if they lose concentration or are unable to think creatively which is something making most likely learn from his manhood of us with john and howl taking captive that then brought to makin in his office where he once again tries to big ball them literally he tells john that his wife said he's an artist and shows him his real weenie before asking him to draw jack i want you to draw me like one of your french girls whoa man put that thing away what kind of meeting is this have been in these before but not this one's weird we didn't see makin do a similar move when he first met him and he was chopping up those ribs while talking to holland john it's just a classic bad guy move to try and signify how powerful that makin thinks he is he's fully exposing himself to show he doesn't feel threatened and you can also see this little cube sitting on his desk this looks exactly like the camera that makin set up outside the football field meaning he could be recording this whole conversation or it might show that the man hunters tuning in we'll also see later on that these things are much more than cameras and can shoot laser beams so this could be an added assurance to makin that holland john won't twist his nuts off makin then has though he brings johnson charcoal and a pad of paper making her stay in the room as john begins his sketch i'll also mention again how weird all this stuff is and he says that he's been to a planet of sentient tentacles but hasn't seen anything like this this could be a reference to the alien race known as the dilland to the comics as the shape shifters who typically appear as a humanoid mass of tentacles they fought against a lanterns in the green lantern uprising event which he could be referring to here as makin then struts about naked he throws on some classical music as he poses for john and howl asks him about his darkness guns they seem to be specifically designed to disable green lanterns and makin reminds him that he told them they were prepared for any kind of invasion how about the lanterns should have nothing to worry about as long as they don't pose a threat to his boss making them reveals that his boss not only finances him but also saved his life by curing him of cancer this is where he met so he and he says that she was his nurse and kept him alive until a man hunter came and cured him making it then goes into a supervillain monologue on how great his boss is and how everything changed after he showed up the crop screw everyone watching this video subscribed to the channel and basically the town began to thrive he brings up howl so no one in the hospital because no one gets sick anymore and that the man hunter takes care of them in exchange for his protection now running under the assumption like howl and john that makin's boss is the man hunter i think he will most likely be revealed to be the grandmaster from the comics this is one of the man hunters who came to earth during the middle ages and became a leader of people taking the name grandmaster he secretly embedded himself and the man hunters into human society he orchestrated the world's events from behind the scenes and formed a man hunter cult yeah they'd recruit humans to work as their man hunter agents who are unaware that they were all really androids feel like this is what they could be adapting for the show with makin and the people of rushville being part of the man hunter cult and basically helping to spread the grandmasters influence on earth this would also indicate that there's more than one man hunter hiding on earth which we do get a hint at later which i'll talk about at the end howl and tells makin to cut the shit and not even bother threatening them because if he gets killed makin will have an army of laddens coming to knock at his door how that makin points out that john isn't a land before he can threaten to kill him their little meeting is then broken up by kerry who tells makin to put his weenie away and she rescues john and howl by arresting them for trespassing he also makes sure to grab house ring and john presents his drawing to makin which he pulled off lawlessly kind of shows as well that how none of makin's threats were able to phase him or break his concentration and is quite a big power move back at the motel kerry is pissed though that howl and john screwed up their shot at makin she tells them that in the meantime she's been digging through bellies files and is quite close to figuring out who makin's boss is sure to stay out of the way though and just lock themselves in the motel until she figures it out how that kerry doesn't leave without giving them a little bit of protection she hands john is shotgun and how is ring saying that makin knows where they are and will come for them we then see john holding up in his room as he calls his mum to tell her about his meeting with the guardians he tells her that the guardians are making john take the ring from howl but misses stewardsal for it she says howl is charming but john had better not have fallen for it and needs to maintain his focus how about the conversation sentence you're up there when john notices a car pulling into the motel he then grabs the shotgun only defined as always standing at the door holding crack on point she then comes in and claims that she came here on her own but john keeps the gun on her and asks why so he just kind of stands there and then moves closer to john and they just start making out and eventually shag again now john yeah i've got to say mate i don't just like uh john and zoe having this little love story is a way to test john's commitment to the laddens but you seem a bit stupid i think though it just builds off howl's line about not being close to people which makes the job easier but this was kind of silly i mean you're literally just confirmed that makin is working for the man hunter and john just let her walk on in for a quick shag with no explanation after their bang session zoe then says they can't see each other and that john basically has the choice to leave town or get killed how that john says he can't leave because he feels like everyone is lying to him including zoey yeah no shit dude all that zoey claims that if she tells john what she knows everything will change he asks what zoey o is making in order for her to go along with this all and she reveals that he's the one who owes her she says that she saved his life when he was dying and is now trying to save john's how that john still refuses to leave town and as zoey leaves a giant laser then blows up her car from the sky holy shit howl let's sprints out to fly up and find a satellite dish that has the same type of camera that we saw in the football field and also makin's desk also i love how john tries to give how the exact coordinates and where the laser came from but hale says just a point again it shows how john is more tactical and precise while hale just follows his gut but god damn that was crazy now the show has kind of been a slow burn on this man hunter mystery which isn't a bad thing but i feel like we needed like a little jolt to really kick this thing into high gear we didn't see karae arrive at the motel where hale's put his shield over the building to prevent another attack as karae sits down to go but what happened you can also see that she notices zoey's wedding ring on the nightstand and gives a grim look maybe she's just sad about her mother-in-law but it could also be her questioning whether john had something to do with it karae and hale then go over her findings from billy's files while john tingers away at the satellite we also see karae and hale have a little moment where she asks what she's gonna tell her son about his grandma being blown up and hale just gently grabs her hand he says to tell no-hat that they're gonna catch you ever killed her oh as john cracks up in the satellite and then run the serial number through a government database to find it's registered to a company called out the sink this is owned by a man named hector hammond karae says he owns a string of high-tech slaughterhouses and she can't find a record of him in pre 1986 which is the air abensorship crashed and as i've been saying this whole time he's the he's the man hunter we will meet hector in a moment er but in the comics hector hammond is one of hale john's biggest earthbound villains originally hammond was a petty criminal who has exposed radiation from medior and this increases intelligence however over time the radiation caused hammond's head to grow comically large and it also gave him psychic powers he then swore of eng on green land after he followed his plans of using his powers on a group of scientists to develop high-tech weapons in his most recent origin em post infinite crisis hammond worked as a consultant at ferris aircraft alongside harle jordan hammond hated him because he was in love with carol ferris and he gained his psychic powers and a giant cranium after being exposed to another medior as part of the search team that investigated abensors crash site the heck hammond that we will see in a moment seems a lot different to his comic book counterpart s i don't really think they're going with either of those in the show but it's a cool nod to one of hale's classic villains that could potentially open the doors for him to get that big ass head also i think the end 1986 is very very crucial obviously you know we've seen the show we've got 1996 2016 2026 lots of sixes along the airms i do feel like 1986 is possibly going to be a air that we jump back in tongue to now defining the location of hammond's nearest slaughterhouse hale is ready to go and go and splice it but john tells him that it's too easy he questions why hammond hasn't killed him yet if he's got lasers in the sky watching them he realizes that hammond wasn't trying to threaten em but was sending an invitation which hale is not only impressed by but actually praises john for this again shows how he's following sennestro's advice and starting to make jumble which i don't think is completely alive but hale is definitely thinking about what sennestro told him as you can see he cuts himself off from telling john to shut the hell up before asking him to elaborate as john hale make their way to the slaughterhouse hale and asks john how he's holding up after seeing zoey blown up it shocks john who points out that hale has never once asked him how he is but he says that he's handling it hale and gives him some harsh advice of being a green lantern he says that people dying is part of the job and that john needs to avoid personal relationships from now on being a lantern you see is a lonely job i feel like this ties back to what we talked about earlier with hale having to overcome fear rather than not knowing fear in the first place he's afraid of losing those who are close to him which is why he keeps him at a distance that's his way to overcome that fear and not let it overpower his will whereas we talked about with john how he was trained to never know fear at all this takes a more literal interpretation of being fearless so while there's no doubt that john is fearless i think there's a bit more to it than that john will have to eventually learn to embrace his feelings to prove his will can overcome the fear that he doesn't know he has yet i feel like that's hidden at pyl here as well saying that it looks like john is shutting down his feelings his lesson here is that it's okay to be upset about so he's being killed but that he can't let that emotion overpower him john then asks hale if he ever talks to other lanterns but hale says nobody likes him since they're all aliens he mentions how one of them is a squirrel which is a reference to the green lantern chup this is an alien squirrel from the planet hirvin who was in the same recruitment classes hale while training on oa we see john they make a subtle play for the ring when asking hale what is planned is to confront hale he suggests that hale should give him the ring as hale and won't expect it how that hale says fuck that and that this isn't a training exercise but that he appreciates john's confidence which again i love seeing how these two are unknowingly playing into each other's mind games john is trying to get the ring while hale is trying to encourage john but only to screw him over hale i do think that we can see here how neither of them are entirely lying they are actually starting to understand each other better as they try to betray one another once at the slaughterhouse hale and john and walk in to find hale but are completely ignored by the workers they just walk right past them and continue on with their workers hale asks them where hale asks them where hale is they make their way into an all-white room that looks like a meeting room on the severance floor here they see a cow a major of black hole in the wall and i felt it looked very similar to black hole at the guardians credit transported john to them all last weekend which is something that we mentioned in our trailer breakdown this could also hint at the manhunter using guardian technology as well to develop the weapons that we saw making using this would make sense as the manhunters were created by the guardians and most likely remembers some of the tech they used while they were on oa how that we can also see that the room is covered with those camera lasers that we've been seeing all episode they activate once the cow comes through the black hole and slice it up into perfect pieces based on the butches kind of a cow hale creates a bubble around him and john as well to stop them from being covered in its blood which you can see john turns away from but hale watches the whole thing now i don't even have to point out the reference er because john does it for us but he says that that's why he's vegan thank you for letting us know john but leave the details to me i do think this is actually born out of john's trauma though as after every apple shot his parents were getting a cheeseburger this then changed the ice cream after john asked for it but they were still shooting apple's off his head so maybe him going vegan is because he associates meat and dairy with the near-death experiences he had with his parents making it out the death room they then find heck to hamming sitting in his office instead of saying hello he just gives them the address of john's parents house which is quite a big ball move this was another thing with the eraser on our trailer video and shouts to everyone who pointed out that the house has the satellite dish that john's mum told his dad to put up in episode three he reveals he has a satellite pointed at the house and says that he will blow it up in the next three minutes unless he enters a coat to stop it which basically ensures they won't kill him have a how-calls bullshit and tells hamming to stop playing games but hamming focuses on john he reveals that he knows about john being recruited by ant and defined him and that he can save his family by giving them exactly what they want he calls him to say he found the man hunter and leads him into an ambush at the slaughterhouse hamming tries to turn hale in john against each other showing that he's been washing them closely and he pulls out a recording of john's meaning with liana here how he has john say he's old a piece of shit and not worthy of the ring how that hal just kind of eats it and instead of freaking out at john he asks hamming what color abin's skin was he's basically using his harry potter interrogation technique but hamming claims that he can't remember anything he says he's met lots of aliens but hal once again calls bullshit and threatens to rip out his heart if he doesn't tell him where the real man hunter is halen says that an old friend told him that the heart is the only organ that the man hunters can replicate we of course know this was an estro who told him this and it's interesting how hal calls him his old friend could just be semantics yeah i'll admit that but he could have just also said someone told him instead of calling him a friend which could show how hal really still values a senestro as a friend and a mentor warning how like killing him would also kill john's parents hal doubles down and says he wouldn't have given his shit even before hearing that recording now though he thinks it actually might be good for john and his heroes journey to lose his parents so the plan backfired now you often see in fiction that characters are often orphans and hal himself even lost his parents but batman superman basically every Disney hero ever they probably lost a parent meanwhile we see john start freaking out begging how to stop as he gives hamming his own countdown of ten seconds while the timer on hamming's laptop continues counting how about as hal grabs hamming he breaks the act and admits that he's human hal then turns the laptop around and makes him insert the code to stop the lasers and holy shit that wasn't tense now well i think it was obvious to us that hal was intentionally trying to provoke hamming into confessing by making him think he's crazy we see john genuinely use his coolness moment and i dare say he looks afraid i don't even think we've seen john raised his voice throughout this entire show and here he's pretty much screaming at hal to stop playing with his family's lives which is understandable for most people but not for john shows exactly what we've been talking about throughout this episode though with the difference between feeling fear and being fearless john has been conditioned to not even know since he was born this means that he's never really had to overcome fear because he's never learned it in the first place how that despite john's training he is still human this is something he pointed out himself just a minute ago and unlike the other alien lanterns he also has human emotions including fear through this though his inability to recognize fear actually becomes weakness as it leaves him more vulnerable to the emotion taking over him again that also doesn't mean john isn't fearless and unworthy of the ring but that he doesn't have the tools to overcome the true primal fears we humans often have no control over on the flip side of this hal had to learn to overcome the fears he already had and he's able to recognize them this is why he keeps people at a distance throughout because he's afraid of losing them so he eliminates that possibility which probably isn't the healthiest thing but it works so despite hal being washed up and john clearly being ready for the job john still needs to learn how to overcome fear in order to become a green lantern which is a lesson that only hal can teach him as he's the only person in the universe who has learned it himself which is why he's the only human green lantern hal also uses his moment to sort of put john in his place after hearing his conversation with the guardian john even asks what if he was wrong and hal just says never wrong similar hal hal school john on the football field in episode one this shows that his experience makes up for what he lacks in youth with john's parents safe hepto then confesses that his real names hectic good yeris we learn that he was actually an engineering student who was offered advanced technology by the man hunter he then reveals the real identity of them to be william making war so wait this was a kind of so is a situation just like hal said hold on uh we'll talk about this more in a bit later on because i don't know if it's true then see hally john on a very quiet ride home when john breaks attention by telling how that he was going to return the ring he says that he couldn't have said he ulted and taken hal shit back when they were at the making ranch but he didn't and that when he asked for it again he just wanted to show how what he was capable of but surprisingly hal is pretty cool with it he says he would have been the same thing and that john was right about him not doing much to earn the ring he even admits that there is a good chance that john is better than him well i'll be john then mentions how the guardians said that hal broke his old but he just laughs it off and asks john if he really believes everything they tell him he then points at hal they're secretly plotting against him at this very moment hally hal then comes clean and tells john about his meaning with sinesse and basically tells him everything he learned about the man hunters he says they're ruthless and programmed to infiltrate communities by attaching to weak spots they find a path to power and eliminate any threat to manipulation hal and asks john if that reminds him of anyone they know yes no i make it how about john clearly seems to be dodging the real question saying that must be william like hectic said but we see hal knows that he's holding something back hallyn has john called ant and tell him they found the man hunter and to meet him at the cafe outside of rushville this sets their plan in motion to take down the man hunter and hopefully stop ant and from blowing up the town also i think this cafe is the one that we saw uh john meet zoe at earlier in the season that could be where things go down again just to save on the budgie by reusing the set have to hang up the phone hal just stares at john and says that he really did forgive him for what he said at the guardians and thought he would be honest he says at first he thought john was just called his shit when he wasn't upset about so he dying but after seeing his reaction in hectic's office when he thought his parents were going to be killed hal realized that john really does have emotions this again shows how his feellessness is a weakness and it kind of kind of being exposed and put in situations where you clearly emote and then don't in others that shows that you're not exactly being truthful he then reels that john wasn't upset because he knew she wasn't dead and that the only way she could have survived is if she was actually the man hunter what john was banging a man hunter crazy john it then comes clean but says that he wasn't sure and just had a feeling which is why he didn't tell hal and last of that and congratulations hal and questions if john told the guardians but john says he hasn't told them anything because hal asked him not to which we know is true as in his meeting with liana he told her that they were still in rushville cleaning up after the early moon self up hal and bring his comments about being old and tired which john apologizes for but hal just says he's sorry for the rental like he didn't episode one he then rolls out the car as he sends it crashing but yeah this goes a bit beyond the training exercise and this definitely was attempted murder now i have no idea what's going on with this and we obviously know that john isn't dead due to him being in 2026 because of this though i do wonder if the man hunter is going to be the one that heals him and how i was basically aware that whoever this was was going to come along especially if it was so he and basically heal him of his wounds this will then reveal who the man hunter was for real his time and yeah since we know they can cure cancer i think this is possibly going to be what happens next week so he being the man hunter could also be aware that she was williams nurse and it could also be why she built that trust with john she did say everything would change if she told him the truth so this potentially could be a big thing next time but is though he the man hunter now i'm not going to just say this because i want to uh cenestro's daughter theory to be true but i'm not sure if i fully believe what hallen john is selling here well it would make sense given what we learned this episode about her saving making when he was dying i feel like there's got to be more to the story kind of like john's lying to hallen the motel room you think you're just going to solve this case in the car where's the investigation william also made her sit down in the art session and seem to hold power over her which i don't think he'd do if she was the one basically running the entire show how that if so he is really the man hunter i don't think she'll be the man hunter that's financing makin in the comics the man hunters rarely travel alone and are usually a collective group such as the man hunter cult that we mentioned earlier which i think makin and his group are possibly members of potentially though she disguised herself as a nurse and learned that he had a weak point that they could then exploit so he then kept him alive until a lead man hunter finally cured him and brought him into their cult who again i would guess is the grandmaster from the comics and the one really pulling all the strings this would also explain why he's always said that she's with makin because she likes a security provider makin and his man hunter cult could use the technology given to them by the grandmaster to protect the man hunters in case anyone comes looking for them like we saw the football field if so he is a man hunter agent as well she could possibly be a sort of prisoner herself she may even be unable to expose herself and leave the man hunters in fear of the other aliens fighting her but also not really being down with makin and the man hunter's larger agenda this would explain why she's been having this love affair with john in the hopes that he can save her if she can show she's not evil like the other androids hala if this is the route we're going it would also mean that there's probably even more man hunters hanging around in rushville shit the whole town could be man hunters wait if Zoe is a man hunter and no is her grandson holy shit we cracked it no is the man hunter also does that mean billy is half android maybe just as moustache regardless this would also line up well with the comics in 1987's millennium by seethe angle heart the grandmaster has his man hunter agents take the form of people close to members of the justice league this is in order to kill a new group of superheroes called the chosen so this again i don't know they could be doing anything but it's time to start expanding our man hunter watch folks everyone and anyone is a suspect and probably an android like imagine if the entire town turns out to be man hunters and john and hala have to fight whole army of them who knows if that'll happen but if there's one thing this episode really hamming into us it's that no one is really who they seem now i do have a few time i'll have a few time i'll have a safe for the end of the video and if the man hunter can heal people then potentially they could be the one that brings hala back to life another internet has been going while that hala got killed in episode one but it was a thing that shook up the internet however potentially if the man hunter can save someone like zoey or you know zoey can heal from these kind of things or making can be healed whatever then they could potentially save hala who did we ruin the theory time there i don't know but yeah that's the end of the video now while i've been enjoying the mystery that the show has been setting up through other last three episodes i think this episode gave some much needed answers to really get things moving forward a lot of the mantic focus of nothing being as it seems and you can see the supply to literally everyone in this episode john and hala are both trying to manipulate metraiture there makings we need turn out and not the man hunter hector hammond was really not hector hammond carry his batwoman the list goes on and on this forces us to question everything that we see from here on out and again yeah the mystery box is just getting bigger and bigger also loved how this episode explores how hala and john are both equally worthy of being greenlands but in different ways yeah though we have hala's fearlessness being born from him having to face the death of his parents and john's being forged from strict and rigorous training so it's just great seeing them work together for once and how they really complement each of that when not going against each other it's just a fantastic episode though and it really sets the stage for what's to come in the second half of the season welcome to the heavy spoiler show i'm your host paul in this video we're breaking down lanterns we are back for what i'd say is the biggest episode of the season industry inside as you've seen the rest of the series have said that the 2016 storyline wraps up here and i definitely feel like it brings an end to this chapter in it we see man hunter zoe putting her plans in motion while john and how desperately trying to stop and all out alien war and rushville this is all while also trying to stop each other from claiming the title of green lantern another war in rushville is the center piece i also think that at its heart this is a war between john hala and zoe and it's cold cold hard it's an absolute non-stop rollercoaster of an episode that answers almost all our questions about what's going on in rushville brings john face to face with his destiny and also everything that comes with it and i can't wait to talk about it now we started this episode in the air 2007 which breaks our 10 year timeline jumps i was expecting us to jump to time at decade long intervals and due to the mention of 1986 i did think we'd be heading out there at some point as well but who knows what we do know though is that young kerry kane is hauling us down the road to rushville her car gives out and we also see that kerry has banks yes that is it bat woman confirmed this is something that hollman should last week though with him talking about how he's on old phone over here with them you are from gotham and it's very nice seeing your photo i get why you drop the banks and we've been getting hints at kerry sygrap passing gotham throughout the series and with her last name we have talked about how she might be part of the kane family this is the immediate family of brusse's mother and his cousin kay kane who later became bat woman in the comics kay kane wears a long red wig while operating as bat woman and this is so she can hide her distinctive short red hair with banks so making kerry from gotham with the name kane and this specific mention that she's to have banks i did think it was clearly an under the character in the comics but we will discuss in just a moment why i think it's more of a homage than a simple confirmation also when i find out this great shot we get to open up the episode as kerry drives into rushville and we see a red sky night this symbolizes out whatever it is that she's running from she's driving herself into something much worse and yes i know it's technically orange right i don't know i would refer to this as a red sky at night shepherd's delight we then see kerry pushing her corn to the infamous cafe outside of rushville this has been a big place in the show where a lot of major meetings have gone down i do even wonder if zoe sort of waits here because it's a place that she can kind of man the gates he probably just hangs out at the steiner all the time in order to make sure no one is coming into town looking for her the cafe is conveniently just outside of the actual town and it gives her the perfect vantage point to identify any threats before they enter we even see she's sitting in the exact same booth that she was in when she conveniently ran into john after his meeting with anton as kerry sets down on the counter we then see that she's been followed by two goons the two shady looking gentleman then sit right next to her and tell her that if she really wanted to disappear she would have changed the gothan plates on her car so not like the robbery seen from history of violence i think and like the characters there it goes wrong for the baddies they mentioned that she's a thief like a father and how he could have been somebody if he just kept his mouth shut how about before the goons can take out kerry zoe comes up from behind and snaps one of the guys next she then slams the other guy's face into the counter where the gun pressed against his neck as she casually introduces herself to kerry so he then finds out he was sent into kill kerry and bring back her pinky as proof to his boss to which is oh he just says okay cool she then grabs his knife and asks kerry if she wants to do it for her how that kerry says that it's better if she does it and takes a couple of breaths before then chopping her little piggy off and sending it all the way home now based on what we hear from these thugs i don't think kerry is playing a version of batwoman unfortunately in the comics kk's dad was a military man and he became her guy in the chair when she took on the mantle of batwoman this archetype of being a thief is obviously something we've seen in catwoman as well but i think it just shows how bad things are in gotham rather than there being any connection there how that we also know from episode one that kerry still seems to be in contact with some of her old friends from the city she mentioned at bar by the police station in episode one which was most likely referencing barber gordon and she was probably on the phone with commissioner gordon so that's a case then yeah she's not on the run from the long gotham but rather from some group of shady criminals i feel like whoever kerry's dad was he might have been an undercover cop with a gcd or potentially even a snitch and he was discovered by whoever these guys work for kind of shows the protection that's always offers as well and basically how siding with her gives you the life you've always wanted you can go from being a thief on the run to now being a cop and also someone who's dying of cancer to a rich and wealthy healthy man with a weenie now while we don't know anything about the dc you batman or gotham city yet this would tie nicely with what we've seen the matt ruse batman universe the corruption of the gcd was the primary focus of the batman and kerry's dad could have been a victim of trying to uncover that before riddler exposed to the world the boss these guys are referring to could also be carmine palcone who took control of the police after the death of brusas father this could also tie nyc to hbos other hit dc series the penguin but yeah these those could be part of carmines gang and yes somehow is that betrayed them now though we don't know if the universe is connected rumpa patinson has these at them going in a radically different direction when promoting prime time kelly mccdonald who plays kerry also said in a recent interview that she watched penguin religiously in order to nail down her accent as she knew the character was from gotham all that being said though i think kerry being an octave hane is intentional but in reality she's just a random person from gotham who was swept up in the city's corruption her name could also be in a march of both batman co-creator bob kane and hal jordan co-creator gilcain whoo but now that we've uncovered the mystery of kerry's timing gotham let's get back to this meeting with her and zoey after cutting up the pinky zoey then gives it to the thug and tells him to take it to his boss as proof that kerry's dead she says that if it doesn't work she'll kill him and his entire family okay i guess she really is the man hunter the calvary worker is also completely in phase by all this and just asks zoey what he should do with the bodies and she just casually tells him to call betsy and tell him they need a table for one this is obviously code for you know burying one body and it just shows that the entire time is kind of working with the man hunter to the point they even have a whole protocol for it she's protecting the entire town and it's likely offered a safe haven to people just like kerry's carrying this as her hand zoey then sits down and says that the reason she helped her is because she's been in the same position she knows what it's like to run from something you can't outrun and being backed into a corner how about zoey says that someone gave her a chance when she needed it the most and now she's offering kerry that exact same chance she says she'll give her protection and acquire life in rushville on the one condition that she'll help protect zoey when the time comes she says that one day people will come looking for her and that she needs someone who is strong and willing to give a piece of themselves over to her this obviously plays in the finger thing and zoey needs people who will literally harm themselves in order to keep her safe zoey then says that they'll make her a new pinky and we see later on exactly how the healing works yeah now i did try and put myself in the position of the people rushville and to be completely honest i think i would have done the same thing as kerry and even questioned if zoey was really the bad guy i think you're definitely supposed to have that read but it all just plays into the themes of manipulation we've seen characters like the guardians john's parents cenestro halle and now the man hunter who are all willing to offer something to someone in exchange for something else and zoey is just doing that too also want to point out zoey's line about someone offering her a chance which is obviously her talking about haban seh as we know he was the one who brought her to earth and it seems like he wasn't actually working with the guardians interest when doing this but yet theory's time debunked there now we did have our doubts about whether zoey was really the man hunter but we can't see that she is definitely the one controlling the town so our zoey being cenestro's daughter theory is officially busted oh no i still stand by evidence for it yeah but we were wrong and i'll admit to it brogrudgingly i do like that this episode wastes no time following up on the man hunter reveal from last week instantly it shows us the real zoey and gives us a sense of just how ruthless she is it also feels like a great showcase of how the man hunter operates and is taking over rushville calls back to hal's line last episode about how the man hunter's program to latch onto weak points in a community and find a path to power we see that kerry is very very vulnerable at this point and she becomes a perfect weak point for zoey to exploit we then meet back up with john and hal in 2016 though john so about the crash hal isn't done with this lesson yet and we get this cool the batman style shot of him coming into frame as the camera focuses on john trying to escape as hal approaches the car he then apologizes to john for trying to kill him but he says that it's time that he gets him off the game board he says that he should understand given that he was working with the guardians to replace him he also again calls him jr which is super condescending and kind of him showing who the person in charge here is but john tells him to fuck off and that is planned to tell the guardians that he kills zoey and disgrace him just won't work how about hal points out that the lanterns don't kill people he then reveals his real plan to use antanas crews cover to distract making while they busy fighting each other hal will then swoop in grab zoey and then take her to oa there he says the guardians will be kissing his ring and basically saying you're the best you're better than right there you are he's got nothing on you you're the best paul halen tells john that he was never going to replace him and that is training is over it looks like hal has finally gone off the deep end and that's an extra um planning fear in him has actually worked this is his first step towards losing the ring as he's now going into fier and though he said last week this did seem like attempted murder i don't think that hal was actually trying to kill john as he said you lanterns so kill people so if he killed john the guardians would fire him anyway hal also knows that john is better than him which he admitted last week so by bringing in the manhunter Hal will also be proving he's still fit enough to carry on the job this will also make john look terrible as he's been bested by some washed up loser leaving john on the side of the road we then cut a rush bell where alarms are going off there's a tan i telling people to prepare for defensive measures and the day they've been waiting for has finally come we then see as pretty much everyone in rush bell has been recruited into so he's manhunter cult as the whole town is locked and loaded this bell is off the town hall meeting an episode two and at some point i think she's probably made a deal with all of them also if you go back to that scene in episode two you'll see they're clearly discussing the defense of the town how that hal walks in and this guy then just starts riffing and talking absolute shit you were about to say something yeah um i guess i wonder what we're what we're teaching on like we just pack up and forth it whatever their problem be it big or small she's helped and now they're ready to defend their android leader really quick as well we can also see the sign for billy makins law firm that reads makin and dolus law firm this is a nice little touch as dolus is the latin legal term for deceit or someone having evil intent which symbolizes how the entire town is basically a front to hide zoe and he's not even a real light i will say that as well he also owns the blue ball not saying that lawyers can't pass the bar and own a bar but they're all in on it including Noah back at the makin ranch zoe and carry they get ready to put their plan in motion billy begs them to let him come along but so he says billy is a baby bitch boy and needs to stay on the ranch to protect Noah you see he's still tossing that football around and zoe comes to fill him in what's going on she tells him that a lot of people he knows are going to die today including possibly herself if she does he needs to remember everything she's told him and i was sitting there wondering like do you want to elaborate on that a bit so he what did Noah learn from this sweet man hunter grandma we know it's not how you throw a football anyway that takes us into one moment in theory time gave me one moment theory time now because she's a machine and something that happens later i do wonder if there is a way to revive her conscience if you go back to last week we know she has no issues affecting her death and the fact that she survived being blown up by a laser beam and then dies from a headshot i don't know if that makes much sense mate now look she did find the laser herself so that could be a possibility how about with all the healing going on and the idea of consciousness being tied to objects through a backup of how in the ring it did make me think that zoey could return somehow zoey returned he can also see that Noah seems to sort of know what's going on here as when zoey tells him people he cares about will die he doesn't really have much of a reaction so i do wonder if Noah's been briefed on how to revive her and with her being a robot i think there must be a duplicate of something somewhere i mean we have like three episodes left now what else are they going to do for three hours it possibly could be here just being like remember what i told you to be nice and always hit the thumbs up on videos as well but yeah it did seem like there was something else here anyway that's in theory time i'll do it so he then gets a call from makin saying that the town is mobilizing and that he's located john with their satellites we then got her pulling up to him still trapped in the car as he's trying to escape the ride then catches fire and john begs for me to help him how that zoey just stands there very cold blooded and watches as he continues to scream for his life she's clearly allowing this to happen rather than helping because she can use this as a way to make him oh here's something we'll see john actually showing a motion here and that when it comes down to it he may not truly be fearless zoey then continues standing there and just watches john boond and she lets this all by out so she can come in as a savior feel like this is even more messed up given that last week we saw that john genuinely had feelings for her all about the episode or such a start or punching us in the gut and it doesn't have none of that like oh zoey is the man hunter but maybe there's more to it no she's just straight up bad and living up to the brutal reputation that the man hunters have meanwhile how watches the town prepare from the water tower as they scramble around and basically get ready for whatever attack might come how they need to spark a knife to spark the ring and tell us to activate the sentry protocol think it's kind of like rubbing a battery and it's somehow he knocked it against the drug of the car to repower it in episode two this is a matter of fess the hologram who is surprised to see him but the real hell isn't there for chitch at and he tells him to shut the hell up hit the thumbs up and then he needs a targeted sweep for the hostile ET he calls it the highest level of priority and shows him the picture of zoey that john drew last week i find this kind of ironic as well as john drew in his picture to show he was clearly thinking about the character now though it's being used to kill her and hell even in the end john doesn't mind leaving her shagden bagged which was cold blooded the hologram also asks about john saying that he likes him and wonders why he isn't helping them but i'll tell him to shut up about john and just go and find zoey also love how the hologram just immediately fell in with john just from our little meeting this also highlights how much hell has changed over the past ten years and i wonder if we'll get it filled in to what made him turn shit my guess is that it has something to do with cenestro and maybe seeing his mental fall is what turned him cynical i think it also speaks to how how has become so bitter and shut up from the world that he's just consumed with maintaining his title as green lantern no matter the cost that comes with it because that's all he is as we've seen he has an empty mansion that has nothing inside of it except his green lantern suits and power battery if he loses that then he loses himself and really that's all that matters to him as the hologram then begins his search for zoey we see that carries on the move and half lies down to stop her in the middle of the road he starts off things cordially but carry just pulls out her gun and begins to open fire how she holds the bullets with his ring as she empties the whole clip however as she starts to reload she tells how that zoey can't hear them but she can see them obviously she has satellites everywhere and has to make it look like she's trying to kill hell she also says that everyone in town with the cell phones receiving a killload of him as they speak and i imagine this is like the end of john wick to us something hallen asks carry what her game is and she reveals that zoey's been pulling the strings hallen calls her out for being a puppet and how she's protecting a war criminal just because she's afraid but carry says she keeps it on safe and that hallen doesn't understand she then reveals that she's not afraid of zoey but also saying that she gave her a miracle hallen tells her to think of noah but she says that's exactly what she's doing wait holy shit noah is really a manhuntat now um the weird miracle is something i went back and forth on though it could be referring to her life in rushville it could also be because she gave her noah we know that the manhuntat is able to assume different forms but we know now that she can also create human tissue given that carry has all of her fingers back so i wouldn't bet my house but i'd bet my green lantern ring that zoey somehow helped carry get pregnant with noah or just straight up created him i don't know but i knew i knew there was something off about that kid this would also explain why carry ozoey so much i mean yeah she held out that jam in the beginning but that doesn't seem like a big enough favor to just be totally cool with everything in rushville i feel like this is also great call back to carry's line of hallen episode two as she told him that making is not someone he wants to oh there it kind of pended her out as being a prisoner and i do wonder if there's a part of her that longs to be free from zoey due to her ability to heal tissue i also think that it adds way to our theory that zoey could resurrect hall was even thinking they could bring his body back to life and then maybe use the hallogram to recreate his consciousness sort of similar to vision in one division you remember that mate just seems weird killing halloff in episode one and then never nabbing all this shit and being like no one he's never coming back hallen offers to take carry and know us in my say but carry refuses and begs hall to leave he says that if he stays zoey will be ruthless and open fire on the town just to draw him out he says that if he wants to save lives then he'll leave but of course hall is not going carry then says that everything that happens next will be on him and asks if he's willing to accept those consequences and i mean yeah you should have seen what he did to john hall does not give a single fuck anymore well even less than he did before to be fair we then cut back to john somehow still alive and is going in and out of consciousness as zoey wheelsome to the hospital john is thoroughly cooked literally and he sees zoey's standing over him zoey then asks john why if he knew she was the man hunter why didn't he tell the guardians but john says it's because he doesn't trust them he calls her and human as well and i think that the season is going to ramp up to him finally questioning his orders and standing up against them his entire life he's followed the guidance of his parents the marines the guardians and done their orders without question i bet he's seen how duplicitous that they are and they even screw over their on landons if the opportunity presents itself he also talks about how anten told him that the guardians were protecting the man hunter so he says this is obviously not true and gives us a bit of a backstory on how they were initially created by the guardians to enforce justice how about deeming their methods to brutal the guardians then flip to switch that deactivated all the man hunters but for some reason zoey survived and this is a bit different from the comics and the man hunters rebellion came to an end when one of them tried to charge their stun guns containing the green lanterns power with the central power battery on oa this caused all the man hunters stun guns to overload which left them powerless the guardians then banished them to their last inhabited world as they refused to kill any sentient beings they believed that without their power from the central power battery the man hunters could never threaten the galaxy again which is a bold strategy cotton did it pay off of them no not as usual i don't think so he's telling the full truth here and there's probably a bit more to the story of why she's supposedly the only man hunter left if that is even true zoey then lays it all out on the table for john telling him that how will die today but that he doesn't have to she then offers to heal him and exchange for him telling the guardians that how died heroically protecting rushville from a random attack by anten this will allow john to become the green lantern and take the ring that she says is rightfully his it's about steam deal once more and much like the thing that zoey offers those who come to rushville i think it's all clearly a deal with the devil type stuff and she offers these people in hopeless positions a way to potentially change their fate and while john is all wrapped up like a mummy you can see a small tear drop from his right eye damn she is good you can just imagine how he pulled the same kind of game with pretty much everyone in rushville and granted their wishes to turn this small town into her own personal army we haven't thought about the man hunters a fair bit in our videos and they often write places and do this to get people inside zoey then says that she's going to force health users ring until it's dead and then make him dead this also builds up how carry said that she is more than willing to attack the town in order to bring halle of hiding speaking of halle as john makes a choice between his destiny and his man hunter girlfriend we pop back in a town where halle touches down and sees the streets covered in bullets and bodies making his way into the cafe he sees more dead and is ambushed by anten men they open up fire and halle as he creates another bubble to protect himself and halle loves those damn bubbles how about once the shooting stops anten enters the room and asks where john is halleys and says that he's been compromised and that he's come to make a deal he then drops his bubble construct as a sign of good faith and says that they both want the same thing but we know that halle is yeah simply just playing them and he tells anten that the man hunters make it is placing to his ruthlessness too and shows that halle is really willing to put the people of rushville at risk just to create a distraction to get zoey this further symbolizes how much halle has fallen and he's being fully driven by his need to be a green lantern halleanten isn't buying what halle is selling so quickly he says that if john was compromised by the man hunter that means he must have had sex with makin wait what explains that intercourse is the man hunters most powerful to the persuasion and this is what they use to basically seduce the strongest in the community damn so she was just playing john the entire time well at least we got that right it was explains why william was so cool with another man eating off his grill as he saw it as being something she had to do how about this kind of offense halle in a hilarious way he doesn't want to admit john is better and says that john may have fooled around with him a bit but he was the one fucking makin which anten still questions saying that halle has always presented it straight but halle is like buddy when you bang your way through the galaxy what even is sexual preference anymore we then hear the phones of the dead rushable mob going off and see how it's killing her that carry mentions gon out and turn and then agrees and a lion's but warns halle and if he's lying innocent people will die we can see that halle looks a bit worried after he leaves and i love how he just gets this moment of the true halle though his brash and has um a devil maker attitude i think he still died deep down that does want to save people i love as he looks down at the ring almost as if he's questioning if he's doing the right thing which you're not but in halle's defense no matter what he does right now it will result in innocent people dying if he leaves he risks anten blowing up the whole town and fai with makin and if he stays so he is just gonna start blasting back with john we seem laid out on the table burnt as hell as zoi prepares for operation i feel like this shot here also has to be a visual reference to anakin becoming Darth beta at the end of avenge of the sith it symbolizes what zoi is about to do and how this will change in forever we can also see that this operating room is lying with the same camera lasers that sliced up the cow last week how about this time the lasers are blue and not red showing that they're meant to heal john before starting the process john then jokes that if he comes out white then the deals are he then asks zoi about her skin and she says she's had many how about this particular skin she chose for power she says that the fastest way to take over a community or culture is to come in as an outsider and that being at a disadvantage is the best way to understand a civilization as a adversity makes someone stronger in ways comfort caunt i feel like we can relate this back to her line about her being with makin and she basically brought up how he was an eccentric white man she picked him instead of being a blonde bimbo from texas because it would make her a different and people might suspect her less this also builds up missus suits line about how people don't see them because of their skin so use the same tactic in order to hide herself with makin knowing that people on earth wouldn't think that an alien would intentionally take the form of someone where they get looked over she also sided with makin and made him wealthy so that people paid attention to him over her this also calls back to how manhand is a program to find weak points as the anad didn't understand the complexities of race on earth but zoey does she's studied human civilization and has seen the weaknesses that we have in accepting each other over trivial things this source explains why she identified john as the strongest between him and halle and then sought to situs him in her mind john has lived his whole life overcoming adversity to him being a minority and she thought that this would be something they could bond over and that he would be the stronger path to power so he then tells john to open his eyes but he's still hesitant and tells her to wait how about zoey says that she knows he doesn't want halle to die but that his death will bring peace he then trips a drop of her blood into his eye before sealing john in the metal cocoon cocoons obviously m symbols of transformation you know caterpillars go in butterflies go out and the blood going in the eye it's sort of like her connecting with him sort of a jesus metaphor i think drink my blood there's lots of imagery like throughout the scene playing on the whole death rebirth and resurrection thing we then see as his light flashes before his eyes which happens just before you die apparently this takes us back to his fifth birthday when his parents told him about his destiny become a green lantern then see john jumping out of the plane on his assassination mission as his mother tells him that the guardians want him to be fearless we then jump to john's first apple shooting lesson and his dad asking if he's afraid this ends with him in the first car crash of the cliff and then finally we see him being burned in the car could also see that while john is in a machine he's surrounded by yellow light this is obviously the color of fear and it symbolizes our john is being surrounded by the fear he keeps deep inside john and emerges from the cocoon like a fresh newborn baby and completely healed from his injuries john then questions are about haban sir he says that he knows he killed him because he was the only one in the galaxy who knew she was alive and that she wouldn't risk the chance that he may have a change of heart and tell the audience so he then confesses to the murder saying that she simply couldn't help it but we can see that she nearly burst into tears in this moment which seems to suggest that she really didn't want to but she's basically unable to overcome her programming despite what she may want he'll also kind of like this to john as well and hell a lot of the characters in the show we have seen that john is had to sacrifice much of who he is on his way of being chosen for the ring and despite what he may want with his life like being an artist he's unable to ignore his true nature and the path he was set on this could be why he tells her that he understands and so he says that why she's drawn to john is because he sees it which is a line that plays off later but yeah lots of characters are kind of giving into their programming as Kerry has also had to go along with the programming to protect so he how went along with the guardians even if he didn't agree with them and the ones who stand up to their masters often end up like cenestra have a 100% think she's still playing him here and trying to exploit his own family trauma and droids don't cry man get the hell out of here so he then gets a call from makin who tells her that and hannon is crew on their way so he then starts speaking to him in an alien language and i did go back and forth on whether he could be a man hunter too now i want to say a big well done to everyone last week who pointed out he had a pacemaker score which i didn't know is and this could have hinted that he had something done to his heart so he wasn't a man hunter because the whole heart thing but yeah even with that knowledge in mind i did kind of go back and forth on whether he was one and yeah just him speaking that language you bloody got me the two then say their goodbyes with zoe making sure that makin is ready she making him say that he loves her and then thanks him for everything and makin then thanks her get a makin set up for it and says he loved every minute of it was making him look they will stop the makin jokes i feel like this is meant to be a kind of emotional scene but given what we know about how his operates what i can think about is how he was completely manipulated into being her full guy it's also just funny and ironic how the guy who was all like are you gonna be invaded by no aliens is the one who brought the man hunter to rush film and invaded the town as makin hangs out we then see a car pull up to the ranch the guy stopped by makin soldiers and at the man gets out claiming he's just looking for directions how about when makin's men go to seshim we then hear him start beeping and he blows up and if you ever hear beeping like that that ominous beeping it is not a good sign this obviously builds up the first anyone men in the series who explain that they have neutron bombs woven into their skeletons and hand his men and then storm onto the ranch and all hell breaks loose one of his men even jumps out the car and camcaws he's himself in the makin's weenie this destroys their stock pile of alien weapons and we then see makin in his office nervous as hell about what's about to go down he grabs a gun and then sits at his desk and nervously moving around trying to make himself look intimidating like fuck i don't know what to do with my hands makin then decides it would be best to put the gun in his desk and when you reach his down we can see he has a stack of some kind of tapes they're all color coded with one's reading something negotiations and another labeled fair the labels are quite hard to read so it's anyone's best guess as to what they are and i'd love to hear yours but it feels like them and show how zoey making have multiple backup plans for this exact scenario as it's what they've been preparing for since they met makin then grabs himself a drink to calm his nerves as antin walks in and makin hovers his finger over some kind of trigger underneath his desk we see this activates the cube that we mentioned sitting on makin's desk last week and it locks onto antin with the red lasers he shows that makin really didn't have hell in john icon point like we thought during his interrogation last episode antin questions whether makin is really the man hunter speaking to him in the same alien language that makin used with zoey however he's saying it's not like him to take on the disguise of an elite which kind of plays off what zoey said earlier antin asks makin what the first thing he said to him was when they met along with the last thing he ever said makin says don't stare at the suns too long and the last thing antin said was that he was a monster antin then asks what the names of their children were which makin clocks is a trick question and says they were never able to conceive so yeah it's clearly had a hell of a lot of history and it's quite clear that makin and zoey have been through this exact same conversation many times and shows that zoey was not just preparing for the guardians to find her but antin as well but antin was banging the man hunter and i love this reveal here because yeah he clearly fell in love with her which led to the genocide of his people much like how it's you know rushules gonna be rocked by this because of makin's choices antin is now willing to die for the cause of taking her though because he's already been past the point of willing to be sacrificed it really sets the stakes and shows that zoey is more than willing to kill the rush villains as well or the rush villains however they'd be called leave in the comments below leave as many comments as you want engage with the video have an antin still isn't buying it he says that if makin was really the man hunter he would have killed him immediately makin then deactivates elated and knows antin will just blow himself up if he tries to kill him have an antin says he would never be so blinded by revenge to just blow themselves up without confirming that he really was the man hunter he knows that he's mastered his language and memories but he's missed one important thing all of a sudden he then throws an knife into makin's chest and jumps across the desk to pin him down he then reveals that the real man hunt out would never welcome death as he rips makin's fucking heart out he then holds it in front of makin and confirms his suspicions as his heart doesn't crystallize he also sees that makin is still alive for all of this and though i was not sad to see makin go i wasn't expecting this mortal combat star finisher whoo and we've got to take a moment to acknowledge something here eh because i think we were i think i think it's safe to say we were wrong about a lot of stuff firstly makin is in the black hand and secondly antin is screw or clearly not red lanterns no atrocities here so yeah theory time's busted i'm sorry folks i will just say in on offense i do think that some of these were intentionally meant to mislead us into trying to dig through the comics to figure things out i mean tom king is in the right his room there's no way he didn't see some of these same parallels that we've talked about either between atrocities and a sector being wiped out by the man hunters in the comics well how the black hand is targeted by him in order to fill the blackest night prophecy these are events that are kick-stotted by the mysterious circumstances of avantise crash just like the show so excuse me for being thorough i do feel like the show knew exactly what it was doing with his comic book references though and that it deliberately used them to extend the themes of the series which is that nothing is as it seems which if true is fucking genius and how is not dead as well as makin bleeds down his desk and tanninsies howl on the satellite feed who's standing in front of the middle of the street and calling for zoe to come and get him also love how he waves his middle finger in the air with a ring on it classic how about zoe then makes good and carries thread and starts shooting down lasers from the sky it begins to destroy downtown rushville and we can see multiple people get caught in the blast you can instantly imagine what antin went through and how his people were led towards death by zoe in the past as half-lights in the sky to take down the satellites we then cut back over to the hospital where john chokes out the god watching him and makes us escape i love that he was also playing zoe so that she could heal him and that shaggin her wasn't good enough to completely brainwatch him join and grab himself some hospital scrubs to protect his new skin and find the keys to a car to escape the hospital i also want to point out the rabbit foot that we see on the keys that the camera focuses on for a good couple of seconds rabbit feet or rabbit foots are often seen as symbolizing good luck or protection against evil now while john didn't intentionally pick these keys it shows how he's going to need all the luck he can get in order to stop the evil man hunter how about i feel like this could also have a depelated here because why would someone feel a need to protect themselves against evil or bad luck unless they were afraid of it because of this i think the rabbit's foot is acting as a symbol of the superstitious fear of the unknown we talk last week about how the show seems to be playing with the differences between being afraid and being fearless true fearlessness comes from overcoming one's fears and not just from not feeling fear but since john neverland what fear was he's unable to identify in himself so the rabbit's foot could be john looking for something for protection because deep down he's afraid of what's about to happen as john drives down the road he's elated still coming down in rushville and he makes it cool to his dad to contact the audience now do you wonder if liana is acting alone and this whole thing to betray hal has not been sanctioned by the rest of the guardians which is why she's the only one we ever see being contacted i even think john might be a sort of pet project to secretly replace him which is why she wants john to take the ring from hal rather than the guardians having to give it to him how that john's parents are just more concerned about whether or not he took the ring from hal with his mother coming on the speaker phone and saying they've been waiting by the phone for the past 24 hours john then pulls up to the gun store breaks in and gives his parents their update on the situation as he starts putting together a rifle i mean technically he did buy a last episode he basically fills them in on what's happened and that he's finally going to take what's his now you can see here that john is letting his emotions get the better of him which echoes his dad's advice from episode one he says how hal is trying to provoke him and that john just needs to be cool and the job is his but this really reflects the characters and shows how john is starting to stray from the path just like hal back outside we see hal take down one of the satellites but they just keep shooting down laser beams on rushville people are dying everywhere and hal has to use the ring to create barriers how that this takes his ring power down to five percent among the chaos hal also notices a woman trapped in her car and shows that he isn't completely lost as he does help her escape how that there's also a weird cut here as a group of makings goons drive by and then start shooting at them so i'm not sure if she made it as hal takes cover behind the car the halogram then starts talking from his ring and says he's located zoe near the water tower hal and jumps out from behind cover and uses his ring to blast making soldiers coming back for another run they get some cuffs from the deputy and flies off to find Zoe i love seeing hal actually getting to use a ring power for something other than playing some of these pop songs on the jukebox and it's just a nice scene that feels like what i wanted to see from the show along with him actually having to say people that is if he didn't use this woman as a human shield we think it's awesome all those POV shots flying through rushville as the laser's keep coming down and hal drops down and immediately grabs zoe then puts his ring against her head like a gun and holds her hostage and hal puts the cuffs on her she orders her men to block the water tower then tumbles to the ground and we see that's actually been used to hold the black smoke that makings weapons used in his weenie this is a crazy reveal in hindsight as the water tower has just been there in the background and yeah even hal and john were hanging out their last episode this was always ultimate defense against them and it was literally under their nose the whole time as the black smoke surrounds hal and shows he's not too old for the superhero game just yet and beats the shit out of one of them and then takes his glasses of course all these last week and weenie and they provide a sort of night vision thermal goggle vision thing that allows him to see through the smoke then get an awesome POV fight sequence with hal making his way through the smoke and taking down so he's soldiers they is also a nice touch that the light on the lens is green which plays into the night vision goggles but also just the green lanterns in general to making him appear more like his original costume with the green domino mask and oh yeah it's obviously not the same it just shows he's stepping more towards that this also reminded me of the big funnel fight scene from armpierre's breakout role in rebel rich at the end of the film he uses a similar tactic of throwing out smoke grenades to conceal himself as he takes down the corrupt police force that's pinned him down and i do think that's what probably landed him the role in the show how using these goggles could also be a subtle reference to what's called the emerald site in the comics this is a rare power of the green lanterns that allows him to see glimpses of the near future and was discovered by the green lantern simon bats as hal makes his way through the soldiers we then hear a beeping as he's surrounded by smoke and see antan entering the field he calmly walks in the black smoke to blow everyone up but hal catches him just in time and sucks him up in his tornado construct it's a great death that technically means hal didn't kill him i guess but yeah antan is definitely not a trusted is toss it in the failure halen finds that zoe has chopped up her arm and escaped like a coyote obviously she can heal his heart but i think it plays into how she will do whatever it takes to stay alive making soldiers ends up opening fire and hal and he jumps in the helicopter to fly himself to segty and find zoey but notice how hal doesn't use his ring to fly off or fight off so he's soldiers he of course knows it only has five percent battery left and is saving every last bit of juice we then see hal touch down at the motel as the ring warns that the power is now out halen rushes inside to grab his power battery and charge up but he's ambushed by john he then takes him to the ground and prisering off hal's finger whilst saying he doesn't deserve it however hal says that the ring shows him and tackles he surprisingly starts being a sass a bit before he then tries to strangle him again hal yeah maybe old but he still has plenty of fight left in him hal it also shows how hal is now completely off depend and willing to kill john over the ring in the beginning of the episode he just left in trap because laddens aren't supposed to kill people but now he's willing to step over the line just to keep the thing that he's sworn to uphold i feel like this is all cement that implies the corrupting nature of power and the rings hold over john and hal in his moment both john and hal seem more than ready to kill each other over the ring and it's turning them into the worst versions of themselves to me it's sort of playing with a lot of the rings dynamic where the power of the ring is just too much for one person to handle inevitably it results in them becoming completely consumed by the desire to maintain that power and this scene in particular hal trying to strangle john is almost a perfect parallel to sneekel chocking deagle i know it's a super nearly reference or sick reference if you're pia parka and ed but it really highlights just how lost both john and hal are here due to their desire to be a green land they're so focused on this while the people of rushville are getting shit on by lasers outside and it's all while they have this little tussle harba as hal tries to choke the life by the john john breaks hal's hold and then starts laying in tim he beats a hell out of him and tosses him around the motel room and halter finally tells him that he'll never replace him before john then spot and kicks him through the closet john then drags hal up again and puts him in the chokehold we then see the room start to shake and he had a satellite laser powering up but hal is able to use the last bit of power he has left to form a bubble around them and protect them from the blast you can also see that john it doesn't look back once as the laser starts to crumble the motel he's just completely focused on trying to take out hal and gathering even though doing so would kill him further plays into how it's corrupting him but also that he may have actually killed hal here if not for hal saving them both while at least he didn't care if the laser took them both out which may even be more messed up as a motel blows up in the dust clears we then see john make a run for it hal's trap beneath the rubble and we get a quick shot of the rushville sign that carry past in the beginning of the episode well this is a shot of makens ranch completely blown to hal confirming that it was this that we saw destroyed at the end of episode one as hal starts to come to we then see so we walk up to the motel and ask how when john went hal and says he promoted himself but so he says she's the one who did it traded his life yours how about hal just starts to laugh and says that if there's one thing he knows about john it's that he's not a coward he says that if he wanted him dead he would just do it himself so he then pulls a gun on hal and asks why john would leave him for her to find him and hal says that his gut tells him it was for bait so he then realizes what he means and turns around to see that john has a lock in his sights he's alright and headshot whoo this builds off a big pan on the comics where john has a sniper rifle but there it's built out of construct so he also smiles almost accepting her fate and it's finally over or potentially she knows that this is the perfect way for her to fake her death and lay low until no one brings her back yes i'm sticking with that theory as though he's body hits the ground like a sack of bricks we then see john making his way through the town and stopping to see all the destruction and death left behind their fight bodies are all over the place and we see a dead guy with his wife and daughter crying over him just absolutely devastating but i like how we focus on all this chaos for a moment makes us feel just how terrible this all is as john realizes it was for himself he then hands a little girl here father's watch and tells her he's sorry and watches something that the guardians tested him with building with john having to construct his father's watch to show how well he knew him here it feels like a memento of the past and upon his gesture that won't do anything to get him back john then grabs the back of the street and makes his way back to the motel where he gives though he the model combat finisher and cuts out her heart is crystallizes as it hits the air confirming that she was the man hunter now i felt super bad for john here despite who zoe really was john genuinely cared for her or at least the person she was pretending to be and only if he had to kill her but he then had to physically cut her heart out well android heart but still counts it's yet another example of something terrible he's had to endure on the heart of the guardians builds off all the people he killed the military which he justified as being all part of his path of becoming a green land john then grabs alan has housed her again consciousness again and john priser ring off his finger hallen asks him if he was with it and we see john is asking himself the exact same question he doesn't look down on the ring as he puts it on his finger as super ominous intense music plays in the background but john this is not a moment of victory in his dreams coming true but rather it's a symbol of how he's lost himself in order to claim what he believes he deserves as john puts on the ring a bird then flies in the room i think in john's mind this is a guardian now coming to make sure that he'll complete his mission in matray hall though mrs stuette admitted that she lied about birds there's still been enough clues in the interview room and at the end of episode three to think that she was indeed right to me this seems like confirmation that the birds were really the guardians checking in on john's progress this bird was sent to remind him what he's done and that it was indeed worth it the bird is almost keeping him on track and being like look we are watching continue the mission he then leaves hallen the motel as he takes the ring and power battery as hall tries to tell him that the guardians will do the same thing to him one day john just keeps walking and doesn't look back we then see john making his way through the town carrying the backpack and the battery as makin soldiers surround him how that carries steps in and tells him to stand down she asks john where hall is and says that he's back at the motel and kara just gives him a grim almost disgusted look as she storms off which she probably thinks is because john killed hall i mean the motel has been blown shit i do think she definitely likes hall as well and even when they're the pair might get together after the dust settles here with nc john ry the billy's bar where he finds the guardian liana waiting for him she or so has the perfect term to describe the events shit storm but the ring does look good on john how that john doesn't say anything and he just walks over the bar and starts chucking some vodka he begins telling the anode that hall is still alive and informs her that the backpack is the guardians sins and consequences liana then gets out of crystal manhood and says that even the guardians make mistakes but all they can do is correct them he then shoves the bag off to the side as if she's just wiping her hands clean of the whole thing she's clearly not acknowledging all the issues that they cause all the destruction and it's just like yeah whatever it's done now but nice one on the next one john then tells liana that all his life you imagine to what this moment would feel like he thought that putting on the ring would make him feel proud grateful and powerful how about when he finally put on the ring all he felt was empty i think a lot of people can relate to this and hell i remember like chasing a million subscribers for like years and years and i thought oh this is gonna make me so happy it's gonna be amazing and then it happened and the next day i was like oh is that is is that it thanks everyone for getting a million really appreciate it doesn't really make you feel happy and you often realize that you sacrifice yourself for a trivial goal that didn't magically change things john and says that how they tried everything in order to keep the ring and that it completely broke him the sad thing is that how probably doesn't even remember why he wanted it in the first place and john then takes the ring off his finger he then tells liana that neither does he he then walks away from what he thought was his ultimate destiny and we focus on the ring as we then go to the credits so after all that john doesn't even take the ring what the hell is this i'm sick of it i'm jogging i actually am really really like this we've seen how being the green land has literally consumed every aspect of john's life since he was born he was constantly training another threat that he would be seen as not being good enough either by his parents or the omnis guardians that were apparently always watching him they all made sure john did what he was told in order to claim what everyone was telling him was his destiny how that now being faced with the consequences of where that path leads john is finally making a decision for himself and realizing that this isn't who he wants to be he sees the destination of the path represented by harl who is john said betrayed everything he ever believed in in order to keep the ring this brings us back to all other rings parallel and in that harl is gone and he's someone completely consumed by the power of the green land ring on the flip side of this we have john being furod who's tasted the power of the ring but clearly recognizes that in the end he'll end up just like golem we already saw that happening during his fight with harl the motel where john was ready to have both him and harl blown up by zoe because he was so focused on getting it harl i think at the moment that john had to shoot zoe and cut out her heart is what made him realize that this path is not the one of his choosing he'd become just another puppet of the guardians and he'd either end up like harls seneso or zoe all the creations of them and all had their lives room because of it both harl and zoe all the victims of their mistakes and he's more or less been forced to clean up their mess think about it zoe was a homicidal android but as she said herself she conning in all her true nature this was programmed into her by the guardians and zoe operate just like they did the guardians recruit people with the promise of power and order to get them to do exactly what they want which is pretty much exactly what zoe did with the people of rushville the greenlands protecting the guardians and the people of the galaxy and the people of rushville protect the town and zoe so it's just the same thing on a smaller scale the same thing goes for harl as well who became corrupted by the immense power that the guardians bestowed on him without knowing how much that would affect him as there'd never been a human greenland before the anne even admitted his arbor that the selection process was a bit flawed because they didn't understand humans well enough so now that john sees what serving the guardians leads to he decides that he's done playing their games and is taking his life into his own hands for the very first time and wow i don't even know what else to say but what a god damn great episode of television that was i mean yeah just fuck on the gas the entire time with hardly any time to breathe there's so many great moments but what i really loved is that we never lost focus on the culminating dynamic between john and harl there's so much going on in the episode but the hollabits still centers around their individual arcs and how the ring has changed them for the worst also love how they played harl sort of fall from grace as he clearly lost his way but doesn't go full on villain he still stopped to save that lady in rushville and was doing what he could to save the people in the streets from being blown up by zoe's lasers and though he may have gotten some bits wrong okay pretty much everything wrong but i don't even care this was a super satisfying episode for me and it really brought together everything that we've seen in the show this fall how that i do still think they are still playing us a bit with some of the parallels in the comics which again if that's true is so smart hope most of the hero shows and films do take a note from the laddens playbook though and how to use comic references and parallels to play nother themes of the story and not just doing random nods which we do love but this was really clever i also think they paced out this mystery really well over the last couple of episodes to provide this payoff think if we had another one kind of dancing around things that it could have started to get dull but they just laid everything on the table which is super bold to do when well like just over halfway through the season it's crazy i think that there's still three more episodes because this really feels like a series finale level episode welcome to the heavy spoil day show i'm your host paul and this video we're breaking down latins after exploring the super secret origins of john steward and then the showdown rushville episode six brings us back to twenty six where we continue the investigation of house murder it gives us a small clue as to what happened in rushville back in 2016 and also gives us a cameo from guy godnet it explores how john's been trying to move on for the past ten years but he's forced to face the destiny he left behind as always this episode is loaded with easter eggs and references to the comics and throughout this video we'll be breaking it all down we've also just launched our green latin themed arsenal shit at the mitch store below along with our hard light one too plus if you're a James Bond fan then we've just released this one based on the reservoir dogs poster has all the actors on there who play the character so far and is a must have for any Bond fans on the channel and you will bond with it go ahead everything you have it's because i didn't take it now we start this episode off in twenty twenty six where we meet up with john though believe the shots of the city are destroyed and correct me on that if i'm wrong you probably know better than me but he also mentions midway city as well i did wonder if it's in the same way they use new york and chicago from the tropliss and gotham and here they're kind of using this as midway midway is actually the home of horkman and hork girl and also do control in these universe but john is here giving a presentation to group of investors that's alongside his brother Marcus and they run the architectural firm which is known as steward brothers now john was actually an architect in the comics and this aided him with building his constructs their first projects a series of underground panic rooms which are designed to house and alley twenty thousand people in the event of another kind of interplanetary threat he references the kaiji attack on the tropliss from superman as well as the emergence of star own james gun suicide squad john also mentions how a few years back he wasn't involved in attack that resulted in an unnecessary loss of life though the events of episode five were very very bad what's worse for him was seeing how scared the people were we had a moment with a girl and her dad which comes home to roost later in the episode this is what inspired him to create the bunkers and he's now focusing on safety and defense rather than attack not to sing how many people got killed by zoey skylazers one of the things you mentioned was how the episode didn't shy away from showing us all the death and destruction that behind we see how this is affected john and this is shaders like going forward also think it's very interesting how the main thing john remembers from their time in rushville was how scared the people were this is an emotion john had never felt in his whole life so this was probably the first time he'd seen true terra firsthand or at least felt it empathetically going back to episode three we saw how john's parents didn't allow john to see fear in them as they believed it would be contagious he was to saw how when john was a sniper he was completely isolated away from his target there he wasn't really in the ground zero things and looking through his scope gave him a sense of detachment he was also told the guardians that he likes being alone and because of this i think he probably didn't see fear in his fellow soldiers either so while john was no stranger to death before rushville was the first time he saw people truly afraid this is why he's dedicated himself to helping people never be afraid again instead of becoming the green lantern which would probably cause more fear this also makes me think this line could be a little deeper than it seems at face value john could be referring to himself as well and seeing the people of rushville so terrified made him feel fear for the first time i talked about this um a lot in our previous breakdowns with the difference between feeling fear and being fearless not really being the same thing because of this we said john was enabled to identify fear because he never learned it in the first place so while i don't think that john was afraid and rushville i think seeing how scared everyone else was has made him realize what fear does to you this could also be why he turned down the ring and will parallel how this and himself from getting close to people because he was afraid he would lose them john may have realized that being green lantern will always come with innocence dying and that he will have to see that fear in others again i'll tell john himself that people dying is just part of the job but john clearly this yet so instead of being the cause of more death and destruction as the green lantern he did the opposite of how whereas how shut off those around him john reconnected with his brother Marcus and used his talents to see what he wanted in life and then became an architect again this is his career in the comics so i'm glad he finally got there as it's a very important piece of john's origins when danielle and neel adam's created john's to in the first place adam fought for john to not be a gangbanger but just a regular person he wanted him to be someone who was college educated and had a career and not just someone who was picked up off the street to have this dramatic reconstruction to make him into a superhero adam's even for an ill on giving john just a normal name without neel originally having him called lincoln washington everybody knows that uh...

you know i created uh... a black green lantern john store the black ring with no wait so julie swartz insisted that i draw the book and blah blah blah and yes i agreed to draw the book and i said look i don't want to draw i don't want a green lantern that is a gangbanger or an african chief i want a college graduate i want him to have a profession okay none of this pull him off the street and suddenly reconstruct him but becomes a hero none of that stuff i want a real black man american black man so daniel neel wrote the script it was a pretty good script i mean he just turns out to be a college graduate architect out of work which in the 60s was exactly right and his name was lincoln washington no is that right well what would you call what would you call you name i said just a name just a name pull a name out of a hat he says you name him god damn you name him i said fine john steward john's career as an architectural hero is also one of the things that separates him from the other lands in the comics known as the master builder it's a nickname that's a bit similar to yours but john uses a background and architecture to make his constructs piece by piece this makes them at some of the strongest of any green lands ever as they're meticulously designed to be structurally sound in the comics during the moseake story arc john uses knowledge of architecture to rebuild the moseake world into a functioning society the guardians then granted him the title of master bay builder and made him the first mortal guardian of the universe this is also something they foresaw from the first moment they met john they knew that he was the one to be able to take their place and this is why they start to allow green lanterns on earth as far as john becoming an architect in the show i feel like this also shows how despite john not being a green lantern he's still trying to uphold the lantern's mission to protect the world from evil however instead of using a ring he uses his talents as john steward he creates things that can protect people and doesn't just make things to fight man hunters and supervillains this is why john says that fire power might be able to stop a threat but it doesn't save lives he realizes that he doesn't need a guardians in order to do good and that it's better to break free from the patties being thrust onto john also mentions that the bunkers are designed to be like underground football stadiums because of this i did wonder if he was inspired by their first investigation rushville the shooting at the football stadium is what really set this holding off and the rushville stadium has been pretty important in the show so far we also know that it's where how john was killed um so john making these bunkers similar football stadiums it feels like it's meant to symbolize how he's trying to make up for the people that he couldn't protect in rushville and ultimately it still ties into what lies ahead as john is absolutely crushing his presentation we then learn the full scope of his plans and he says that with their investment they can make up to 40 of these bunkers which if we crunch crunch the numbers that would be able to house 800 000 people hey man instead of asking john more about the project the investors are more interested about his time as green lantern and i love marcus's reaction like oh this fucking shit again but john it keeps his cool and jokes that he was the green lantern but only for five minutes i think this is him deflecting with humor and trying not to deal with more questions on it now while he investors are impressed with john they tell him that it's the military support you really needs john says he's a marino and used to following orders and is clearly just pushing this idea more than the fame and probably easy get that he'd have with leaning into being a lantern this then sets him up with a meeting with general drake artist alice pitch which he's confident he'll be just as impressed with also i want to point out the follow we see for just one quick second as the investor goes to shake john's hand you can see it has a big m across the cover now i tried to go air through the government organizations of the DC universe but couldn't really find anything with a matching logo that starts with an m how that what character has been the big mcguffin in the whole show that's right the man hunter so while we know that zoey was the man hunter in rishville it could be a subtle hint that there could be more of them on earth pulling strings from the shadows as they say but i am still thinking about that line that zoey said in our last week about how he knew what he had to do and to do what she told him and because of that there may be more to it this would also line up with the comics as there when the man hunters came to earth one of them known as the grandmaster infiltrate a society and then became their leader he secretly embedded himself in the man hunters in society and orchestrated the world of ends from behind the scenes we theorized in episode four that that could be making real benefactor and so he may have just been a man hunter agent we were clearly wrong on a lot of that though so we probably won't see the grandmaster but it would be a cool little hint that there is a man hunter still out there how that is also an organization the comics called the machine and all this only appeared in two issues of superman and chain it is a government black ops organization tasked with creating weapons capable of stopping superhumans they're located 800 feet below the state of utah and run by general lane aka lowest lanes for that like i said the machine only appeared in two issues so it would be a pretty niche reference but it kind of fits where we are with the dcu a shady government organization that operates underground does seem like the kind of people who would be interested in john's underground bunkers how that i don't think they'd be there to save people but would rather want to use them to continue their weapons research this would create a good moral dilemma for john as well as he's trying to use his passion in order to do good instead of being a superhero how about it could usher in something even worse and possibly something that could push him into finally taking his place as a lantern you may realize that despite having the best intentions to do good the world needs him as a green lantern nailing their presentation john and Marcus and celebrate their win and Marcus calls him chosen this calls back to his brother's line episode three during john's birthday party about how his parents pick him for everything we saw it was pretty much the case their whole lives as everything was centered around john's training this could also be a reference to the group the chosen in the comics who later became the new guardians now though you might be saying this is a fucking reach ball this is a team of superheroes created by the guardians and a zamaran which are the female counterparts of the guardians this was part of their quote unquote millennium project which would progress human evolution again this would be really random and if not for the fact they became targets for the grandmaster that all went down in 1997's millennium by steve engel heart so it could build up that how about john and Marcus's acceleration comes to an end when john gets a call from their mother we see that they're no longer on the best of tombs and john calls have been a dead rather than mum or mum as you guys say in america i've got i've got you there i finally got you some of a bitch yee-haw as as they say but yeah basically he's asking why she's even calling him mrs. Stuart then gets john talking by telling him that hal john wants to apologize to which john basically has the same reaction as me watching the scene what the fuck so that was a fucking lie how does it apologize for shit but the more important question is how does she know it's in this that we learn that how the mrs. Stuart are basically bffs now mrs.

Stuart reveals that hal has been imprisoned for the past ten years and that they stayed in touch while he was away it's far cry from how she thought about him earlier in the season and she's clearly reconciled with no longer viewing him as the enemy since john turned down the ring she mentions that hal has changed a lot since release and then he's back in rushville and then he wants john to meet him at the diner to finally say he's sorry but john just slams the phone down now clearly a lot has happened over the past ten years but i am curious to see why hal got locked up like what exactly the specific reason was i mean i know things went sideways in rushville but you can't really blame that on hal putting aside the things he did to john for a moment as far as the people of rushville are concerned all he did was try and help them so he was the one who opened fire on the town she brought a trust not a trust it is unturned and a screw over and it feels like hal was kind of made the patty for it i'm also super curious to learn about this new dynamic between hal and benedette as we saw that she probably hated hal most of all now even though he doesn't get on with his mum or hal he's clearly after some reconciliation we then see john making his way back to rushville where he finds hal at the diner this is the same spot that zodiac didn't sad add and this was potentially so she could guard the town i do want to have hal's now taken up that role and we hear he's been knocking on doors and seeing how he can help people he'll also see just how pissed off john is as he starts heading to rushville and drives straight through without stopping which in the states is like a 14 hour drive he's just fueled by pure hatred as john arrives the diner he then passes by waitress who's clearly watching him as he walks in we'll meet her later on but it just shows how the people of rushville haven't forgotten about what happened the last time that john and hal rantown and are clearly not very welcome to be fair as well i don't think hal ever was but it's worse now as john sits down he then tells how to say what he wants to say but hal just stares at him and says he doesn't know what he's talking about john then mentions how bernedette told him that hal would be at the diner but hal cuts him off to say it's disrespectful to call his mother by her first name hal at john is not playing along with hal shay anymore and says that i'm talking to his mother at all is fucking disrespectful oh shit hal says that he would rather be talking to john but that he broke her heart john then gives him a well as if fuck you and hal asks when he started swearing so much kind of builds up how he used to call hal but he felt that it was just john's way of saying fuck you no sir i feel it is every time you say sir sounds more and more like fuck you hal then tries to shoot the shit with john asking if he wants some pancakes and says he might as well eat since he's not getting an apology and he's such a fucking bastard man hal then tries to change the subject and we get a quick mention of guy god now who we learn was a gym teacher now as an athletic director yeah athletic director sorry about that apparently he flew a group of pandas from china to california and he also mentions how he ripped off that bad guy and got them as we see there's a latin signal in rushville which i feel might be a make-good by the latins to show that these guys can reach them personally if there's ever any trouble it also feels like it could be lindalloff referencing his own work slightly as there was a dr manhattan guten has watched me show that allowed people to pray to him but obviously we're burying the lead here and that's like the fifth batman reference that we've gotten in the show we had the whole karaoke's batwoman rabbit hole with barbara um his surname being kane and even a black mask reference in episode three and now uh shout out to the kick crusader himself the way they keep dropping it though um like i never even considered this a possibility but maybe maybe we will see the dc you batman make his debut appearance by the end of this now i don't really think that will happen uh but it's just starting to become more than just a coincidence and clearly they have certain things all those mentions how guy made a statement about the green lantern symbol saying that they're basically making good for what they did but john correction by saying what how did how about how just leans in close and says that he's not the only killer at the table and that john is in playlists we can see this really affects john as he of course shot so in the head and the lanterns aren't supposed to kill so i do wonder if that would have ruled him out as being a true lenn anyway but yeah clearly wasn't too bothered about the whole thing hallen asks if that's why he doesn't talk to us mother anymore because she's okay with the killing and i gotta say i don't blame missus steward at all come on john i know you like to but she was a murder robot also yeah who did hall kill i mean maybe that lady he uses a human shield from last episode but we didn't see how actually kill anyone trust it sorry and tan was simply just sent into the air after starting his self-destruct anyway so we didn't kill him but it could be referring to how he technically tried to kill john which i'd say is debatable but do you want to know if something else has happened between the attack on rushville and hallen going to prison hallen says that it's not the murder but john turning down the ring that bernadette doesn't understand other hallen says that he knows the real reason is that john was scared absolutely terrified and john just decks out on the face which finally now i'm sorry but that punch was a long time coming he smashes hall's face in like the like button and john tells that he doesn't know shit and to stay the fuck away from his family how about hallen looks at him with a busted face and begs john not to tell anyone he was there you can see it's the first time he's been serious this whole conversation and it makes me feel like he knows he's about to die these two scenes are some pretty big ways to open up the episode though and then we did talk last week how the show was kind of playing with a sort of lord of the rings type theme of power and the ring corrupting the user john turned down the job because he sorted it to hallen and didn't want the ring to do the same thing to him looks like hallen had the same readers as well claiming that john was afraid to take the ring because he was afraid of what it would turn him into this source of ties into what we talked about before with john recognizing fear for the first time at the scene in the face of those in rushville hall also potentially realized that john was unable to handle the brutal reality that comes with being a green lantern and how he wasn't ready to take on all that mystery after their union we then see john arrive back at his apartment to take everything in pretty nice place as well so it looks like being an architect has been quite good to john hallen did say that the lettons were paid shit so it's probably a quite a good career change how that john doesn't get to relax along as he's almost immediately called by kerry telling him that hallen is dead i also want to point out the statue behind john that looks like a black star this could be a reference to john see what's time with the docs or in the comics who are a group similar to the green lanterns and this was created by an offshoot race of the guardians who were known as the controllers they made john that arrecter after the guardians and green lantern called destroyed by hallen when he was possessed by parallax the statue looks very similar to the dark star logo they were on their costumes and it was during this arc that john really stepped into his own in the comics this showed his leadership as the commander of the dark stars and how he could find a way without the lanterns um or guardians in general this parallels how john is trying to find a way forward by returning to a normal life here in the show now it could also be a reference to the star sapphire call in the comics the other wheel is of the vialer power rings which channel the power of love well the all star sapphire's a female john became the first male member of the core during a war between the lanterns and then you got to add some away to this reference the leader of the star sapphire's in the comics is most often carol ferris this is a long time love interest of harle jordan who does pop up later in the episode so it could also work as some foreshadowing for her appearance which a lot of fans have been waiting for now we are kind of covering our bases here but this could also be a nod to what's called the star of the comics this appeared in one of john's duet's recent solo series which is a greenland war journal this is a space-time portal that opens the gateway to the ogard ogrom and his army of zombies known as the radiant dead reaching there but let me know which one you think it is or is it just a statue what do you mean it's just a statue we then get a repeat of the last scene from episode one where john and carry discover house body in the football field how about this time we know that john had just seen him a couple of hours earlier kerry of course realizes his nose is broken as well and thinks it was from whoever killed him this makes john a suspect and it's something i'm sure kerry will eventually figure out not just because she's batwoman either but also because she's a pretty damn good cop how about the suspect pool is quite big as kerry says everyone in town hated how the only reason that she even called john the first place was that she wanted to be with someone who would care that he was gone now again i know how is it jerk but what the hell do the people of rushville have to be so mad and for oh sorry for freeing you from the genocidal space android you ungrateful sons of a bitches yeah i know she cured all the illnesses and stuff and kept you safe but you're a piece of shit and look what happened to and tan mate the same shit would have happened to you we then learned that kerry and how actually did get together over the last ten years after how got out of prison he came back to rushville to make amends for what he and john did and went door to door every day always subscribed and asked people if there was anything he could do to help finally he began to wear kerry down and she did see that how it really changed we then learned that despite the errors that have gone by the attacking rushville is still very fresh for the people who lived to it as kerry says as hardly anybody left in town and they never rebuilt after the incident those who could afford to just left and those who couldn't were left with a destruction after driving back and forth to rushville all night kerry then says that john must be exhausted and gives him the keys of the house that how was staying in which she warns as a shit hole think it's very interesting though how we can see this sort of contrast here with how it affected holland john in the diner while john didn't get an apology how owned up to his mistakes john completely shifted all the blame onto holland here we learn that holl returned to rushville nearly a change man who was trying to make up for his mistakes john has been running away from his past and kind of unwilling to accept his part in the destruction of rushville and just kind of trying to create an entirely new life i feel like holl trying to make amends with people of rushville is also meant to call back to kerry's line last week of her telling holland whatever happened next would be on him and he returned to make things right now i've kind of been on the fuck holland john and kerry in the last couple of weeks but based on what we know right now i feel pretty bad for him i mean we did see last week that no matter what how did innocent people were going to die i'm not saying that what he did was right or unnecessarily but is no one going to bring up this with all because of zoey keeping the entire town hostage with her wizard of a us town hillacrap why were those consequences beyond holland we also saw that the whole town was more than complacent and so he's manhuntemission so he's on to complete innocent bystanders who had no idea what was happening also john nay hey you were kind of sleeping with the enemy i think there's more than a strong argument that john is just as much of all this holland is and both were complicit in what ultimately went down in rushville we then see john arriving at house house where he goes through the back and finds that holland is home alone to shotgun to the front door and this is why kerry stressor john use the back door how that we can also see that the house is full of little knickknacks and cheesy decor such as a classic live lap love sign it's also a shitload of bunnies and we can see a bunny and easter egg basket at the right of john the bookshelf which i'm not sure exactly what that is how that i would feel like i wasn't doing my job if i don't mention that this could be a nod to the character white bunny who we saw run out crying from her audition for the justice gang in peacemaker season two after guy gardener and max lord brutally rejected her and apparently she's in man of tomorrow as well now i doubt that any of this is actually house as well and it was probably just there when he moved in how that it's a stark contrast of the house we saw holland back in 2016 and that's not just because it was a mansion but it was also pretty much empty aside from a bed one lawn chair and his fault was with famous people this build up how being a lantern meant he really didn't have anybody how that now he lives in a house filled with things that a normal person would have even the fact he has a shotgun on the door here when his mansion wasn't guarded that's a big difference visually symbolizes how holl really had changed and found a real home in rushville with kerry also feel like you can see these differences reflected in the apartment that we saw john living in a minute ago now while he did have things like herself in a bookshelf it felt a bit plain and kind of lacking anything personal to john was almost um like a showroom model of a house but not one that's actually lived in to me this represents how just like holland 2016 john has become lonely and isolated by distancing himself from everything he once cared about which we know of until 2016 was only about becoming the green lantern the house is a reflection of the destiny he turned down and how he still arrived at being alone and you idiot you could have had a pocket dimension and a sick plant monster but you turn it down you moron speaking about as john finds the shotgun he then hears a noise upstairs and gets armed only to find early house bedroom john accidentally then breaks and used to him that house dead and we get a call from his brother go on dammit why am i crying at the reaction of a faceless planet also i love how john and ill are like still tight after they first met in episode two with john giving him a little playful shadowboxing thing when he snatches at his hand well on the phone with marc as he tells john that they're meeting with kylen drake on his on and that he needs to come home he says that rushville's not good for him and that this meeting is everything they've been working towards and everything that john's built how about while john is sure that he's got his hand old we do see that he's not as sure himself as he once was john has obviously changed a lot since 2016 but i feel like marc as his line about this meeting being everything he's worked for probably hit him really hard the parallel is how he was meeting with the guardians and becoming a green lantern was everything he worked for since he was born and once again he's at risk of losing it all because of how motherfucking jordan we end up in the morning where kary shows up to take john to breakfast and he meets her at the cafe he walks in to find her chatting it up with a waitress who is watching john when he met how she covers for him and gives john a sly smile and a wink but yeah this cannot be good we'll catch back up with her later but you can see on her name tag that her name is maggie i think it's just a random name but the best we check or come up with is that it's possibly a reference to maggie sorry in the comics she's a detective who worked for both gotham and metropolis pd and later became the commissioner of blood haven but adult as any connection but we are being thorough in the comics maggie was also engaged about women aka kate kane who of course is kary in the show so that could be where the connection comes from but no i don't think kary is going to marry the waitress come on now you've been you've been daff now that is kind of boring so let's have some more fun looking over blonde female laddens maggie can also be a researcher ab from the comics who's a teenager from the planet grass cost fall who was trained at young age to take her father's place as the lantern of sector 2815 at least that was also part of a small group of laddens who relocated to earth after the cause for the anti-monitorer she took the area Cindy so if maggie is at least that she could be acting as a spy for the guardians keeping tabs on holland rushville as they say and now john or maybe not because we didn't exactly hit a home run with er 99% of our theories of the show harissa was also taken hostage by the man hunters for a time in the comics after she seemingly died so they could be doing something similar along those lines but as maggie leaves kary tells john to go ahead and ask her if she killed holl this is because they were in a relationship together and she'd be the prime suspect how that john says he knows she didn't do it because she's too real now we know that kary isn't the man hunter or an alien but her being too real could be some subtle foreshadowing that there's still more to carry them it's the eye i mean she was always muscle for years and played john in half of like five whole episodes so i don't know why john doesn't think she's capable of fake crying over holl and this conversation would become a sort of confession in hindsight now that we're talking about it though i kind of actually hope that happens feel like this is also another example of how john's changed as before we saw how he always followed the chain of command he obviously told kary about the alien on the field despite holland not to and told holl about and holland the man hunter how about now he's the one giving secrets even when kary's being fully transparent with it kary then gets caught from the morgoth house autopsies ready and john offers to come with her he says that he loves an autopsy but the real reason john wants to go with her is to cover his ass he wants to make sure there's no evidence of him punching house lights out as it would make him the prime suspect especially now that he knows maggie can play some other scene how about despite john being just a regular dude now kary fake deputizes him so he can come with her to the autopsy then go to the morg where we see the mortician is not a fan of holland john which basically echoes the whole town then learn that holland shot in the head at point blank range there was no signs of his body being moved and the shooter must have been looking how then the eye when he shot him how about sweet old bitsy also says that there's no signs at half or back and that it was basically an execution kary then mentions house broken nose but bitsy says there's no way to tell how long that could have happened before the murder and that there's no signs at half or back how about kary does it do diligence and basically gets the lab order rush to see if there's any DNA that's not house and oh john you honestly should have just told kary that you rocked holland as i'm sure she would have understood after going over holland's death john then asks what's going to happen with holland's body bitsy says and now they get to fry him and then his ashes can be flushed down the toilet like a goldfish which i got a highlight and john's reaction to this because it's so funny like okay yeah we get it but this shot is for sure gonna be a meme again though i find it crazy how everyone in town blames holland john for what happened as it shows how much they were hitting the man hunter coo late bitsy then basically tells him to fuck off and toss his holland's things over where they find a key to a storage unit which is called the fortress of storage obviously you know this is a clear not a superman in this fortress of solitude however we also see that holl has a bird keychain attached to it i feel like this is meant to hint at whatever's in the fortress of storage it's meant specifically for john we learned in episode three how important birds were to him with him thinking they were guardians watching over him we also saw in episode two that holland knew that the bird was special to john and he mentioned that john brought it for life from his subconscious so it must be important knowing he was about to die as well i bet that holl purposely that this key for john to find could be leaving him with one final lesson before he was killed and we also symbolized how holland really did feel bad and responsible for what happened to john without hopping over to the fortress of storage where john and karry find that holland stored away a giant green cube fucking hal jordan this activates when entering the room and says holland needs a confirmous identity in order to open the vault julan asks kerry if she has any messages from holland her phone saying that she can use his voice to open the vault this calls back to holland open at the pocket dimension holding his land for john over the phone in episode two it's voice activated so when you get it next year put me on speaker we then get a hilarious message from holl about how his new nickname for kerry is going to be buttercup this is an art in the 1968 hit build me up buttercup by the foundations how about the vault cube says recording is unacceptable and that it needs to be live before warning that if they're not hal jordan to not attempt to open the vault again well shit now i was having a hard time tracking down something some of this vault in the comics but i think we have a couple of possibilities the first could be a silly reference to a green land known as box who is a box that's clever that how about the vault could also be inspired by what's called the time cube in the comics this is a device capable of transporting mandatory the time stream and it's being used by the justice society of america in the show this could possibly be used as a way for john to get to oo without a ring the work is a pocket dimension just on a much larger scale than one house closet does look almost exactly the same but instead of just being a storage closet i'll kept this one in case he ever needed to get back to oo without his ring and it kind of works um similar the pocket dimension used by lex Luthor and superman whatever is in this vault though i do think that it's something how left for john maybe his own green land suit or his own pocket dimension or something i'll also bet that whatever the passcode is it's something to do with john maybe hal will finally acknowledge that john's the right person for the job and the passcode will be him officially passing the mantle to john not wanting to risk another attempt john and carry go to leave the fortress of storage or storage of solitude or whatever and carry invites him over for dinner to catch it with Noah you say she makes a kill me loaf and we learn that john's gone back to eating meat so even with this he's turned his back on everything that once meant something to him from turning down the lanterns to distancing himself from his parents he's even now went back reminding him to bring beer carry then goes to leave but john stops her to say that they should bury hal he's kind of struggling to express their relationship but says he deserves something and that he's not a fucking goldfish luckily kerry says that she knows a guy the funeral home and that they can bury holl in the cemetery she mentions how it's peaceful and has lots of green grass you know like green latin good one good one carry with nz john picking up some prusky's for their dinner when he gets a call from the assistant director of a place called comfort cove within john cnair is in some kind of assisted living facility and is demanding to speak to john how that john refuses to talk to him he can hear john cn over the phone yelling for them to hand him it's saying that if john there will be consequences but 2046 john does not give two shits and basically says then bring it on before hanging up the phone so it looks like bernadette isn't the only one on the receiving end of john's resentment he was the star at the beginning of the sepsel that john had numerous calls from comfort cove it shows that he's been dodging ease for a while and while john's on the phone he stops for a moment to look at a stany of guy gardener he's promoting an energy drink called electric punch with the tagline saying power punch repeat can also see that that's telling very well as they're on sale for six dollars in this economy yeah and so that's how you know it's going to be shit hal that we do know that this has probably got to hurt john a bit like we talked about before john valued being a green land of everything else he got upset with half of disrespecting his uniform and told the audience that everything he's done his life has all been part of his path to eventually become a london so seeing a guy turning the green land into a brand is hell shit energy drinks is pretty much making his entire life a joke as john leaves the story then sees guys green land and signal that hal mentioned earlier with a plaque reading in darkest night summon green land into your service and could you not like make that right or something john then reluctantly decides to turn on the signal now in our first clue that people don't like the green land and we can see a dick's been graffy on the side after the london signal lights up the sky he's then surrounded by a group of ruffians telling him to turn it off and that the green land isn't welcome there as john tries to deescalate the situation billy makin then shows up looking very very rough now we don't only get much info on what happened to billy after the attack but he probably lost more than anyone his dad got his heart ripped out his stepmom got shot in the head his wife and son left him his rancher is blown to shit and if anyone has any reason to be for john and hal or what happened it would be him john then tries to pull billy aside to tell the others to back off but billy basically says fuck you he then gives john the count of three before they're gonna be the heart of him but yeah come on like not even being the green land they've got to know that john's gonna kick their ass and spoiler alert he does very very easily we then see john having dinner carries where we meet up with no a k the man hunter we learned that not only is the football star now but after the attack on rushville he's also gone into politics he's hoping to one day run for president after being inspired by the destruction and working to rebuild his community hmm that would be a pretty good job for an alien android trying to take over the world that i'm just saying now we have been jogging well season about no being the man hunter i'm starting to think it might actually be the one thing we've got right this whole time we heard so he told no last week to remember everything she told him if she would die along with karae cryptically telling how that the reason she owed so he was because she gave her a miracle with theorized that it must have been her referring to no uh like how people refer to child birth as the miracle of life so if no one is some kind of test you man hunter baby created by so he it is possible that she made him as a sort of contingency plan in case and tan or the guardians found her this couldn't see her that the man hunter's mission would continue and no would take her place we can see no one is sort of following the man hunter's playbook already and providing the town with aid when they need it the most this is kind of also somehow zoey heald of the illnesses in exchange for her protection no one is latching himself on the town's weak points just like zoey did to find a path to power how about unlike zoey no one would have no need to hide himself we then see the sweet reunion comes to an end when kara gets a call about john beating the shit out of billy she of course has to follow the law and then takes him in because she's a fucking traitor no she's lovely and as kara leaves john in the slam he asks the guard for his one phone call this guy's sergeant low-pears and it's the same cop that john's dead and when he first got to rushville we also saw low pears last week fighting on the streets with halle and i think he's like the only other cop in this town how about despite low-pears telling john that he shouldn't have come back to rushville he lets john use the phone to call moccas he tells him that he needs to send bail money and to wire it to rushville from their company account how about moccas is pissed he knows that the colonel is going to bet there accounts but john again assures him that it's all under control we then go to the next morning we're outside we see guy got enough finally arrived we also get the Sheridan sign and we talked about our trailer breakdown that we thought this might be a nod to taylor Sheridan considering the show was kind of a parody of his yellowstone stuff he then wakes john up using his ring as a flashlight like someone in those old cop dramas guy then tells john that it's ironic that he's meeting him for the first time in jail as the first time he met halle he was also in jail as well that was federal prison though and apparently a lot nicer than the one that john's in now i'm guessing that superheroes get a bit of leniency in their sentencing but i wonder if guy could be referring to the infamous bell re-prison from the comics run by a manor while i actually of course been a cornerstone of the dcu and even came over from the dcu bell reave has appeared in nearly every dc project as far so i think it's more than likely that that's where hal was sent bell reavers also where lexith is currently hanging out at after the events of superman where he was confronted by rick flag cinek i feel that it's implied in the episode at hal ground 2026 but we don't get an exact date if that's the case though he could have been there to brush shoulders with lex when he was incarcerated in 2025 i don't think that hal would get involved with lexor waller but if he was in bell reave it would be a cool way to further connect the very dcu projects that we've gotten so far we then hear the hilarious story of how guy met hal saying he went to pay his respects and ask hal if he had any advice but hal just told him to go climb a rope this was an extra dig because of guy's job as a gym teacher which he clarifies was actually an athletic director but yeah it just shows how hal's basically that kind of guy and i kind of feel sorry for john because now he's got a deal with this dickhead as well gals i mentioned how hal and john's colossal fucking shit show and rush bill really damaged the green lantern brand in 2025 superman we saw that's all he really cared about and he didn't want the justice gang to be involved in politics as it could hurt the brand i took a vow not to get involved in politics oh that's part of ours it's implied yeah an implied vow it's also highlights the drastic differences between him and john and it probably feels like a personal fuck you to him by the guardians rather than choosing him they got someone who doesn't care about the lanterns or the oath but only how can further his own image john then breaks and use the guy that hal's dead but guy says he can't be involved in the investigation because it would be bad for the optics again he's not wanting to risk the brand any further how that john doesn't want itself anyway and says the reason that he called him was to ask for hal's ring he was the earth's first green lantern and deserves to be buried in his uniform with his ring which guy says is fucking stupid and that lanterns don't do that sort of thing but john says they can do whatever the hell they want and that the guardians form guy in your ring so hal's is decommissioned anyway now it was kind of a mystery when we saw hal's body without his ring and that then spiraled went home king said the lanterns after show that guy had hal's ring this then caused a lot of speculation online about how guys ring looks different in superman than hal's does in the show but everyone can relax now guy has his own ring i think a lot of people just took what king said out of context though because in the clip he just said that guy has the ring and not specifically that it was hal's how did we get there because at the end of the subson hal's they've also you see john said he's not wearing that ring guy has the ring so why is guy end up with the ring and where do we go after this because this moves us fully as the best haircut not only does guy not have hal's ring either but he says it's locked up on oa and the guardians won't just let him fly and take it john then uses this to provoke him saying he's a little scared baby who's afraid to get in trouble john then get serious with guy telling him because everything guy has is because he didn't take it i love how john's theme also kicks in is he's staring guy down here and guy just looks at the ground knowing that he's right also i haven't highlighted yet but the score of the show composed by stephanie and i'm gonna mess you name economic who is so damn good especially john's theme now we then get the reveal from guy that someone broke sinesh right the guardians space prison which he calls spaz kebam which is a play on the wizard prison as kebam from the harry potter series because you know hbo cannot let us forget about the upcoming harry potter show this also seems to confirm our theory from episode two in that the planet where sinesh was held prisoner was not aware but the prison planet from the comics i also mentioned that the guardians don't know who broke sinesh throughout and that their prime suspect would have been harry if he wasn't in prison now our original theory was that so he was sinesh's daughter and that she would break him out of prison but obviously that's not the case because she was shot in the head by john unless of course there's a copy of her conscience that she gave to know her but if that's off the table i think there is a way this could all connect to what we already know about sinesh on the guardians and it may lead into an even crazier theory i will warn you but given what we know in the show sinesh show led some kind of attack on earth which resulted in the death of one of the guardians and him being locked up by hal this was told to us by the guardian the anad during her interview with john in episode three and we've already been questioning if the guardians have been telling john the entire truth about things even back in his interview i think they're definitely holding things back especially for last week with liana wanting john to take the ring himself and hal's line to john asking him if he really believes everything the guardians tell them originally with the arise that liana could be playing a vision of the guardian gantith from the comics but now i'm thinking she could be based on another guardian called scott after having her face burned by the anti-monetidure in the sinesh row core war scott refused to have her wounds healed by her fellow guardians she saw it as a reminder of the guardians passed arrogance and inaction scott then went full on villain and betrayed the core during the blackest night event she conducted her plans in secret without the knowledge of the other guardians and communicated with landens in the core to bring this back to what we know in the show scott later leaked information of the sinesh row core about him being transferred to his home planet cougar face trial and they launched a rescue mission of rehim so if liana is playing a version of the scott guardian she's most likely the one who reads an estro this would explain why the guardians have zero clues to who could have let him out and would also explain why liana has always conveniently turned away from the cameras in the few prefincances where she revealed her true form again we have been questioning if liana is acting on her own before but if she is playing the role of a rog guardian then i think she is most likely the guardian that supposedly died as well playing off her own the comics it is possible in the show that after she was burned she let the other guardians believe that she was dead this could allow her to operate in secret and work on a little side project with john this would also bring a really great internal conflict for john lain as he learned that he wasn't really chosen by the guardians but was just used as a pawn in the scarred guardians plan to disrupt the core this would then force him to prove himself deserving of the ring not because he was destined for it but because of who he is yeah then the maltuzian is also an enemy to calorayna in the comic so there is president for that name there and yeah might not be here just worth discussing jon the s sky if he's going to help him on arbor guy just laughs saying he'll think about it before flying off now there is a couple of things i want to point out before we move on here the place guy mentions the guardians are keeping house ring at is most likely the foundry located two miles beneath the central power battery this is where the green lantern rings are forged this is guarded by an alien creature and while guy is an ass this is probably no easy task guy being chosen as the green lantern replaced john is also a switch up on the comics guy was originally chosen by avonsers ring at the same time as hal jordan as both of them have the same level of will and fearlessness how about the ring pick jordan simply because he was the closest and it couldn't be asked this seems like they so adapted that for john's dad and john was then chosen to be guys replacement as hals back about a guy was hit by a bus as guy flies off makus comes through with the bail money and john gets released he then goes out to his car to find a billion misqualls from his mum makus and the comfort cope facility john then gets a reminder of all the shitties dealing with right now as he goes to his messages his mum apologizes about lying to him about how makus updates him about the meeting that's been scheduled for like that night and his dad has shut out the windows of his room to be fair the guy does love getting his gun off that's what she said he even used to turn off the tv that way probably just wanted to open the window for a minute they have said though that they'll call the police if someone doesn't come and pick him up no subilds off the first time they call john saying his dad was complaining about the windows so just shoot it with makus already sweating about their big meeting john then decides to call his older brother erin he can't pick that out because he's working on his album and says the only reason he's doing it is to get john's attention it shows a lot to how everything has always been about john how that john has enough shit to deal with and he tells erin that he won't do it and that he's going to stop supporting him and financing his album which i also kind of want to hear he was loving outcast in the car i love the two and i think it would be i think it would be a bag of mate erin also says that john seaner wasted his whole life on john but john doubles down on the threat to cut him off and yells at him to get their dad before then hanging up the phone we saw in episode three when they were younger that erin was never really psyched about the whole green landing he was the one who stormed out the room on john's birthday and told his parents that they picked him for everything in reality though they both missed out on a childhood as erin was neglected in favor of john's training how that john was emotionally neglected in order to become the green lantern so john turning down this job probably feels like a double slap in the face to erin as it's a decision that affected all of them as john pulls up to house house he finds maggie sitting out in the front waiting page she calls him killer and tells him to make her a cup of coffee okay this isn't good while inside maggie then comments on john's watch saying that she's watching her as well now i am a bit of a watching her too so maybe i'm the man hunter he did give maggie to watch last week when she was younger though and this may be what she studied his way to deal with a trauma of losing her father as that's the last thing she had of him this could also be another henna maggie being erisa or at least being down on behalf of the guardians who also saw that the first time that john met a guardian that he was asked to create his father's watch with his ring i don't think that this is his father's watch that he's wearing in the scene but it's a subtle call back to john's first construct how about john then cuts the chase and tells maggie that he didn't kill holl the reason that he didn't tell kerry is because holl told him to not tell anyone and that the town already hates him but most of all because he's a black man in rural Nebraska to which maggie replies we're not racist okay and it's and it's just like a i can't be racist i've got loads of posters of john i'll listen to outcast as well we'll con to forever and yeah maggie is kind of showing us up when telling john that what she wants his reparations using reparations as a punchline and not understanding the way of how that could come up to someone actually affected by it is something you can see john clocks as well maggie then gives john the amount of three hundred and fourteen thousand five hundred and thirty six dollars and twenty seven cents which he says is exactly how much damage he and how caused her house i feel like this is another example of how john's confronted with his past and his involvement of what happened in rushville as we've seen throughout this episode as well um the deaths in rushville have clearly affected john over the years and there's no way he doesn't remember this moment it was the moment that he came face to face with the consequences of him and house actions so here john doesn't even want to acknowledge his memory of maggie as it would mean having to accept that he was responsible how about the tense conversation is then interrupted by no one knocking at the door maggie then tells him that he hasn't held tomorrow to come up with money before she starts singing to the sheriff she doesn't leave along with his watch which eh what hey give that back now we've already talked about the mystery of maggie but honestly i think she might just be a regular person i still like the idea of her being a spy for the audience in some capacity though and we have got some clues for it but also like the idea of her just being someone heard by the attack she's a character meant to challenge john and our ideas of what it means to say the date goes back to john's whole mission statement for his company and that via power doesn't save lives as john then gets back to house he sits in the living room to take everything in and we focus on one of house cheesy signs for a good couple of seconds talks about how yesterday is a dream but tomorrow is a vision and that a life well lived today makes yesterday a dream of happiness and tomorrow a vision of hope we actually get that on the wall now it's kind of random but we do like a run it for a bit too long for it to not have some kind of symbolism now i feel like it's meant to show just how much shit that john's in he's wrapped up in a murder ditching out on the biggest meaning of his career and now being extorted by a teenager things are going downhill fast the sun is actually also an exit from a fifth century poem huddled salutations to the dawn by calida's calida's uh calida's uh he was a classical Sanskrit author and considered ancient india's greatest poet much of his work focused on the balance between cosmic order and moral duty with this first symbolizing how john's core between his past of helping maintain cosmic order as a green lantern and trying to create a new future means that he needs to find a balance between these two roles in order to find a way forward we then quickly meet back up with no where who brings john super house funeral and asks john for some advice about living up to expectations john says the only bar he needs to clear is the one he sets for himself how that he will submit that he doesn't really believe that he probably read it on one of house signs in all honesty as in our leaves he also lets john know that he's totally cool with him beating the shit out of his dad and says that he most likely deserved it now going back to our noise the man hunter theory this is confirming no but this feels like advice about living up to expectations and because of that it could have a double layer to it the expectations that no is trying to live up to might be that of old sweet grandma zoey and not the expectations of the people in rushville if that turns out to be true i think it would create a great parallel between him and john john lived his whole life trying to live up to the expectations that buys parents in the audience and no has been potentially trained to live up to his grandmother's expectations of him taking over the world john could be the only one who understands that kind of wait and be able to stop now are from turning into a full on psychopath man hunter if you say to him it could also relieve john of his guilt of not being able to save zoey we then cut to house funeral where john walks in to find guy god in the standing of a house casket he actually made good on his debt to john and we see how wearing his uniform and ring guy then says if the guardians finally took it they'll send him straight to the phantom zone now this is obviously another not to superman but it could also be a subtle reference to guy's time in the phantom zone in the comics their house power battery exploded in guy's face and he was transported to the phantom zone now that john tells guy not to worry because there's not even anyone at the funeral and no one gave his shit about anyway we'll see though mate because i'm guessing they will find out and whatever happens in that season finale guy then tells john to not get any ideas about playing dress up as uniform isn't his size and the ring is still decommissioned he says john is the type of sick fuck who's good at hiding is a sick fuck though and guy might even be more of an arsehole in halleys but he's hilarious i can see why they're starting to put him in every project after paying his respects guy then dips out because again it's bad optics and he tells john that is dead to him is paid he also calls him stewie which is a good nickname to be fair as guy leaves john gets another call from markers asking if he made it home but john breaks in use that he's not going to make it and says he'll have to do the deal over the markers and asks if he's sure he really wants a deal to happen i mentions how john wanted to be greenlanded more than anything and they also how that turned out to him how that john says being greenlanded wasn't meant to be but this new path is caused back in the poem and house kitchen and how john is caught between his past and the future that he wants to build he really shows Marcus that he's got it all handled and we're then introduced to none other than carol burris she asks john if he be able to read house eulogy which carol says needs a specific touch that she doesn't think she can pull off now we've got to take a moment to talk about carol here she's a major character in the greenland comics as she's hal jordan's main love interest and later becomes the superhero host up she was also someone i think we were all wondering if we'd ever see her in the show in the comics carol was originally hal's boss and the owner of ferris airbase where he was a test pilot in the original dc comics continuity carol and hal quickly got together and even had a little love triangle with the greenland before she learned his secret identity carol lingo powers herself and became star sapphire and wielded the pink light of love in the emotional spectrum however here it seems at the show is just sticking with her original origins as she's just a regular person based on what she says to john she simply had a falling out with hal as he always put the ring first and it's the typical cop drama trouble of our married at the job who knows maybe she has been hanging out in space and that's why we haven't seen her but i think that she's more meant to symbolize all the things that hal's given up in his life in order to be greenland caused back to hal telling john that being a green lantern is a lonely job and warning him to not get close to people carol then tells john that he should probably tell her to fuck off because hal was an arsehole which john does jiggle eve but agrees carol says that hal must have liked him though but that he probably never said it to john then says he'll try to do carol's words justice but she says she didn't write it and we see that hal has written his own eulogy titled in brightest day we then see john reading it over his grave with only carol and carol in attendance it opens with hal thanking all the people aliens and will leaders who must have come to pay their respects he says he's humbled by all the people he's saved and warns all evildoers that his ring no doubt has chosen a brave son of a bitch to take his place who says could be a man or woman but most likely a man and that's not because women can't be green lanterns but just based on the odds it's probably not likely it's pretty funny considering that carol is here and she is the leader of the valor landing corps in the comics so yeah they do get women in hal's letter that gets a bit more serious as he addresses his replacement he says he admires them and that there is no greater honor or privilege than being a green lantern can see john kind of starts to struggle here and he takes a deep breath before continuing these words women for him and it would be the first time hal actually acknowledged that john is right for the job he tells him that the ring is a heavy burden and that even in the blackest of knights he urges them to carry on which again we can see as being director john symbolizing his current situation and hal telling him to keep going john seems to know it as well and gives a little chuckle at the blackest night pot and seemingly finds confident hal urging him to keep going he then says that he in the world accounting on him this causes john to drop the smile and it seems like he starts to struggle again as he continues on as john pushes forward hal and apologizes to anyone he's heard saying that he doesn't have an excuse but maybe it was easier for him to fly than it was to stay on the ground which that is a good line he then ends the letter by saying that he hopes he mad it with them pan out as he just john carol and carol and carol standing over his grave in an empty cemetery this is such a great shot and visually symbolizes how alone how he was and how he gave up everything to become the green lantern and god damn that was emotional it's just such a great scene though that really gives us some insight into hal's character as we've mostly seen him being an asshole the entire show and in retrospect it shows hal really did want john to take his place even if he refused to admit it after the funeral we then see that carol must have dift out leaving just john and carry standing over hal's grave as they joke about his speech and that it was 100% hal john then tells carry that he's decided to stay in town for a couple more days and says it would be nice to have someone around who cares how about we see that john has some other plans than just hanging out with kerry and we cut to later that night as john's digging up hal's grave damn to be fair guy totally called it while digging up hal's body john then gets a call from marcus who has kennel drake on the phone when john answers though he just hangs up on him and marcus then calls to explain that he just walked out the room saying john wasn't worthy of his time john then tries to get him off he can fix it but marcus is fully done with his shit he says that he never came home and that he's been stuck in rushville for the last ten years and that he can't even till he finishes whatever he now started this goes back to what we talk about with john being caught between his past and his future i feel like this moment is meant to symbolize that john is finally making a choice he realizes that he can't just live a normal life now and needs to dig up his past in order to have a future by literally digging up hal as john gets back to the grave robbing he then reaches hal's coffin and takes his ring puts it on and hits it against the nearby grave which activates it and says it has five percent charge this builds off our hal's smacked the ring off the truck over car in episode two to give it more juice and also calls back to hal's line in episode three where he told john that the only way he was going to get the ring was over his cold bed body this ring also had five percent power last week so it held onto the charge john then uses what little charge the ring has to activate hal's back of consciousness aka the halogram he then looks down at his body and says god damn it as we close out the episode now i really enjoyed this one absolutely love the way that they brought back the halogram as a way to keep hal in the show during the 2026 timeline i cannot wait to see what the relationship between him and john looks like as well and as we know the halogram is the vision of hal from 2010 who's nice like the vision before he chose to isolate himself from the world we also saw last week halogram is actually a big fan of john something and that will see john actually getting some real greenland training this could build up their first meeting together where the halogram was confused as to why hal hadn't taught john anything also one day if this could be a way to resurrect hal down the line and they may be able to put his consciousness back into someone else john brought back his dead sister through she will in the comics and that could be something to do here also thought this episode was such a great exploration of john's character and how he's changed over the years after dissecting john's early life in episode three and then seeing him coming face to face with the reality of his destiny last week this episode feels like a natural progression from that where we explore how john is struggling with his identity so it's just really fun seeing guys show up and getting the drastically different dynamic that he has with john compared to hal makes me excited for them to interact more on the future when john finally accepts the job which i feel has to happen and that by the end of the series the guardians will expand their selection process to allow multiple laddens to operate welcome to the heavy spoil show i'm your host paul and this video we're breaking down laddens episode seven takes us further down the rushville rabbit hole as john and halogram try and solve the mystery of who killed hal also uncover even more secrets both in rushville and in between each other and it kind of sets things up for the finale next week i'm excited to see how things pay off and i think there's a couple of clues for where things could be going as always the episode started with easter eggs though and references to the comics and throughout this video we're going to be going to it all isn't it breakdown gonna be longer than the episode itself probably also like you know that we just launched our green light and themed arselds shirt at the merch store below along with our hard light one too plus if you're resident evil fan and then we've just dropped some new lines for that and have lots of big sales for halloween where you'll make tons of savings anyway without other way thank you for clicking this now let's get into the episode album i'm so sorry man that's the first time you ever called me out now we start off episode seven with a trip back to 1975 i was hoping that this would be 1976 since the six has played some big moments throughout the series and we have abin se who crashed in 1986 the rushville incident in 2016 and at the present day storyline in 2026 but last no and he'll introduce to a young hal jordan sitting in his coaches office while he's clutching a baseball for his dear life you see in some kind of trouble as we can hear the bell for the class ringing but hal doesn't get up to leave whether he introduced a hal's father martin jordan now when he comes in he's more concerned about what the hal and his team won the game rather than whatever he's in trouble for how that hal's coach says that they had to forfeit because hal refused to give up the ball it shows how hal had never played by the rules and how his dad installed in him the mindset that winnings all that really matters we've seen hal that applies to him as an adult and then watches a young hal stands up for himself he tells his dad that he was pitching a no hit a game and that the coach wanted to pull him out for another kid who sucks ass hal refused to give up the ball and then got into a fight with the rest of the team and he basically squeals on them all it's in this that we get to hear the name of his teammates and get a couple of references to DC and stuff in general at first we have Danny barchina who the coach wanted us about half-four this could be a nod to loyden harp barchina who are both legacy actors of the DC universe loyd barchina played at vampai in 1988 superboy series and then voiced hamilton hill in the batman animated series is an harp barchina also starred in 1984 supergirl and somewhat joined his father in the batman animated series universe as he played arthur reves and masked with the bantesm we also get some nods to people behind the camera such as poor bennett he's an assistant director who's worked on pretty much everything such as world war z ready player one and most recently house of the dragon the gentleman and the last season of silo we then have kyle alberys he's a for the 2015 film stanford prison experiment and he's currently developing a thriller series girls which is alongside dcu co cop the saffron we also get a shout out to actige and griffer than the raffity twins they're actually from the comic expert unknown as the raffity brothers the paracrux and they face stuff against batman robin and batman issue 12 and that's our batman reference for the episode back to young how the coach says he can still fix things if he gives up the ball and apologizes but again mr jordan is more concerned about the game than the consequences of har's actions he tells the coach that it's bullshit that he would pull har when he was so close to a perpa game things in eskalade and the peg into a fight and right way we can see where harle gets his let's say rugged charming personality from how not being willing to give a baseball though also parallels his refusal to give up the lanton ring regardless of how good john is just like danny botchner is that instilled in him that he can never give up on himself or let others tell him what he can't do so it's a very important scene and before moving on i was one upon how this play that the coach is written on the board now i don't know much about american baseball but through my nerd eyes which i view the entire world as through the lens of this looks like the symbol for the whitelattens to be in the comics the whitelattens were born out of the blackest night event and their rings chan on the whitelight of creation now i don't know if there's any real symbolism to this that relates to hal but it's just a fun little Easter egg we think of the hallan is that of the airbase where they watch the planes fly by and enjoy some popsicles both nurse their wounds from the fights of the day and hal gives his dad some advice to put the popsicle on his nose to stop it from swelling within c mr john and taking an necklace with a key attached to it and he gives it to hal he asks him if he's afraid to which hal says no however his dad says that it's okay to be scared parallels john's journey to becoming fearless with his dad asking if he's afraid every time he shot an apple opposite how that unlike john cena mr john tells hal that it's okay to be afraid it shows how hal was taught to overcome fear razz john was never allowed to feel at all and it builds up the themes that we've been talking about in the last few episodes on the difference between being afraid and being fearless mr john then tells how about how his father flew planes in the war he says he was rock solid and had no fear hal that despite being excited join the war grandpa jordan also knew that shit could happen at any given moment this made things very black and white and there were only two outcomes success or failure now in the event of failure it's a man's responsibility to make preparations which mr jordan says is for the locked away in a safe in the back of his closet this was place in why hal will lain a keeper's pocket dimension containing his power battery in the back of his closet and is another neat little character detail after grandpa jordan didn't come back from the war hal's father found the box which he says just had some money a couple of keepsakes and things that stay between them he tells how that his safe son is too box and that what's inside will also stay between them hallen asks why he didn't give the key to his mum but mr jordan says it's because it's something she can carry but how can't didn't explode just like his dad and his daddy before him and it's known as the jordan boy's legacy which is the episode title i will circle back at the end but this explains the bulk you that hal had behind hal didn't have any kids and therefore john was his legacy and he left it behind for him to find his source of foreshadows why hal have the key for john not carry he knows that john would be able to carry the weight of it but kerry couldn't this parallels why mr jordan also gave hal a key not his wife now while we don't get an entire episode exploring hal's childhood just like we did with john which i did think this episode would be actually i feel a lot of this conversation between him and his dad gives us a lot of context into who hal grew up to be and his final moments before his death in 2026 the conversation also symbolizes how hal was always destined to become a green lantern just like john as mr jordan says his grandpa was fearless as well and hal is able to carry the burden of his dad's potential death because fearlessness is in his blood it was parallels how john was put in his path to becoming a green lantern because of what the ring sawness for this dn8 now this gives us insights into the father and sonist relationships across the board and highlights the star contrast between john and hal how was forced to overcome his fear after losing his dad whereas john was molded by his father to be fearless as a result of his own fears now we don't really get much of hal's father in the comics beside his death but their relationship here pretty much parallels what little we see of them in the comics similar to show how group we're shipping his dad and he's snuck out to watch him fly despite his mother being terrified of hal following in his footsteps this little secret between them is brandy for the show though but it seems to be inspired by one of the retellings of hal's origin story shown in 2005's green lantern secret files that she want their hal's dad would secretly take him flying at night against his mother's wishes and it's something in kept between each other until hal grew up and told carol ferris after they fell in love despite dropping this heavy bit on hal as well mrs jordan is him that he's going to live for a very very long time we'll see that hal is still holding on to the baseball from earlier and his dad tells him he says that he can't hold on to it forever because it's fucking exhausting and hal tosses it over the fence also i want to point out the shot here of hal and mr jordan watching the planes go by as his dad silhouette looks exactly like hal in 2026 they're wearing the same type of jacket and his hair blows in the wind making it look all messy like hal chanels after hal gave up on caring about what people thought of him so so why he doesn't wear the green lantern suit anymore and he touched upon this episode one i feel like mr jordan telling hal that gov the ball is also meant to symbolize how hal will later have to let go of everything he cares about in order to be fearless hal is currently holding on to the pain of what happened at the baseball game but his father's letting him know that it's okay to let go holding on to that pain will only lead to more of it and it explains why hal shows like all those close to him rather than the ring we saw last week how this only resulted in him being unable to let go of the very thing causing him so much pain just like the baseball this comes full circle at the end of the episode where we see young hal come back for the baseball after his dad's funeral shows how hal was never really able to let go of the pain from losing his father and perfectly plays into how he tries to hold on everything he has to a fault now in what feels like a curvio enthusiasm moment at hal's dad's big speech about how he's gonna live for a very very long time we then cut to his funeral fortunately i would be around for a long time flying Boeing's in coast city to Japan we see as a young hal stands over his grave and can clearly see it's a packed service it's full of friends family service members and jets flying over and is on it to start contrast the house funeral from last week with only john karaon karaon karrel ferrissen attendance this also sheds some more light on the house you legit as well and while we thought it was funny seeing all the people who came to honor his father shows how hal hoped he would live up to how great his dad was his green land this caused back to his land at the end of the speech as well saying that he hoped that he mad at his awesome shot of the camera focusing on a young hal looking down at his father's grave as the camera descends into the grave and then comes back up to the halogram looking down at his own grave but something that i want to point out here as well before we move on is that as the young hal walks up to the grave and tosses in a shove of dirt you can see the container has an emblem of a line on lines typically symbolize bravery in the face of fear and this goes all the way back to biblical times with the story of samsung killing a lion with his bare hands or like hokeleses trying over the lioning Greek mythology symbolizes how young hal is being forced to overcome his fears in this moment and it sets him on a path of becoming a lantern however some interpretations link the lines bravery not with being fearless but rather understanding that one's heart can overcome fear in Buddhism this is called fearless clarity in that it's believed that bravery doesn't come from the absence of fear but from being able to stay present and not be controlled by it so this line also symbolizes how hal's journey to become fearless was paved by his willingness to face his fears without holding onto them it's also built upon how his dad told him to let go the baseball you can also apply this thing to john but in reverse the lying symbolizes how john not knowing fear doesn't make him fearless but his willingness to act in the face of it this again is something that john has never had to learn as he was raised to never feel fear at all this again brings us back to the age of question of how can you be brave without fear true courage or willpower in this case can only be found through fear and acting despite of it back in 2026 a hologram then tries to come to wrap his head around seeing his own dead body as john fills him in on his murder the halogram remembers john from their first meeting in episode one and learns that it's been 10 years since then seeing john wearing his ring the halogram then assumes that john is now the earth screen lantern and john is like yeah sure am but hal isn't too happy however i like how he catches himself and then says congratulations coming off the heels of the rushville incident where hal basically tried to murder john over the ring it shows how much hal has changed over those 10 years before he started quote unquote training john the halogram is okay with john taking his place though because he hadn't been fully corrupted by the power of the ring and his self isolation it's kind of calling back last week when the halogram said that he liked john and questioned the real hal as to why they weren't training him john also notices this as well and realizes from the halogram's reaction that he actually has feelings despite just being a backup consciousness of the real hal but the halogram wants to know if he's really the green lantern and john comes clean he admits that the ring isn't his but that he's just trying to solve hal's murder this makes a halogram realize that john took up his body for it and i just love cal channel his reaction here he's been crushing it as hal to be honest uh but his special acting in the show is unmatched he dug me off i had good reason well i'd like to hear that he's just hilarious and nails every time as a halogram demands to know what's really going on john tell us about the vault cube and explains it needs hal's voice in order to open up he believes that whatever is inside will help them solve the case however instead of telling him about the vault the halogram asks john about his funeral he asks if the green lanterns in the gaudians showed up and john lies his arseaux he says everyone was there and that they had lights in the sky honoring hal as a hero how about john slips up when the halogram asks him if the squirrel and mogo were there too john just tries to play it off says oh yeah he and mogo are boys and were standing next to each other during the funeral which the halogram knows is a lie as mogo is a planet this goes back to hal's password for his pocket dimension episode two which was mogo doesn't socialize to access the vault please confirm identity mogo doesn't socialize so he definitely wouldn't be at a funeral there we explained that because mogo's a sentient planet his gravitational pull wouldn't rip or report so he will not be attending any meetings but i guess john doesn't remember the password and hal picked the one lantern who's known for not socializing with anyone knowing that he's lying the halogram then demands that john tells him what's really going on but john just deactivates him back to the ring quickly and out here as well but you can see a grave next to john that reads michael eugene Fleming now i'll try to track this guy down and supposedly according to the dc wiki a eugene Fleming was mentioned in episode four scrub through it uh but couldn't find a mention of him so if you caught that and can tell me who that is that is what the comment sections for teamwork makes the dream work baby we then see john on his way to the storage unit as he calls his brother aran he asks him to wire 315 000 because he's being blackmailed by some teenager he then tells him that hal was murdered and that she saw them get into it the night that he was killed within here that moccas is also on the phone and he asks john if he killed hal which john is offended by but moccas says he's not sure what john would do anymore john is clearly sick of the questions though but he did tank the architecture deal purely just to follow the threads here so yeah the guy isn't acting in character much more one's at the storage of solitude john reactivates the halogram but he refuses to speak john and shows him the key that hal left behind with the bid on it he tells him that hal knew that birds were special to john and that whatever is in his world is something at hal wanted him to find now this is something that we theorized about last week so it does look like john was on the same train of thought how that the halogram still refuses to say word and instead uses charades or charades to tell john to fuck off back outside once outside halogram then asks john what all that was about with his brothers and why he's being blackmailed turns out that he can hear john even when he's not being manifested so i'm a bit surprised i didn't know anything that's been going on throughout all the episodes he says that he has a right to know and questions if john is the one who killed him and yet if i was the halogram i would be super suspicious of john too halogram then tells john that he wants to talk to the cops which john says is probably the worst idea in the world he tells a halogram how the real hal went to jail and somehow convinced the sheriff to fall in love with him this is why he moved back to rushville so hersing his ghost would be a really bad idea and it makes the halogram take a step back he's been hit with a bombshell that he was not only in jail but also the fact that hal was in love he asks john what her name is and tells him that he won't open the box until he meets charakary hala john once in that the ring is almost dead and that once it dies the halogram will cease to exist but halogram just says they'd better get a move on then we then cut to an overhead shot of rushville where we can see craters and burn marks in the field left behind by his always laser attacks i think it highlights how while it's been nearly a decade the wounds left by their battle with so he have left the town scott brever and then see john driving into town as he dodges another call from his mother and halogram pops up to ask if that's his wife john though is in no mood to talk and tries to deactivate the halogram saying that he didn't even summon him but the halogram says he's not john's fucking gee he manifests because john is thinking about hal and they of course used to go and drive like this john then takes off the ring but the halogram remains in his stunt he asks john how he's able to keep manifesting him without the ring saying that no other land can do that not even him he tells john it's it's bloody incredible and it says it's a job well done which absolutely shocks john to john's surprise he is being genuine as well and yet you can tell the guy thinks it's incredible now i have seen love this scene with the halogram being genuinely thrilled by john's achievement just him acknowledging how special it is and even admitting that it's something he can't do is something that hal would never do so major contrast to the real ones reaction back in 2016 where john kept the bird construct alive without the ring he called it a one-time potty trick and then gave john a very sarcastic hurrah hurrah he didn't want to get him up and it shows how the halogram sees john as an actual partner and that he's proud to be as mental and he isn't threatened by it i love john's reaction here as well as we can see him smiling as the halogram congratulates him this may actually be the first time you've seen john show any kind of joy or emotion and it shows just how badly he wanted hal's approval and still kind of does once at the station they then see a sign saying that caries at the high school for no is big announcement of where he's going to college the halogram that knows his latin signal out in front along with the memorial for those who died in the attack on rushville he'll also see that the signal has a bunch of graffiti on it and beside the penis that we put it out last week you can spot most of the colors on the emotional spectrum represented here those colors are attached to the latins i mean we touched on throughout all the episodes and basically they all correspond to different points on the color wheel spectrum john then tells the halogram about their investigation of the manhunter and how everything went to shit he tells him about zoey and halogram immediately clocks at john had feelings for her and we get just a nice little line about how he wasn't the only one who fell for rushville girl now i feel like the halogram but this together because of the drawing of zoey that the real hal gave him an episode five and from his point of view it would have been like an hour ago or something the halogram then asks if she got john's head and says the manhunter's are very deceptive and manipulative yes john if he's the one who killed her but john tells him to shut the fuck up and that he doesn't know what he's talking about try to make that sound British i don't know why i feel so bad i am British how about the halogram then tells john that while he doesn't know what happened to hal after his last upload he also doesn't kill people not even man hunters and that whatever the real hal did that's not him this is showing again how far hal had fallen due to the power of the ring but also showing john's fall from grace as well he's the one who killed zoey in order to get the ring and if it betrayed the green light and co that he valued more than anything i think this also sheds a bit more light on the 2016 hal's meeting with cenestro we see here that hal knows a decent amount about the manhunter's already and it's a man that hal was going to cenestro not just for the manhunters but also for advice on how to deal with john on their way to the high school hal then asks john about the lantern signal and he tells them about guy godnet he says he's a chimney chair with a cold tooth but halogram refuses to believe that someone like that could be a screen lantern especially over john rather than talking about it he instead turns at the radio and then sings along to outcasts spotty oddie delicious this helps him take his attention off hal and the halogram disappears now our cast have appeared throughout the series and we had episode three named after them i feel like john's love at our cast and i'm using this song to divert his attention is meant to be a call back to that moment with his brothers in the car when they wrapped along their songs it's one of the few moments in his life where he was just being a kid and enjoying himself with his brothers there he was just sitting back not thinking about his destinies in greenland or his training to be fearless with something he and his brothers bonded over but ultimately this was then spoiled by his training much like how the song yeah gets spoiled by everything that happens next we then get to john pulling up in high schoolways ambushed by maggie like some long shock but john tells her he just needs a bit more time and instead of breaking his legs she takes his watch again his collateral obviously last week she talked about how she was a watch woman that line stuck out to me a lot because i am a watch guy and yeah it's just a nice way to kind of build up that conversation there john actually ended up giving her father's watch after he died and it's nice that the interactions between the pair are kind of tied back to these things well so i want to point out how john puts the ring around his neck here just as maggie pops up in the window this feels like this builds off a lot of the rings parallel from episode five with john putting the ring on the chain around his neck just like Frodo he knows that wearing the ring for too long could lead to him being consumed by it just like how it was or golem was in our super nerdy parallel that we've been using throughout the season but back to the high school you see how this looks right we pop in to see the whole town going apeshit for no where and his fellow teammates the coach even says that no where insisted on having his offensive line me there in order for him to make his big announcement now i know with us in esro stuff it has been a bit bust but i feel like i have to point out here how pretty much everyone is decked down yellow i know it's just a school colors but we learned last week that cinestro is on the loose so i think this is worth pointing out this could perhaps subtly hint that the master of fear is also hiding out in rushville and maybe even in attendance at this assembly also i want to talk for a moment about how everyone in the room fucking loves noah i mean not only did everyone show up but we see them practically lose their mind when noah comes out this girl's holding up signs asking to be his girlfriend everyone's standing up in their seats everyone's subscribing and the kids like one of the beetles or something they worship him now i know that american football in small towns across the state is a very serious thing i know that you guys and that this thing does this sort of thing does seem like it could happen but i feel like if we're doing theories this could also play into our noah is a man with a theory now let's start off as a joke i will say that but after seeing Zoe's conversation with him in episode five telling him to not forget what she told him and then kerry telling how let zoi gave her a miracle i feel like it might have gone past the point of joking it's a legitimate theory now we learned in episode five after zoi healed john that her technology is capable of replicating human tissue in the beginning of that episode we saw kerry lose a pinkie and zoi said she could grow her back and you won this means that she had kerry's dna and could have used it to not only make a new pinkie but also an android baby now this could also be why kerry and billy have such a weird relationship it also builds off how when holland john asked how she didn't know who makins money man was she just said that she and billy don't have that kind of relationship because of that i don't know if they were even a real couple and so when zoi died there was no reason to keep up appearances anymore much to holland's delight so bring this back to know we did talk last week about how his dreams of politics kind of with a perfect career path for young man hanter trying to take over the world him helping to clean up rushville couldn't be him using his grandmother's always playbook and leveraging weak points in the town this could cause the town people to feel like they own mid-ed and bring them into his own man hunter called just like zoi did by healing the people in the town now if that's the case if we are right then i know i'm safe but we know it's the man hunter and it might be a reach but if we're right then i think we can see that on full display here the town holds no up is the savior rushville and he's helped to clean up the destruction and is basically giving them something to cheer for again now that is with his football career but also he could be going on to be president and i feel like he could just be a man hunter off spring who's basically using the same tactics as zoi however as noer gives a speech he says that the town is overdue for something to celebrate but that they can't truly celebrate until they win the game against their rivals he tells the crowd that he's waiting to make his decision on college and is instead focusing on the game what the hell kid you got everyone out here just to make no decision you piece of shit i hope you are the man on that and i would know that's a lot of theory talk so who knows if any of that will pan out but i do like how this sort of brings things full circle from episode one this whole ordeal started with this shooting at the rushville football game and we're here again with the team 10 years later john of course also showed him how to throw the ball and it could possibly play into like how he might feel guilty about the whole thing even more than he already does it also civilises how noer's big game will be the climax of this long winding mystery as the crowd continues to cheer on noer despite him not making a decision billy notices john standing in the corner and confronts him again for kerry steps in and tells billy he's just going to get his ass kicked again this time in front of noer and thus he fucks off john and tells kerry that he needs to talk to her in private and they dip into the science room where john tries to prepare him to the hologram how about the hologram just pops up saying that john is already explaining it we see that kerry is absolutely shocked and unable to speak and then walks towards a hologram toch his face how about the hologram tells her that he's not her howl but what he used to be says that he wanted to meet her and asks if he was open with her kerry then says that he told each other everything and that he even told her about how his father died kerry wipes away the tears from her eyes the hologram then asks who killed him but she says that it could have been anyone as the whole town hated him hollagram and asks kerry if john could have killed him and asks what holl said about him kerry reveals that holl told about john like a football team that was always giving him hope and then letting him down she says that john was the tv holl would yell at every sunday but that he never missed a game because he was a big fan and shit man i'm starting to rub a bit so while holl tried to act all up with john now last meeting we learned that holl really did care for john which explains why holl misses stu became friends while he was locked away this is because he was constantly checking up on him and wanted to know how he was doing but couldn't bring himself to face amount of guilt this is something that misses stu would have known as well and most likely why she told john that holl wanted to apologize she knew that holl was genuinely sorry and cared about john but that he would never say to himself and was trying to force him together it was a cause back to carol's line last week about how holl probably like john but never said it huge shout out to darrell march as well who messaged me the other week and talked about how kyle chanler you know his most famous role was arguably coach taylor in friday night lights haven't seen the film but he did send me lots of stuff and yeah i was like is this from an episode of london's because it's lots of stuff yeah that looks like they reference that in the show so yeah shout out to him something i totally missed sorry for not watching those american football movies i'll let you guys down how that john then cuts the heart felt reunion short he says that the ring is running out of charge but kerry asks him how you even got it and hollagram rats about saying that he dug holl's body up kerry immediately realizes this is about the vault and asks what was inside but john just says the hollagram refused to open it he was basically waiting until he saw her which the hollagram calls romantic but kerry tells him that romantics don't have to say they're romantic she calls in tex which is most likely referencing the country singer tex william and revealing that kerry had a pet name for holl as well also texas is like the name of people from texas know that from army movies kerry then says that she has to make appearance at no his party but for them to follow her so that they can go to the storage unit together she gives the hollagram one last look and says that it's nice to see him again and the hollagram as john gets back to his car the hollagram reactivates and the first thing he says is that kerry's the one who killed him whoa now we were kind of half joking when we brought this up last week but it looks like holl is picking up on the same clues that we are at the kerry called john back to rushville we pointed out how it was kind of weird that one of the first things she told john was to ask her if she killed holl she even said that she had plenty of motive and opportunity but john dismissed it saying she was too real to play cry which we also flagged as bullshit and how the conversation between them could be sort of seen as a confession from kerry and so he has of course pulled the wool over john's eyes and i do wonder if it's a similar thing here now just like i know a theory it seems to have a bit more way to than we originally thought also had to point out for those who've been trying to keep up with our breakdowns how funny it is that we had all these legitimate theories about atrocities and the blackest night which all turned out to be a bust it's false no way not this time we created it not this time no but i'm saying joke theories are seemingly the ones we actually got right a hollagram seemingly picked up on it as well saying that he knows guilt when he sees it and so on carries face with the way she touched him how about john is still not buying it asking if he knows of when he sees it he calls him paranoid but the hollagram says he has a right to be given that he was murdered thus they need to get to the storage unit before kerry does he agrees that maybe she did love him but it's still convinced she killed him and i do wonder if this was to protect the one person she may love more and yes i'm going to say it again no it is the man hunter been saying it for seven weeks now cutting to the storage of solitude john then tells the hollagram no more bullshit games how about the hollagram questions whether hollagram is trying to keep people out or trying to keep something in this isn't up to open the vault but instead of finding a latin or another pocket i mentioned all they find a bug out bag that hollers pack with some provisions including a poncho and a gun have a hollagram also finds one of the black hole orbs that we've seen the guardians and slaughterhouse use and he lays it out on the floor he explains that it works like an einstein rose bridge that connects any two points in the universe by whoever sets it point a is here and point b could be anywhere also i love a holl kept a black hole in just a paper grocery bag but how did holl get this well i doubt the guardians gave it to him or even wanted to work with him again so i am thinking that the real holl most likely came across the man hunter tech that zoe left behind and this could be the reason that he was killed also want to point out how john mentions that he hears and he hears and all he says the hollagram opens the black hole now maybe my ears just suck but i couldn't really hear anything seems like the hollagram didn't either as he just ignores john and goes on explaining the black hole now this is something seemingly that only john can hear it's possibly indicating that john has more than just the hollagram poking around in his head and this could play into his visions later it also made me think back to what the hollagram just said about the vault holding something rather than keeping people out and this brings us back to the mystery of sineshro and where the hell he's hiding out at in the comics after sineshro was executed by the guardians his soul was imprisoned in the central power battery on oa there he escaped after john recharged his ring and sineshro soul was able to infiltrate his mind this slowly took over him during the green land mosaic arc until john was able to free himself from sineshro's control and his soul went back to oa so it's sineshro it's possible that the master of fear could be having some influence on john here maybe sineshro was so interested in john before because while he was house trainee he was also someone that he could exploit but his escape the hollagram and sticks his head into the black hole and comes out saying that there's definitely another planet on the other side and that the air seems breathable and hey like john i did question whether it's because he's a hologram and doesn't need to breathe it's a very valid concern i'm also still a bit confused myself as to how the hollagram works how about before jumping into the hole the hollagram says they should move it in case karaoke decides to come poking around while they're gone also love this line by the hollagram as well as john says he's got a fucked up brain and goes well yeah there's a bullet in it it's so funny and it shows how the hollagram is still very much howl just before he was corrupted by the rate we then head over to the water tower where once inside the hollagram lays out the black hole and john tells him to ask a piece of raid which he does and john cocks the gun and says fucking always he heads inside this was awesome but it also holds a lot of weight to it john telling the hollagram to ask if he's afraid obviously parallel is how john's dad asks him the same question every time he shot the apple off his head response is almost like pavilovian conditioning for john and he does this to prepare himself for whatever he's about to face we've talked about how john in 2026 is caught between his past and who he wants to be and him telling how to ask him if he's afraid it feels like john reminding himself of his true path this is something he's been trying to run from for the past 10 years and has probably not been asked his questions since then also feel like this symbolizes how john sees a hologram as a true mentor here and wants to show him that he's not afraid similar to his father was a parallel is how the hollagram has been treating john like an actual partner and calling him at training instead of junior and this also seems to call back to john's similarly per faith in episode three there he jumped from a plane during his mission the marines and later jumped in the same black hole for his meeting with the guardians each showed an important moment in john's life where he had to prove himself worthy of his destiny he can also relate this back to what started john's journey with the green bubble that rejected his father and accepted how the only question asked was are you afraid and how asking john the same question this moment sort of symbolizes how passing a torch to john as john enters the black hole he then comes out the other side on to a desolate planet which is just a yellow slash orange desert wasteland with nothing around except for glowing lights in the distance as the hollagram follows john in john and asks if he's been there before but hollagram says he's not sure as all the planets sort of started blending it after a while how about while hollagram doesn't seem to remember the planet john does he says that he has a weird feeling like he's been there before which the hollagram says is impossible because john never got off the planet but john says that's exactly why it's weird john then somehow notices an island off the distance where light is coming from but the hollagram says that's not all there is and they look up to see a city flowing in the sky hollagram tells john to fly and check it out but of course john that's still never learned how to fly so he tells john to project him up to the city instead he says he just focus on the structure and to use his imagination imagination imagination going back to john's first flying lesson with holl example here of hollagram's embracing john is a trainee he gives him some actual advice here on how to use the ring as opposed to the 2016 holl who just gave john the ring and expected him to fly as a hollagram investigates a floating city john then walks to the desert wasteland and finds the skull buried in the sand looking around he realizes that the grounds full of bodies and we get this awesome shot of john standing on the ground as the massive city hovers over him symbolizes how small john is compared to galaxy size problems he's facing this also feels like it plays into john and holl being human green lightens as well we don humans are very small in the grand scheme of things of the universe but john and holl are the two few who can overcome their human emotions and take on these massive threats the shot of john digging the skull out the sand also feels like a reference to a panel from 1994's green light and issue zero there after holl again parallax and nearly destroyed oa he returned to the planet with calorana and was faced with all the death he left behind he found the skeleton of kilowatt and hollies in his hands and asked for him to understand what he did so we see different circumstances we see in the show and rather than this being like something playing off that i think it's just a march of the comics and it kind of parallels the themes of john and holl coming face to face with the consequences of their actions everything's yellow here as well which just makes it feel like it's surrounded by fear and you might have also noticed that the logos throughout the episodes they also get yellow out and yellow out and yellow out as the hollagram then comes back down on the ground and tells john that the cities abandoned john comes to the grim realization of why he feels like he's been there before it's revealed in this moment that this is the planet he saw when antan and planted the memory of his home will being destroyed back in episode two this is something antan said would stay with john for a long time which we see that it has john describes being in the city and feeling like it was happening to him he says that there was some kind of gas that was released across the city and made everyone terrified they were so terrified they started going insane killing themselves and also each other john didn't realize what exactly it was they were jumping from as he didn't know that the city was in the sky it was windows what the hell hell would come to the death planet and john uses his amazing eyesight again to spot a bow out on the lake to then continue on to find some answers which you have i know john's a good sniper so it makes sense he has good eyesight but god damn this is like superman level eyesight right there now before moving on i feel like we have to take a moment to talk about this vie gas this immediately made me think of scarecrow and his fear toxin which could give us another batman reference for the episode but i don't know if that's the case and i do think it would be a kind of lazy if i'm being honest so staying in with the green light inside of the universe the fear gas has to be connected to cenestro while we know zou who destroyed this planet her using a gas that makes people afraid can't just be a coincidence leads me to think that the gas which seemingly engulfed the entire planet could possibly have been parallax that is the physical embodiment of fear which is manifested by the yellow light of the emotional spectrum we've talked about parallax a decent amount throughout these breakdowns even brought up in our trail reaction for this video and but in case you don't know parallax in the comics is pretty much the biggest threat to the guardians in the green lens the guardians lock parallax away in the central power battery thousands of years ago which resulted in the yellow and purity of the green land rings this is why they don't work against anything yellow parallax later escape the battery with some help from cenestro and possessed hal jordan making him his new vessel using hal's fear and pain over the destruction of co-city he then turned him into a villain which i feel like the show has already been loosely adapting with hal's fall from grace and episode five now while he isn't possessed by a fear demon we still have the same themes of hal giving into his worst impulses and becoming something he doesn't even recognize so while hal wasn't possessed by parallax himself in the show so he maybe even used parallax as a weapon to destroy the planet and release it on ant hands world now this would explain why the planet is all yellow this could also mean that so he had more powerful friends beyond justice citizens of rushville and maybe working with cenestro as well and this would also explain how cenestro was able to get information on john while he was in prison so he could have used an ester to get to hal and isolate john so she could manipulate him but again we're just going down the theory rabbit hole air so let's keep it moving we then see john the halogram rowing gently down the stream and we see that the planet has two moons which i feel amort meant to symbolize the balance that john's struggling to find this is something that we discussed last week with john caught between his destiny as the green lantern and the new life that he's trying to build john needs to find a balance between those two roles in order to find a path forward and at first i did think this would also be a hint as to which planet they're on but the main planet i could find in the comics with two moons is krypton and i think we can safely assume that krypton has been destroyed as they continue on their journey the halogram and asks john about him being the last one to see my life he says that he hates Nebraska and hal so why would he come back to see him if it wasn't to kill him but john says he was there to hear the apology that hal refused to give he then starts unloading on the halogram about how how got him kicked out the military tried to kill him multiple times and basically disrespects the institution of the green lands now i love how you can see john opening up to the halogram here he gets all the resentment he has towards hal off his chest that he didn't necessarily get to express when he was alive also love how the halogram asks him how he drove john up a cliff and also crashed his car into a pole and john has to clarify that it was two separate instances and cyle chanler loves jumping out of cars realizing how much he would take hal was a halogram then tries to give john his apology but john doesn't accept it he wanted it from the real hal how about the halogram gives john a reality check telling him that hal's dead and that maybe if he took the time to see he was in trouble instead of attacking him he wouldn't be in this position now i added in that last part because i'm guessing that's what he would have said but john is done talking about it and he cuts up him by wrapping a spotty octy delicious john is once more sitting alone in the boat and it shows how long john feels as he heads into the eye of the storm however as he gets closer to the light on the island he then sees an apple floating in the water he then notices them floating all around him until his dad appears and puts one in his head he screams at john and then asks if he's afraid and you might notice that he was a calls john jr now we know from episode three that his parents never call them that and that this was a way that halbs subtly disrespected him chose though how his vision of john is a manifestation of the pendant resentment that he feels towards hal and his parents john's dad then asks him what he's waiting for and john pulls out the gun but sees his youngest half of the apple now in his head the young john ends up screaming at him that he's afraid now john says that isn't true but his youngest half provokes him to prove it and shoot him he screams that he's a coward as john goes to pull the trigger but he's then suddenly thrown into the water luckily he's pulled out by the hologram who says that john went crazy and just started screaming he wasn't a coward he then put the gun to his head and nearly pulled the trigger before the halogram pushed him in the water to stop it this makes john realize that the gas caused everyone in the planet to go insane and that this is still in the atmosphere and he was infected by the rain to which the halogram says that's why he told him the poncho was important now that was an insane scene and we've talked a lot about how john being fearless doesn't necessarily mean that he doesn't feel fear here we see that physically manifested in these visions as they represent the hidden fears that john doesn't even realize he has since he's never known for yet he doesn't know how to recognize it in himself which is why deep down he thinks he's a coward now this goes back to the question that we asked at the beginning of this episode of how someone can be courageous if they don't know fear to me real courage or bravery it comes from doing something despite being afraid of it so if john doesn't know what it is to be afraid he can never truly overcome it and this makes john afraid of being afraid it's something we discussed all the way back in episode three and how his parents training him to become fearless was making them a source of fear for john themselves this seems to be what younger john is saying here by revealing john sphere his parents learning that he never wanted to be a lantern and i'm going to say it that is a theory confirmate we did get some things right but with john no longer being insane it's now the halograms turned to open up about his own fears he then reveals john and his dad took his own life which is a massive change from the source material how about he also says that since he was a test pilot no one questioned it but hal found it's not in the box he left it he told hal that they would be better off without him and that it was a pain that he had all his life this is the jordan boy's legacy and it's a pain that's passed down through generations from father to son he then admits john that he's not fearless because he's brave but because he's broken it's just the absolute most tragic thing you can imagine but it brings us so much more context into how is this a character knowing about his family curse and the pain his father felt hal became fearless not because he wasn't scared of anything but because he knew that one day he would meet the same pain as his father this is why he said there was nothing left at fear after he lost his dad because he knew how his story would end one way or the other this also shows why hal isolated himself from everyone he truly cared about it's not because he was so committed to being a green lantern but because he couldn't let them see the pain he secretly carried the reflex how he's headed father couldn't better let hal and his mother see who he really was it's also why he left in over hal as only he could bear it i feel like with this we can see this generational trauma and hal which is parallel with john as well his journey to becoming the green lantern also started with his father's trauma of not being picked because he was afraid and both of them were set on this path because of their parents on trauma and fear i think this also explains why hal was so dismissive of john and ultimately refused to teach him he knew that when john took his place the character would have nothing beside the jordan boy's legacy going back to the young hal's conversation with his father with nc now why mr john believed hal was the only one who could carry the weight of his death box he was simply preparing for it how about this is also why hal left john is key and not carry he knew that john would be able to carry the truth with him and try to prepare him for the loneliness that comes from being a green lantern this is something new for the show because in the comics hal's dad just had the accident as we all thought before how about hal is haunted by a similar hidden pain due to his dad's death in the comics hal's greatest source of fear is not knowing if his father was afraid when he died whereas here he's got more of an idea as to exactly what happened with the truth now out in the alogram then tells john that he wonders whether something in the vault might lead them to his own note julan says what everyone's thinking and asks if he thinks hal took his own life the halogram theorizes that kerry may have found his dead body and covered it up to protect him like hal did with his father this would make sense as well given what we just learned and why hal seemingly didn't fight back when he was shot how that i feel that's still too clean cut of an answer to all the questions now going back to you what the halogram said about whether he told kerry how his father died this secret must be too this is also why yes if he was really open with her and she said they shared everything together so she knew the pain about the jordan boys legacy and the pain that hal secretly carried this makes me think that maybe kerry did actually kill hal but it was because he wanted her to well maybe it's even darker than that and she killed hal knowing that she could play off as something else after finding his note in the vault if she was behind it she may not have expected that he would leave the keeper john and not her but now we know why now i don't know if i want kerry to be the killer but we know that she has a dark past and wasn't the idealistic cop that she often portrays herself as being like the halogram i am just following my gut and i think that hal may have learned that noah may have been planning something wicked and she may have killed him before he stopped her son john and apologizes how about his dad with halogram realizing that this is the first time that john's called him hal i think this is true for the real hal as well as you always call them sir or simply jordan it symbolizes how john is seeing how someone he respects for the first time or really seeing the real hal for the first time finally making it to the island john and hal go to the source of the light at the top of the tower where smoke rice is from a chimney i feel like this is another instance of the show messing with his comic book nerds because my first thought puncing this light was that it looked like the black lantern central power battery but i will not be fooled again as i approach this by john and realize he lost the gun but the halogram says that he has the most powerful weapon in the universe on his finger how about when john asks how much charges left the halogram says maybe he shouldn't have lost the gun ooh just try smacking it on the boat a couple of times once inside the tower they then walk around and see what looks like some kind of forge where hal is ambushed by someone wearing a cloak reveal to be senestra or they also bring up the outcast song which john uses to deactivate the halogram he knocks him out with one punch right in the kisser and looks down to see hal's old mentor so that's where you've been hiding vindication finally now we have a lot to go to here but luckily i feel like we actually hit a lot of these points pretty well throughout the episode and i feel like we have some good guesses before we get to the finale now we mentioned earlier about the fear gas that destroyed the planet and how that could mean zoe and senestra was somehow working together now i don't think that we have all of the pieces here but if that's true it could mean that it was zoe who somehow broke senestra out the guardians prison maybe that was like a contingency planning case she died or was already put in motion before she was killed we saw that zoe clearly had access to some crazy technology with even hal commenting that he'd never seen stuff so high tech maybe one of his satellite lasers just blew a hole in the guardians prison planet or something along those lines look i'm not sure but it wouldn't be surprising if zoe the manhunter programmed to acquire power by any means would have some contingency plan in place to get her avenge of the guardians well i keep saying contingency i've got a bit of a block not a contingent of plans this that leads into what i think is zoe's ultimately contingency plan i got it but that is no app if no one is the manhunter and zoe did have some kind of partnership with senestra he could have been the one to break senestra out of prison this could be in following plans left by his dear old grandma the manhunter and would also explain why she told him what to do next it also explained why senestra was hanging out on this planet he would be well aware it's a dead world when no one would ever come looking for him now that is all a bunch of theories and we have been wrong before surprisingly but this and the zoe's senestra teamer could be taking some inspiration from the comics where senestra was abin's serenity and best friend before his death this could mean that in the show he could have been with abin's seren when he came to this planet to take zoe into custody hell senestra might have even been the one to convince him to spare her and take her to earth this could have then led to abin's serenity and resulted in senestra betraying the guardians this was then making senestra the only person in the galaxy who knew zoe was on earth and could be why he came to earth back when hal originally took him into custody this is also where he killed the guardian and perhaps he came back to the planet looking for the manhunter now this would tie everything back to the original mystery of the series as to what really happened to abin's seren when he crashed in rushville this then led him to how hal was chosen to be the green lantern and very important that still doesn't explain why hal had the black hole leading to this planet in his fault or why he would even leave it for john to find now this brings us back to arthierion hal getting all from zoe's discarded technology him finding all the leading to senestra and realizing that zoe's plans were still in motion could have meant he locked it away for john to find in knew that he'd be the only one strong enough to stop him and this is why he left everything for john including the bird key now even if all that is true we still have the question of what the hell senestra gets out of all of this i mean the dude hates hal and the guardians just as much as zoe but i can't see him just being a willing puppet for a manhunter he has to have his own angle in this as well if we go back to the scene and see where he's been holding up you can also see that there's some kind of forging the middle of the room this would build another smog that's been coming off the tower and it makes me think senestra was doing much more than just hanging out and waiting for someone to show up because of that i believe he's forging a new yellow powering so he could have brought him to a planet that literally has fear in its atmosphere after she released the gas and gave senestra the power he needs to forge a new ring which is bad but could be even worse if that gas was in fact parallax like we discussed earlier this would make it the perfect bargaining chip as though he had no idea use against senestra though and they could offer him the very essence of your itself to report his ring he could then take his ultimate revenge against enemies aka the guardians now this may also be inspired by the comics around the aftermath of the senestra war was revealed at senestra built a second yellow central power battery on the planet quad his luck here in the show is also heavily inspired by his appearance in 2014 senestra she won there he exiled himself on an unknown planet after having killed the guardians if senestra is forging a new ring for himself this could also lead to john's ultimate test of learning how to truly be fearless as we've seen senestra as a master manipulator and now that we've seen the fears that john has that he refuses to acknowledge himself senestra could use john's fear and resentment towards how the guardians to try and bring him to his side now this could have been part of his deal with zoe with her manipulation of john not just being there to get him off the board and rush knowing how manipulative that so he is she may have also wanted to serve him up on a planet to be senestra's new trainee it's going to be hinted to us by the mysterious voice that john heard earlier and senestra could have somehow gained access to john's mind after whatever the hell zoe did to heal him this would force john to overcome the fears he didn't realize he had and truly become fearless and this may also be why har left the keeper john to find knew that his will was no longer strong enough to overcome his fear and that this was the final lesson john needed to learn in order become who he was meant to be knew that john would be the only person strong enough to overcome it and this calls back to harzfaller telling him that he knew har could handle the burden of his death because that was in his blood how recognized that john was truly the one meant to weathering and that it was always his destiny we then close out with a young hale going to pick up the baseball it's quite a big gut punch and civilize his white hale was never able to let go of the burden of his father's death and never will the pain that the john boys have to carry this is why he couldn't let go of the ring because he'd have nothing left and the burden would always be with him but yeah this show has done an amazing job at keeping us guessing throughout the series so i'm expecting we'll get even more twists and turns in the finale that will take me by surprise what do you mean all my theories were wrong again but this episode had everything i love about the series so far as there's been great moments between john and har it deep character exploration into white hale is the way he is and it's just continued to take us down the rabbit hole as we try and solve harz murder also love how this episode used the running clock dynamic that we've seen throughout the show with the ring church in addition to that it really made me fall in love with the hale gram and the fear of him being raised forever karl channa has been crushing it this entire season but i think he does his best work here as the hale gram he's still that lovable asshole that we've come to know but he reveals the true hale that's been hidden underneath that is the hale who still believed in what being a green land meant and wanted to do the best it could we'll get some really great reveals into john's character as well it shows a lot of the things that we've been discussing about the differences between being fearless and being afraid i think it highlights the effects his trainings had on him now that he's turned away from his path of being a green land welcome to the heavy spoily show i'm your host paul and this video we're breaking down latins the finale is now here and we have a quite a lot to talk about add a learning that hale and john's problems in rushville are far from over episode a brings everything full circle as they uncover the truth about harz murder it also reveals who the man hunter is what's an estro is doing and takes john towards his true destiny as always the episode is loaded with these drags and references and throughout this video we're going to be breaking it all down 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that they'll have no issue with courts that will find hale guilty of reckless endangerment and it will solve their problems of trying to get rid of him now while this is directly in the aftermath of his fight with john over the ring it feels like you can see the rings influence is already starting to leave him we have talked about those Lord of the Rings men of wars throughout the season but we see a different side to hale here than what we've ever seen before hale being broken and beaten gives him a second to realize what he's done and he asks himself the same question he asked john hale's recklessness in the rushful attack also explains why he went to prison now they don't really divulge much in the show but i'm guessing from hale's line where he acknowledged the death in the town that he took the fall karae did say whatever happened was on him and that of course also involves the aftermath also think that him doing this basically covers up the attack by zoey and protects the ones left in rushville we know the guardians tried to brush the manhunt as another rug as well and therefore he's the perfect full guy to hide absolutely everything that's what ultimately makes him a hero because he's willing to put himself on the line for others even if he still gets chiff-frit it's a lot like the ending of the dark knight and even upon coming back hale is spada and hated halep it is still a bit crazy to be that karae is basically saying that everything here is hale's fault she was Zoe's muscle for years and could have done literally anything to help them but instead she played along with Zoe's mind games and helped her keep control of the town she knew a full well what she was capable of and that she had plans and plays to kill everyone in rushville we'll see later just how ruthless that karae is when it's almost automatic for her to shoot hale so not only did john and hale save them from their mount hunter overlord but hale even protected those who helped her come into power we also know that they weren't just innocent bystanders as Zoe had dirt on everyone and they were even covering up bodies for hale long before hale and john ever came to rushville like sweet old bitsy we then passed forward to 2026 where hale is getting out of prison carries their wedding for him with a six pack of ruskeys and there's some clear guilt on her side now we did theorize last week that hale could have been sent off to the infamous bellery prison lexithair is currently there doing time but it looks like that isn't the case because yet this seems to be just a normal prison in abraska you might also notice that the beer karae brings hale is called schlitz known as the beer that made mil walkie famous schlitz was a massively popular beer in wisconsin and was the top selling brewery in the 1950s however after changing their recipe in 1970 the brand started to decline and was sold to the pad spruen company in the 80s they then retired the brand earlier in the air and brewed the last batch of schlitz in may so while we don't know the exact month that hale was released we can make a little bit of a guest mate karae bringing the beloved schlitz to hale oh if he also shows how much he's really fallen pahale she's tracked out one of the last cases of his favorite beer and probably held onto it until he got out of prison i also want to quickly point out these landscapes shots across rushville transitioning us to the next scene here we see the sun rising over the town symbolizing a new beginning for both rushville and hale how about we also get a shot of the sun setting and you can see a storm coming into the right we also saw something similar when karae first came to rushville in the beginning of episode five to me this teases that things are not going to be quite in abraska and we'll see that throughout the episode we then see karae and hale out at some dinner and she smashes some garlic bread and basically treats it like franking benny's on your birthday but the mood isn't really good and the entire restaurant stares down hale i guess almost everyone in this place was probably in zoe's man hunter cult in some way so i wouldn't be i wouldn't be too quick to point fingers i'd who destroyed the town however i do feel like this sort of calls back to hale owning up to his mistakes it's similar how john placed all the blame on hale for what happened in rushville and yeah the townspeople are doing the exact same thing they disregarded how their own actions aided in rushville being destroyed and just place the blame on hale and hale just takes it it's not because he thinks they're right but because he's taking responsibility for what he's done not just in rushville but throughout his entire life in it hales push people away and isolate himself by being a decade who never hit the thumbs up how about this was a defense mechanism out of the fear of losing him and also the title green land now though that is all gone so hale is trying to reconnect who he once was finally he allows himself to open up to another person and faces the consequences of his actions this comes to add to his eulogy where he said it was always easier for him to fly than to stay on the ground hale can no longer fly away from his problems though and he has to stay on the ground to face them head on hale also gives us an idea of how much the town hates him saying they wrote leave asshole in their own shit on his lawn which is disgusting and shows just how much they despise hale because as hale says himself that takes some time in effect and i know it was you bitty no one thing i love is that while hale is trying to take a brunt of the town's hatred kerry stands up at him she tells the people of rushville that she lost more than anyone else and yet she still forgives hale she says that while they don't have to forgive him too he's with her now and deserves to have peace hell yeah kerry you tell him yeeha you can also see though how much this means to hale and like off the top of my head i think that by his dad she's like the only person who's ever defended him even people we didn't see interact with him very much like the steward's alliana they just talked about how much of a dick he was almost any time anyone in the show is interacted with him or refer to hale it's always been negative it shows how kerry really is the only person who sees hale for who he is or what he could be we can even see this going all the way back to episode one when kerry first met hale there while she didn't really like him she immediately clocked that hale wasn't fearless because he was brave but because he was lonely he's not fucking fearless he's lonely this is something the hale graham admitted was true last week when revealing his father's death to john this is why hale was immediately taken with kerry as all her insults to him showed that she could see through hale's bessona that was put on simply to hide his pain this also builds up what the hale graham said about his father's pain and how he couldn't meddle at hale's either real him we then fast forward a bit as kerry and hale's relationship grows and we see them in bed together hale jokingly tells kerry that he's willing to let his day but she doesn't want no one to know about the things going on like them being together hale says he's pretty sure that noa already know what noas hey oh brother this guy sticks of course he does though because he's the fucking man hunter we called it we actually called it i know we've got all those black hand and the cenestros door is shit wrong but we haven't been to say this in episode one that noa was the man hunter but yeah kerry agrees but still says they should take things to the next level she then invites hale to come with her one of noa's football games is a couple so while this is a sweet moment this was has a dark undertone to it as we know that the football stadium is where hale will be killed right now though hale is on cloud nine we then get into the day the game where hale is dancing around the house to 1979's cruel to be kind by niklo he's getting ill so we ready and it's the first time that he's really had a spring in the step how about hale's moment of joy it doesn't last long as a mullet or cocktail crashes through the window sets the house on fire and traps hale inside as he tries to save hale we then see hale wake up in a concrete room with a scar on his arm now this is the same scar that we saw john get after being healed by zoey in episode five as hale starts to come to we then see someone into the room kneeling down next to the confused hale he reveals himself to be noa oh wah yeah we fucking said it no way is the man hunter telling hale to be careful is the skittest brand new he says that he wishes he could have saved him without revealing what he is we then pan out to see how lying next is always healing who noa also tell us him he can't tell his mommy healed him because she doesn't realize he knows what he really is and my big question is did he heal ill as well but yeah wow i cannot believe that we actually got one fun theory right if you've been keeping up to date with these breakdowns you will know again that we've been joking about no being the man hunter since we first set our eyes on him but honestly it did start taking the seriously interlact cryptic message by zoey to him in episode five the pieces then just started falling together and the biggest hint for me was the mention of wanting to get into politics during his dinner with john in episode six which again i was half joking we said it would be the perfect career path for a man hunter and it turns out it is lindalloftow also did something similar watchman where the son of a senator had his eyes on taking document hands powers and then going to the white house but yeah out of all the wild theories we had throughout the show and digging through all the evidence from the comics we actually got the biggest reveal of the show right and it had nothing to do with the source material what a fucking waste of time i still do think though that some of the diversions were intentional to stop us looking too hard at noa but regardless i hope you still enjoyed learning more about green latin comics that we've covered throughout the series but this is why we also cover all our bases folks this is why the videos are longer than the episodes themselves also love this shot closing at the scene focusing on Noah's face with it half covered in shadow symbolizes the duality of his true identity and foreshadow is the internal conflict in noa that we'll learn about in just a bit so what's something you've always wanted to treat yourself to if you just had a bit of extra money a lot of people watching this have wasted cash on interest simply because their credit score wasn't where it needed to be but that's why we've teamed up with kick-off the number one credit building app in the app store kickoff helps you build credit 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Back in the present day we get a full story of Noah from Sinestro he tells John that it was no rock amount of prison and brought him to this dead world in this we learn he's been using his grandma's tech and that she built the portal to visit the world that she destroyed because she felt guilty about what she done which Sinestro calls a weakness now did see a lot of similarities with her and Harry who also returned at the scene of the crime after killing Hal I think that she shows everything she told John wasn't a complete lie but that she couldn't overcome her programming this is something that we compared with John and Hal being corrupted by the power of the ring and Zoe was ultimately a victim of the guardians negligence something else I want to point out is the way that Sinestro calls Zoe the grandmother I think it may have been a subtle way that the show had been putting the reveal of Zoe and Noah being man hunters right in front of our faces the whole time with Zoe being Noah's grandmother as in the grandmother like a space in the middle it works if you put a space in the middle if you write it down it works better but this could be a play on the grandmaster from the comics that was the leader of the man hunter cult who came to earth during the middle ages and secretly influenced the world from behind the scenes basically led to surviving man hunters on earth and recruited humans into his cult to build his path to power he then rebuilt their numbers and developed new technology to take their revenge on the audience which is clearly a path that could lie in front of Noah so she was like the grandmother to the potential grandmaster this is to the point that you may have even created Noah as a failsafe in case she was caught John then questions why Noah would save Hal just to kill him and Sinestro says because he's a man hunter you idiot and you shouldn't listen to Paul from Heavy Spoilers in episode one you feel they talk about how life and death are transactional to a man hunter and that Hal must have stopped being useful to him how that Sinestro refuses to say more until he speaks with the Halogram to John decides to give him a little taste of his own medicine and waterboards him in the lake and terminate with fear gas Sinestro begs him to stop and start singing like one of John's boots he then reveals I know I broke him out so he could build him a lantern which we can see it looks pretty much like Hal's but fear gas is being used to power it Sinestro claims that while the guardians think fear makes him a weak it can be the most powerful force in the universe if channel correctly he also shares John that it can recharge his ring but luckily the Halogram stops him from doing it the pair basically the angel and devil on John shoulders and I think it's John's biggest test he can take the easy way and charge the ring and in doing so he loses positive mentor and his journey to the dark side will be complete not using it though that means the potential fight with the man hunter could be very one-sided and he will probably die also I find it interesting how Sinestro calls for the evolutionary intelligence here I feel like it's a little not the entity of fear in the comics which is known as parallax this is Sinestro's number one bff and pretty much the ultimate villain but he's completely right and fear can drive you to survive in life fear can spike your adrenaline make you move faster and basically keep you alive now we did have a bit of a theory time last week about how the fear gas though he used to destroy this planet could have been some form of parallax in the comics parallax usually appears as a sort of in second monster but can really take the form of anything it chooses to listen fear it's all emo is to spread fear throughout the universe and cause planets to destroy themselves out of fear and paranoia which is pretty much exactly what happened to this planet that's so destroyed so it's entirely possible that the mysterious fear gas though he used on the planet was some form of parallax and was part of a deal with Sinestro parallax could be trapped in the planet's atmosphere and it could give Sinestro access to use parallax's power to reforge his yellow ring so if the gas is parallax Sinestro using that to power this new lantern is bad bad news for John this would also lie well with comics as parallax was originally imprisoned by the guardians in the central power battery this then weakened the power of the emotional spectrum and caused the yellow impurity this is why the rings don't work on anything yellow and why the wielder of the ring has to be able to overcome great fear however parallax was awakened after Sinestro's soul was banished to the central power battery and his yellow ring tapped into his power so the show could be playing off something similar with Sinestro containing parallax in this new lantern and using it to release him which is why he has this little reaction like he's holding his breath as John goes to ring like yeah idiot do it do it do it back to the interrogation though and the Halgram asks Sinestro what the real howl was doing here we learn that howl followed note of the slaughter house after he was healed and it's here he discovered the portal he then found Sinestro who tried to convince howl that he had to kill Noah but how refused thinking Noah might have a chance of not being a genocidal android this is something that john has to choose later as well but now Sinestro says that howl should have listened to him but he went soft and was weak Sinestro then tries to manipulate the Halgram promising that he can bring him back to life and they can overpower John but Halgram doesn't take the bait and says that Sinestro always talk too much and that he's annoying fucking hell Jesus that's Sinestro then just immediately switches over to john he tells him to not listen to the Halgram about charging the ring because he just wants to save his own arse and stop himself from being raised it just shows how Sinestro is always trying to blame angle but i think it's so funny how transparent he is about it how that john also doesn't take the bait and starts putting the pieces together that's Sinestro is the only person who's killed the guardian and that Noah wanted the lantern so he could get revenge on the group john and asks why Noah wouldn't just kill guy godner to take his ring and Sinestro reveals it's because Noah also has feelings to him this makes him pathetic and weak but yeah it means that he has basically the same weakness as Zoe but he assures him that Noah's true nature will take over eventually just like he did with Zoe but john stands up to him and refuses to use the lantern and they leaves an esstrot to rot on the planet on the way back to the portal the halogram then has to change your heart and hells john you should charge the ring he says i know will kill him and that he's trying to protect him john calls bullshit though and says he'll never try to protect him when he was alive but the halogram asks him why Hal would ask john not to tell anyone that he was in rushville and i'd die he realizes now that Noah would have assumed hal'd told him about being a man hunter and would have ended up killing him but deep down in his gut he doesn't believe no will do it but hal'd tell us him again bluntly charge the ring or die and this makes for such a great dilemma for this episode to center around again it's all about being afraid of what could come and preemptively trying to prepare for that so it's a question of when the john will give into that fear or gain a sense of optimism and take down the android with no weapons by appealing to his humanity also loves seeing more of the halogram being a true mentor for john that wants to protect him even at the cost of himself to another example of how hal truly had changed after being released from prison and was accepting the consequences of his actions not only did he take the fall for john by going to prison but he also took the fall by basically sacrificing himself to know in order to protect john back at the portal the halogram then asks john what the plan is i love this shot of john and hal as well walking across the desert as the sun is rising and the two moons hang in the sky these moons to me they symbolize the conflict that john has between who he is and who he's meant to be really charged the ring and take his place as a lander to stop noor or will he choose his own path and be able to convince noor not to become a genocidal android let's find out that once john steps through the portal he comes out on the other side to find it noor is there waiting for him oh shit as john lands asfers in the slaughterhouse noor just immediately starts beating the shit out of him oof yes the plan didn't turn out too well cotton noor then takes the ring off his finger and tells him that they're gonna go for a little ride and while in the car john tries to get no to talk he just sits there fiddling around with the ring packing a dead murderous robot stare it's similar how they played the zo reveal and i like how we just come out the gate showing how much of a threat that noor actually is he easily took the ring from john and it's just now fully in control during this very intense car ride we see john is never see trying to play cool and not provoke him into smashing his face like the subscribe button how about noor drops a man hunter stare for a moment to ask john why he killed zoey yes if he thinks it was a good reason to murder her just because she was a man hunter and yeah kind of but john tells noor that he cared about zoey and that they understood he should hear of yelton noor that zoey wanted john to kill her and this could be why she smiled while she was in the scope zoey knew that she couldn't stop herself so she wanted john to stop her and order to protect noor if you read the boys and then you'll know it's a lot like what happens with butcher and he we in that butcher still wants to carry out a plan but still also kind of wants to be stopped hey death though wouldn't you other guardians wouldn't come looking for noor but noor just says that's bullshit which yeah i can't believe i'm saying this as well but i agree with the man hunter now we can assume that this conversation between john and zoey might have happened in the brief moment off screen between her healing john and her being out in the hallway calling making an episode 5 but i find that hard to believe especially given that in the same episode and tan was able to snip out making his opponent because he was willing to accept death this is something and tan said a man hunter would never do and it was the one flooring makins performance i don't think that john is fully trying to manipulate noor here sure he just doesn't want to die but i feel like this is probably what john has been telling himself over the past ten years he knows that zoey was a victim of her programming and justified his actions to himself by believing he was freeing her now in the end i think zoey felt this as well which again is why she gave john that smile as he shot her in the face so while zoey didn't willing to give herself up to be killed by john john was able to see that he needed to do with her this to me bells office always learn about how john truly saw her and he knew that's what he needed to do as noor and john continue down the road and approach across roads both physically and symbolically john asks noor which way he wants to go and noor tries to decide what he's going to do this symbolizes the internal conflict noor has between himself and his man hunter programming harlot noor decides not to go full on man hunter just yet and decide to take a ride back into town and they arrive at the football stadium here noor tells him that he wasn't the one who burned down house house and that he was genuinely just trying to save him john says this is an opposite of his program and does prove that he can indeed overcome it how that noor says that he trusted har and all he had to do was let things be after harlot discover the portal oh he couldn't risk him telling kerry what he was doing he then says that he was the one who killed harlot now notice how john has to force himself to set out loud and we can see noor nearly start to cries he admits it's from em he killed him from a certain point of view potentially but it shows that he really does have conscience and isn't completely consumed by his programming like so he was and i guess androids can cry now then tells john that he's probably wondering if he's going to kill him and that he's thinking that he can't overcome his programming which john is like er yeah dude kind of you just beat the show me and took me on this mafia car ride oh that john tries once again to appeal to noor's humanity he says that for a long time he couldn't tell where he started and where his programming ended this is even at the point he now asks himself how much of who he is is just because of his training and wanting to please his parents ultimately john realizes though that it was just an excuse because if he could ask himself the question who he is it means he could answer it for himself this plays perfectly in the parallels between how both john and noor are caught between two separate paths and how john is the only person who could really understand that kind of weight this makes him the perfect person to be here and it's why he's the only one who actually has a chance to save noor now this is something that we talked about in episode six with noor asking john advice about living up to expectations there we said if he was the man hunter it would create a perfect parallel to john john lived his whole life trying to live up to the expectations set for him by the guardians and no was trying to live up to his expectations for him to take over the world we even said that john being able to save him would be his way of relieving himself of his guilt over not being able to save zoey i'm gonna say it i'm gonna pat myself on the back for that mate looks like we fucking nailed it so add it to the theory confirmed pile woo woo to be fair we are really erredeeming ourselves in these last two episodes because that that's strike rate in the first five episodes was fucking shocking seeing that john can relate to what he's going through though the tension dies down by quite a bit and noor just admits that sometimes he wishes he could just have a normal life all he wants to do is play football find a girl watch every spoilers and write Ryan areas a chump in the chat but the other side of him gives him ideas about power and he knows how easy it would be to just take control of everything even ascribes them not his thoughts but just something that exists within him it's a big question about whether it's nature versus nature and if we can overcome what's been programmed in this now as a hobby i watch a lot of serial killer documentaries make for a laugh to cheer myself up and they all say that they just couldn't control themselves this is something i wonder with noor though and withering and alantern no one would be able to stop him not even the guardians he tells john that if he could see inside of his head he would never stop screaming and it builds up what happened with antan have that despite his dark man hunter thoughts noor takes off the ring and sets it on the dashboard grab it and blast him throughout the videos though we have talked a lot about um lord of the rings and how it's all about resisting temptation and not being consumed by it how was someone who was a lot like ollum and john was basically frodo seeing what he could become noor is able to turn the ring down here and i guess that that kind of makes him like gandalf maybe i don't know like what of some lord of the rings character but he has finally made his choice and john managed to reach his humanity noor then tells john that he needs a favor and that he wants john to kill him wait what he asks him for the same mercy he showed so he and he just wait for him to finish his last game with his team however he also wants john not to let him see him coming because then he will fucking murder him you let ladies john to make this impossible decision and john calls out of the hell ground for help now him calling out to hell and to me that shows how how much john has been seeking mentorship and that he still has a lot to learn from him despite him being naturally more powerful and deserving of the ring like it's not all superhero tights and punching bad guys junior there's some real shit you're gonna have to deal with but yeah john can just not catch a break they'll really make him work for that ring and meanwhile guy just struts around selling energy drinks how that also shows how noor really is more human than man hunter at least at this moment he goes back to antan saying that a man hunter would never willingly accept death and how do you care raising him he's learned how to be human with flaws and all i think it also kind of plays in how the dc u clerk was sent to invade earth but the kens made him good at heart again it goes back at the whole nature versus nurture thing and i actually think this is one of the most original ways to defeat a comic book threat that we've ever seen before we then get an hour kicking ass on the football field is carry watches off of the side between the bleachers it's all like how she stood watch last week and nicely reflects that scene with the speech at the high school as we end at the stadium we also get a quick shot of the bleachers where we can see how ced is empty sort of brings the series full circle and takes us back to the place where all of this started out at and where how the story also ended you can also see that while kerry is watching noor on the field she's also facing the bleachers where how would usually sit symbolizes her own internal conflict with the pride that she feels for noor but also the grief that she has over killing how this sort of shows how kerry has isolated herself from everyone just like how you kept everyone in the distance to protect noor out of fear of losing him which is why she's standing alone in the sideline and not with the other parents this is something john even notices in a moment which she plays off as just being nervous about the game we then see john walking up behind her carrying the bag with the lantern he takes a deep breath as he goes to confront her but i also want to point out how john quickly looks up to the sky it's super subtle but i feel like this is a medical back to john's relationship with birds and how for most of his life he thought birds with a guardians checking on his progress this is something that we've kind of been back and forth on whether or not that was actually true but regardless it shows john is still desperate for some advice here on what he should do next firstly he was calling out for how and now he's looking up at the sky to see maybe if the guardians are still watching over him it's just some sort of kind of reassurance to know he's not alone and it is such a subtle character moment as john joins kerry to watch noor play kerry then tells him about how there's college recruiters in the crowd waiting for him to make his decision he says that the only reason noor decided to wait was because he wanted to give his teammates a chance to be noticed this gives us another example of noor's humanity overcoming his programming he'd already become the star of the team and had secured his position of power but he wanted to give his teammates a chance to share that spotlight i also want to point out how kerry mentions satellite camps here when talking about how hard it is for the other kids to be noticed i just thought that was a very interesting choice of words given that so his ultimate endgame plan was using satellite lasers to destroy rushville now i'm definitely off of thinking that but i did think it was strange that she would specify satellites instead of just saying like a space campus of thing kerry then asks john why he in the hologram ditched her and john says it's because he didn't trust her this builds up how the hologram immediately cocked her as the murderer and wanted to get ahead of her john and tell us kerry a story about the messed up stuff his mother put him through during his childhood he says how he never realized how terrified she was while trying to make john feel this and then it was like she was holding her breath for his entire childhood but this goes all the way back to episode three where we saw john's mum sitting on his bed waiting for him to come home she believed that fear was contagious though and wouldn't really allow john to see her afraid until his moment how that john says that kerry probably knows exactly how she felt and that she must have been so scared but no where every single day this makes kerry realize that the chick is up and she admits she wasn't scared but terrified or terrified kerry fired we then see kerry staring off into the stands where holl once sat and we fade back to the night of his death here we see kerry setting up for the big game and how it comes to confront her about no where he tells her that he knows what no really is and that kerry needs to be honest with him if there's any more man hunters and this takes her a minute to process but she says that no as the only one kerry then gives us the full backstory and how no one came to be and explains how when zoey grew her pinky back she came out of the procedure pregnant despite not being with anyone for months no well she doesn't know how it happened she believed that if she raised no a right and loved him enough he wouldn't turn out like soy so it's no one like man hunter jesus as well also it's a bit like looper as well where envy blunts character is raising the rainmaker and trying to make him divert from the horrendous path ahead of him was answers our question from before about whether kerry actually gave birth to noah and it seemingly implies that noah is at least somewhat human he was created with kerry's dna and though i'm not really sure what that means for noah as far as his man hunter programming goes at least he wasn't built like a robot factory like the other man hunters were and we did discuss earlier in the series how kerry said that zoey gave her a miracle and did think this could be confirming that she gave her a son what else makes me wonder if billy even knew about any of this and he probably just thought kerry was pregnant from a previous relationship when he met her or maybe he learned about zoey from his dad and then just raised nor is his son kerry then asks how the promise he won't tell noah but howless he is here that he already knows exactly what he is and that he's planning to do something very very dangerous he says that they can keep noah safe and protect the others in town but that they need to leave asap he mentions that he has a friend in guadalajara mexico which could be a sudden odd to the green lantern carlina his grandparents immigrated from mexico to texas before cal was born but the comics don't specify exactly what city or town that they lived in also found that there's some luchador from guadalajara named linterna verde junior aka green lantern if you couldn't tell from me my amazing Spanish there but yeah i feel like it's more more likely than not that's the person that hollies talking about to be honest given what we've seen of hollies show we've probably met monesome drunk at night out in mexico how that kerry refuses to leave and then starts to spiral hollies here that mexico is just a pit stop until i can figure out what to do and that there's isolated planets they could hide out on we've seen stuff like that in supergirl and but kerry has been on the room before and this makes her completely loose if he says she can't leave because of noah's game and how he's making his decision for college she's just completely trying to block out what hollies saying how that hal tries to bring her back to reality and makes her realize that their life in rush feels over but kerry is far too gone and starts freaking out telling how to shut up before she pulls out a gun and shoots him such a gut punch and those final words come back around at the end it was confirmed something we talked about last week and also in our trailer breakdown and goes back to kerry's conversation with john and episode six about her being the one to kill hal and how that could turn out to be confession which we now see was exactly what that was the halogram even like immediately identified hers the one who killed him and to be fair there was like three characters left in the show so you know it wasn't too hard to guess now again i saw through that out half jokingly because kerry is like always hiding something and i thought that would be like a crazy twist oh kerry did it all crazy twist but yeah it turns out it's true and i also love how we can see here that hal isn't trying to take nor out but that he wants to protect him and kerry it shows that he had the same hopes that john did that he could save him and highlights how much hal had grown after opening himself up to kerry the halogram was convinced that john needed to kill noah but the real hal thought he could have a chance he finally had something to lose and wanted to hold on to that well so i want to quickly point out how how hard questions if there are more man hunters in rushville now putting on our theory time cap it goes back to kerry's mention of kids going to satellite camp this good hint that there's more man hunter babies around and the satellite camps could be how they learn about their programming which i think is pretty out there considering that kerry tried to hide the truth from noah but it is worth considering who's to say that zoey wasn't just giving everyone babies in rushville that wanted one i think this would have been a pretty easy way to immediately have someone in your depth of life while also building a man hunter army to one day take revenge on the audience and maybe that's why their football team is so good we're cracked it now they carry headshot hal and fade back to present day john questions why kerry would call him back out to rushville after she killed him knowing that he was the only person who could solve the murder kerry explains though how she came to rushville to escape a monster but needed to know if she was raising one herself this shows that she wanted john to uncover the truth and hopefully see that noah isn't a bad kid she needed john's outside perspective to see and know out what she couldn't see herself how about i feel like her admitting that noah could be a monster also shows how she secretly helped john would be able to do what she couldn't and if noah was too far gone john would stop him like he stopped zoey john just shows kerry though that no one's to be good he tells her how he had a ring and lantern but gave it up and it is something that john had to do himself he was admitted john that he killed hal in order to protect his mum and this is something that john says isn't programming but is in fact love john then drops the bomb on kerry about how noah asked john to kill him because he was scared of what he might become he then shows that he's not going to do it and says the fact that noah is afraid of what he might do shows that with the right guidance he could be the good person that carries them to be fear is something keeping him safe and also a powerful tool instead of something bad throughout john's life he was raised to never be afraid of anything but if you're not afraid you don't question things and thus you do need fear to basically guide you throughout life that is something that noah of course has and i think it's such a poignant way for him to reflect how bad john's parents parenting was those reflects john's own experience with questioning who he really was who he likes later in life that he had the power to choose for himself who is going to be which is why he ultimately turned down the ring back in episode five he decided to take control of his own destiny and not the one thrust upon him by the guardians or his parents parallel how noah also turned down the ring and showed john that he could choose his own path how that kerry asked what happens if noah eventually gives into his programming and john says that if it happens then the world is going to need someone to stop him which foreshadows some things later on kerry then promises john shall turn herself in after the game but john tells her that's not what how i would have wanted he then grabs a lantern and leaves kerry to deal with her guilt we then see her go back to the moment after she shot how while she cried over his body and then touched his shoulder we then come back to carry the football game and she wipes her tears away and watches noah throughout the game winning touchdown this then shows how she's letting go of her guilt and looking towards the future with her son we then see john walking through the streets of rush ville and passing by the diner now this has been a pretty important location throughout the series it's served as a meeting place for pretty much everyone in the show and it's where Zoe would keep tabs on who was coming in and out the town this is also the last place that john saw how alive how that now we see that no one is watching over rush ville and if all shout out john will be the one to fill that role we then see john light up guys lantern signal and he's surprisingly shows up right away tells john that the light is only for emergencies and notices the dick that someone spray painted on it which we noticed a well a couple episodes back we had a great stretch spot at all time but this symbolizes how guy godnet is also a dick that is fucking subtext how that guy also notices that john's wearing haltering which john says isn't hal but his he tells guy that he tricked him so he could solve halter murder because he obviously didn't give a shit guy that asks john what happened and says if hal died a hero he then calls him an idiot for thinking he can use a dead ring and then notices the lantern on the ground behind him guy says that's an unsenction lantern but john steps to him and challenges him to take it from him we then see guy totally bitch out which is surprising because if we go back to Superman we saw how guy it was pretty much ready to throw hands with clock how that could show that guy knows john is a better lantern than he is guy than asks john why he called him and john gives him a message for the audience although a guy tries to defend himself saying he's not an errand boy but john says that he is and that's why they chose him in the first place they wanted someone who would do anything they said and anyone who questioned them be it the man hunter s and estro hal or john they were all brushed to the side john and tells guy that while he's the lantern for sector 2814 from now on he's going to protect earth that will be without the guardians of court as well and while guy can take the glory and space he will take the dirt of earth and that's also why the episodes title is the stars and the dirt how that guy says john is crazy if he thinks he's going to just take his beat and that there's a chain of command but john says that he's breaking it calls back to how in the beginning of the series john always followed the chain of command how that he learned from hal that sometimes you have to go outside the lines of order in order to do what's right as he knows the guardians will always look out for themselves guy says the guardians won't buy any of this bullshit and will send an army of landers after him but john tells guy that if they have anything to say about it for him to tell them that if they search their hearts they'll find it in themselves to let john beat this of course refers to the man hunters crystallized heart they gave to leanna and how he could expose them a stake of letting the man hunter get away which completely goes over guys head and john has to clarify to him that this is the code john also tells guy to lose the gold tooth because he looks like a fucking idiot and guys shows him that this isn't over before flipping him off he flies away as guy flies off the hologram finally comes back saying what did you said guys john asks him where the hell he's been but the hologram says that john didn't need him he reminds john that he manifested him from his own subconsciousness and shows how deep down john knew that what he was doing was right and that he no longer needed the guidance of the guardians how or his parents only his own the hologram then reveals that while he was letting john take the wheel he still hid everything that happened he does want john though that he's taking a massive risk and that no one could one day become president but john he shares in that he understands he then asks how what he would do and the hologram says that his gut tells him that john will be better at the job than he ever was and that he's ready he also says that the ring looks good on john because he has little fingers like a girl oh how you rascal but it's such a great moment bringing john and house relationship full circle how and finally gives john the validation he's been searching for and that this is the path he was always meant for john finally finds a balance between who he is and who he's and how and how is john that he needs to charge the ring and gives him one last piece of advice he tells him to not be afraid of being afraid which is something that we've talked a lot about throughout the show true feellessness comes from being able to overcome beer not from never feeling it at all so john never knowing what it was to be afraid that prevented him from ever learning how to overcome it this resulted in john developing a fear of being afraid it's something he could never identify in himself because he never learned what fear was this is what caused the internal conflict that we've seen john struggling with since turning down the ring and we theorized this would be the final lesson that john would need to learn from how and bam that's another theory time confirmed right in the kiss up while john is finally able to accept his destiny he feels like the green light note that just doesn't really fit him but hollagram says fuck it make up your own they are kind of just flying by the seat of their pants at this point as john goes to charge the ring holland stops him to ask about kerry he says that he could out while john was talking to her and wanted to know what his last words were john and tells him it was i love you and holl says i love you too jr who and mate that that fucked me up a bit of that but it felt like the perfect final words of not only holl but also the hollagram holl had never said anything nice to anyone ever but this showed who he was in his final moments now truly flying solo we see john's not charging his ring and cut forward a bit to find him back at holl's vault in the storage unit he put something inside before closing it up and then heading over to the diner here he gives maggie her fat stack of cash along with an outreading i'm still sorry this calls back to when he first said to maggie when she was a little kid and shows he didn't forget it even though he pretended to symbolize is how john has finally stopped running from his past and has taken responsibility instead of placing all the blame on holland shows he's accepted the consequences of his pawn the rush of attack and gives both him a maggie some closure and the ability to move forward plus she got two watches out of him so yeah she really made good on the blackmail she's probably like the richest person in rushville now but she's she's the man hunter then see john returning to his parents house where everyone's waiting for him john walks into embrace them hooks his dad and then his brother aran this is before holding his mum who then starts to cry as he's finally able to breathe as john has found his way back home goes back to the balance that john needed to find between the two parts of himself john now no longer needs a distance himself from them as he's finally learned to overcome his fear of disappointing them we can also see the stewards have inherited earl so i guess that he did make it out the fire we then go back to john charging the ring as he says his own earth and in this he says in brightest day in darkest night i'll embrace my fear i'll do what's right i choose this ring i choose this fight in service to this lantern this sums up his entire journey and how he's embraced his fear chosen this ring and chosen this fight in order to serve the values he believes the lantern should have we see the ring glowing with the green energy of the lantern as john then looks up and takes flight he's also put a symbol hanging in the sky and we then cut it the credits and yet he finally did it john has finally learned how to fly which has obviously been a recurring theme throughout the series this was the first thing that halson woken moleson but john wasn't able to get off the ground seen him parachuting seen him falling to go meet the guardians it's just been a recurring theme of him falling but now he's finally taking to the air john has learned to identify fear in himself and embrace it and he's truly become fearless and is able to finally take flight and claim his place as the earth's rightful green lantern and i thought this was an excellent way to bring john's characterful circle and end up the series have that before we call it a wrap on the season there's still a couple of things the show leaves open that we need to discuss is the halogram really gone paul will no let take over the world is cenestro still trapped on the fear planet those kind of questions so as far as the halogram goes i don't think he's gone whilst in estro claim that john charging the ring would mean the end of him we can't trust anything that guy says he was a manifested hell from his consciousness and therefore i think he could return if we go back to john's bird construct in episode two we know that john is able to create constructs from his own consciousness without using the ring hally been told him he was able to bring the boat alive because it must have meant something to him this whole episode is basically john realizing just how much hally really meant to him and that he still had more to teach him so regardless if the halogram is still in the ring john will most likely be able to bring hally back just with his own willpower john having his own ring and lantern could also be taking inspiration from the comics where in green lantern war journal johnny charged a dead lanterns ring by activating it with genesis energy and powering it with his own will this is something i think we could see some of john and his new ring whenever we see him next this was also the ring that john used to create the first fleece and construct by bringing his sister back to light she was able to exist completely independent of john's control and i think that is something that they could end up doing with hal but yeah this is also the perfect way that the show could bring hal back to light permanently it all kind of builds up what john did with the bird and sinesse were revealing there is a way to bring hal back to life and this then leads to our next topic which is what the hell is that guys deal so back to the beginning of this episode and sinesse strae admitted that he used a bureau everyone who died in the planet to power this new lantern john recognized that the streets of the lantern came from whatever was in the water which we did theorize could be some form of parallax so if that turns out to be true sinesse could have trapped parallax in this new lantern this could be similar to how the guardians trapped him in the central power battery billions of years ago in the comics john charging the ring could open the door for its escape and it may even take john as its host this could build off how how it was possessed by parallax in the comics and after slowly corrupting him biers it fully took over him and hal became a villain this could also lead to sinesse being able to escape the fear planet as we know he has a forge capable of creating a lantern and presumably ring two this means that he could make himself a new yellow ring in battery he could use the fear he imbued into john's battery to act as a central power battery for his new lantern this could then power his ring and allowing to escape this connection with john's lantern could also allow sinesse to infiltrate john's mind to like he did in the comics this is something that we've talked about and it could already be happening with john hearing some mysterious on last week as they opened the portal leading to sinesse so they think the show could also end up by having john at the line i'll embrace my fear as part of the oath going forward i would be shocked if sinesse isn't the main threat that john will face and we could see some version of this the next time we see him this would also give them the perfect opportunity to bring hal back as he's the only one who knows how sinesse operates and he can help john take him down and it's also the small mystery of what john put in hal's while in rushville i'm assuming this is probably the portal again and it's essentially making sure that he can never use it to escape even if he somehow manages to get past the fla that makes you go insane we also know with the vault that no one except how we'll be able to open it not even know what i'm speaking of no what the hell is going to happen to him honestly i don't know i also don't really have a good theory but i stand by the golden rule never trust a robot so it is something i've gone back and forth on and i am kind of wondering if he will break bad at some point as much as i'd like to believe that he and kerry will just go on living happy lives in rushville you know if the guardians find out about him or someone else starts to suspect things there are certain things that could happen that could mean he has to fight for his own survival i also think that the show leaves a lot of things open ended to have his question if things are really over in rushville like what the hell happened with the rest of zoe's tech while john may have taken his fall away we also know that no one still has access to her healing cocoon plus we have no idea what happened to her satellite lasers or to the fake hector hammond who designed them who seemingly is often the wind so it's more than possible that no one has access to some of this tech and most likely knows where hammond is this episode also dropped the idea on us that there may even be more manhunter babies in rushville to me there is no way that if zoe used the same trick she did with kerry on the other women in rushville like being like i need you to give something up i don't know why the same thing wouldn't have happened she made deals with pretty much everyone in town and yeah i do think that there could be other ones out there plus there's also the question of what the guardians are going to do while i think they might honor john's deal there's no way they don't have something up their sleeves to answer the betrayal so yeah lots of things that could happen down the line and i have to say actually really enjoyed this final episode i felt like it tied up everything quite nicely and i absolutely loved everything involving john and how they developed his character throughout the series it's nice seeing him finally come full circle and take his rightful places at screen latin because god damn did you have to work for it i also thought the latest stuff with how and revealing the deeper parts of his character was phenomenal although i didn't really like the start of the season i felt this was the perfect setup and slow burn but i think i'll probably enjoy a lot more in a second watch they show the parallels and contrast between him and john and explored what it means to be fearless plus cald john lat was just awesome and made everyone with how even if he wasn't a kid so i wouldn't worry too much about how coming back as i'm sure they will want to bring him back in some form or another if you guys have been following the channel as well then you'll know that i haven't exactly been too hot on the dcu how about this is made these two actually my two most anticipated characters to see again and i'd say it's yeah it's my favorite project so far on the run and coming into it especially for that episode one i did not think that was going to be the case but that brings us to the end 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