There's Hail In Rushville, Nebraska

Lanterns has arrived in the DCU, and apparently somebody decided the best way to bring the Green Lantern Corps back to live action was True Detective with power rings.Dan and Adrian dig into the premiere of HBO’s Lanterns, the strange state of DCU continuity, and the decidedly unhappy partnership between veteran Green Lantern Hal Jordan and would-be replacement John Stewart.Why does John’s father have such an absolutely bananas method of teaching his son not to be afraid? Is Hal training John, tormenting him, or both? Why does Hal seem happier without the ring than with it? What exactly happened in Nebraska? How much should we trust what the show has already shown us?And perhaps most importantly:Did we actually see what we think we saw?Along the way, the Con Men wander through Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Creature Commandos, the increasingly fuzzy borders of DCU canon, Guy Gardner, Sinestro, Parallax, streaming-era attention spans, the lost art of waiting a week for television. Bonus Round: the childhood trauma of spending an entire summer wondering what happened to Locutus of Borg.SPOILER WARNINGThis episode contains extensive spoilers for the premiere of Lanterns. Watch first, then come back for some real down-home spoilers.