Summary: a bunch of hacks who haven’t made anything mainstream audiences watched and liked since Lost, meet up with a group of race-baiters and this is their shared union.
This show hates white people, if you’re white know that the writers room hates you and thinks you’re the issue with society. You cannot seemingly have a line of dialogue without someone bringing up racism and how bad white people are and how they are the root of society’s evils.
Even when you have characters like John’s parents who are warped and evil, and seriously abuse him as a child this is not couched through the lens of they are bad, but rather how the white man has made them so. It is victim compex 101.
Nowhere is this hated more clear than in the character assassination of Hal Jordan, whom they have admitted to making display racist tendencies and who they make into the biggest scum bag in the galaxy, doesn’t matter if he’s a beloved DC hero. One minute he’s incompetent and the next he’s outright evil, but hey they right the wrong by killing him off. The shock death in the first episode is so obvious and so obviously done to get attention the events of the series don’t change this.
There is also a question about why all the female characters are old and oftentimes ugly, most likely this was a choice as well. Why would the Lanterns have a woman of Laura Linny’s age as a member surely she would be retired. It’s ridiculous.
The show is doing so well there has not been a season 2 announcement yet other than to say they have formed a writers room in advance of a renewal. That renewal will not be coming.
0/5
Pros.
None
Cons.
It’s hateful and probably should be removed from streaming services as it incites hatred against white people.
It destroys Hal as a character
The padding
The series barely spends any time in space or with the characters in costume
Its loathsome
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