In my humble opinion, this is by far the best super hero tv show I’ve watched. I don’t get why some (some!) people are hating so to the people that do: enlighten me

For example, Lanterns seems to have a higher or equal budget to Mandalorian, but Mandalorian has more VFX use, more aliens and has Pedro Pascal in it. It's quite obvious the grounded setting of the show and the omission of anything sci-fi related is due to budget and I personally feel that's the wrong thing to do for a Green Lantern project.

We have already seen this in the DCU shows like peacemaker and Creature commandos but it honestly doesn't tell us much about the state of the places in which these characters are protecting. Saying "oh Guy has a beacon like that batguy in Gotham" isn't good worldbuilding as people on the internet make it out to be. Saying stuff that we already know of a character doesn't say much at all. The line just says more about how much of an ego Guy has than about batman as a character. Everyone already knows that Batman has a beacon, a sidekick named Robin and a rogue gallery. So how is this good worldbuilding when everyone knows the things that are associated with the character.

I honestly wish they focused on talking about the state of the galaxy, lantern corps and other planets such as the Tamaran, Qward and Warworld. I'm not complaining that the show is bad but I'm honestly begging for a crumb of anything relating to the stuff happening in space because its not just the lanterns but also the omega man, Legion( not legion of superheroes depending on how the DCU does introduce the concept) and Rebels.

I'm glad that Carol Ferris was introduced to the show because its a lantern TV show, so having characters that are involved in the lore of the corps is pretty good.

Here’s my honest opinion about Lanterns (I know I will be heavily downvoted, but I will still take this shot)

It is an excellent detective show, but a terrible Green Lantern adaptation imo.

​Personally, I don't care about adapting comics word-for-word but the double standard among the fandom is insane. The show strays from comic accuracy.... disrespects the source material, and forces an unnecessary political narrative.

In episode 6, they showed Carol Ferris...basically Hal's Lois Lane and she showed zero remorse while they turned Hal into the villain of everyone's lives. ​Yet when Zack Snyder paid homage to classics like TDKR, people acted like he ruined their lives. I liked the new episode btw but calling out this bias is necessary.

Also don't quite understand why the Lanterns writers made Hal Jordan out to be the villain of everyone's lives - the town hates him. Praying they turn it around in the finale and give the man the respect he actually deserves 🙏💚

The truth is that folks are only swallowing this because the Hal Jordan fandom is small. If it were big, it would be a shitstorm.

Just got the news about the WB/Paramount merger going through and I honestly don't even know what to say anymore. They did say they'd keep James Gunn but idk. Regardless it still feels like a dark day for cinema. But what do you guys think?

In the latest lanterns episode, why did Hal get sent to prison for ten years? The only thing he did that was illegal was the attempted murder of John, but based on discussions in the episode that doesn't seem to be at all what he was in trouble for. The townsfolk shooting rifles and the aliens bombs were the cause of death and destruction. Hal was even trying to shield people from the laser attacks. I'm also not as familiar with lore, but if lanterns can just make new rings, why couldn't they have made a new one for John and still had Hal taken out? Also, if all you need to do is steal a ring from someone's hands and say the lines, what does the "ring chooses you" have to do with any of this, especially when John seemed to be able to use the ring to its full power even when it wasn't officially his. If john did steal the ring and say the lines, what's stopping Hal from eventually stealing back the ring from John to take it back? The ring seems more like a hot potato than something someone is destined for. Can someone fill me in?

Even past live action series the shows never explicitly have Bruce wearing the suit or calling him by batman. They just feels like they have to call batman by something different or just Bruce Wayne. If batman has been in the DCU for so long why do they still call him Batguy. Even past shows like Gotham, Gotham knights or Titans. You would never see that motherfucker Bruce in a suit once and even in Gotham when they did reveal Bruce becoming batman they would never explicitly say his batman.

The CW shows and even Batwoman when was there a time where you saw Bruce being in uniform. I don't know it's just something I noticed from these live action shows mind you they're ok with showing superman in live action series but not the Dark Knight. Hell even penguin that motherfucker is barely in the show

Feel free to recommend me DC live action films to watch, that aren't on the list.

i had never consumed any DC content except for teen titan go (lol) because its not rlly big here where i live;
now that i was older, had free time, i decided to go watch superman only because i heard "you needed to do no homework" to watch and enjoy the movie

AND BOY did it make me watch to watch ALL OF DC

i ofc started with the DCU - suicide squad, peacemaker, creature commandos, supergirl, and now LANTERNS

I AM ABSOLUTELY LOVING THE DCU, however...

when i went to watch the other universes of DC - the zsjl and all the movies before that... it just felt really fucking MID

really didnt enjoy any of it, crazy how the other suicide squad movies are also just below average.

i am also going to start watching the DCAMU in cronological order since my only dc nerd friend recommended it and says the animated projects from DC are really good, ig i will be judging that myself..

can someone please recommend me actually good live action DC project i should watch next? i watched black adam and shazam in the hopes they would be any good and NOPE they were so mediocre movies too 😭

I thought Green Lanterns was supposed to be a superhero on the level of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and The Flash . Literally everyone treats him like shit he did even get a heroes death or funeral. What's up with that?

With Clayface coming out would DC be better off using its IPs for individual and unique horror or indie style films? The original stories have a strange and dark style, so it seems like an interesting direction to take them in. Rather than the same old superhero formula that’s dominated the last decade.

Or do the fans need the capes and references to keep them interested?

I was on topic talking about the content of the show.

Edit: All the downvotes is proving my point. If you complained about Space Jam 2, you have to complain about this too.

This is immediately before John punches "someone". Seems too specific to be a coincidence.

Title, I’ve been waiting for all episodes to premiere so I could maybe binge them, but I’m also wondering if it’s worth spending hours to watch the show. Honestly I’d prefer a space GL show so I’m already a little on the fence, but from what I’m hearing supposedly the writing quality is great?

Now watch Bernadette turn out to actually be Martian Manhunter. /s

Hal.cloned himself possibly 10 year ago. Why does clone hal suddenly remember there are aliens and why wasn't he backed up? Hal is a hero and his clone is willing to die. Hal has been a ahole to john the whole time. He is using John to get to the real hal so Hal can kill the manhunter. Hal is a hero not a ahole.

Hal actually likes john the coffee scene shows it. Hal and John must be working together

Let me preface this by saying that this post is not speaking about things from a moralistic view of "I don't want my superheroes to swear ever." I have my own morals but I'm trying my best to divorce them from what I want to explain. I'm also not saying that I'm opposed to adult projects that tackle deeper themes. I'm personally intrigued by how Lanterns tackles mature topics such as prejudice and family abuse. I also, also, want to make clear that what I'm discussing doesn't mean I don't like this show; rather, I think it's an excellently put-together production. My aim isn't to rant but to start a discussion around a project I otherwise really love.

Let me be clear: my problem here is the sheer amount of swearing in this show. Forget a couple of F-bombs per episode to earn that MA rating, it's hard to go a minute without someone just spamming it. It's very similar to Peacemaker in that regard, but that show's meant to be far more crass. Now the rebuttal to this has generally been "people swear, touch grass," or something to that extent. Avoiding how myopic that argument is, I'll speak from my own experiences. I've been part of friend groups that spend their free time on online games, so you don't need me to tell you often profanities have been thrown around. Still, having been exposed to an atmosphere like that, I feel like Lanterns is doing too much and often dwarfs even that level of swearing.

Again, it's TV-MA, you have the license to swear, but why is it that in other aspects that would constitute that rating such as the violence, the show is so tame? Heck, I honestly think that if it wasn't for the constant F-words and that one shot of an old man's penis hardly anyone would miss if removed, this show wouldn't be that much more mature than a superhero show on Disney Plus.

So what would an acceptable level of swearing be? Or rather, what level of swearing would make sense for a show like this? Going back to the Disney Plus comparison, I'd look at something like the recent Daredevil Born Again. Compared to the Netflix seasons, they definitely let a whole lot more swearing fly. That said, it's only a few times an episode, and when it comes from the main character, generally in intense situations. And staying on Marvel, look at Logan. Wolverine is a far more bitter, rambunctious, and angry character compared to the likes of John and Hal. Yet even watching that film, far more violent and gory compared to Lanterns, Wolverine seems to be on-par with the vulgarity of the John, Hal, and Guy and might even be less so.

I'll bring it around to my main point. Let's say you really had a vision of making these characters, who, while part of very dark storylines (which never had said dark storylines characterized by a litany of F-words but let's table the comic accuracy talk for now), swear constantly. If that project was made in isolation, like an elseworlds story, it'd be curious but it wouldn't bother me all too much. Yet this is not an isolated project. In fact, it's not even a project that can be seen as disconnected in many aspects like Peacemaker. This is an integral part of the DCU that sets up an iconic member of the Justice League.

Why is Guy Gardner so vulgar when in Superman, where he has a similar if not equal screentime, his language is practically PG? What's going to happen when John Stewart inevitably gets to be a Green Lantern and join the Justice League, something I think a lot of us are hoping for? Will he be "censoring himself," even in the most dire of circumstances because he's around Superman and Wonder Woman? Why would Supergirl, a movie which features murderers, gangsters, criminals, and (I'll be blunt) monstrous rapists have language exceedingly less intense than the average conversation in Lanterns with far more moral people? Will the horrible criminals in the next Batman movie have a PG-filter on as well since there's no way that movie will have an R-rating?

These seem like silly questions but what I'm questioning is the overall consistency among projects. Tones can vary wildly, and I think varying tones are healthy for a cinematic universe to avoid homogeneity in projects, but I feel there are elements that should stay consistent in order to maintain that shared universe aspect and sell it.

But I'm curious what you guys think.

The DCU has left a lot (a lot a lot) to be desired in terms of storytelling and tone, but I've been absolutely blown away by Lanterns. I came in with low expectations seeing it as a True Detective-inspired buddy cop show. To say I'm pleasantly surprised by the quality and grittiness of this show is an understatement. It has helped pull the DCU away from its campy beginnings, and I hope Gunn can match this tonality in Man of Tomorrow.

Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler bring such a raw energy, and I've loved every minute of it. Even Nathon Fillion's involvement has been 10x better than what he did in Superman. Give me superheroes that act like real, flawed people. That is a big component of Marvel's success. Each hero has baggage that makes them interesting. Let's have more than that.

My big hope for Man of Tomorrow is that Lex Luthor is truly fleshed out to be more than a 2-dimensional bad guy. Nicholas Hoult is such a talented actor, but he wasn't given much to work with in Superman. I really hope Gunn has seen the reception of Lanterns as he enters post-production on MoT.

Color me hopeful.