Oooo I'm gonna try to watch the finale tomorrow night, will try to return with thoughts after! Edit: I watched it! I liked it a lot. I agree with @286437714 (yes i did have to copy/paste...
Oooo I'm gonna try to watch the finale tomorrow night, will try to return with thoughts after!
Edit: I watched it!
I liked it a lot. I agree with @286437714 (yes i did have to copy/paste this)'s/Tom King's analysis, and I agree that that's what was fun/satisfying (in addition to Guy Gardner getting treated like... well, Guy Gardner).
I also agree with @tomf and @cloud_loud, though, that the actual pacing was front-loaded and the back half of the series felt like a 3-episode denouement, which was a little disappointed. The first half of the series was great and engaging — I honestly feel like the issue was that the second half needed to be longer, so that they could add some more interesting plot points to it.
I would not have said no to more Green Lantern-ing. I feel like the most disappointing thing with (powered) super hero TV shows is that (good) CGI is still so incredibly expensive that the shows end up contriving their way out of actually having powered heroes use their powers. They very clearly just had everyone on wires for the flight scenes (which I did find a little distracting, honestly), and I think there were like... 7 constructs in the whole season? On screen for a total of maybe 25 minutes, some 20 of which were Jon's bird (which was super cool!). This is why Daredevil/The Defenders was such a good idea for TV — way less CGI if your powers are just "I am strong/good at fighting" (though they did a great job of using CGI effectively when they needed it, as well).
Made a post about it in the weekly, since it's a season finale of a substantially well followed show, I thought it should have its own thread. From the TV Tuesday post I really liked that it...
Made a post about it in the weekly, since it's a season finale of a substantially well followed show, I thought it should have its own thread.
From the TV Tuesday post
I really liked that it didn't pander to Reddit and introduce Parallax or the Yellow Lanterns in the eleventh hour, and just asked a whole lot of questions about morality, duty and the nature of fear, and it's final battle was a conversation in a car. There's some logistical stuff about who knew what that confused me but I liked it a whole lot more than I didn't.
I liked it, but when they said 'DC meets True Detective, they should have specified that they meant Night Country and not the good stuff. The season was pretty good overall. I wish the pace and...
I liked it, but when they said 'DC meets True Detective, they should have specified that they meant Night Country and not the good stuff.
The season was pretty good overall. I wish the pace and story had been shuffled around a bit. The pacing was odd.
its a shame. I didn't expect much from it, but once they got going there was a decent story to tell... but they just didn't do it as well as Peacemaker or Doom Patrol. Aaron Pierre is fine... but...
its a shame. I didn't expect much from it, but once they got going there was a decent story to tell... but they just didn't do it as well as Peacemaker or Doom Patrol.
Aaron Pierre is fine... but Kyle Chandler is what I wanted full time.
I roared with laughter at Chandler's performance. That doesn't really happen in my case with the rest of the superhero genre. The second part of the season was lukewarm. I realized I was...
I roared with laughter at Chandler's performance. That doesn't really happen in my case with the rest of the superhero genre. The second part of the season was lukewarm. I realized I was unconsciously waiting for Kyle to show up more, but then he rarely did. There is something magnetizingly vulnerable in his Hal Jordan.
I never would have picked him for anything superhero related, but he's perfect for this. Its a shame they kind of wasted him. The replacement is so bland in comparison.
I never would have picked him for anything superhero related, but he's perfect for this. Its a shame they kind of wasted him. The replacement is so bland in comparison.
Oooo I'm gonna try to watch the finale tomorrow night, will try to return with thoughts after!
Edit: I watched it!
I liked it a lot. I agree with @286437714 (yes i did have to copy/paste this)'s/Tom King's analysis, and I agree that that's what was fun/satisfying (in addition to Guy Gardner getting treated like... well, Guy Gardner).
I also agree with @tomf and @cloud_loud, though, that the actual pacing was front-loaded and the back half of the series felt like a 3-episode denouement, which was a little disappointed. The first half of the series was great and engaging — I honestly feel like the issue was that the second half needed to be longer, so that they could add some more interesting plot points to it.
I would not have said no to more Green Lantern-ing. I feel like the most disappointing thing with (powered) super hero TV shows is that (good) CGI is still so incredibly expensive that the shows end up contriving their way out of actually having powered heroes use their powers. They very clearly just had everyone on wires for the flight scenes (which I did find a little distracting, honestly), and I think there were like... 7 constructs in the whole season? On screen for a total of maybe 25 minutes, some 20 of which were Jon's bird (which was super cool!). This is why Daredevil/The Defenders was such a good idea for TV — way less CGI if your powers are just "I am strong/good at fighting" (though they did a great job of using CGI effectively when they needed it, as well).
I would have preferred if this was a theatrical movie with the intended budget for the VFX for sure
Made a post about it in the weekly, since it's a season finale of a substantially well followed show, I thought it should have its own thread.
From the TV Tuesday post
I really liked that it didn't pander to Reddit and introduce Parallax or the Yellow Lanterns in the eleventh hour, and just asked a whole lot of questions about morality, duty and the nature of fear, and it's final battle was a conversation in a car. There's some logistical stuff about who knew what that confused me but I liked it a whole lot more than I didn't.
I liked it, but when they said 'DC meets True Detective, they should have specified that they meant Night Country and not the good stuff.
The season was pretty good overall. I wish the pace and story had been shuffled around a bit. The pacing was odd.
It was front-loaded. The first half was well paced and the second half was so slow.
its a shame. I didn't expect much from it, but once they got going there was a decent story to tell... but they just didn't do it as well as Peacemaker or Doom Patrol.
Aaron Pierre is fine... but Kyle Chandler is what I wanted full time.
I roared with laughter at Chandler's performance. That doesn't really happen in my case with the rest of the superhero genre. The second part of the season was lukewarm. I realized I was unconsciously waiting for Kyle to show up more, but then he rarely did. There is something magnetizingly vulnerable in his Hal Jordan.
I never would have picked him for anything superhero related, but he's perfect for this. Its a shame they kind of wasted him. The replacement is so bland in comparison.