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title: 'LANTERNS EPISODE 1 BREAKDOWN! Easter Eggs & Details You Missed!'
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# LANTERNS EPISODE 1 BREAKDOWN! Easter Eggs & Details You Missed!

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## Summary

This video provides a detailed scene-by-scene breakdown of the first episode of HBO's 'Lanterns,' highlighting hidden details, DC Easter eggs, and narrative clues. The creator analyzes the show's complex timeline, character origins, and thematic elements, offering theories about the central mystery of Hal Jordan's death.

### Key Points

- **Introduction and Creative Team** [00:01] — The video is a breakdown of DC Studios' 'Lanterns' episode 1, written by Damon Lindelof, Chris Mundy, and Tom King. The creator promises to analyze the episode scene by scene for missed details and Easter eggs.
- **The 10-Year Time Increment** [01:06] — The episode establishes a pattern of events occurring every 10 years: 1986 (Hal inherits the ring), 1996 (Hal goes public), 2006 (Hal backs up his consciousness), 2016 (the main mystery), and 2026 (Hal's death).
- **Character Origins: Hal Jordan and John Stewart** [02:10] — Hal Jordan is the second Green Lantern in DC Comics, created in 1959, while John Stewart is the fourth, introduced in 1971. The show incorporates John's marine background from the New 52 comics and his idolization of Hal.
- **Hal's Public Debut and 60 Minutes Profile** [03:30] — The 60 Minutes profile reveals Hal stopped a meteor from devastating Victoria Falls, showing his desire to protect Earth's natural wonders. The broadcast also establishes that Hal is Earth's first Green Lantern, part of a larger intergalactic corps.
- **John Stewart's Father and Fear Conditioning** [05:06] — John's father, a Marine, uses a William Tell exercise with an apple on John's head to condition him to suppress fear. This is presented as a form of psychological abuse, but the creator theorizes it may be part of the Guardians' plan to prepare John for the ring.
- **Coast City and Filming Locations** [07:07] — The scene transitions to 2016, showing John in a boxing gym in Coast City, Hal's hometown. The production was filmed in Los Angeles, with digital alterations to make it look like a generic city in the DCU.
- **The Ring Chooses Its Successor** [08:44] — Hal demonstrates that the ring chooses its successor when ready, performing a risky maneuver to test John's willpower. John successfully catches the ring, proving his worthiness.
- **The 2006 Hologram and Rushville Warning** [10:07] — A digital backup of Hal from 2006 appears, warning John of 'hail in Rushville.' This suggests Hal knew about a specific mystery in Rushville as far back as 2006, which remains unresolved.
- **The Crime Scene in Rushville** [12:35] — Sheriff Carrie Kane shows Hal a mass shooting scene with no grieving family or friends, indicating something is off. The victims are from a visiting football team, and the scene suggests a possible alien involvement.
- **The Alien Suspect and the Bar Fight** [16:06] — Hal and John interrogate a suspect, Wayan, who is later revealed to be an alien. Hal uses a bar fight as a distraction to get John to talk to Zoe, who is secretly listening to their conversation.
- **Hal's Origin Story and Abin Sur** [18:13] — Hal recounts how he received the ring from Abin Sur, an alien who crash-landed in Nebraska. Abin Sur's last words, 'two words,' are hinted to be significant, possibly a clue to the larger mystery.
- **The Min Family and Their Militia** [21:08] — The Min family, led by Will, are introduced as a wealthy, armed militia group preparing for an alien invasion. They are funded by an unknown organization, possibly Luther Corp, and have a complex relationship with the sheriff.
- **The Alien Turing Test** [26:30] — Hal and John use a series of pop culture and Nebraska trivia questions to test Wayan's authenticity as an alien. Wayan fails when he doesn't know where Harry Potter went to school, revealing his true nature.
- **Wayan's Confession and the Bomb Threat** [30:03] — Wayan reveals he has a biometric neutron device and is on a mission of vengeance. He taunts Hal by reciting the Green Lantern oath, and Hal manages to contain the explosion, but the blast still causes significant damage.
- **The 2026 Timeline and Hal's Death** [32:28] — The final scene jumps to 2026, where John finds Hal's corpse in the same spot on the bleachers. Hal has a projectile wound, and his ring is missing, setting up the central mystery of the series.
- **Theories: Who Killed Hal and Where is the Ring?** [34:44] — The creator theorizes that Hal is truly dead, the ring may have gone to Guy Gardner, and the 10-year cycle could be linked to the Manhunters and sector 666. He also suggests Zoe might be a disguised Manhunter.

### Conclusion

The video concludes that 'Lanterns' is a complex, character-driven mystery that rewards close viewing. The creator's theories, while speculative, highlight the show's intricate plotting and potential connections to the wider DC universe.

## Transcript

episode of HBO's Lanterns and I found every detail and clue that you missed. Boss and this is a breakdown of DC Studios Lanterns episode 1 written by three veteran TV writers and producers Damon Lindelof of Lost the Leftovers and
Watchmen, Chris Mundy of Ozark, and Tom King, the prolific DC comics writer. As a team-up murder mystery shared between how Jordan and his successor, John Stewart, this cosmic story gradually unfolding in Rushville, Nebraska over
several points in history has me fully seated and making me very nervous to So, I'm going to go through this episode scene by scene to break down this amazing pilot for the details you missed, the DC Easter eggs, and the fun
Thank you for your patience on this breakdown, but really getting an extra day to make this video allowed me to fully decode all of the mysteries and at New Rockstars with our weekly episodic coverage of shows is separate
out our theories that might accidentally spoil future plot points into a section a chance to opt out. And for lanterns, I'm going to call that section no theory shall escape my sight. The episode opens in 1996. A 60 minutes broadcast profiles
how Jordan Green Lantern Kyle Chandler watched by a young John Stewart. The host says, "10 years ago, no one on Earth was aware we were already under himself Green Lantern. So, right away with this opening exposition of the
series, we're establishing a 10-year time increment. 1986, how Jordan inherits the ring from Abendur after Aban crashes near Rushville, Nebraska. 1996, Howal is profiled by 60 Minutes, publicly revealing himself to the world
and to anyone else out there who might not like him. 2006, Howal backs up his consciousness or hologram in the ring to warn him if aliens ever return to Rushville. 2016, the main mystery of the series takes place in Rushville as
score some kind of vengeance. And in 2026, that mystery has apparently gone unresolved and Howal shows up dead in Rushville with his ring missing, not on Jon's hand either. So why every 10 years exactly? Well, I have a theory at the
King pitched this show as Green Lanterns as a true detective story, a buddy cop mystery that unfolds over multiple eras of time. The veteran cop rookie cop partnership here is between Hal Jordan, Kyle Chandler, and John Stewart, Aaron
known version of Green Lantern from DC Comics over the full history who bore the moniker throughout the silver age starting in 1959. Technically the second Green Lantern after Alan Scott in the 40s. Writer John Broom and artist Gil
Kaine based how Jordan on Paul Newman and gave him a backstory as a pilot who Lantern Corps. The Green Lantern Core being an intergalactic agency of heroes flight and manipulation of energy that can project shields, weapons, and other
Guardians of the Universe and includes other past and current lanterns like Nathan Fillian's Guy Gardner from Superman and Peacemaker season 2, and future episodes of the series by Oric Thompson. John Stewart was really the
fourth Green Lantern in DC Comics, originally introduced in 1971 as a substitute for Guy Gardner when Guy was injured. John's original partnership specifically focused on how his race intersected with being a superhero like
this HBO series does touch on. John Stewart became known as the mainstream when he stepped into the role in the Justice League animated series. But then in the New 52 comic relaunch in 2011, John Stewart was reconed as a marine who
he was a child. And that's something that this HBO series kind of brings in as well. This DC Studios continuity establishes that Jon grew up as a '9s kid in a military family, idolizing how Jordan's Green Lantern during this 60
that Howal made himself known to the world by stopping a meteor from devastating Victoria Falls. This would have been an interesting save. If she assuming she's referring to the stunning waterfall on the border between Zambia
might be tourists in that area, it's not exactly populated the way a small town would be. So, this tells us that Hal, in addition to saving people, also wants to protect Earth's natural wonders from cosmic threats. Or maybe something else
that we're going to learn more about. Now, we see that the Steuart household 1996 household is not a cable subscriber, but maybe getting their TV signals from space is how the Guardians first connect with a young John or his
living room. We see a DH Kyle Chandler in his Green Lantern suit, and he explains how Hal is an Air Force veteran and a former test pilot. The host says that Hal is Earth's first Green Lantern, establishing that part of Hal's opening
part of a legacy of lanterns, a full core of intergalactic space cops. Like this 60 Minutes host seems to already understand in 1996 that there is intelligent life off Earth. Now, it's still early in James Gun's DC universe,
but in Superman in the Hall of Justice was a mural that detailed the past includes some fantastical ones throughout the 20th century and even the that how Jordan's father was a test pilot who died in a plane crash when Hal
was just eight. I was trying to do a bit of age math of how old seems to be at crash film footage is in color and it happened when Hal was 8 years old. And he was certainly an established Air Force test pilot by the year 1986. So
I'm just going to assume that this crash happened in 1966 to stick with the every 10 years logic. Jon is unafraid of his dad coming home and stays locked in on the TV just so he can hear the virtue that made the ring choose Howal was his
afraid?" I mean, what would be scarier to a son than a parent like this coming that the parent established? But how says that every kid's worst fear is some privilege speaking there, or at least a kind of warped privilege of a
kid who lost a father young. For a lot of kids, there are far greater fears case, John's father's rule wasn't so much about watching TV, but rather broadcast about the Green Lantern. This Marine did not want his sons idolizing
this Air Force hot shot. I grew up as a Navy kid, so I can only speak to this so much, but there is a very real cultural divide when it comes to branches of the branches look at the Air Force as thinking that they're better than
know what punishment is coming. Seems the time, which is horrifying. Jon is the one who just has to grab the apple. It would be a further crime to do this to an Envy Gala or Honey Crisp, but Red
Delicious really do have it coming. John Senior does this William Tell exercise and asks his son, "Are you afraid?" And Junior doesn't flinch when John Senior the boy did flinch, he could have died. I mean, I guess the expert sniper skills
from his father. But there is something very weird about this moment because the burger. When I first saw this, I'm like, this is straight up abuse. It's not a He's torturing his sons and psychologically programming them in a
sadistic way that totally desensitizes Jon Jr. from feeling any fear. It's not steals himself to become worthy of the ring. Fear is an important evolutionary instinct that we need to survive. But I think that is the point. I think Jon
Senior is working with the Guardians to condition his son here. And we are meant transition to adult John Stewart in his boxing gym in 2016. Aaron Pierce showing job along with his incredible acting and his green eyes. I mean, this actor is
windows of this gym, we see this is Coast City. Coast City is a California city. That is Howal Jordan's hometown in the comics in the vicinity of Edward's Air Force Base in the DC Geography. Jon gets a phone alert to meet Hal, but by
the looks of it, Jon had no reason to rush because Hal is late. Rolling up Sunshine Band. Actually, later further down the road, it'll be a different owns up to being late, hinting to Jon to be more assertive in calling him out.
actually filmed in Los Angeles. James Gunn and Peter Saffron lobbyed to get Georgia to shoot in LA. And this shot right here is the first street vioideuct bridge with a view of downtown LA, but they digitally altered the iconic LA
to make it look like a more generic coast city in the DCU. Howal says that for the past 2 weeks, he was on far brokering a peace and he still hung over before. To be clear, there is no fair for that we know about so far in the DC
have been in training for 2 months at this point. So, the Guardians must have recently in this year of 2016. Howal bosses. So, the Guardians of the Universe, aka the Guardians of OA, are
and they administer this Green Lantern Corps from another planet. We are going this series, and we believe that to be Laura Linn's character, especially based off of the promo for the future episodes that HBO released. If the Green Lantern
on the successor's willpower, why did the Guardians intervene here to choose a time to train? That's another question that this series will answer that I'll end. How says that despite what the Guardians say, the ring chooses its
successor is ready and worthy. And he demonstrates this with this crazy maneuver to put this thing on the dashboard and rolls out of the car. And to diving out in what could be a deadly injury for him because he does not have
the ring with him when he rolls out. Similar to John Senior's Williamt Tell have killed him. How has no way of knowing whether Jon's fear is going to take over or his willpower will. But thankfully for Jon, it's the latter. He
think there was a clue earlier on in the scene if you were looking closely as Hal little mad about him being late, whether his yes sirs were actually [ __ ] you. Look at the reflection showing Jon's hands in the passenger side window. They
are fidgeting. He's stifling himself from talking back to his superior cuz he knows from Jon's hands that Jon isn't afraid of Hal. Jon wants to lash out at his superior and he's really exercising great willpower to restrain himself. So,
you look closely in that dust, you can see Jon in a little green burrito of about Howal, a teacher who nearly killed him, to the past mentor who kind of did who now explains that Hal is just trying to put him on tilt.
>> They're allowed to have tantrums. We're not. So, breathe in, button down, and >> I like this line because, yeah, black men like Jon and his father are expected more harshly if they were to ever crash out. of their white superiors are given
far more of a cart blah if they ever freak out. The ring lights up suddenly and out appears a digital backup of House consciousness recorded in 2006, 10 >> Am I dead? >> This episode foreshadows How's death in
surprising that it took until the year 2026 for him to actually croak. This 2006 Hall says that lanterns are supposed to back themselves up weekly for posterity sake in case something happens to them. But 2016 how never told
Jon this basic thing. And I like how Cal Chandler plays 2006 how to be less certain and more fidgety. I >> I haven't taught you how to fly in ever. >> He's kind of like a super nervous coach
tells us that there is a reason that Howal since the year 2006 has not during this time as he started to get grayer and crabier and less trusting, thing he considered this backup to be useful for was to warn him about the
hail in Rushville. This is the message that the 2006 hologram gives Jon to give >> There's hail in Rushville, Nebraska. >> So that tells us that as far back as 2006, there's a specific Rushville related mystery that Jon knows is going
going to need to set this reminder for. At the taco stand, Hal is mobbed by fans who misses Hal wearing the suit. Howal says that he still wears it on special occasions, but when the cook asks him, how compares a suit to wearing a tie
yourself at your job, but as you get older and wiser, you realize that kind mean, who knows? Maybe there's some other reason how isn't that crazy about Lantern Corps and doesn't want to wear this space cop uniform. The whole idea
of space cops disguising themselves in plain clothes and wearing masks was a HBO's Watchmen. And I think there's a similar theme running through this. Jon drops a message that 2006 hologram shared and suddenly we see how look more
hearing that his hologram even popped out at all changes his demeanor. So when he hears the hail in Rushville message, he immediately jets off breaking the montage of John Stewart being left behind to fly commercial, probably on
his own dime, and wait for a Herz rental car to drive out to rural Nebraska to production shot in Piru, California, up in the Santa Clara Valley, north of Los film and television production. The reason Hollywood is headquartered here
made to look like anything in the world. That goes for you, Marvel Studios. Stop shooting all your [ __ ] in the UK and in Spain. And I like how for many towns in on a Friday night would be from the local high school football field. We're
in settings like this from his time on Friday Night Lights. The local cop who Sheriff Department patch. Sheridan County is in northwestern Nebraska the same exact spot on the bleachers, eight rows down from the top, right
seated in the snow 10 years after this. Kelly McDonald plays Sheriff Carrie Kane. Her last name perhaps a reference to Bob Kane. We'll see. She tells how that his jurisdiction only covers extraterrestrial events, but he insists
observing that for a mass shooting, there are no crying friends or family is right. That is weird for this crime scene. So, that kind of explains the reason how was okay with Jon flying commercial was because Howal knew that
hours anyway to give enough time for any possible grieving loved ones any towns over to arrive to the scene. And since no one did arrive to grieve or ID these knows that something is up and can now move on it now that his backup is now
piece together that the home team scored the game-winning field goal based on the kicking block still on the field and the broken fence meaning fans rush the visiting bands, some of them carrying weapons that led to those visitors
truck drive by my house and it just rocketed me back to being a kid again. I had such an immediate nostalgia for a simpler time when my main concern was scraping enough loose change to be able to afford a bubble o bill or a chip
witch or really any ice cream. Then I got a slack notification and my complicated adult life intruded and it was hard not to feel a sense of loss. My therapist has been great at reminding me that sure, the idea of having nothing
more to worry about in life than your next ice cream cone sounds appealing, but the hard work I put in as an adult to shape my life is way more rewarding. And it gives me plenty of opportunity to just, you know, go get ice cream
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town of Kimble. Even for a big rivalry game in rural Nebraska, breaking down a fence to rush the field is a bit much. And I wonder if that initial push on the fence was actually done by one of the outsiders present to use this chaos to
kill the other side trying to kill them. Notice that we do see this man in the dark hat behind the kids when the fence goes down. Not sure if he's one of the those aliens are trying to kill to get vengeance for, but I think he's the one
discarded Kimble sweatshirt, meaning one still here on site, meaning that the whole rule of the loved ones grieving there. And this dude in a short sleeve shirt when all the other people on site
are wearing jackets and outerwear does make him stand out. Later, this guy, his named Whan, will say that Earth smells salty. And I wonder if his body just has Carrie says that she also clocked this awkward short sleeve redneck and just
wouldn't shoot up the field like all of his dead friends. So, in case there was Kimble sweatshirts were these visiting kind. As Whan the alien later confesses
they could get it and shot dead when the fans rush the field. This suspect runs reminds me of the opening act of Men in Black, where Agent Jay has to chase down the alien suspect in a foot chase. When the alien is disguised as a human, the
suspect runs right into John's fist. And when Carrie refuses to allow Howal to to hit up the local bar to use the ring to manifest a $20 bill and basically do and pepper diner prank. But with Melanie's 1971 brand new key, the music
at the top of Boogie Nights. Yeah, how Jordan really seems to have an affinity for 70s music from the disco era. Howal punches in 143 at least three times as I video. That is an old school text code for I love you. And I love that the
whole time Hal and Jon talk at the bar, Zoe is sitting right behind Jon out of beginning of the scene because we haven't met her character yet, but she is totally sitting there just in the background of the shot listening to the
entire conversation. Jon demands to know how Hal got his ring, saying that maybe Another line that points out the privilege disparity between these two men. Jon has had to jump through all of these hoops to prove himself, worked
kind of fell in his lap. Howal acknowledges this, that he is the And he senses that Jon thinks that Hal's ring origins connects to the Nebraska to investigate and decides, hey, okay, maybe I do need someone to
he was just a few years into being a test pilot, one night when he was drunk, himself in a green bubble and he felt a voice come from within him asking, "Are you afraid?" And on this, we cut again to Jon with Zoe in the background. She's
getting a full account of how Jordan's origin story. Remember that Howal said he was zipped hundreds of miles in a few seconds and dropped to a site in nearby crash landed, pink and bald, coughing up blood. But when Hal put on the ring, he
language. And the alien introduced himself as Aban sir and said that he was responsible for protecting the peace and sovereignty of sector 2814 and said two a book. I kind of a feeling that this is more than a joke and we're going to find
out that those two words actually meant something else. Now in the comics, while publishing history was Alan Scott, the Green Lantern of the Golden Age, that the whole Green Lantern core that's now considered the canonical backstory for
Green Lantern since. Abinsurer is considered the predecessor of how Jordan in the comics. He's an ungared species that came to patrol sector 2814 since the 1860s. Kind of seems like they really did want to get the sector 2814
detail accurate for this show. How says that Earth is way off-rid for the Guardians, a galactic backwater and did not intend on any lantern coming wanted a lantern ring going to a human. So from that, Hal has always assumed
that Abinsur's crash in Nebraska wasn't an accident, but was really part of an eventually come home to roost in this exact spot. Now, as John Melany explains second time the song plays, everyone assumes the song is just longer than
time it plays, and every oddnumbered time is when everyone gets on to you and is doing this to intentionally start a bar fight so that he can get he leaves his ring on the bar top to avoid him accidentally activating it and
like how earlier he had ordered three cocktails from the bar and now he downs the size of the good old boys, he downs a third. Like he ordered three drinks fight with him and now that he sees it's the biggest guys playing pool in the
to need that third drink. But only when Hal gets up to start the fight does the has been hearing this whole conversation, Zoe. To get Jon to further blab that he's Howal's space cop trainee and that they have bosses and that
lantern on Earth. The fact that Zoe is this deceptive, I don't trust her reaction to anything he's saying. I these questions she's asking. But meanwhile, I like how Jordan had only
And after the third time we hear it, the jukebox just changes to Leon Bridges far as John Melany did with what's new pussycat. He just did three back to back to back which is just enough to start a fight with these good old boys. Zoe lurs
definitely not wearing a wedding ring here. And even she called attention to the whole idea of wedding rings by joking that Howal's ring was like a proposal. So that Jon would probably look directly at her hand to see if she
single guy in a bar and you see a woman of a certain age, one of the first areas Here, Zoe says, >> "You gonna give me a lighter? >> I honestly wonder if they designed the lantern ring this way so that it's the
It's awesome. I like how this show also doesn't allow Howal's dumb plan to work broom closet later. It's a sign of good writing when characters halfbaked plans into deeper trouble that they have to get out of with either a different kind
of ingenuity or relationship building as this pilot episode does. But in the walks in, Sheriff Carrie says this on the phone. >> Tell Barb I said hey. >> Could this be a reference to the DCU
Barbara Gordon aka Batgirl? And could that mean Carrie is on the phone with Commissioner Jim Gordon or someone else at the GCPD who's a mutual friend of Detective Barbara Gordon? Hey, when we did HBO's Lanterns experience at
Comic-Con, I definitely saw a Gotham Gazette on the wall of Sheriff Car's office, meaning she is keeping tabs on the criminal activity in Gotham City. Judge Janet Sloan pushes Hal during his arraignment to name what law enforcement
agency represents. Jason Ritter enters the courtroom playing Billy Min, an family and Carrie's husband, but she doesn't look very happy and seems to be refer to some debt that she owes the family. Even though the judge doubles
the bail from 100K to 200K based on How's cheekiness, Billy hardly blinks pay for it and cut a check by lunch. They are that liquid? I mean, they could they wanted. I think they have a very very wealthy backer that I'm going to
get to later. The Mon family ranch is a gate marked with the phrase study the just kidding. These guys are clearly a Dutton family cult of armed militia men running tactical drills and target shooting. Study the past is certainly a
here in the Rushville area. As Will Min will later explain, he is a student of history and colonization is always the direction things go when civilizations clash. Jon and Hal meet Carrie and Billy son Noah. He gets mentioned in the final
to get to know him as a young adult in the future timeline. Hal offers Carrie a >> Sounds like having to spend time with the Min family is kind of torture for bottle opener and seems so smug with himself with this parlor trick, but he
complex relationship with the Makans. >> Sounds like a woman in debt. Garrett Dillah Hunt. Despite ordering tofu steaks for Jon, Will still uses a meat cleaver to chop up these bloody ribs right in front of him, he clearly
have to shake the hand of the guy banging his wife and chops threateningly to make a point. Now, I have to rant here not to tell a man how to barbecue about Will's grilling technique. I thought he was chopping already cooked
ribs, but the red juice on his hands is myoglobin from raw meat. And we see him at the grill after this clearly grilling some of that meat, which means that Will was chopping his ribs before cooking them. You don't grill ribs individually.
wrapped up. And you don't wait for your guests to arrive to start cooking. You there. Now, I thought Will was just grilling the tofu steaks last. But no, Howal on the table, and Will takes both grills and corn on the cob off the
shitty, shitty, toughed, overcooked ribs. I know I overthink this, but Will explains that they're not some Waco feds. They're forming a militia for all of Earth against alien colonizers,
specifically right here in Rushville. How claims that the galaxy he's seen is mostly peaceful, but Will says, "Well, what do they need space cops for?" >> Yeah, he's right. There is more going on in space than how is letting on. But
kind of the nivist fears that years from now will make the public so reactionary translation of the Kryptonian message of Jorel in 2025 Superman, where Superman's father encouraged his son to rule Earth
with his militia is to protect Earth from being colonized. And he says that organization, not the government, but some other organization. And he says he's under an NDA. Some organization that specifically funds his army. So,
who in the known DCU has a lot of money and hates the idea of alien the theory section. John sees Noah working on his throw. in as an expert his dad how important perfect aim is tells the kid that instead of
intentionally aiming to just imagine the ball going through the tire. Yes, the what unlocks the lantern's abilities. A little detail here. They hid a CGI football, it's a CGI ball going through the tire. When the camera dollies right
behind Jon, they hide a practical football behind him in frame for Noah to doesn't require this kid to have to throw a football through a tire attire. the horrific abuse of his dad putting red deliciousnesses out of their misery
he hooked up with the night before was Zoe Min, Will's wife and grandmother to to-go bag. >> Well, we drank all your beer, but put >> Much? >> Yeah. Even Hal sounds annoyed to have to
indicates that he pulled strings to let Hal interrogate the suspect and tells man's grill." >> Yeah, the fact that Will knows is Dutton and Yellowstone, he's got operatives all over town keeping an eye
he and his wife just have an open marriage. And maybe he even endorsed his family might just be working every angle to get closer to these two lanterns. We this dynamic in the theory section. Carrie explains that the suspect is
Wayan Sanders, who's been working as a commercial truck driver for 5 years, and his anatomy. But Jon says that they know of 14 species that have the ability to X-rays, and blood work cannot tell the difference. Throughout the scene, Jon is
episode doesn't really get into it, but Jon has been described by preseason press as an architect by trade, which is part of how we're going to see him do Conjuring. John tells Carrie, >> "You know, we're all aliens. Just
>> Yeah, this whole idea of who's the colonizer, who's the alien, it's going to be an interesting theme that this series explores. Howal tells Whan, I imagine you just want to phone home. Get home, I bet.
>> Ha. That was an early test by Howal. He made a reference to ET, the extraterrestrial, and Whan didn't pick up on it at all. Yeah, this whole scene is an amazing alien touring test. Alien Touring. Allan Turing, who the test was
named after. The goal being how to catch an alien impersonator in a lie. I mean, Peacemaker season 1 were really perfect examples of DC doing a much better Secret Invasion. Howal catches Whan on saying, "Hang my hat." Like it's very
practice Nebraska expression that this alien has just learned. He quizzes Whan again, this coming from coach Eric Taylor, it does kind of sound like someone you would be very afraid to give the wrong answer to, but Whan is well
Nebraska won its first national championship in 1970 from coach Bob Deainy. and he asks about Nebraska's first 200-yard rusher and first Heisman tells Hal that this guy just knows Nebraska football stats maybe a bit too
studied in order to blend in and make small talk in Nebraska. So now with Whan drops this. >> Where did Harry Potter go to school? >> Smart. Because how just learned from this brief exchange that Whan had been
here for 5 years and the Harry Potter film franchise wrapped in 2011, 5 years before where they are now in 2016. So any alien blending in in the past 5 years would probably consider other pop culture in sports history more relevant
homework to brush up on. Also, we see you HBO plugging the huge streaming subscribed for. How says that they made like 22 of these movies. In fact, there were only eight Harry Potter films with the Fantastic Beast franchise was just
another attempt to try to catch him in a lie because if that guy were to say, "Oh like, "Aha, there were only eight of them." But either way, how's kind of was the inescapable pop culture franchise of the previous decade, and
any adult who had been alive before 2011 would know the answer of Hogwarts. Whan also claims right now to just ask who Jordan is, but I'm sure this alien on Lantern is. Carrie and Jon, meanwhile, debate over whether Howal Jordan
Hal's fearlessness, but Carrie reframes fearlessness as just having no one in and therefore just being alone. So really, having no fear is not a virtue. powerful kings should be afraid of losing their sons. Howal tells Whan
things that he wouldn't know about. >> But I bet you can't tell me about the Boston Tea Party. Kelly Clarkson, Barack Obama, or Rup Barack Obama is the president of the United States. >> Howal was just about to say RuPaul or
off. But yeah, how push is whining on his opinion of Barack Hussein Obama as a rural Nebraskan, particularly in the year 2016 when the 2016 election was parts of America when it came to President Obama. And at this point, Whan
can no longer hide it. And I love how we see the change in his demeanor. He sits dumbfounded in her reaction reflecting in the glass. I will now call this person Whian. And I love how John introduced the whole idea of homophonic
code for alien. He said, "Hail sounds like alien." And Whan does kind of sound like alien. Whanian says, "Um, let's say you're right, hypothetically, that I'm not from this salty, smelly world. Smelly and salty are such fun modifiers
for an alien who probably does have different olfactory senses, unaccustomed to a planet covered mostly in salt water." Whian calls football a pointless the deteriorating atmosphere and the hunger of the least fortunate. He says
on Earth for a very important purpose and would go to great lengths to hide it for it concerns the opposite of peace, namely war. So, we get an interesting about the hunger of the people of this planet, but also just feels like a very
noble crusader on a very necessary war path to enact certain vengeance that injustice in the galaxy. But now, this Wayen leans back and says that he has a biometric neutron device woven into a skeleton that he can activate with a
sheltering enemies of the state, are you not part of the interrogation where are faster, the guises have been dropped, and everything's about to explode. Now, are we meant to look at Wayian as a suicide bomber? Or is he
who once he got close to his target anything in the vicinity? Howal counters that he could bubble up and contain whatever explosion comes. But Whian says, "You've been here 48 hours. Did
ring?" >> Ooh. Howal takes a moment to respond, but Cal Chandler is amazing in the fact that he doesn't flinch. He just waits a shaken by what he just heard. We see later in the scene that he does have
hearing this tells him that this alien threat knows quite a bit about the Green Lantern core and how they operate. While their rings are charged by the willpower recharge them with these lanterns that
OA powered by the collective willpower of everyone in the core. How does this alien rogue know that? What else does he know about the core? Who told him all of has enough power, he's half bluffing. He hopes that he has enough willpower to
that how's want to die violates his precious oath and tauntingly begins to go through it. >> In brightest day and blackest night, no evil shall my sight. >> Damon Lindelof said that the writers had
episode of a Green Lantern show and getting the iconic oath in there was at way of having an alien repeating it sarcastically to both show how invasive it and how seriously how takes his oath as the thing that triggers him. I love
this shot right here. Empire went to Hogwarts. You ignorant alien [ __ ] >> All four characters faces are perfectly lit, perfectly expressive, and in focus here. This is amazing shot composition. Whian just straight up begins to beep
like an actual bomb. And he says one thing that he's here for vengeance. And how tosses him into the corner, creates a green bubble around him, and then in order to push the blast back. And that bubble blows out outward by I'd say
around 400%. Indeed, this blast would have probably incinerated the entire town. It cracks all the windows in the downtown area and we see Billy Min come The final scene of this pilot episode jumps ahead 10 years to the year 2026.
beautiful. It kind of looks like the HBO series Chris Mundy just worked on before this True Detective Night Country. Jon now has a goatee and he passes the Mon ranch where the study the past gate has been destroyed. Cal hugs Carrie and asks
that he's now the quarterback for the Pioneers that this kid's going all state. But in this same football stadium, they find the corpse of Howal Jordan, seated in the same spot he was sitting on the bleachers in 2016. His
but with a projectile wound on his forehead, wearing the same old coat. Not nearly enough outerwear for this kind of weather. Jon brushes a snow off of Howal's right hand to show no ring. And Jon does this with his own right hand.
No ring there either. The song that plays over the credits is Conval by Scud was written and recorded earlier this year for the Lantern series. Interesting apparently died after a brief illness on June 22nd, 2026. Yeah, just in the past
one of the last tracks that Bruce recorded. The song's lyrics reference the Daredevil stunt man of Evil Conval. The lyrics are, "If I tried to leave the the earth too soon, would you ever dare?" Yeah, it's painting this grim
Howal Jordan who began this episode doing what? Rolling out of a car before sending it off of a cliff. A kind of evil conval stunt if you ask me. So yes, the how Jordan of the DCU is now dead in the year 2026. There are instances of
how Jordan dying in the comics, specifically 1996's final night after he became parallaxed during the Emerald Twilight story line where Hal sacrifices himself using the last of his power to destroy the Sun Eater and reignite our
spectre for a time. But with this series, Damon Lindelof, Chris Mundy, and different. We're still going to see a lot of Howal Jordan in the 2016 era of and Cal Chandler doesn't sign onto a show if he's just going to do one
episode. And sure, future DCU stories could even explore House's past heroics before the year 2016. The way I feel about it is my era of Green Lantern was League animated series. So overall, I'm okay with this. I'm excited to see him
have said in their after show podcast with Guju that Green Lantern is about without loss. But yes, it's a twist. This series is a true detective murder did one of the detectives die? Who killed Hal Jordan? What mystery in 2016
stayed unresolved until 2026? And where did the ring go? Well, to begin to this BREAKDOWN WITH NO THEORY SHALL now if you don't want my theorization to accidentally spoil anything. But look, I
series, so I have no idea what happens in episode 2 or beyond. Okay, first corpse might not really be Hal, but rather an alien shape shifter, one of humans without being discovered. The reason I highly doubt this is we don't
know if any alien can like scrolls perfectly embody another human and if death. Also, I think faking us out would rob this big plot twist of its dramatic impact. Trust me, I've been following Damon Lindelof's TV work for the past 20
Lost that he has upheld with every show he has written since that if a character see the body, you're welcome to not trust that. But if you see the corpse, that character is dead. Now, yes, you could say we saw resurrections like John
Lockach in Lost, but that was another entity taking the form of Jon and we did once more, but that was in alternate timelines. So, Hal Jordan is certainly dead. Where did the ring go? Well, in the after show, Tom King indicated that
was a like a hidden mystery in the like like Guy Gardner was Green Lantern. >> And that was a mystery cuz >> like how do we get there? end of this episode, Hal's dead, but also you see Jon's hand. He's not
wearing that ring. Guy has the ring. >> So why is Guy end up with the ring? And >> He has the best haircut. >> I'm just going to say in this series, but the events of Superman take place before this in May
2025 before House Death in 2026. Also, when you watch Superman, Guy's ring also the stated rule is that there can only be one ring and one lantern person on Earth at any given time. But I do wonder if Tom King was throwing us off there or
maybe Hal has been dead for a long time and just kind of posed here. We'll find out very soon. But perhaps whoever killed Hal was a worthier being in the ring. Maybe Howal turned bad in the past 10 years and he needed to be killed. But
is probably why the Guardian selected Jon Stewart, breaking the tradition of knew that Howal would die in some way that would take the ring to less deserving hands. As Carrie explains, willpower and fearlessness aren't always
wanted someone good naturatured to be closer to Howal to claim that ring when the time came because in the comics physical proximity does matter. When the ring leaves Howal, it could have gone to Jon or to Guy and Guy Gardner just
where we're going to find out that because there was some parting of ways of zipped over to Guy Gardner by mistake. But here's really the biggest question. Why are all of these things happening every 10 years exactly? 1986,
happening every 10 years exactly? 1986, 1996, 2006, 2016, 2026. One theory is that the repeated number six is a reference to sector 666 and the massacre perpetrated there by the Manhunters. So, we know the Manhunters will be part of
material. >> What do you know about manhunters? >> I think it could explain what Whian's vengeance line was all about. So before the Green Lantern Corps, the Guardians
were robotic sentinels designed to bring because they could only distinguish between legal and illegal, they were unable to see right from wrong. So they ended up glitching and decided to remove
massacre of all of the worlds in sector 666. The Guardians had to destroy most of the manhunters, but they never admitted to their mistake. And so one of the five survivors of that massacre was Atrocidus. And there are rumors that
Paul Ben Victor's character who you see in trailers for the show named Anton is actually Atrocidus and he could be leading this group of aliens on their assault on Rushville to kill a manhunter who could be hiding in this town. Or
here every 10 years or something. I think it was a manhunter that Absur was trying to hunt down when he crashed here in 1986. And here's my theory. I think that disguised Manhunter is going to be someone we've met. And for this video,
I'm going to make the case for Zoey. There are a lot of clues pointing to Zoe she's a grandmother, an older generation than she seems. We know she's deceitful. Also, Will Min said that some of the Min family members were present at the game.
He said he almost lost a couple family members during that shooting and it probably included Noah with Grandma Zoey because Noah aspires to be on the team. So, I think it's very possible that Grandma Zoe, a secret manhunter, was
actually there and she was the one to kill all of these aliens as people were to kill her. Also, in interviews before the series, the actress who plays Zoe the show and if she were just a grounded Earth character as a two-time wife in
know which characters she's in a scene with were guardians? And maybe that kind of explains why Sheriff Carrie feels so bound to the family is that the son that she has, Noah, is part of this bloodline of bioorganic beings called manhunters.
keep her son protected and serve this family that she doesn't really like. Now the question would be, would Will Min know what his wife is? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe Will Min and this group of militia and the people who are backing him are
killing off all other invasive alien species. Bringing us to our final make Makin represent. It's got to be Luther Corp, right? I'm not sure if it's Lex because in Superman, it was implied that Superman started doing his heroics
just 3 years before that movie started. So that would be 2022, 6 years after where we are now in 2016. Now, Lex could still be around, but I think it might because James Gun stated that he called the corporation Luther Corp in the 2025
movie as a nod to Smallville and how this company really could be a legacy generation. and that would be Lionyl. Again, I don't know how accurate any of episode two. I have no idea where this show is going. Comment down below with
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