Gonna' have to fully agree with this one, too. It's an incredibly dumb concept to me, from multiple angles, like just being dumb, watering down Green Lantern, being oversaturated, totally jumping the shark (Ultraviolet Lantern? Seriously!?), and taking over the franchise for years and in a fashion that still affects it today. I also didn't like those Power Battery spirit animals. I didn't care for anything about the whole trip. I guess Bleez is a cool design...there were some neat looking Yellow Lanterns...I'm trying to think of some silver linings here...
Conceptually I think it makes perfect sense for Sinestro to form his own evil Corps, and to turn the Star Sapphire's into the Zamarons' take on the GLC. At the end of the day the other Corps. helped fill out the universe and provide different perspectives on the franchise.
I actually kinda gotta defend the emotional spectrum. At least in concept. It's true that Johns pushed that down our throats so much for so long that I'd be surprised if anyone was still a big fan, and a lot of those stories (especially after Johns) were weak af anyway, and the whole concept took over the franchise to everyone's detriment, but the idea itself was fine.
I mean, a bunch of immortal aliens giving magic wishing rings to their personal army of space cops? Let's not pretend that we're not already accepting the most ridiculous and nonsensical ideas just to get in the door.
I could nitpick the hell out of stuff, from the emotions that Johns ascribed, to the stupid ass idea that the emotional entities gained sentience because of earth, the fool notion that this was all tied, somehow, into a limited range of light that we can see, and far more. But that green energy had to come from somewhere, and tying it into the core theme of "willpower" makes as much sense as anything else while also connecting and tying in some random concepts and elements that resulted in the franchise feeling much more interconnected and tightly woven.
Sure, it doesn't make any damn sense at all, but.....what does?
And as for Snyder's ultraviolet stuff.....in a weird, stupid comic book sort of way it makes sense. If the emotional spectrum we know is connected to the light spectrum we can see, then it makes sense that the emotional spectrum would continue on into wavelengths we can't see, just like light does. Snyder might not have handled the concept terribly well (subjective tastes and all) but the idea was just a natural extension of Johns' work.
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"We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe."
~ Black Panther.
I thought the designs for the entities were cool, but that's just me .
Agree 100% The emotional spectrum was just a creative sinkhole for the franchise. Taking 'the most powerful weapon in the universe' and giving it to EVERYONE was tedious. All those new characters could have had their own things but... all rings all the time was ughhhh...
See I disagree there too. Sinestro was all about order and proving that he was the bestest of the best GL's.... and giving unlimited power to every monster in the universe was the OPPOSITE of what woul dhave made sense for him. Add in that Sinestro should be the scariest thing the GL's know... but making it fear based forced them to come up with some really creepy things that make sinestro seem 'lame'.
Zamarons were their own thing... but now just another ring corp... EVERYONE was a ring corp.... it made the universe SMALLER than it did when people like Evil Star and his blaster were legitimate threats.
I dislike the emotional spectrum, too. And I think all the other (non-Speed) forces were basically copying that theme. Mind you, I don't like the speed force either, though I accept that it's not going anywhere.
All sad backstories should be met with a complete and total "nobody cares". You have to stop giving people sympathy so the writers stop using it as a crutch to make you care about characters they're too incompetent to properly develop. I miss the days when people went through stuff and had to learn how to deal with it but the Bat writers have popularized whining about your problems and walking around with a chip on your shoulder.
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