Originally Posted by
Johnny
Will check out The Road Back, but in all fairness, I often believed DC probably planned to get rid of Hal as early as after CoIE was over. But they likely thought of the backlash that would follow, especially after they had already killed off Barry at the time, so perhaps they decided to go about it the more sneaky way. Make the character unappealing to a younger audience, age him up, give him lackluster stories and by the time of ET, people would practically beg of them to get rid of him. Hell, I was about 5 or 6 at the time so I wasn't old enough to be a DC fan, but if I was, that certainly doesn't seem like the kind of character that would appeal to me. Unfortunately they underestimated the fan backlash. I'd like to say things worked out for the better in the end, but to see how little they thought of the Hal Jordan character at the time gives you no guarantee they won't do anything like that again.