I thought the CG on "GL:TAS" looked really good - a lot better than "Beware the Batman." The designs, textures and animation of the characters were really good, imo. It didn't have those stiff mannequin CG performances that you see a lot now in "modern anime" series.
It doesn't matter what your opinion on the quality is. Fact of the matter is for a long time now, when there's been a mass media project starring the Green Lantern, Hal was the go-to choice and the one WB and DC were both heavily pushing as the face of the brand. Hell, John didn't even get to appear at all in the animated series, and don't even get me started on how rarely Kyle appears in anything outside of comics. I don't bring this up to pit characters against each other; I find stuff like that obnoxious and I tend to get shouted down whenever I say that the John Stewart thread is veering into bashing other Lanterns like Jessica Cruz. It's just a fact that Hal has been the one that received the most promotion, the most prominence and the heaviest push from editorial.
That's not a bad thing, I only bring it up because in the face of all that, the idea that the company doesn't like Hal Jordan or is planning to let him be sidelined or crapped on to build up other Lanterns is, frankly, absurd. We've seen this over and over again with Barry Allen in the Flash franchise as well. Regardless of how well some other writers try to treat Wally, Barry will always be the golden boy because he's the one the company has decided is the face of the brand.
but it's not subjective, the rest of the post (ya know, the parts you cut out) pointed out the objective reality of the franchise for the last couple decades. if the point of these characters is to be used in narrative, and one characters is used more regularly, pushed more prominently, and literally considered the face of the narrative space they inhabit, it's cognitive dissonance to see that as anything but "having it better". if Hal Jordan hasn't had a strong promotional run these last couple decades please tell me which Lantern has. Kilowog? yeah, that new Kilowog movie was crazy bruh.
you know what, probably shouldn't have replied. these debates are consistently and exclusively pointless.
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THE SIGNAL (Duke Thomas) is DC's secret shonen protagonist so I made him a fandom wiki
also, check out "The Signal Tape" a Duke Thomas fan project.
currently following:
- DC: Red Hood: The Hill
- Marvel: TBD
- Manga (Shonen/Seinen): One Piece, My Hero, Dandadan, Jujutsu Kaisen, Kaiju No. 8, Reincarnation of The Veteran Soldier, Oblivion Rouge, ORDEAL, The Breaker: Eternal Force
"power does not corrupt, power always reveals."
Anyone who claims knowledge of "objective reality" is sus. There are other ways to interpret "objective reality" but this is a *fan* site - objectivity is implicitly not the point of this space. Can you "objectively" deny that Hal has been made the butt of jokes and not featured as prominently since his disappointing movie? (you mention the "past couple decades" just to ignore the shift that happened after the movie - I see that)
In this instance, it does. Hal has had it better than the other Lanterns and most likely will continue to do so. Cutting out most of my response doesn't negate that. If someone can explain to me how the other Lanterns have had it better than Hal the past 15 years, I'm all ears.
Now I gotta pour one out for Michael Clarke Duncan.
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