Nemo_Utopian

one and two are in order.the part that is missing is "suddenly want to destroy all of existence because he couldn't prevent the destruction of his city." which i would assume would be in three.

that part is the bit that never happened in emerald twilight.it did however have Hal decide that he was going to get the power to bring his city and it's people back.

to that end he defeats the Corps,but leaves them alive,if stranded in space.the implication at the time being that he plans to come back and get them after he succeeds.

he does kill Sinestro,who has been resurrected by the Guardians to take down Jordan.this is pretty much an amazing slap in the face from the Guardians,who have shown him no sympathy after his loss,instead scolding him for using his ring to recreate a simulacrum of coast city.

Jordan wants to use their power to resurrect innocent people he has failed to save,and instead he sees them using it to resurrect a scum ball that the Corps felt the need to take the unprecedented step of executing.

then he finally does the truly messed up and irredeemable thing,killing Killawog.mind you he is probably just thinking"one more person to resurrect"

his transformation to Parallax seems to leave him oddly emotionless at that point.the Hal Jordan seen leaving Oa at that point does not seem to be the same one that left,he appears transformed by the process.it is later revealed that the other Green Lanterns were left to perish in space(though they turn out not to have after all.

it is not till craptacular Zero Hour that Hal is revealed to be the big villain of the story.even then he is only destroying the universe so he can make a perfected version that will not have pain,death,and suffering.

now mind you,Emerald Twilight was far from perfect.i did however like the basic premise of it,first that super heroes are still human.and that after extraordinary bad events,they can get extraordinarily mentally screwed up.

i get so sick of seeing"he just lost Coast City".just!?!?i suspect that the people that were out of town during Hiroshima's bombing felt pretty messed up when they found out their home city was a smoking ruin,and they were not even in a position to defend it.

almost every silver age super hero had their city,it was a big part of their mythos.they lived there,they protected it form all threats.losing his city should have been a big deal to Hal.to be honest he never seemed so human to me as when he seemed to be taking it's loss so hard

second.i liked the idea of asking what happens when someone who's defining characteristic is willpower,something that can be defined as tenaciously fighting for something through all adversity until you see it to completion,is screwed up in the head and applies his willpower in a mentally unbalanced way.

Hal Jordan had an unreasonable desire born from grief and loss.he had what should have been an unachievable goal,and through pure willpower he got to a point where he should have been able to accomplish it.

the main problem i have with the story is how it ended with Hal's odd transformation.if it was me i would have jumped from him getting the power,to him resurrecting the citizens of Coast City.then i would have had that sort of massive violation of the natural order reek pure havoc on our planet.in that moment Hal could finally look at his actions clearly,and then do what is needed to fix it.that would result in him sacrificing his power,perhaps his life also.or he could survive and just get the psychological help he clearly needed.

yes,then again that was not the story in emerald twilight

i was just holding out for an emotional sound system.

F-sharp the sound of willpower,D-minor the sound of fear.

or maybe an emotional scent spectrum.

the scent of roses could be the scent of love.the scent of crap could be the emotion repugnance.

nah those are just as idiotic as the emotional color spectrum.

equating emotions with a narrow bit of the electromagnetic spectrum that the terrestrial organisms of our planet can see due to the chemical composition of our eyes is just silly.half of it is just bad cliches.

"are you yeller(yellow,a coward)?" "i am seeing red(angry)"

hell,i am surprised they did not make blue the color of sadness(feeling blue).what is the color of sadness anyhow?oh wait,they never bothered to make one.they grabbed a handful of emotions and stapled them on to the narrow bandwidth of light that we can see,and now we have the mood-ring lanterns

call it irrational if you like.but reading about the color of emotions seems as idiotic as if i was reading something in which they described the texture of sandpaper as the texture of hate,and the texture of silk as the texture of love.

Fought?he was using the stuff for a while.

he got lots of stuff wrong

the last thing i want to do is defend Austin's run on x-men,but the whole thing with angels,demons,and werewolves was that many of our legends are based on some types of mutant tribes(or perhaps competing near mutants).Nightcrawler was not a half demon son of the devil,he was the spawn of a demon like mutant that had inspired the legend of the devil.

i thought he was to kind.

as far as farming goes,soft capping with IO's is not needed at all.

i have been doing missions set for 8 since shortly before hitting 40,and only started adding in the good IO's(besides steadfast) at 47.as long as you are 1 luck away from the soft cap,you can always have lucks to use to keep you at the soft cap.

i am thinking about focusing on recharge bonuses for a farming build,and not worrying about hitting the soft cap at all.

me to,but while suffering an asthma attack so we can see how strong the Vader resemblance is.