Tenzhi

I know the supposed reasoning behind why they did it. It's lazy. Not quite as lazy as turning all the background people into pseudo-stick-figure-silhouettes, but laziness in the same vein.

I didn't even notice that the disembodied voices of the audiobook they substituted for animation had identities.

Absolutely. One of the best things about the Vet reward that allows one to grab travel powers at level 6 is that it let's you bypass the worthless required power picks. The level requirements and the fact that you're limited to 4 power pools are limitation enough.

Ditto. I might play my namesake again if I could switch him from Regen to Willpower.

This is one of the MANY anime in my Netflix instant queue. Haven't started watching it quite yet, though.

For some reason, I got an Operation: Mindcrime/(Years Ago/Steven/Awakening) vibe off it, which is why I responded the way I did. It tickled my inner insanity.

EDIT: Oh, and I did intend it as a compliment. Sorry if that wasn't entirely clear.

I'm just clarifying, not arguing. For what it's worth I'd also like to see a ball & chain type set.

EDIT: Ah, it must have loaded for me simply because I already had the image loaded. This one should work, methinks.

I'm not talking about a "little" anchor and chain, I'm talking about a HUGE anchor.

Agreed. Personally, my preference would be for an executioner-style axe.

A brazen admission.

There's no reason an "obvious" name that follows comic book naming conventions can't be "good", appropriate, or "interesting". And of course it would be about SPECIFIC names - it would be pretty silly to argue that random names weren't available.

The real problem, I'd say, is that a name purge doesn't necessarily help anyone running into name troubles.

Not necessarily. Propel summons a random object, and that object isn't necessarily the same for any given two players viewing it.

I guess Hal went to the bathroom somewhere along the way. I guess Oa had gravity. And if I'm given 2 + 2, I guess 4.

Knowing why he put on the ring isn't really necessary at that point. But his motivations are pretty clear given what was established in the movie.

There's "making leaps" and then there's picking up on rather obvious contextual clues. Most of this stuff was so obvious in context that I didn't even give a second thought to it until this thread. I wonder if people who tripped over it in the movie would die in a fire because they were sitting there waiting for someone to explain to them what the noise was all about.

10 minutes in a hyperbolic time chamber, maybe. But here's much of what he didn't briefly touch on:

The beginning of the movie did a good job of establishing Hal's character and motivations - as well as the weakness of character he would have to overcome. It was a good, solid introduction to the character as the character was presented in the movie.

The brief introduction to Parallax and Abin Sur and Hal's consequent inheritence of the ring was well done. His discovery of the ring's ability and consequent removal to OA (through a wormhole that wasn't tiresomely explained to be a wormhole) was entertainingly handled.

Hammond's abduction, and indeed his character in general was admittedly rather weak. Throughout the movie, it seemed to be trying to make him out as a mirror of sorts to Hal. Hammond did alright in scenes that involved both him and Hal Jordan, though. The best scene with Hammond "alone", I'd say, was the scene between him and his father.

Hal saving Hammond's father was a fun scene that shouldn't have been spoiled by a fast food? commercial.

The one moment of illogic that made *me* raise an eyebrow was Hammond tearing up the secret military base and then sleeping/screaming in his own house/apartment afterwards. IMO, he should have been wandering down dark alleyways or something, as his own home should have been ransacked and probably under the kind of surveillance that would have attracted a small army and consequent battle if he showed up.

And the ring probably didn't even need to send out a distress call. Given that Hal visited the Guardians beforehand and they rebuffed his plea for help, but he requested they let him try to save his world rather than just let it be used as a sacrafice while the Guardians enacted their plan, his battle with Parallax was probably being monitored from afar.

Sinestro finally accepting/respecting Hal at the end was simple and well done.

The hero getting the girl and essentially riding off into the sunset is a good cliche to end on. Given that it also established a mended relationship between Hal and Carol as well as Hal filling out his role as a Super Space Lawman, it was not only a good cliche, but an appropriate one.

Sinestro putting on the yellow ring mid-credits was a good cue for a sequel. And it suited the character who had been pretty well established as someone who cared deeply about protecting innocent life/enforcing order to the point where he would readily pursue more power - even dangerous power - to get the job done.

Probably. It's available for streaming on Netflix.

Did I say the ring talked, or did I say it "audibly notified" him?

You're right. He detected it with his pink-skin-o-tron. That's how any Green Lantern would detect yellow energy. And if he's using his ring for some strange reason, it better damn well be spelled out in big blazing letters, because otherwise what kind of genius do they expect to connect those two dots.

If Parallax wasn't a threat, the Guardians wouldn't have been so concerned about it. It wouldn't have been sealed away in "The Lost Sector" by Abin Sur, (whose ring Hal inherited, and would certainly know Parallax as a threat). And given that the Guardians harnessed the yellow energy to begin with and were responsible for the threat...

Yes, I think taking Hal and removing that stick he has jammed up his backside makes him an enjoyable character. Scott Summers might do well with a stick-ectomy, also.

I really liked it, actually. The space-planes and Sentai Daleks amused me.

On the other hand, I didn't care for the pig-men or hybrid Dalek from the Daleks in Manhattan episode.

*Dinged* audibly on-screen, actually.

No signs other than Sinestro saying that they detected traces of yellow energy where those civilisations were destroyed, that is.

Nope, just information that was given in the movie, for anyone who was paying attention.

The ring wouldn't care about a threat to the Sector?

They pretty much nailed all the good qualities of Hal Jordan without making him as unlikable as I've often found him in the comics. The ring-slinging was decent. Kilowog was appropriately a rowdy roughneck. Sinestro was well-done in the limited amount of screen time he got - he was shown to care about his fellow Lanterns and the protection of innocent life with an undercurrent of anger directed towards the Guardians. The story flowed pretty well. Indeed, I'd be harder pressed to find something that was not enjoyable about the movie - mayhap the lack of Mogo? Maybe a tad too much time was spent on Hammond's supervillainous transformation?

I certainly found the movie more enjoyable than any of the Spider-man or X-men movies (discounting First Class, which I have not seen).