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  hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the concession stand here on the kb radio network i am your host kevin reed and this is the review of episode two to dc studios lanterns which is currently on HBO and HBO Max. This episode is entitled Trust Fall. and we're coming off of a dynamic premiere a a really really good pilot episode of lanterns uh where the not the post credit but the final scene of that episode left a lot of people kind of like you know what where where are we going with this with the uh uh uh death of Hal Jordan, which takes place 10 years from where this show is currently set. And I was a little taken aback by that when I first watched it. But as the week went on, I thought about it a little more. I was like, okay, that makes sense. You know, it is what it is. You know, we're going with the Jon Stewart Green Lantern in this particular cinematic universe. So, I mean... what other reason is there to have hal jordan around plus you got guy garner still floating around there as well so i was a it was just jarring to to kind of get that in that first episode but i can't say that i'm all right with it we don't revisit that in this episode we don't go back or flash forward into 2026 uh we stay primarily in 2016 where the events that's taking place in rushville nebraska is happening uh in this second episode is we're going through this slow burn investigation that is taking place and it's uh it takes a kind of a dramatic turn in this episode when john stewart is abducted by a group of human disguised extraterrestrials or aliens if you will and their leader reveals a kind of a terrifying piece of dc lore um there on the on the hunt for a manhunter now when you hear manhunter you those of us who are dc nuts we immediately go to martian manhunter you know john jones but i don't think that's the manhunter they're actually hunting or it could be i don't know we'll we'll have to see but uh john jones isn't a villain you know martian manhunter isn't a villain and so it's gonna be uh interesting to see how this unfolds going forward now we do know that uh once again those of us who are dc fans that uh i think his aunt anterin anterin is his name? Uh, uh, not, well, the villain, but, uh... guy that was introduced in this episode he's a villain he is a villain in the comics but this manhunter is kind of this rogue synthetic peacekeeping android created by the guardians of the universe you know before the green lantern core was formed and so uh antan i think that's his name he's threatening to blow up the entire town unless the manhunter is identified in a two-day period 48 hours that's who that's the time limit he gives to john jones uh not john jones uh john stewart and so meanwhile we got hal jordan uh he discovers this strange alien detector hitting around the city they got all of these you think they're metal detectors but actually they're alien detectors and he kind of gets into a clash with the sheriff played by kelly mcdonald on the show and we find out throughout the show that she is originally from gotham and so you know once again those of us who are dc nuts we're trying to put the pieces together who is she originally you know who is she in the dc lore well her name is carrie kane And if you know DC Comics, Kane, the last name Kane, they are related to the Waynes. I think they're cousins. if i'm not mistaken i think carrie kane uh i want to say she ends up being batwoman or or something to that effect or her sister is batwoman i don't know i i i gotta i gotta brush up on my comic book uh uh knowledge there but i know the canes are uh related to the weight in the comics but uh she she harbors her own secrets you and we still we still are trying to unfold that that could be a part of it uh i'm not saying that we're going to be introduced to bruce wayne i know everybody is is waiting patiently for this dc universe to introduce their batman i i don't think that that's going to happen on this show or anytime soon to be 100 honest with you but um we did hear her on the phone in episode one talking to somebody named barb and so it could be barbara gordon it could be uh uh that connection that i don't know man i don't know what we're doing it is it's so many questions on this show we got we got all type of madness happening and i'm all for it uh john john stewart we find that he has this untapped power here. He showcased this feat of willpower that I haven't seen in any Green Lantern adaptation where his concentration is beyond disbelief. You know, it's almost like I don't think that's possible. But I haven't seen it done in the comics, but I'm pretty, not to this degree, where he manifests the small little bird when he was trying to fly. in the beginning of the episode and he kept that bird alive throughout the entire episode even when he was in coast city when he went to coast city to retrieve the lantern that bird was still there and this is with the ring not having much power and hal jordan had the ring he didn't have the ring but he still had the willpower to keep that bird alive that that is that that just that's just a testament on how powerful a green lantern john stewart will be in this universe i'm i'm excited about it that that was probably the most impressive thing that i got from this episode i i really loved how they showcased that and that's just the tip of the iceberg you know um we get our debut of sinestro Rope. when on this episode when we get the shocking news of the manhunter uh given to hal jordan by john stewart and he flies off to aura to investigate sinestro and see what he knows about the manhunters it's it's a uh that's how that's was the last scene of this episode i i was I was mad when the episode started rolling the credits at that point because I wanted to see more of that Sinestro in the past in the only adaptation live action adaptation was in that Ryan Reynolds film from I don't know what 20 years ago maybe and I think it was Mark Scrooge who plays Sinestro who would have been awesome had they done it right You know, because he didn't become Sinestro to the very end of that movie. And I would have loved to see Mark Strong as Sinestro. That was perfect casting. Just unfortunately, it was an imperfect film. But we got introduced to him on this show. See the dynamic between Sinestro and Hal Jordan. In case you don't know in the comics, Sinestro is the one who trained Hal when he was a Green Lantern. But Sinestro went to the dark side. And Hal was the one who had to shut him down. Sinestro is Hal Jordan's biggest enemy. You know, that's his joker. So this is going to be a cool little, not scene, but episode. Because I would imagine it's going to be... an episode that they kind of flush out their history and moving forward and trying to find out what's actually going on in rustville and all this other good stuff and so i'm looking forward to that moving forward as well um As far as theorizing who the Manhunter could be in Rushville, I've been beating my head against the wall since the episode went off. Like, who in Rushville could possibly be the Manhunter? If it's Martian Manhunter, if it's John Jones Manhunter, I don't know. I don't know if it's somebody we've met. It could be a plethora of people. If it's somebody we haven't met yet on the show, it's possibly the one who's funding the ranch that the Macon family is a part of because he's so tight-lipped about who is funding it. Who else couldn't provide the Macons with those alien technology? you know metal detectors or alien detectors who else can do that you know because hal jordan said i've been all over the galaxy and i haven't seen technology like this and so how would a small town in nebraska get their hands on this alien technology and so it it's it's quite possible that they're getting it from the manhunter um another possibility which would be awkward because my mind immediately went to this person because it's the most out of place person in rust field and that is macon's wife the one who john stewart slept with she just seemed is more to her than what meets the eye there's there's more to her story here and so clearly she's not who she claims to be. It's, you got that from episode one scene one she was in you knew that there was more to this woman or alien to whatever the case may be and so it could be her uh another possibility it could be the lawyer the son played by jason ritter maybe he's the man hunter but he's the son you know but you never see him and the uh head making interact at least not yet through two episodes really you haven't seen him and his wife carrie interact with one another so what's going on there it's it's it's some pot it's a lot of possibilities now these are people we've met now like i said it could be somebody we haven't met yet it's still the mystery of when hal jordan got shot in this episode and he's in the hospital and there is absolutely nobody in this hospital i understand it's a small town but people get hurt sick all the time and you mean to tell me nobody is in this hospital not one soul you ain't even see doctors walking around nurses custodians you didn't see anybody walking around this hospital all the equipment is still wrapped up in plastic like they just opened it yesterday it is it's something nefarious going on in this town it's something crazy about rusville nebraska and everybody wants hal gone they want him out of this town by any means they just want him gone because whatever it is hal is gonna blow it up and judging by last week's episode the first episode apparently is still going on 10 years later it still isn't solved so i don't know i honestly don't know what this mystery is how it's going to completely unfold but whatever it is i'm all for it this show so far two episodes in is one of the best written comic book shows i've seen in a long time i'm counting uh the marvel disney plus shows and especially the dc shows uh uh uh with peacemaker and all that i think this blows it out of the water because In spite the fact that you have these lanterns who can fly, who can manifest things out of sure willpower and all this here, the magical superhero elements of this show, at its core, it is grounded. It is a very grounded show with just superhero elements sprinkled on it. That's not the main thing. Actually, I could care less about them flying around. That's how much... that's how much i'm enjoying the story that's being told here and the acting on this show is phenomenal kyle chandler i know at one point uh josh brolin was in talks he actually was very close to getting the role but he he eventually dropped out of it but and i think somebody else too before they actually settled on kyle chandler bruh kyle chandler was perfectly cast as hell jordan he is murdering this role man i love him in this role he brings a uniqueness to it he is so unserious but at the same time super smart and very serious in his goal he is focused on solving his mystery but he's doing it in his own unique way that you can't help but enjoy him i enjoy every single scene that he's in there is not a scene that he has been a part of where i'm like man let's get to aaron aaron pierre who i'm also enjoying who was also born to play john stewart he is perfectly cast as john stewart I love Kyle Chandler and his role. And when you put them both in the scene together, when they're both together doing their thing, their chemistry and dynamic is second to none. Look, I know we're only two episodes in. I know this. And I know the wheels can quickly fall off because we've bear witness to that multiple times. But all I can speak on is what I've seen so far. far and so far lanterns has knocked it out of the park my question mark my only question mark as i've noted last week in my review of the pilot episode was that that time jump when we find out how jordan dies 10 years later and you know it was a instant reaction that i probably should have took a little time before I spoke. you know really said something about it because i was really on the fence with it i got it but i didn't want to get it you know what i'm saying it's one of those things and now i say i'm like cool i'm cool with it and i have zero problems with this show and how it's structured and how it's written and how it's directed that action sequence with uh when uh john stewart got adducted and uh they were fighting in the van and he fell out the van in the middle of traffic on an interstate or a highway was just beautifully shot. I thought that was one of the most exciting action sequences you can do in that particular situation. You know what I'm saying? It didn't feel CG heavy. It didn't feel like they were on a soundstage or anything like that. It felt practical. And you know, Thank you. That's my love letter. Love language, I should say. I love practical stunts and effects. Once you do that, you pretty much have me hooked. Deeply enjoyed the second episode of Lanterns. It got me even more hooked than I did in the first episode. Like I said before, we didn't get that time jump. I was expecting to get a time jump to kind of... concurrently do these little mysteries where we're trying to solve what's going on in 2016 as well as 2026 at the same time because that is a big mystery you know not not just hal jordan being murdered but the fact that his ring is missing i saw something online that somebody said oh no that uh guy garner has the ring Well, no, that still wouldn't make sense because Guy Garner already has the ring. In Superman, in Peacemaker, he already has a ring. So it wouldn't make sense for him to have Hal Jordan's ring as well. So it's kind of weird that that was put out there. I think the writers put that out there. If they did, they really fumbled on that one. That just doesn't make sense. lick of sense but anyways uh yeah really enjoyed this episode i want to know what are your theories who do you think the manhunter could be do you think is martian manhunter john jones that is hiding out in nebraska or do you think it's somebody else another manhunter now martian manhunter uh is the last manhunter theoretically but we find out in the comics that there are more you know they're just scattered all over the galaxy is not too many of them but is this that manhunter is it him is it somebody else and if it is who is the manhunter is it somebody that's on the show or is it somebody we have yet to meet i would love to know your thoughts subscribe to the kbradionetwork.com website where you can be notified of new episodes that drops on it. the website, as well as listen to previous episodes here on the KB Radio Network. Also, don't forget about YouTube. Subscribe to the channel and like this video while you're there. 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