# Lanterns (the green kind) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, hbomax-wb-dc\ **Created:** [August 17, 2026, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374 "2026-08-17T05:23:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374/261 "2026-09-23T02:02:48Z")
So the show about Green Arrow was called “Arrow”. The show about Green Lanterns is called “Lanterns”. Does this mean that we can expect a show called “Hornet” sometime soon. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374/262 "2026-09-23T04:06:56Z")
And a gritty series: _“Mr. Jeans”._ (with Mr. Moose as a sidekick) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374/263 "2026-09-23T11:47:18Z")
_ **Giant** _ - “Eat your veggies or get stomped flat” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374/264 "2026-09-23T12:36:22Z")
It’s not easy Being. ---
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374/265 "2026-09-23T12:49:39Z")
Fried tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is being remade as we speak. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374/266 "2026-09-23T13:49:49Z")
And kids will be singing about Great Gobs of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374/267 "2026-09-23T13:51:45Z")
Will the board game _Clue_ (_Cluedo_) be short a character/suspect, then? Will folk songsters be rhapsodizing about _The Grass of Home_? ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374/268 "2026-09-23T22:17:46Z")
And they make it work! And Hal doesn’t wear the suit that often because it’s hard to take a piss in that thing. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374/269 "2026-09-23T22:18:59Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > And Hal doesn’t wear the suit that often because it’s hard to take a piss in that thing. Plus, there’s that whole yellow weakness that the GL rings have. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374/270 "2026-09-23T22:27:22Z")
One possibility I haven’t seen is that the show is a lead-in to the upcoming _Man of Tomorrow_ movie. The poster for that has both Guy and John, but no Hal (yet ), and the villain will be Brainiac, who is noted for his use of illusions, among other things. He could thus be the Guardian, and set Sinestro free, in order that the Corpsbwould be too conflicted to cause him trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374/271 "2026-09-24T00:40:44Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > And Hal doesn’t wear the suit that often because it’s hard to take a piss in that thing. He’s got the most powerful weapon in the universe. How hard could it be to make a fly appear when he needed one? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374/272 "2026-09-24T00:42:37Z")
Would there be a risk of missing and installing a zipper on his penis? Because that could lead one to hesitate. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374/273 "2026-09-24T00:51:57Z")
In this show? Maybe. I’m still trying to figure out how a decommissioned ring could still work. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374/274 "2026-09-24T00:56:28Z")
Hal showed John in, IIRC, the second episode that hitting the ring on a flat surface somehow allowed access to an additional five percent power. I don’t think there is any precedent for ‘decommissioning’ a ring. They usually go and pick their next user. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374/275 "2026-09-24T01:03:32Z")
Maybe “decommissioning” is just a fancy way of saying “put it in a drawer”. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374/276 "2026-09-24T01:06:41Z")
It sure seems like that is what happened. Tossed in a junk drawer with random paper clips, rubber bands and take out menues. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374/277 "2026-09-24T01:13:45Z")
Why not give that one to Guy? Not familiar with the comics, but there’s some sentience there? One ring would choose him while another would decline? ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374/278 "2026-09-24T12:13:29Z")
Green Lantern is a long running comic so anything and everything regarding the Guardians can and has happened but I think at the core the Guardians are sincere in their desire for promoting peace and justice. They are imperfect in their methods (see: The Manhunters) but I think they are trying to do good. As far as the show, I wonder if the Guardian we have met has her own agenda and doesn’t actually speak for the Guardians proper. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374/279 "2026-09-24T13:16:13Z")
I just want to know how Noah would just happen to have a black suit that fits John? I mean if, the show was trying to squash a plot hole when he shows up properly dressed, all they did was move it one space to the left. . . ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374/280 "2026-09-24T13:56:03Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > One possibility I haven’t seen is that the show is a lead-in to the upcoming _Man of Tomorrow_ movie. The poster for that has both Guy and John, but no Hal (yet ), and the villain will be Brainiac, who is noted for his use of illusions, among other things. He could thus be the Guardian, and set Sinestro free, in order that the Corpsbwould be too conflicted to cause him trouble. I think the DCU is going to try and avoid the “you must watch the shows to know what’s going on in the movies” trap that has plagued the last few years of the MCU. The world of Superman appears to be “yep, there’s other superheroes out there. You don’t need to know their backstory.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanterns-the-green-kind/1032374.md?page=15)