Hal is *very* ditzy in First Flight -- which didn't shock me, but that's because I get most of my Hal-knowledge from scans_daily, where they play up his ditzy qualities -- and the old Superfriends cartoon, where he was always creating spatulas and tongs to deal with the bad guys...
It's actually not a bad sequence, even if it starts some part of my brain wanting to call him "Pretty Sailor Green Lantern."
Oh, yes, I too thought that.
but the Weaponers of Qward were one of my favorite bits of the movie. Creepy, alien, totally unimpressed by Sinestro, and their chilly warning that the imperfection in every weapon is its user was a very good line.
Oh, I loved the Weaponers. Sinestro was nothing to them, and he didn't quite know how to deal with their utter indifference.
It is very, very in character for Hal to try to shift boulders with his bare hands to get to a functional ring so he can fight Sinestro (and this after Sinestro has wiped out dozens of far more experienced GLs) and then when that doesn't work to bang on the ultimate source of the Green Energy so hard it breaks open.
He's a test pilot, not an engineer, damnit!
I think the version of Hal Jordan in New Frontier is a better hero than the one in First Flight. I certainly like him better as a *person*.
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Date: 2009-09-17 10:30 pm (UTC)It's actually not a bad sequence, even if it starts some part of my brain wanting to call him "Pretty Sailor Green Lantern."
Oh, yes, I too thought that.
but the Weaponers of Qward were one of my favorite bits of the movie. Creepy, alien, totally unimpressed by Sinestro, and their chilly warning that the imperfection in every weapon is its user was a very good line.
Oh, I loved the Weaponers. Sinestro was nothing to them, and he didn't quite know how to deal with their utter indifference.
It is very, very in character for Hal to try to shift boulders with his bare hands to get to a functional ring so he can fight Sinestro (and this after Sinestro has wiped out dozens of far more experienced GLs) and then when that doesn't work to bang on the ultimate source of the Green Energy so hard it breaks open.
He's a test pilot, not an engineer, damnit!
I think the version of Hal Jordan in New Frontier is a better hero than the one in First Flight. I certainly like him better as a *person*.