#and as a less pressing but nonetheless still impt reason i think it expands the mythos beyond reason personally | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

roobylavender · 2 years

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If I may ask, what exactly is the issue with the Emotional Spectrum? I'm kind of mixed on the execution, but given the elements of the Green Lantern mythos, it seems like a logical extension.

i don’t think the logical extension of there being an emotional spectrum is what bothers me per se (well. with the star sapphires as a notable exception) i am just not really keen on the idea of there being multiple corps in existence bc it undermines why the existence of even one was so ill-advised and prone to abuses in power. modern green lantern lore in general is very unfocused to me like sure there are some cool ideas wrt space adventures and warring factions and different rings lining up with different life experiences but in the end what i read green lantern comics for was the critical political element and commentary and i don’t see that reflected to quite the same effect in the way johns reworks the mythos

#like some of the other corps (sinestro and red lantern for example) do present interesting questions as to how justice should be served #or why it should be served. etc etc. but ultimately johns still wants to maintain the overarching structures #which is personally useless to me like none of these structures should exist #and as a less pressing but nonetheless still impt reason i think it expands the mythos beyond reason personally #like there’s no way any level of depth can be achieved in exploring these factions while they’re a part of a larger dc universe #so now all the lanterns really do is play side piece to everyone else’s conflicts bc there’s no room to do anything else #and granted part of that has to do with the change in the comics market like it was way different back in the 80s #but even then i think it was comparatively contained #idk i think a lot of geoff johns ideas are literally just so different and new he was better off creating an original product #rather than trying to rewrite an existing history #it’s not like the green lanterns were an original concept anyway i’m sure he could have gotten away with something #outbox

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