How could forgive you? I can't. Go enjoy your boy while you can. Good job, son.
Thanks, Mom. Bring him back. First, I need you to do something for me.
Hal is dead, like you requested. We shall move on to phase two of our plans. Keep an eye on the new lantern and his development.
Hi, everyone. It's your boy, Zach. And I'm a big fan of disdain.
Of people. As individuals, as groups, especially as groups. Especially anytime anyone wants to subcontract their thinking.
Out to some bearded, bellowing, British idiot. Or some freaking hillbilly. Just any time you subcontract your own thinking to anyone, that's pathetic.
But there's a line from Jay and Silent Bob Striped Back. I forget exactly what it is, but it's basically the subtitle for this video. It's like, we gave the common man a voice, and this is what he chose to do.
With that power, with that opportunity. Was just act like an idiot and sell out all of his integrity for chump change. Essentially.
But we can't keep having these conversations. I discussed this yesterday, but especially just the comments. It's just, everybody's just, it's like they're babies.
It's like, well, in season two, they can adapt rebirth. Yeah, that's what they're gonna do. It's gonna have the whole Justice League there.
And it's gonna, Hal Jordan's gonna come to Spectre. Because we can't ever have a death that means anything. Or a hero that isn't constantly congratulated.
And, sorry, the rain's really beautiful right now. The idea of talking about 50 year old men with Leonidas beards. Complaining about the Disney Channel.
It suddenly doesn't really feel like it's worth anything. Anyway, Perch at the end of his review of the entire... Well, I guess it's more the ending of Lanterns. Okay, now that just sounds like someone peeing.
Like, the rain looks beautiful, but it built up enough on the... Yeah, that just sounds like someone pissing. So, he was talking about Lanterns. Sorry, WANTONS! And he was very disappointed in the ending.
Specifically, the answers to the mysteries. And I wasn't really agreeing with where he was going. I feel like in the mystery genre.
Especially the mystery box sub-genre to the mystery genre. It's not about the answer, it's about getting to the answer. It's about all the subplots and adventures and traps you get in and out of.
To find out that a woman got angry and snap-fired and got a lucky shot. I guess an unlucky shot for her and everybody. And then Hal, like, perfectly just sat down on the bleacher.
I never understood why he just let someone walk up to him and just shoot him while he was sitting in the bleachers. Well, the answer was... Oh, forgot to say spoilers. He was standing.
Carrie, his girlfriend, got scared when he said he was going to go after Noah, her son, because he's a manhunter. And don't think I didn't notice that his mullet connects to his sideburn. I was noticing it the entire time.
It's an infinity loop. His sideburn becomes his hair, becomes his sideburn, becomes his hair, becomes his sideburn, becomes his hair. This video is a lot sillier than I thought it was going to be.
A lot of distractions. But anyway, wow, this is some really nice, beautiful rain. But he was talking about, you know, he didn't like the mystery because the solution to the mystery wasn't interesting.
Well, if you've ever done anything technical, especially with computers, when you're troubleshooting, the answer, like, it's so interesting finding out the answer, but the answer is inevitably somebody transposed two numbers. Or there was a space where there was supposed to... Or there was two spaces, but it's only supposed to be one space. That's it.
You'll spend hours, days, weeks troubleshooting something, and that's the answer. Transposed numbers or a double space that was supposed to be a single space. That was it.
That's what you spent weeks on. But it wasn't about the answer, which is usually boring. It's about getting there.
But at the end, he said something that I really liked. He says, I have friends who enjoyed this, and he basically said, I wish they could explain to me how they enjoyed it so I could enjoy it. Now, that was going to be a second video, but that's what this one is turning into.
Because my original vision of this video was just basically yesterday's video with a better title of Fandom, because fans are just... Just the way they act like babies, it's like... And then he's going to turn into the Spectre, and then the Justice League is going to... He's going to come back, and then we're going to find out Parallax... He never did anything bad because it was Parallax. It was Parallax's fault. What a cop-out.
Like, come on. Especially in the comics, I feel like Hal Jordan is permanently stained, but not this one. I mean, they did explain why he went to jail.
It was reckless endangerment. Basically being macho and daring a shootout when he could have just not done that, and then there wouldn't have been a shootout. So, okay, that made more sense.
But the way you enjoy things is... How do I explain it? It's like explaining how to fly. Like, you just fly. So a lot of it is letting go of all whatever bullshit was happening with you, and the culture, and all the usual shitheads we know of, who are going to say the same stupid... All these Facebook unks who just like to hate on art.
And you have to go like... Getting back to what I said. Disdain. You just have to hold all these people in a general level of disdain and say their opinions are worthless.
These are liars. These are people without integrity. So nothing they say, nothing their accolades say to me is really going to affect that.
I'm going to try to enjoy it because this was made to be enjoyed. When you order some carbonara and you eat it, your enjoyment or lack of enjoyment of it is not a referendum on Italian politics in the 20th century. It's literally, do you like cheap noodles with milk and cheese and ham and salt? That's basically... What is the other thing? Is somebody listening to opera? It's a very interesting afternoon.
Is that opera? So somebody's enjoying opera nearby. So you got to let go of all the bullshit and there's a lot of bullshit. In Ukraine, a lot of the drones, they trail these wires.
And over the years of the war, there's just like these thin filaments. Everywhere. And just people are getting caught on them constantly.
And that's what I feel the culture war has done to everything. Oh, if I like this, am I helping this side of shitheads who likes things for the wrong reasons? If I dislike it, am I going to be lumped in with some dork-ass Facebook unks who never gave it a chance? And Perch talked about it. He gave it a chance.
He liked it. He didn't like it. So I think this is about the journey.
So there's this thought experiment. It was referenced in... What was it? Vision? Vision Quest is the new one that comes out next week. What was the other one with the vision? Anyway, they talk about the Ship of Theseus.
And the Ship of Theseus is a thought experiment where you have this ship. And over the years, every plank is replaced with a different plank. Is that the Ship of Theseus? If it doesn't have any of the original parts.
And then the other part of that is if you took all those planks and assembled another ship out of the original planks, is that the Ship of Theseus? And so it's a thought experiment where they're both the Ship of Theseus. Neither one of them are the Ship of Theseus. I contend that the ship is actually the journey it went on.
That there was a guy named Theseus. He built a boat. And no matter what it was made of, that's the Ship of Theseus.
Whatever consistently went through the ocean, that's the Ship of Theseus. The other one with the parts, that's a second ship. And the original, even if it has none of the original parts, that's still the Ship of Theseus.
That's my opinion. So you're going on this journey with the creators. Okay, this is getting a little silly.
Now we're just, okay, getting Nortenos. It's a very active afternoon. It's usually not like this.
But anyway, you're going on a journey with people who, for the most part, want you to enjoy it. And want you to go on a journey with them. That's part of art.
You can't just make it in a vacuum. At some point you need to hand this off to someone and be like, Hey, I made this thing. I think it's pretty great.
What do you think of it? And that's how art works. Art requires both ends. It requires someone to create the art and someone to appreciate it.
Or at least give it a chance. Even if they completely reject it. If you make art and you don't show it to anyone, I think it's not art.
So I enjoy the concept of art. The process. The journey.
The handoff of these guys going like, Hey, you didn't like the Ryan Reynolds, so we're trying something else that we think you might like. We're actually getting a little crazy with it. We feel like going crazy with it makes it more interesting.
And if you look at, and again, ratings do not determine artistic merit, but the ratings were rock solid. I think they actually went up for three episodes. Didn't really dip, but slightly leveled off.
And then went up again at the end. People liked it. People wanted to watch it.
People enjoyed it. Yes, it was frustrating at many times. In every episode except for the first episode that I watched three times.
I consider that to be essentially perfect. They really polished that first episode. The other episodes, they were just kind of, He went to a shopping mall and then he waited all night in a chair.
Where did the Guardian go at night? Does the Guardian have a house she goes to at night? Did she go into space and come back in the morning? Why did she come back during commuting hours the next day? But anyway, there was just a lot of good things. There was a lot of weird things. There was just a lot of a lot.
It was a real journey going through this. So I enjoyed it on that aspect. I enjoyed it on Kyle Chandler's portrayal of Hal Jordan, which was pitch perfect.
And anyone who says it isn't, is literally just either lying or doesn't know Hal Jordan the character. It's like, but why is he a drunk? He was never shown to be a drunk. But why is he selfish? I don't know.
Keeping your job. Is that really selfish? But why is he an asshole? You've never met a gruff man. When I was growing up, Hal Jordan was what every man acted like.
They were just kind of a gruff and macho and kind of unnecessarily confrontational. Just all the time. That's just how men were until like 30, 40 years ago.
You've really never, you don't have like a grandpa. You've never encountered this archetype of man, which used to be basically all men. The goo goo gaga about like, why are they doing things about race? I have an answer for you.
The Odyssey. You guys freaked out over a black woman in a movie for a fucking year straight. With zero media literacy to know that Helen of Troy is oddly enough, not a major character in the Odyssey after the war is over.
And they even did a meta bit where they were basically making fun of the idea that she was the most beautiful woman and that's why the war started. Her husband basically does a pop culture reference of the mythology of the war that was a real war in their world. So you can't say like, oh, race isn't a factor, there's no racism when you freaking Pecker Woods freaked out about a black woman in five minutes of a movie for a year straight.
And there are literally hundreds of examples of that, just from you shitheads over the last five years. So you can't pretend like race isn't a factor when you have proven that race is still a factor even in 2026. Was it done extremely ham-handed many times? Yes.
Is a black man in Nebraska in 2026 in danger of being lynched? No. One of the weirdest things about especially like liberal writers is they can't, they think there was a point where like racists were trying to exterminate black people. Like, oh, there's a black person, lynch him.
It's like they wouldn't just lynch a random black person for seeing them. There would usually be some elaborate, you know, Emmett Till events that they would purposely misconstrue, exaggerate, use it as an excuse. But there wasn't just like, we're going to kill every black.
And that's like a Nebraskan in 2026. But I went in to enjoy it. It was made to be enjoyed.
It went to a lot of places. It tried to be interesting. It succeeded in a lot.
It failed in a lot. Its batting average was more successes than failures. We have a absolutely generational depiction of how Jordan that defines the character for all.
Actually, I'm going to wrap this up because I think I'm babbling. But I saw a comment on yesterday's video that was just really nice. I think it was yesterday's video.
And they said, even if you don't like this take on the Green Lantern franchise, it illustrates how much depth can be in this franchise. It doesn't just have to be super friends. It can, you know, you can go to that, you know, left lateral limit and you can go to this right lateral limit.
All the things in between. So it really showed that there's a lot more depth than just a giant matchbox track or a giant boxing glove. So I enjoyed it.
I don't want a season two. I don't think there was ever a plan for a season two. I think this was a one and done just like Watchmen was.
And I would like to see these this team. This team more so than the Watchmen team, which was not the exact same people, even though there was some. I would love to see them do a character like the question.
Knowing that it's not going to be the version of the question that I like, which is the Denny O'Neill, Dennis Cowan version from 1987, something like that, 1988, that it's going to be their version, which is probably influenced by that version by the Ditko version by the. Who was the person that made him like a urban mystical sage? They're going to do their own take. So anyway, that's it.
I don't feel I don't feel like wrapping this up with a concluding paragraph. Anyway, thanks for watching. Bye.
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