WEBVTT - Lanterns S1E02 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:08.000 Warning. Today's episode contains spoilers for episode two of Lanterns 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:28.560 on HBO Max b Warted. Hello, it is Jason Concepcio 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:30.880 and I'm raisey night and welcome back to the extra 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.160 vision of the podcast wed A DVD, Favorite Shows, Movies, Coments, 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:35.240 My culture comb or where were you of the episodes 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:37.120 we listeners. 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:41.360 In today's episode, we are recapping Latin's episode to trust 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.760 for Trustfall. Hope you like aliens and hot sci fi 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:46.600 guys because we're gang weird. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:55.320 Let's get into it. It is not the earliest morning 0:00:55.400 --> 0:01:01.360 after seven am, Rushville, Nebraska, twenty sixteen. I think seven 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.800 am after seven pretty late for a Lantern trainee to 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:11.920 be waking up. But he's but John is is cozially asleep, 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:16.040 tucked in in bed. Hal Jordan sneaks into the hotel 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:20.000 room and dumps a bucket of water on his trainee. 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:25.360 Get up. Time to learn to fly? How's instructions are 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:29.520 extremely minimal. He gives John, He gives you the ring, 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:32.800 says put it on and fly. That's it, Just fly. 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:35.640 How as bad as a trade now, I'm not gonna 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:36.520 lie this episode. 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:38.520 He's not doing great as a trader. 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.839 It's easy for how to you know to say after 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.039 one many years of wearing the ring, and two the 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.880 fact that he's a pilot, so thank you, has that 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:54.440 innate instinct for flight, which John does not have. Former 0:01:54.480 --> 0:02:00.360 marine in this telling apparently not no architecture back. But 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:07.320 we're let's let's see, let's see. But John tries really hard, 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.119 goes up on his stoopy toes and everything like he's 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:11.240 masturbating in the shower. 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:12.320 It's crazy. 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:16.080 It's crazy that the toe the toe positions on the 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:17.760 toes were cracking me up. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.960 I was like, okay, he does not say flight. He 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:25.760 instead conjures a small green bird like the Song of the 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:30.440 Sparrow basically, which is not big, which is not not 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:35.360 does not seem like a big deal until John takes 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.000 off the ring because it's almost dead, very little charge 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:41.280 left in it, hands it back to Hal, who powers 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.880 it down and notices the bird does not disappear. 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:48.280 Yes, very interesting is an implication of John's power. 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:54.320 Very very interesting. Hal takes note of this, conceals his 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:55.880 curiosity about. 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.119 It, trying to act like he's not interested, but we're 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.800 all watching him be like yes'm and replaced like and 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.520 then he gives John a new task, which is take 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:10.080 take this here airline ticket, fly in a window seat, 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:17.040 probably coach back to Coast City, get my lantern from 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:21.839 my house, and don't let this little bird die. 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.639 That's your other. That's really your big task. Remain focused 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.760 on the bird, and if you lose focus, the bird 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:34.079 will disappear and you fail this task. Also feed a pet, 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:38.520 which you will discover what it is. John goes off. 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:42.680 Hal goes alone back to the bleachers where the quadruples 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:46.200 shooting took place, and he notices the metal detectors all 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.280 around the football field. He goes into town. He's like, 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.080 where the fuck is everybody's streets are empty. He flies 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.520 up completely dead in town. He flies up, sees all 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.720 the cars parked by the meeting hall or whatever you 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:03.320 know local like Knights of Columbus or whatever. His ring dies. 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:04.960 He falls to the ground and he has to walk 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.560 over to this meeting hall and when he gets inside 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.960 he notices one more metal detectors and two that the 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:17.440 conversation just stops. When he walks in, he says, hey, 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:21.960 were you all talking about me? He notices Sheriff Macon 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.200 up on the stage at the mic with the other 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:29.400 luminaries of the town around her, and it really does 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:30.400 seem like they were. 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.400 Talking about him, yeah, definitely, or. 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.120 Talking about something that they don't want him to know about. 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.480 It was very like, you know the moment in American 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.760 we welf in London where you walk in and everyone 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:46.960 in the bar stops barring. It's like the I was 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:48.320 giving that sure. 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.360 Sheriff Macon is like, no, no, no, we were talking about, 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:57.279 you know, there's been this very traumatic quadruple shooting, and 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.880 we were talking about whether this week's football game should 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:06.679 go forward. Very normal stuff. How goes in, he sits down, 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:12.520 Billy Macon, his lawyer. Sheriff Macon's husband comes sits next 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:16.120 to him and is like, hey, good good news. Chargers 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.720 have been dropped. You don't have to pay me, and 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:24.080 you can leave, like you should leave great weather, like 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:29.840 you should, like you could yeah, like, and it really 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.960 does seem like, you know, Billy would would like love 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:38.360 him to leave. Over in Coast City, JS arrives at 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:45.920 How's shockingly palatial mansion to find outside numerous rocks where 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:49.760 a key could be its pile of there's like a 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:53.719 hedge or like a what would you call it? Like 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:54.200 a hedge. 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:58.080 It's almost like it's it's almost sort of like a planta, 0:05:58.200 --> 0:05:59.280 but just full of rocks. 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:04.120 Hello, there's a there's a long hedge that's like twenty 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.560 yards long leading up to the front door, and all 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:08.760 below that is rocks. 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:09.159 Yep. 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:13.920 So he calls Hal to get the right rock and 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:18.560 is like how much do you make? Like how much? Islanders? 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:23.120 Like how? And All's like, no, the house is a gift. 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.520 I saved the guy's kid and he was wealthy and 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.400 he couldn't help. But he just gave me a house, 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:29.520 and I'd let him give me a house. 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.640 House says not enough, but it's like, maybe you could 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:33.599 have sold this house. 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.640 The house is like a millionaires of dollars. Could have 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.960 made eighty million dollars selling the house, Like how did 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:44.599 the chandeli is? You still would have to pay properly 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:48.480 taxes right on the on the on the first of all, 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:50.200 getting the house, he'd have to pay the taxes and 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:57.560 then whatever. So he's making he's making good money. Inside, 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.720 it's like Hal never really moved in, but he did 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.640 put it up. The pictures of himself with like the 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:07.200 Pope and all these other famous people. Hal is describing 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:10.280 it to John like where the lantern is. Go to 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.000 my closet. He's got this huge walking closet that's like 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:18.840 the size of my house. And in there is the safe, 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.760 and the safe is a pocket dimension and here's how 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:22.680 you get into it. 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:24.760 James loves the pocket dimension. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:28.040 Love a pocket It is really cool. So yeah, you know, 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.600 he gets the safe open. John reaches in eventually does 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:36.040 get the lantern. Out, sees the green lantern suits and 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:40.360 is like and clearly entranced by these suits, and he's like, hey, hell, 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:41.880 do you need me to bring a suit, and How's like, 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:46.720 don't worry about it. John goes out to feed Earl, 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.080 who is out in the greenhouse, which is this entire 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:53.960 separate other house because my apology, Yeah, goes out there 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:57.960 and and Earl turns out to be a carnivorous little 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:04.960 horror style alien plant living on the property. While they 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:11.320 are having this conversation, how is stealing bodies from this scene? 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.600 This shows you, I think, I mean, I don't know 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:15.480 like it. 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.440 I think it shows you how much jurisdiction the green 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.840 Lains have and how this scene because like this is 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:24.080 such a ridiculous scene. There's just like anyone else is 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.600 getting arrested if they do this right. 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:28.360 But Jon's like, fuck it, I can do I. 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:33.120 Wan so how uh so? How steals these bodies from 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:37.559 the morgue and puts them in the rental, takes them 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.160 over to the football field where he discovers that these 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:46.400 metal detectors are actually very very advanced alien detectives. Oh remember, 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:50.160 there are multiple species of aliens that cannot be detected 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:53.000 by any kind of known scientific means, so these are 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:54.560 super super advanced tech. 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:55.000 Mm hmm. 0:08:56.760 --> 0:09:00.000 Sheriff Macon pulls him over as he's driving around town 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:04.000 with multiple dead alien bodies that look like humans. 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:05.960 Are naked in the car. 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.720 It looks very naked, naked and dead in the car, 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.880 and they have a conversation about what's going on. How's like, 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:14.600 this is exactly what you think it is. It's very 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.880 clear that she knows a lot about what's going on 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:20.040 in town. She knew about the alien detectors. She knows 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.560 what her father in law is up to, but she 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:27.040 won't say. She admits that he's very interested in aliens, 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:30.480 which is not a crime, and she, like everybody else, 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.160 would really like it if had left town. But she 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.360 is like so I can do my job. You're actually 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.960 like fucking up my job. Because the way she frames 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:44.320 it is there is whatever her father in law is 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:48.600 up to, it is a competing power center with her 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:55.320 own authority in town, and how's continued presence in town 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:59.040 is driving more people into the arms of her father 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.520 in law, William Macon, and she would like that not 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.160 to stop. But again she gives him very little information. 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.959 Yeah, it's it's and he kind of basically he kind 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:08.400 of you can tell one. 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.600 There's like this flirtation between the two of. 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.520 Them, there is, there is a little bit they see 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:14.960 them very fun in the in the scene in the 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.840 town hall when she says hey Darlin to her husband 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:19.920 and hall ants is back as well, like they do 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:23.040 a good job at it, but he plays on her 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.200 morals hair and kind of goes, well, whose side are 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:27.520 you on because it kind of sounds like maybe you're 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.319 on your husband's father's side and that's why you don't 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.480 want me, And she kind of goes, well, actually, like 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:35.000 maybe we can work something out. So I think that 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:39.120 they're building on a fun, fun, little play allyship between 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:39.640 those two. 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:46.280 The theme of cooking is very present in the first 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:51.120 two episodes of the Lanterns program in which Helen is trainee, 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:58.360 JS certainly do appear to be actively attempting to cook 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.920 notable figures in the town anywhere. 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.720 You know what, we respect that respect it if that's 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:08.000 your thing. In Clone adults, that's actually you don't have 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.120 to be unafraid. You just really have to be into 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.560 cuckolding other people. That's how they picked. 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:19.400 The Green Lantern. Anyway, she agrees to take how to 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:25.079 William Macon's militia ranch, which he manages for some unknown guy. Too. 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:27.080 We don't have to basically at the end of the 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:30.720 episode to basically just like whatever, you can talk to 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:34.680 William yourself and just ask it. They go over there. 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.760 They go inside the gate by like two steps, which 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:42.040 is more than Sheriff Making really wanted how to go. 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.800 She wanted him to stay outside and like, address will 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:49.840 you Making from outside the property. But he's William lant 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.880 her to do it right. William Acan just turns out 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:57.000 to be at that gate of what I imagine is 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:00.000 like a many many miles long perimeter of the product. 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.320 He kind of rides over in his horse. He's like, 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.360 stay out of there, stay out of here. I can't 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.800 answer your questions because of the NDA. I can't talk 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:12.240 about who's funding the thing. Yes, my boss really exists, 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:17.640 stay out, don't take any further steps into my property. 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.600 That man in the in the guard post over there 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:22.840 in his orders to shoot house, like you crazy? Are 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:24.920 you gonna shoot me? The sheriffs like he can legally 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.080 do that? He's like, yeah, but I got the ring. 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.280 What are you gonna do? But the rings out of power? 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.400 He's bluffing and then a shot rings out? And how 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:31.920 gets shot? 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.360 Which, first of all, he was really pushing it like 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.640 he was basically like, how can I get shot? 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.840 Second of all, we have to answer ask this question here. 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:46.240 The implication of I don't think it's unconnected that they 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.640 introduce a pocket dimension in this episode, and then they 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:55.400 also introduce high tech alien kind of technology that shouldn't 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:56.240 exist in America. 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.679 In nineteen ninety six is lex. 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:01.320 Luc No way, it's two thousand six, Oh too, sorry, 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:04.520 sorry sorry twenty sixteen. I got my three timelines mixed 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.640 up bevid in twenty sixteen it shouldn't exist. 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.040 Yeah, are we saying? 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:10.720 I think it's safe to say that they want us 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.199 to at least think that Lex Luthor is the boss 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:17.040 of this it's I think that is at. 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:18.280 Least the implication will have. 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.640 There's gonna be a lot of questions at the end 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:22.960 of this episode that we can have some fun theorizing on, 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.560 and that's one of them. But I think the note 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:29.640 of the high tech alien, you know, finders and the 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.120 pocket dimension, if we think about Superman, I think they're 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.600 wanting us to make those connections. I think it's also 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:36.959 a red herring. Probably looking at this show. 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.600 I do think it's a red herring as well. I 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:43.240 think they're going in a very straightforward direction based on 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:45.679 what is revealed later. But I do agree with you. 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.880 I think like they want the fans to feel that way. 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:54.360 For a general non comics reading audience, I think they're 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:57.679 meant to wonder if this is Lex exactly. For the 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:03.080 people who have read comics and Green Lantern comics in particular, 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:08.079 and or or have some familiarity with the lore, I 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:12.600 think what this is probably seems pretty obvious to the 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:14.360 point that I wonder if that's even around. 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.120 That's why I'm trying to work out too. But we'll 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:16.760 talk about that more. 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:21.040 We will talk about that, Martin anyway, So while that 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:26.480 was happening in Nebraska, John is getting kidnapped. Oh oh, 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:31.360 he gets tased immediately after leaving house house, wakes up 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:36.000 in a van with a bag over his head. They 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.960 take the bag off. He's talking to one of the 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.200 guys like, where's my bird? He's like, your bird is fine? 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:46.280 Can I just the guys out and still alive? 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:50.480 So just think about what that means to his willpower, intensity, 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.840 for his connection to the lantern and to this is 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.840 the truth about John Stewart's powers in the comics. He 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.240 doesn't always need the ring. So let's just say that 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.280 they are leaning in to that here. Also want to 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.240 say great action scene. This for me is the best 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.520 one we've had so far in my action scene. 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.880 And I will say this episode I was maybe I 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:16.200 was I had put some doubts upon the emotional bandwidth 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.600 of mister Pierre as an actor. I think he's great 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:19.960 in the sense he's unbelievable. 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.960 I would also say the bird is like such a 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:26.520 good aspect to bring because we know he's vegan, we 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:28.640 know he cares about animals, We get the kind of 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.680 connection with him and Earl. It really adds a different 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:33.840 layer to what we got last week, which was kind 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:38.080 of this stoic, militarized kind of just he's he's the 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:40.240 good one. He knows what he's doing, and John and 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.800 Hal is kind of the silly like older guy who's. 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:43.920 A little bit off rogue. 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.000 The RMPS stuff in this is so good. And also 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.200 I just want to shout out the writer specifically, because 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.760 I don't know when I've ever seen such a fun 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:56.560 just like somebody running down the highway action scene, Like 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:57.800 it feels like a movie. 0:15:57.840 --> 0:15:59.960 When you're watching it, You're like, I want to watch 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:00.520 this ship. 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.480 He's a he was a track athlete. No, so I 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.560 think that, like he's. 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.720 Just he just looks good as hell. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:10.400 He's running down that highway and I was. 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:15.000 Like, well, we've skipped ahead. So he does. He finds 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.360 out that the bird is fine fine. He ends up 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:19.680 fighting one of his captors, escapes from the van, goes 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:24.680 running beautifully beautiful powerful strides as he goes running down 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:28.720 the highway with the lantern in his weekend or bag 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:32.000 slung across his back, but the attackers when they get 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:36.160 him back, he wakes up again in an abandoned building 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.160 and a man sitting across room who's kind of who's 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:43.440 you know, apologetic about what's happening, like sorry for the violence. 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:48.080 Tell me about the bird. How is how Jordan keeping 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:52.920 the bird like alive and existing despite the fact that 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:56.840 he's so far away, And John is like, no, I'm 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:01.560 doing that, and and the guy is like, holy shit, 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:06.840 that's fucking I thought if John was doing that from 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.639 miles away, that would be impressive, but actually this is like, 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:14.879 really really impressive. He discovered. He introduces himself as an 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:20.400 alien named Anton. He says, we're all aliens. We don't 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:24.960 want to kill you, we want to recruit you because 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.320 of this manhunter issue we're having. Do you know anything 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.840 about manhunters? Like, I've never what's a man hunters? So 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:34.520 really you don't. You're agree you don't know anything, and 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:39.199 they're and he's like, no, I've never heard of manhunters. 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.040 It's like holy shit. Okay, well, we're gonna give you 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:45.760 the lore about manhunters and we're gonna upload it directly 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:49.840 into your mind. And it's very, very troubling. It is. 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.159 I also want to tell you if it seems fabilia 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.399 to you like it's from the Turtles, it's because the 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.400 Manhunters were created by Jack Cubby, who also created the Tunnels, 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:58.720 and it's exactly the same story. 0:17:58.800 --> 0:17:59.480 I love you guys. 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:04.480 So the law is this before the before the Core 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:10.240 was created. The Guardians, in a time of total chaos, 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:13.960 needed a police force, so they created the Manhunters. This 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:25.960 is pre Core, and they were these synthetic kind of robots. 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:26.159 In this that kind of like synthetic being. Do you 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:29.720 know we could they kind of more very high tech 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.080 robots if they are, but they are like Manhunters, their 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:36.120 shape shifters. Yes, they can pauses any species undetected. 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:40.560 They can build weapons beyond anything that the occupied world 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:44.760 the worlds that they occupied could produce. They wiped out civilizations, 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:51.239 including ant Huon's civilization, which you know, like is a 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:54.720 horrible experience, and this is what they want to share 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:57.680 with John, So they put the memories of the destruction 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:05.600 of this civilization into John. Also, Aton and the other 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.840 aliens their homeworld like really trusted the Guardians. So this 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:14.119 like this destruction by the creation of the Guardians was 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:20.120 an immense, immense, immense betrayal. It's clear that the experience 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:24.920 of these traumatic memories is very, very painful for John. 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:28.720 He screams, but the bird stays existing, stays. 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:32.480 Flying even when he's being traumatized and terrorized and being 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:36.840 like literally fed generational trauma. Like it shows how innate 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:38.720 that the powers are. To John, I also want to 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.840 say this is very interesting because I was thinking a 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:44.320 lot about your theory from the pilot about the corruption 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:48.040 of the Guardians. I do think that there is that 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:50.199 layer to it. But I also think it's gonna be 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:53.200 this kind of like I think we're gonna get introduced 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:55.800 to like two sides of the Guardian mentality, well, like 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:59.240 the conflict between the Guardians and kind of how they 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:00.920 think you should play the universe. 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:03.399 We will talk about this more because I do have 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:09.120 I have amended my theory slightly, although I still believe that. 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:11.160 I think I think it's just why yeah, and yes, 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:12.280 I agree. 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:16.680 So Anton is like, hey, that was terrible, right now 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:18.280 you understand why we have to do what we were 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:20.240 going to do. We have to find this man Hunter 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:24.040 and kill it and you know, get justice for our people, 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:27.159 but also like make the galaxy safe because it's a 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:32.600 very very dangerous being and we can't get into the 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:35.720 town undetected because of the technology that they have, but 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:39.159 you can so you go in there, call us on 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:41.600 this burner phone, and then we will go in there 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:45.520 and kill it. And if you don't do that, we 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.920 will all go there and just detonate our suicide vests. 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:54.240 And sadly that will destroy like the town and probably 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:57.440 much of the state of Nebraska. But like, that's what 0:20:57.600 --> 0:20:59.000 we need to do. 0:20:59.040 --> 0:20:59.240 It. 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:02.600 You have four for eight hours, or we will just 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:06.560 just blow up half the state. Okay, let's go to 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:08.159 a break and we'll be right back to finish out 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:26.160 the recount. We're back. Hal wakes up in the hospital 0:21:26.200 --> 0:21:32.080 to find Sheriff Carrie making making Google eyes our Yeah, 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:35.760 big big old Google eyes, and she says, hey, who's Sinestra? 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:37.520 You were talking about him and you're sleep. 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:38.600 Oh well you. 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:43.520 Hal is extremely concerned about this, especially the fact that 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:46.000 he's been like talking in his sleep about apparently like 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:50.479 very very sensitive guardian stuff. But she's like, no, don't worry. Well, 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:53.760 I googled Sinester and I learned. 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:57.639 Some stuff about Also, like the internet was just loving 0:21:57.640 --> 0:21:58.120 this movement. 0:21:58.200 --> 0:21:59.919 They're like, imagine if you could just like google s. 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:04.320 And fictional like it was just like law and I 0:22:04.359 --> 0:22:07.840 also did love like I gotta I want to know 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:11.359 if there's some tiny, whimy, weird shit going on or something. 0:22:11.560 --> 0:22:13.719 I just love the way that like Hal just doesn't 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:16.600 really seems he knows he's famous, but he's also always 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:18.760 like ten years behind everyone else in that kind of 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:19.480 knowledge base. 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:20.720 I don't know. It's good. 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:23.879 And obviously, like I do respect the writers for being like, 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:27.040 we're just gonna put Kyle Chandler in a football stadium 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:27.680 every day. 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:31.760 I get it. I love it. So she's like, yeah, 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:34.440 I google him. He is a former lantern. He led 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:36.760 a coup, he tried to take over the Guardians, he 0:22:36.840 --> 0:22:40.120 killed some lanterns, and you brought him down and put 0:22:40.200 --> 0:22:44.720 him in jail. She then says, listen, you're fucking me 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:50.040 up being here in town messing with William macan, getting 0:22:50.080 --> 0:22:52.639 involved in the whole thing. She makes it seem like, listen, 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:55.600 I am dealing with it. I understand, and we're on 0:22:55.640 --> 0:22:58.960 the same side in that I understand that there's some 0:22:59.160 --> 0:23:01.960 complex issue use visa vi aliens and it's really weird. 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:03.720 But you don't know what's going on. I know what's 0:23:03.720 --> 0:23:07.280 going on. Let me deal with it, Okay. They walk 0:23:07.320 --> 0:23:13.359