WEBVTT - Lanterns S1E01 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:09.480 Worrying. Today's episode contains spoilers for episode one of Lanterns. 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:26.800 Hell it was Jasoncepcia and I'm Rosie Night and welcome 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:28.320 back to ext revision of the podcast where we dive 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.240 deep in your favorite shows, movies, comics of pop, poker 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:32.520 company Romaia, where we're bringing you three episodes week less. 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:36.840 News plus Snooze on Saturday's and in today's episode, guys, 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:40.800 it's finally here. It's a recap of Lantern's episode one pilot. Now, 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:44.120 we were not enabled to access screeners for this, which 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.639 is why you are getting it after we watched it 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:48.919 on Sunday night just like you, and we are going 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:50.839 to recap the episode. How do we feel about it? 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.520 There's a lot of buzz online and we'll be talking 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:55.600 about where we think the show is going to go next, 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.000 how this establishes. 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:01.440 Or helps the gun Verse, and what standouts are. 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:05.760 Plus, you may have heard big shocking reveal in this episode, 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:07.040 so we will be breaking that down too. 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:14.280 Let's dive into Lanterns. So we open with John Stewart 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:18.160 as a child. He's with his brothers in the den 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:22.880 watching sixty Minutes, an episode that is introducing the viewing 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:27.880 audience of that time to Earth's very first green lantern, 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.720 how Jordan talking about how he saved the Earth from 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.760 a meteorite and all this stuff. He's a very down 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.280 to earth type of guy. Coach Taylor all of that, 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:43.040 who frames the core as essentially like space cops, which 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:47.360 is correct. Yeah, and basically says to get in. He 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.160 was asked one question, which is are you afraid we 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.320 learn of how How's dad, a pilot and the military, 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.400 died in a fiery crash when he was a child, 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.120 and that after that he had no fear and so. 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.800 Of course you need to say go to therapyla. 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:08.680 Yes. Speaking of which, the sound of a car pulling 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.079 up in the driveway scares John Stewart and his brothers. 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:15.000 They turn off the TV in a rush, and John's father, 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.919 their father, tough army guy in his army uniform, comes 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:22.520 home and I'm here to talk about this. He says, 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.080 you're gonna tell me his real name? And John says 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:28.960 hal something, and so then John's dad says, Okay, we 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:32.520 gotta do the thing. They go out to the garage, 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:36.640 stand in front of the garage door, where Dad puts 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:42.640 a apple fucking William Tell style on John's head and 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:47.040 then shoots with his side arm the apple off John's head. 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:49.760 Now ahead, terrible. 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.120 This is show is, you know, wrapped in several layers 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.040 of mystery, clearly framed as who done it? Here's one 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:59.799 of the whodunnits I have, one of the mysteries I 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.360 have of It's clear to me from this exchange, or 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:04.520 it suggested to me from this exchange You're gonna tell 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.640 me his real name, that Hal and John had met 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.600 by this time, something had happened between them. 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:13.799 I read it differently, and John is covering for him. 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:20.720 No, I think it is either that or the dad 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.560 is obsessed with Hal Jordan and is like making him 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.600 rewatch the sixty minutes and like watch the ship, and 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:29.880 is like, and I don't know why John's acting like this, 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.960 but there was some weird like it would make sense 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:34.800 you're reading. But I was also like, how would they 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:35.560 have met? 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:36.000 Right? 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.840 But like at that at that point, right. 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:42.560 But you're you're reading that he's quizzing him on how 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.680 Jordan and using how Jordan almost like a sports dad 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:49.200 to like, you know, it'd be like a sports dad 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:54.360 making their watch watch this, watch the Jalen Brunson as 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:55.760 a kid training videos. 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.520 But then why say why why bring jn No? 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:01.960 But why say you're gonna tell me his real name? 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.720 I know. That's what I was trying to work out, 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:08.680 is like, what's the connection here? 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:10.560 Is it about John? 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:12.680 Does he think John has a connection to How? 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:14.920 Because also the other read of this is like the 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:15.560 dad is. 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:20.599 Mentally unwell, right, which is like, I think that's meant 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.560 to be the clear read. 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.039 But I do think you answer a big question. 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.320 You ask a big important question here, Jason, which is 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.760 this is obviously establishing that either John or John's family 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.720 know more about How before I think he meets him 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.719 than they did. Also, again, I look, I just want 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.040 to say, I know, I'm really glad people are loving this, 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.880 Like I know friends of the show like Amelia Emberwing 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:45.480 like right as that I love, are really enjoying this. 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.480 But I will tell you, guys, this was exactly my. 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:52.839 Worry about this show is like do we need a 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:59.280 green lantern show where like John Stewart's I want to 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.240 put a tip in and just say this is where 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:02.880 I started to fear that maybe I was right. 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:10.159 Okay, we fast forward twenty years. Hal picks up John 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.240 in a classic oldmobile with him what. 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.719 Is it sixteen years or something? Joel's fuck it. 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:20.560 I think it's like it's some large amount of time 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:25.120 because Hall is now a grown ass Aaron Pierre sized man, 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:29.280 and excuse me, John is now a grown as Aaron 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.760 Peer sized man, and Hall is somewhat more grizzled with 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.200 his hair has gone gray. And he picks up John 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.440 in front of the Spotify offices in downtown Los Angeles 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:43.799 Arts District in a classic old mobile, and we learned 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:47.960 that hallis training with John to take over. He's his backup, 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:52.920 but clearly John is like dragging his feet in a 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:57.800 way that is pretty frustrating for John. 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:00.840 How's dragging his feet because he doesn't really want to 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.840 train John and John hasn't even like won the ring yet, 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.240 and like yeah. 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.839 So they're talking about that. They're heading out of town, 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.760 like on the road, headed towards like Joshua Tree or something, 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:14.839 and Hal's like, okay, you want to wear the ring. 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.159 He puts the ring on the dashboard and says meet 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.320 me at the taco stand three miles up the road, 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:20.760 and then he leaps out of the car as the 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.480 car is heading for a ravine. John gets the ring 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.800 on just before the car just gets fucking torn. 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:30.000 What a waste of a That car is beautiful, like 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:31.960 it makes me so also as well. I just want 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.440 to say this is a great How Jordan introduction, because 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:35.440 this motherfuckers. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:36.080 Always doing some dub shit. 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.919 Yeah, but this was again very annoying, Like, okay, so 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.359 you've been put in charge. If I'm the Guardians of 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.360 OA and this bitch almost sends my new green lantern 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.680 off the mountain. He's not in charge of training anymore, 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:49.880 you know what I mean, Like, take this man away. 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.560 Well, that's why I have I'll talk about what I 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.600 think is going on later, Okay. So John walks towards 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.960 the stand and he's fiddling with the ring. The ring activates, 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:04.400 and the backup of like the uploaded to the cloud 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:09.080 backup of hol Ai ten years younger than current how 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.680 because Hall has not been updating it regularly as the 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:17.640 protocol say. He should talks to How and he is 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:22.200 as surprised as excuse me, talks to John and he 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:28.720 is young. How is as surprised as anyone that John 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:32.920 isn't being properly trained. He hasn't even you know worn 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:34.960 the ring. He doesn't know how to fly. He's walking 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:39.160 three miles rather than fly. It's very concerning to young 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:43.920 how young Hal gives current, gives a message to John 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:48.600 Stewart for his current self. There's Hale in Rushville, Nebraska, 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.119 and when Hal here's this later at the taco shop, 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:56.880 he flies away in extreme haste. John has to follow 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:00.679 him to Rushville, Nebraska on a commercial fly crazy. 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:02.960 I would be calling up them guardians of Oh, like 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.440 what the fuck is going on with this old white man? 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:06.480 Like this is crazy. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:11.720 He follows How to a local high school where there's 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.600 just been just been a mass shooting. Cops are on 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:18.080 the scene. There's a shooting on the football field. There's 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:23.480 several people down, and we meet the sheriff. Sheriff Kerrie Macon, 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.720 who obviously knows who helps Jordon as he's very famous, 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.080 and is like, why are you here? Don't interfere with 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:32.760 my investigation. It's clear she's very confident. She knows the town, 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:34.640 she knows what she's doing, she knows how to invest 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.240 your crime. She's like, there's no aliens involved, you shouldn't 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:37.720 even be here. 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.559 Yeah. Also, I want to say, this is really funny 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:44.440 because this essentially establishes the log line of the show 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:46.440 that I hadn't realized to this moment, which is like, 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:50.080 what if you are local cop and instead of the FBI, 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.520 you had like alien cops coming and saying this is 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:53.320 my jurisdiction. 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:54.680 I think that's kind. 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.160 Of the pitch, which which makes sense in the concept 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:57.679 of this show. 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.120 So John is like, yeah, what are we doing here? 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.680 And Hal's like, listen, there's I can feel it. There's 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.960 there's aliens involved. Just trust me on this. They're like, 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:08.880 namely that guy. Look at that guy. And there's a 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.120 guy on the field like acting like one of the 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:14.760 traumatized witnesses, and maybe he is, but he's just kind 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.640 of down there. John goes down to kind of like 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.920 check the guy out. The sheriff stops him and is like, 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.600 what are you doing. I've already you're gonna go talk 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:25.920 to that guy. I'm already watching the guy, and if 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:29.080 you come down here, you're gonna spook the guy who 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.440 I am already watching already taking care of this, so 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.320 don't get involved. And John's like, fuck, I fucked up. 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.120 And then the guy runs, so they give chase and 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.959 they catch the guy, but the sheriff won't let Hal 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:43.199 talk to him. Later, at a bar, Hal tells John 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:45.160 the backstory of how he got the ring, which is 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.120 the classic comic book Gorgian story with the crashed alien 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.600 and on the verge of death and the whole thing. 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.560 And here is so here is my theory. John basically 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.880 tells how, in not so many words, that he believes 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:01.280 the crash it wasn't an act accident. It was something 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.920 like fate or a plan or something like. It wasn't 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.760 just he wandered, you know, he happened to bump into 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.880 this crash site, which leads me to believe that maybe 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:14.440 there's this show is setting up a much longer play, 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:19.880 and that John, in a similar way, was led to 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:24.800 reached out to or met how because how came to 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:29.720 believe that something about this long range plan or fate 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:34.719 meant that the two had to meet and have a 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:41.600 relationship somewhere, because because because how, why not just be 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.120 like stop following me guy, Like I'm not he's not 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.839 training him, he's not doing anything, but he wants him 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:49.200 around for some reason? 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.040 Is my connection? So I this is my theory. 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:56.360 I don't think that it's because John thinks. I don't 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.440 think it's because How thinks John is his fate. I 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.160 think it's the oha Gotti have told How he has 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:02.840 to do this and he doesn't want to, and he 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.600 sees John as like someone who's going to replace him, 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:07.280 and he doesn't want to give him the ring. That's 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.680 why I think that's why I think the major conflict 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.840 of this season is going to be because otherwise, why 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:15.640 there's net Like why first of all, is there even 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.559 two green lanterns unless we're adapting like a like a 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:22.360 Grandmarson's green lantern thing, like they wanted to establish this 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.520 so they could have a white green lantern mentor that's 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:27.360 what it feels like to me. So I think that 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.920 the idea is like I think John is the one 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.400 who has the connection to How, and I think How 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.040 is the one who is being forced into the connection. 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.720 That's my that's my gut at this point, but we'll see. 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.880 I think the fate is more about John's own self worth, 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.760 Like I mean, How's own self worth, Like he doesn't 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:47.079 just think the aliens chose him. 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.840 He thinks that's what's meant to happen, like in the universe. 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:51.600 And I think this is going to be about the 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.480 aliens and why they choose, which we've never really talked about. 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.600 Right, It will be interesting to find out what How 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:02.680 and John's relationship True was, because it's I mean, it's 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:06.880 clear to me, or it seems like that suggests to 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:12.240 me that they have interacted back when John was a child. Anyway, 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:19.880 he tells John, how does that listen? I've been doing 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.920 this a long time. I'm the first ever green lantern 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:26.040 from Earth. If my gut says that guy's an alien, 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:27.720 that guy's a fucking alien, I'm gonna follow it. So 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:29.839 just back me up and just watch what I'm doing. 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.800 He's also constantly selecting the same song in the jukebox, 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.040 trying to annoy the locals, and John quickly realizes he's 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:38.839 trying to get himself thrown in jail so he can 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.280 talk to the guy, the guy who led the football field. 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:44.319 If you again, now this might be to do with 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.720 the true detective, like real detective element of it. I 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:49.600 feel like, if you're a green lantern, you could just 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.360 break into the jail ber like, like not even hard, 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.080 like just will yourself like a doorway and just open 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:57.200 a door into the man's cell. 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.839 Like from the outside. It's like I think that to me. Again, 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.480 I love Green Lantern, so this is also my problem. 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:08.760 I think, like the way that they're trying to construct, 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:10.319 like why not use the ring. 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:12.679 Well you could just be like a jucky guy in 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:13.520 a ball like that. 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:14.760 He also speak to me. 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.559 He also says, like the whole thing about being a 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.360 Green Lantern is you've got this weapon of mass destruction 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.120 on your finger, and you've got to decide when to 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.440 use it and when not to use it, and all 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:30.880 of this. I mean, Joelle and I were discussing previously 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.120 before returning the mics, like they turned you know, there 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.120 is corruption in the Green Lantern cores, or there are 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.120 cops like any others when that when the Green Lantern 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:40.600 books want to get political with it exactly it all 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:44.800 of which leads me to believe that how is investigating 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.200 We're going to find out that the Green Lantern Corp. 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.800 Is corrupt in some way. He's not using the ring 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:53.680 that much because he doesn't trust this it does. He 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:58.560 doesn't trust it. It seems something he doesn't want I 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.559 trying to put it on until well he knows that 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.560 I'm into this safe to put it on I like that. 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:06.880 So he's trying to root out whatever this thing is. 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:08.240 That's what I think is going. 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.320 That's such a good read, and I fucking hope that's 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:11.160 where the show is good. 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.560 But we'll see. Maybe it might be they were writing 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:18.359 a better show. Actually never know, you never never know. Anyway, Uh, 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:23.800 Hal gets his way, he gets beat up, and while 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:27.720 that's going on, John Stewart starts spitting game at this 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:31.760 lady at the bar about yeah, yeah, I'm the I'm 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:35.080 the backup lantern, this, that and the other, and she's like, crazy, 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:36.320 let's go fucking my truck. 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:37.880 I was gonna say, I feel like. 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.840 If you're Aaron Pierre, like you don't need to tell 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.680 that your backup superhero in the DC universe. That's like 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:46.960 lowering your levels of like appeal, honestly, Like there's a 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.200 lot of those my guy. But yeah, obviously had to 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:51.480 have some sex here because it's Aaron Pierre. He's hot, 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:52.160 and it's HBO. 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:55.280 I don't know if I was in a strange town, 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.560 single guy and like I'm backing up Aquaman, I'm like, yeah, 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:00.040 I'm Aquaman's. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.560 Do you think you'd pull it out? I try, like 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:05.160 I'm alad. 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.680 You know, like when he's when he's underwater or whatever 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.240 for long period. Okay, you do make a good brand 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:12.760 based represented. 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.720 I think something that I I think you're right, Jason, 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.840 like something I guess I'm kind of like not used 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:21.520 to that this pilot doesn't fully immerse me in is 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:25.800 this kind of established universe where how Jordan is essentially 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.400 like a famous celebrity but also like the face of 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:32.520 like a out of planet government. 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.000 Kind of like but works alongside our government. So you're 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:35.920 right in this world. 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.960 Saying your green Landin's backup is like saying you're Robert 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.360 Pattinson's stand in, Like it probably is going to get you. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:47.320 Like it's pretty cool, right, Yeah. Anyway, Sheriff Making meanwhile, 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.640 had realized that Hell was just trying to meet the 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.400 guy in jail, and so she had him put in 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.280 a closet so he could copy die and then she 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.320 takes him to his arraignment at the local courthouse, where 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:06.880 suddenly kind of slick but also seemingly nice guy lawyer Billy, 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:10.160 who is the Sheriff's husband, just out of the goodness 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.640 of his heart, is like I'm gonna represent you and 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:19.280 ends up getting how like out of trouble more or less, 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:21.840 and Hal is like, you know, I don't know. When 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:27.000 somebody gives me free legal help or gives me something 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:30.200 for free that's worth tens of thousands of dollars, usually 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.920 I think that guy's a bad guy. And Billy's like, yeah, 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:36.040 but I'm not a bad guy. I just want you. 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.160 You know, my dad is a big fan of yours, 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.280 big fan of the Green Lantern Corps. And you can 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.960 pay us by back by having dinner with us at 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.360 the family ranch. Again, my dad's a huge. 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:50.000 Fan favorite of reveal of the whole episode. 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.120 I think this was where I was like, Okay, this 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:55.560 is doing something kind of Watchman level interesting, Like I 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:58.440 thought this was the big hook that made me intrigued. 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.480 So they drive up there. Billy Macon played by Jason Ridder, 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:04.399 wonderful Jason Ridder. I'm going to talk a little bit 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:08.360 about him so much. What the how the age ranges 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:12.359 here work anyway, because this family is so close together 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:13.560 all in age. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.760 It doesn't make any sense if you know the actors 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:17.840 ages the rid So the. 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:21.879 Ranch is full of militia type guys with AR fifteen's, 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:28.880 you know, like white to a yellowstone look and they 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:34.000 meet will Macon, the patriarch, father of Billy, father in 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:39.919 law of Sheriff Carry and he's like chopping up this 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:43.359 like huge steaks of some sort of like buffalo or 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:49.200 fucking tower whatever, and he you know, Hall and John 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:53.600 meet him and he's like, Hey, don't worry, I've got 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:59.240 tofu steaks for you. And it's clear what he's saying is, hey, 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:01.159 I've studied you guys, like I've read. 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.879 Like, we know you what you can eat, what you 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:04.520 can't eat. 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.000 And also I would say, as. 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.359 Well, there is like an implication here, and I think 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:10.800 you and Joe were kind of talking about what this 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.520 statement means when I joined pre pro. But like there's 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.399 also the soy boy implication. This kind of like that 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:19.320 it's very heavily weighted. But I do think the first 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.320 point of it is to say I know you, I 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:24.200 know what you eat, I know you're feeding, I. 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:25.080 Know your habits. 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:27.520 But I also think the writers room understood what they 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.920 sure like that clarif there's like there's the double edged 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:32.280 lord of it side of it. 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:33.240 But I do think you're right. 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:35.280 This is to let you know he's like the shitty 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.919 Texas batman, like he has a file on Nebraska. 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:42.080 Although you played by Garret Dilla Hunt, who I will 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:45.280 say plays it. He does it. He delivers it very straight, 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:48.439 but you're right, he delivers it straight and dry in 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:52.840 a way that clearly John and the audience is meant 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.120 to wonder, like, what's he really saying all the time? 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:56.360 Exactly way exactly. 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:00.760 He's like, you know, John, and how I'll ask about 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:04.560 the militia guys, and Will is like, hey, you know, 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:06.480 don't worry about them. It's and by the way, this 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:10.480 isn't really my ranch, Like I manage it for a guy, 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.160 but I can't talk about who that person. 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:17.480 Is going to happen, right. 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:19.840 And he says, like, let's not talk about the militia guys. 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.040 Here's what I'm concerned about. Why I wanted to have 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:26.760 Earth's you know, first green lantern over for dinner. I'm 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:33.240 worried about illegal alien immigration, meaning aliens from another planet 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:35.920 coming to Earth when they're not invited and potentially taking 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:42.880 it over from native born humans. And I'm concerned about that. 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:48.800 And he agrees with Hal that he thinks the guy 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:55.119 who fled the football field is an advanced team from 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:59.119 an alien race, and he's like, by the way, I 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:02.080 can get you, I can pull some strings. You know, 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:05.840 my son's wife is the sheriff, and I can get 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:08.480 you in a room with the guy to talk to him, 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:12.399 and they're like in exchange for what? And Will is 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.040 very very vague about that. He basically does. 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.160 You're gonna owe this man of favor? Yeah? 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:17.560 Clearly. 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:20.720 I also want to say, I actually think Jason, now 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:24.840 you've pointed out your theory about how exploring the corruption 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:27.280 on OAH, if that is the case and that does 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:31.320 pay off, this is some really nice foreshadowing and kind 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:33.199 of echoing of that, because we get to see the 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:36.159 corruption in this small town Nebraska and how easy it 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:39.800 is for somebody's friend of the cops to get inside 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:43.000 and kind of talk to this allegedly you know, dangerous man. 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:46.040 Well, that's why I think, by the way, Hal hasn't 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:49.760 backed up in ten years because he he began having 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:54.360 suspicions ten years ago, and so he doesn't. 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:56.600 Maybe how who doesn't have the knowledge and. 0:20:56.680 --> 0:21:01.080 Right and he doesn't want the core to know that 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:04.000 he knows or suspects, which is why he's not been 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:08.639 backing up. That's just my theory. Anyway, John is outside 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:10.720 because of all the meat cutting up maybe or just 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:13.760 and he's a vegan and he's a vegan, and he's 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:19.919 teaching the son of Billy and the sheriff how to 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:21.240 throw a nice tight. 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:24.320 Spike SI unbelievable through a through. 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:26.679