stip wrote:Tom Waits is an acquired and or/idiosyncratic taste and I totally get not liking him. I used to read comic books, I see most of the comic book movies, and I am a fan of the genre as a whole. I think Nolan's Batman trilogy is spectacular, I quite enjoyed watchman, I loved the avengers and Iron Man I, and thought iron man 3, captain America, and thor were all good. I'm certainly not resistant to what is being sold.
Stip you said DC characters are lame that kind of effrontery will not be tolerated!
Hi, my name is the Green Lantern. I have an all powerful ring. My special weakness is my the color yellow
It's a long story but the yellow weakness is basically gone and it wasn't the color so much as what the color represented and it's relationship to the power battery. Green is will power....yellow is fear....a Green Lantern that can accept fear loses the vulnerability. It's all very deep.
green = will
yellow = fear
violet = love
red = anger
orange = avarice
blue = hope
indigo = compassion
long ago the guardians of the galaxy showed emotions and felt it conflicted with their ability to make decisions. since then they have been agains showing any emotions and really abhor those who do (the earth bound lanterns usually act up the most when it comes to that). the originally hid parallax in green lantern on oa. parallax is the avatar of fear and that is why all green lanters could not affect the color yellow. but if you could overcome great fear then you could do it.
Peeps wrote:green = will
yellow = fear
violet = love
red = anger
orange = avarice
blue = hope
indigo = compassion
long ago the guardians of the galaxy showed emotions and felt it conflicted with their ability to make decisions. since then they have been agains showing any emotions and really abhor those who do (the earth bound lanterns usually act up the most when it comes to that). the originally hid parallax in green lantern on oa. parallax is the avatar of fear and that is why all green lanters could not affect the color yellow. but if you could overcome great fear then you could do it.
I try to defend comic books because they were a big part of my upbringing and I feel like the really good ones are REALLY GOOD but sometimes they sound so... stupid
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The color thing doesnt bug me, the goofy uses for the ring does.
Isn't there some thing where GL has to be more creative for the power to work well? Like he can't just make a big green blob to cushion a crashing helicopter, he has to make a stupid roller coaster ramp?
BurtReynolds wrote:The color thing doesnt bug me, the goofy uses for the ring does.
Isn't there some thing where GL has to be more creative for the power to work well? Like he can't just make a big green blob to cushion a crashing helicopter, he has to make a stupid roller coaster ramp?
No.
It's all about the imagination...if you can imagine it the ring can create the construct
BurtReynolds wrote:The color thing doesnt bug me, the goofy uses for the ring does.
Isn't there some thing where GL has to be more creative for the power to work well? Like he can't just make a big green blob to cushion a crashing helicopter, he has to make a stupid roller coaster ramp?
speaking of silly super powers... "it doesnt even have to be an evil sponge" hahaha love this
BurtReynolds wrote:The color thing doesnt bug me, the goofy uses for the ring does.
Isn't there some thing where GL has to be more creative for the power to work well? Like he can't just make a big green blob to cushion a crashing helicopter, he has to make a stupid roller coaster ramp?
No.
It's all about the imagination...if you can imagine it the ring can create the construct
bada wrote:It's a long story but the yellow weakness is basically gone and it wasn't the color so much as what the color represented and it's relationship to the power battery. Green is will power....yellow is fear....a Green Lantern that can accept fear loses the vulnerability. It's all very deep.
if we didn't have you here, none of us would know!
Peeps wrote:green = will
yellow = fear
violet = love
red = anger
orange = avarice
blue = hope
indigo = compassion
long ago the guardians of the galaxy showed emotions and felt it conflicted with their ability to make decisions. since then they have been agains showing any emotions and really abhor those who do (the earth bound lanterns usually act up the most when it comes to that). the originally hid parallax in green lantern on oa. parallax is the avatar of fear and that is why all green lanters could not affect the color yellow. but if you could overcome great fear then you could do it.
I try to defend comic books because they were a big part of my upbringing and I feel like the really good ones are REALLY GOOD but sometimes they sound so... stupid
obviously there is a lot more to it than what i explained. i gave the very condensed version. it all works very well within the story and explained why Hal was able to overcome yellow and others were not.
Peeps wrote:green = will
yellow = fear
violet = love
red = anger
orange = avarice
blue = hope
indigo = compassion
long ago the guardians of the galaxy showed emotions and felt it conflicted with their ability to make decisions. since then they have been agains showing any emotions and really abhor those who do (the earth bound lanterns usually act up the most when it comes to that). the originally hid parallax in green lantern on oa. parallax is the avatar of fear and that is why all green lanters could not affect the color yellow. but if you could overcome great fear then you could do it.
I try to defend comic books because they were a big part of my upbringing and I feel like the really good ones are REALLY GOOD but sometimes they sound so... stupid
A lot of these characters have been continually changing over the course of 50....60....70 years there are going to be good bits and bad bits. To focus on one characterization seems unfair if only because that idea was probably changed in a dozen ways over the years. Now if you think ring constructs are dumb well that's valid since it's inherent to Green Lantern but the yellow thing comes and goes and is more a product of the Silver Age. I love that stuff but I get why others would find it silly. It's like 50s Sci-Fi movies.
Peeps wrote:green = will
yellow = fear
violet = love
red = anger
orange = avarice
blue = hope
indigo = compassion
long ago the guardians of the galaxy showed emotions and felt it conflicted with their ability to make decisions. since then they have been agains showing any emotions and really abhor those who do (the earth bound lanterns usually act up the most when it comes to that). the originally hid parallax in green lantern on oa. parallax is the avatar of fear and that is why all green lanters could not affect the color yellow. but if you could overcome great fear then you could do it.
I try to defend comic books because they were a big part of my upbringing and I feel like the really good ones are REALLY GOOD but sometimes they sound so... stupid
Stip? is that you?
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