Uncle Fester wrote:
I was never much of a G.Lantern fan. How accurate to cannon does this appear?
Well, as always with DC, canon is a sticky subject. Hector Hammond's involvement early on in Hal's GL career is in accordance with the 2008 Green Lantern: Secret Origin mini. He's not a major villain (in his mind-enhanced state) until much later in the original early Green Lantern series. I'm not sure what they're doing with Parallax in relation to Hector, but if it's what I think they're going to do, it's not based on anything in the comics (unless it's meant to be playing off the recent Blackest Night crossover, but then I think it should be the entity behind the Orange slice of the emotional spectrum that Hector gets tangled up with, not the Yellow..).
The rest of it? Looks spot-on. I'm catching glimpses of lots of recurring Corpsmen, classic and some new. Everything I've seen with Abin Sur is spot on, and it looks like they're only letting our hindsight on Sinestro taint his portrayal slightly.
My biggest concern, at this point, is whether they're going to run afoul of the cheese factor. Everytime they do the GL Oath in the trailers, for the last line, they use what's obviously supposed to be an emotional and dramatic recitation of it, which I can only imagine is, in the full movie, the turning point in some battle or conflict of wills (heh) in which Hal looked to be outmatched and is getting a second wind, as it were. Which may turn out fine in the movie, with the right context and build-up. But in the trailer it just comes off incredibly cheesy, especially as the culmination of the other-wise straight-read preceeding lines of the Oath. Ditto with the "We are the Corps!" chanting that Sinestro leads in the trailers. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that it's just incredibly poor editing choices for the trailers, and not indicative of the tone these things will come across with in the final product.
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