Allow Us to Explain: Why the Movie Green Lantern Is White

Boo. John Stewart is the people’s champ and the people’s choice.

Kinowolf,

I think you accidentally wrote “people” instead of “my” – not all people prefer the same GL. I prefer Rayner (weird, I know). That’s my champ and choice for GL, but I’m not so arrogant as to call it the “people’s” choice.

Kinowolf. Um sadly, your wrong. In my opinion, Hal Jordan will always be the original and the best. Don’t get me wrong, I do love John Stewart, but the origin story of the Green Lanterns is that of Hal Jordan.

What’s sad is that I’m right:

http://ourvaluedcustomers.blogspot.com/2010/06/to-her-son-regarding-jon-stewart-black.html

There’s an entire generation that grew up on GL John Stewart and would love to see him, but unfortunately there’s an older guard with… reservations.

Hal Jordan is of course the only choice here. Just had to be Hal. Think this movie may be a flop anyway, but if they didn’t use Hal Jordan it would have no doubt bombed. Thats 100% fact. The movie would have been an outcast among fan boys, which are the ones who will push the first weekend grosses and decide if the movie is a hit or not. I’m in my mid-30′s and I number a ton of people who are interested in this film, but none of them would be if they didn’t do it right and the start of doing it right is to have Hal Jordan as earths first Green Lantern.

Thank you so very much for posting this. Whenever I’ve tried to explain this to friends, they laughed or zoned out, saying that if Hal was at all interesting, he would have been the one in the show. Pointing out the conversion to Parallax and grafting to the Spectre didn’t do much for my case. From now on, I’m just gonna direct them here. I’ve always loved Hal, even though I wasn’t around to see his original series in any way, and I was incredibly happy when he and the corps were revived.

Although, being younger than twenty, it could also be a little bit of rebellion toward the masses who only know John.

This is all complete and udder bogusness come on now. Who is alive to known the Previous green latern characters except for the creators. Everyone in the world knows john stewart loves john stewart, and would really have liked to see john stuart portrayed in this pic. Kinwolf im with you on this one. How many movies came out that were actually the sequel and then a prequel was made. How many black super heroes are there really? So john stewart couldnt get his original shine and then they come out with a green latern origins or something. o yea this movie is goin to b a bust because its showing some more true colors of how the brother is always opressed

I think for hte first 3 movies use Hal. For half of part 3 use john. Also use john in justice league
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YOU ARE ALL WRONG THE FIRST EVER HUMAN EARTH GREEN LANTERN WAS ALLEN SCOTT U IDIOTS ARE DUMB IT WAS NOT HAL JORDAN THE FACT IS THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE USED JOHN STEWART BECAUSE HE WAS THE BEST LANTERN ALLEN SCOTT WAS THE FIRST EVERY GL NOT HAL JORDAN

I disagree, I grew up with GL John Stewart and he has always been my GL hero. I however do have to agree with them Kinowolf, you cannot be arrogant like that and think that your opinion is the one of the people. I for one have not watched the movie yet because I honestly did not know Stewart was not the original GL, but now that I do I think I may give it a shot. I was simply pissed that they made the GL white and did not keep the new generations hero how he was supposed to be. With this new info though I will see how it goes.