Why Hal Jordan Is Full Of It | #lanterns #hbomax First 5 Minutes Scene Reaction & Deep Dive Analysis

The first five minutes of HBO’s Lanterns are here, giving us our first proper piece of the new DC series to pull apart before the story really begins. In this video I take a detailed, scene-by-scene look at the opening five minutes of Lanterns, examining what HBO, DC Studios and the creative team are putting on screen and what we can reasonably learn from it without racing ahead of the evidence. This is a proper Lanterns deep dive rather than a reaction: as I continue to analyse every scene of Andor I'll be looking closely at the filmmaking, performances, characterisation, visual storytelling, dialogue, DC mythology and the choices being made in introducing this version of the Green Lantern universe. Lanterns stars Aaron Pierre as John Stewart and Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan, bringing two of DC Comics’ most important Green Lanterns into the new DC Universe. The wider cast includes Kelly Macdonald, Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner, Ulrich Thomsen as Sinestro, Garret Dillahunt, , Nicole Ari Parker, Jason Ritter, Poorna Jagannathan and others. Behind the series is an unusually interesting creative team. Lanterns was created by Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof and DC Comics writer Tom King, with Mundy serving as showrunner. The opening episodes are directed by James Hawes, while the series comes from DC Studios and Warner Bros. Television as part of the developing DCU overseen by James Gunn and Peter Safran. That pedigree alone makes Lanterns an interesting proposition. Damon Lindelof brings the history of Lost, The Leftovers and HBO’s Watchmen; Chris Mundy comes from Ozark; Tom King brings years of experience writing some impressive DC Comics; and the series takes Green Lantern characters normally associated with enormous, brightly coloured, cosmic superhero mythology and places them inside a gritty HBO drama. So what kind of Green Lantern show are they actually making? This video concentrates on the first five minutes released by HBO Max, taking the opening seriously as an introduction to the characters, world, tone and dramatic language of the series. If you’re looking for Lanterns analysis, a Lanterns reaction, Lanterns breakdown, Green Lantern deep dive, Hal Jordan character analysis, DCU discussion, HBO Lanterns review or detailed coverage of the new DC series, this is the beginning of my scene-by-scene exploration of the show. Lanterns brings Hal Jordan, John Stewart, the Green Lantern Corps and the wider lore of DC Comics into the new live-action DC Universe, and over the course of this series I’ll be looking closely at the writing, characters, performances, symbolism, cinematography, comic-book influences, DC lore and everything else the show gives us to work with. Chapters: 00:00 The myth of fearlessness and why Hal Jordan is lying. 01:00 Welcome to The Upstairs Lounge - what to expect. 2:24 Hal Jordan and the media's heroic narrative 4:57 What is going on in John Stewart's family? 7:08 Green Lantern Lore...why it's weird that Hal is training John, what "Earth's first lantern" means and why Guy Gardner might be active in 1996. 8:22 John Stewart is being conditioned out of fear. 12:34 Is young John Stewart being prepared for becoming a green lantern? That doesn't make much sense, unless... 13:57 The myth of Hal Jordan is deconstucted 15:20 Why the Green Lanterns will soon know fear. #haljordan #greenlantern #greenlanterns #dceu #hbo #dcuniverse