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• The first "Pol Manning" story has a man in the 51st century deciding that a job needs filled, and since apparently no-one in the universe at that time is capable, they'll use a time machine to take Hal Jordan and give him the job. Did we mention the machine entirely wipes Hal's memory, meaning they have to retrai... |
• Never Live It Down: |
• Being weak to yellow. |
• Guy Gardner's One Punch knockout at the hands of Batman. |
• Hal Jordan's relationship with the underage Arisia. Hal, at least, got a Retcon escape from that: 13 years old on Graxos IV (Arisia's home planet) equals 240 years old on Earth. |
• Hal Jordan being possessed by Parallax. |
• John Stewart: Letting Xanshi get blown up. Blowing up Mogo recently cannot have helped fix a "Destroyer of Worlds" reputation, despite Mogo's eventual reformation. |
• Many readers (and a few writers) seem to have trouble forgetting that Kyle Rayner's girlfriend was the trope namer for Stuffed in the Fridge, and his seeming parade of dead girlfriends has become a source of dark humor amongst the fanbase. |
• Hal and the Spectre making sure Linda Danvers would never see her child again during Many Happy Returns is a particular sore spot for fans of that version of Supergirl, especially when the narration made it clear Linda was more or less dead inside now. |
• Older Than They Think: |
• It's an FAQ where casual viewers confuse Justice League's Green Lantern John Stewart with all others and ask "Isn't Green Lantern black?," even though Hal first appeared a dozen years before John. |
• Modern GL readers are familiar with the many Corps and the emotional spectrum, but the Sinestro Corps was not the original opposite number of the Green Lantern Corps. That honor goes to the anti-matter ring wielding Anti-GL corps, from GL #150. |
• The Star Sapphire is generally known as a Green Lantern adversary, but a Star Sapphire first appeared as a Golden Age Flash enemy in All-Flash #32, December 1946. This Star Sapphire's identity was unknown, but she would later be retconned as a failed and exiled queen of the Zamarons. |
• The Green Lantern Oath associated with the Corps actually was first used by the Golden Age Alan Scott Green Lantern in a 1943 story. See here for details: http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/299/ |
• Protection from Editors: The Green Lantern books under Geoff Johns are one of the two things to enter the New 52 unscathed, the other being Grant Morrison's Batman run, which only had a few alterations. Whilst Morrison's Batman Inc. continued the plot he was writing before Flashpoint it had everyone spontaneously c... |
• Replacement Scrappy: Kyle Rayner to Hal Jordan fans. Hal Jordan to Kyle Rayner fans. Both to fans who only know about Green Lantern from the Justice League cartoons. |
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: |
• Kyle Rayner, as written by Grant Morrison in JLA. Grant Morrison asked Ron Marz "How would Rayner work in a team book as opposed to a solo one?" The characters were very similar, and Kyle's era was a best seller until Ron Marz left the book. and by that time Morrison was no longer writing JLA. It would be BETTER ... |
• The DCAU was this for John Stewart when he was used as the primary Green Lantern for Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. After getting several on and off shots at the spotlight John Stewart had more or less faded into obscurity by the time the show went into production, and at the time that the roster wa... |
• Rooting for the Empire: Sinestro has been getting some attention in this manner, mainly due to him being a very charismatic villain and his arguments against the Guardians being too involved with their mysteries and prophecies to do an effective job policing the cosmos. |
• The Scrappy: G'Nort, for mostly being nothing more than The Load. |
• Tough Act to Follow: Geoff Johns ten years on the franchise, which not only propelled the book into a stable part of DC canon, but introduced the now iconic aspect of the Emotional Spectrum and other Lantern Corps, and was popular enough to support an entire Crisis Crossover. Good luck matching that. |
• Values Dissonance: The first "Pol Manning" story has a massive case of Squick attached to it, where the man who builds the time machine declares that Hal Jordan's cover identity must "logically" come with a love interest (or otherwise he'll question the whole thing), and immediately tells his secretary she has to p... |
• What an Idiot!: Hey Mongul—Sinestro created the friggin' rings; he'd have a manual override in case of an attempted coup! |
2011 Film |
• Awesome Music: Reviews mostly pan the soundtrack, disappointed in James Newton Howard for making little more than uninteresting background music. Still, We're Going to Fly Now is one great cue for the character Green Lantern and a What Could Have Been for soundtrack fans. |
• Broken Base: |
• Hal's Adaptational Comic Relief, done by the writers to take advantage of Ryan Reynolds's comedic talents. Some fans love it for making an bland character interesting while others think it was a horrible casting choice. |
• The Green Lantern costume. Some fans argued that it being a glowing CGI construct made sense since it's supposed to be created by the ring, while others argued that it looked silly and was a needless waste of CGI. This is exacerbated by Green Lantern's classic comic outfit often being held up as one of the best s... |
• For some, the inclusion of Parallax as Hal's first major villain. Many people could see this as too high of a villain for Hal to defeat for his first adventures as a superhero considering his major influence to the Green Lantern lore and the reason why they go for Man of Steel as the first movie to kickstart the ... |
• Cliché Storm: Those who dislike the movie consider it to be this; those who do enjoy it, however, consider it to be a decent film that's very campy and doesn't take itself too seriously. |
• Critical Backlash: If you read some online reviews like at Amazon.com, a lot of people are saying "I liked the movie, I don't get why the critics absolutely hated it..." |
• Ensemble Dark Horse: As mentioned below in One-Scene Wonder, the other members of the Green Lantern Corps like Kilowog and Tomar-Re were liked despite their small role. |
• Most people agree that Sinestro looked great and was written and acted perfectly. |
• Misblamed: For a time, this happened to Ryan Reynolds due to the film's lackluster reception, by none other than the Deadpool fandom; after Green Lantern's release, many fanboys began bashing Reynolds for his acting and decrying how he 'ruined Green Lantern' and would most certainly ruin Deadpool, though Ryan Reyno... |
• Moral Event Horizon: When Hector Hammond turns two giant flamethrowers on a US Senator and roasts him alive. To make it worse, the senator is his father. |
• Narm: |
• Hector Hammond's screaming. Just... really, it doesn't do his level of menace any favors, if he was even considered menacing. |
• Parallax, which has been described as a tentacle monster that literally looks like a pile of shit. |
• Never Live It Down: The CGI costume. Even Deadpool (2016) has a line making fun of it. |
• One-Scene Wonder: Kilowog in the film. In fact, most anything involving the GL Corps in the film. |
• Retroactive Recognition: Even though he was well known in his native New Zealand, the actor who played Thomas Kalmaku was Taika Waititi, who would later become known among Americans as the director of Thor: Ragnarok, which is quite ironic considering how Green Lantern was dueling with Thor. |
• Rooting for the Empire: |
• The hero is a lazy, irresponsible, egotistical jerkass who never really has to work for his powers, and the villain, a smart, responsible, shy man who's been bullied by his father his entire life. Things get ridiculous when you take into account that the hero becomes more responsible and down-to-earth while the v... |
• Then there's the other guy, the guy meant to be the villain in the sequel that will never be, who is presented as basically being a strong, noble man trying to do what is right, making sure justice is done to the memory of his best friend, and having a crisis of faith in the corps that he has spent so much of his... |
• Signature Scene: Carol figuring out Hal is Green Lantern is the most remembered part of the movie. |
• So Okay, It's Average: What most fans and the average cinema-goer seemed to think of it. It was seen as the weakest superhero film in the post-Nolan, MCU-Phase 1 era. |
• Special Effects Failure: |
• Conspicuous CG is invoked with the Lantern uniform and constructs. |
• Also, all the introductory scenes look ridiculously fake, and there are plenty of times during Hal's training on Oa where it's inescapably obvious that you're watching Ryan Reynolds' head in front of a green screen. Plus, every scene with Sinestro (or any of the aliens, actually). |
• Tainted by the Preview: |
• Many fans were not encouraged by the trailers, partly due to the special effects being underwhelming and also due to the Iron Man vibe. |
• This was actually acknowledged by some people in the industry, the first teaser trailer was very underwhelming because they had very little completed special effects to work with. Thus the initial impression made it seem more like a sitcom than a genuine superhero movie. While the later trailers, were much more i... |
• Probably the biggest problem with the trailers though is just how much they spoiled several plot points, including the fate of one of the villains. |
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The 2011 film chose Hal Jordan as the Green Lantern and set most of the action on Earth. Many fans feel that John Stewart, the Green Lantern of the DCAU would have been better choice. Most of John's backstory, origin, and characterization in both the comics and cartoons is ti... |
• Tough Act to Follow: |
• Not necessarily a bad movie, but being the first major DC film after The Dark Knight, Green Lantern had a lot to live up to comparatively speaking. The comparison isn't exactly fair in the first place, as although they are "superhero" movies within that spectrum, they are in wildly different genres. The Dark Knig... |
• For fans of the DCAU, John Stewart was Green Lantern, and in the Justice League series, he had the strongest Character Development, and likewise was the main vehicle to introduce to the wider Green Lantern lore (Manhunters, Katma Tui, Guardians, other GL). The film by bringing the unfamiliar Hal Jordan, and likew... |
• Uncanny Valley: The "painted" on mask and CGI suit never quite looked right to a lot of viewers. Although considering the uniforms are energy constructs, this may have been a deliberate design choice. The glowing blue eyes as part of Hal's "disguise" are perhaps the worst part. |
• The Un-Twist: A yellow ring is forged, and... no one ever actually uses it. Sinestro is still with the Corps at the end and rescues Hal after he collapses post-victory. Sinestro does put it on during the credits, but with the film's planned sequel getting canned, this too ended up going nowhere. |
• WTH, Casting Agency?: Tim Robbins and Peter Sarsgaard play father and son, respectively. They look around the same age. |
• WTH, Costuming Department?: The CGI Green Lantern uniforms proved to be pretty divisive among fans. |
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rigatoni with eggplant purée |
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But three times lately I saw her making dishes that was too curious not to make, most recently in the format of a fairly effortless pasta sauce from roasted vegetables… and ended up with, well, the absolutely ugliest pasta dish to have yet graced the Smitten Kitchen. Pureéed eggplant is never going to win a beauty cont... |
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al dente, pleasesteamy pasta |
To make this, you roast eggplant with cherry tomatoes, whole garlic cloves, salt, pepper, and red pepper flakes before pureeing it with more oil, fresh mint (but I also like this with basil) and a lot of pasta water to make a sauce that is mixed with parmesan (though this could easily be skipped if you wanted to make i... |
rigatoni with eggplant puree |
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Rigatoni with Eggplant Puree |
The first time I made this, I found my out-of-season, underwhelming eggplant to be a total sponge; I had to keep adding pasta water to get it saucy. But in the times since, I’ve not had this experience repeated, possibly helped by the fact that I now just make it in the late summer when I can get eggplants and cherry t... |
• 1 medium eggplant, cut into 1-inch cubes |
• 1 pint (2 cups) cherry tomatoes |
• 3 cloves garlic, peeled |
• 3 tablespoons olive oil |
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt |
• 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper |
• 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes (adjust to taste) |
• 1 pound dried rigatoni pasta |
• 1/4 cup torn fresh mint or basil leaves, plus a couple extra, slivered, to finish |
• 3 tablespoons olive oil |
• 1/2 cup grated Parmesan or (shown here) ricotta salata |
• 1/4 cup toasted pine nuts |
Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. |
In a large bowl combine the eggplant, cherry tomatoes, garlic, 3 tablespoons olive oil, salt, pepper, and red pepper flakes (to taste). Spread the vegetables out in an even layer on the baking sheet. Roast in the oven until the vegetables are tender and the eggplant is golden, about 35 minutes. |
Meanwhile, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over high heat. Add the pasta and cook until tender but a full minute shy of done, about 8 to 10 minutes. Drain pasta but reserve a cups or so of the cooking water. |
Transfer the roasted vegetables — I use the parchment paper as a sling — to a food processor or blender. Add the torn mint or basil leaves and additional 3 tablespoons olive oil. Blend until almost smooth. |
Return the pasta to the cooking pot, pour sauce over it and a splash (about 1/3 cup) of cooking water and cook together, tossing so that the pasta is evenly coated, over medium-high heat for 1 to 2 minutes. Add more pasta cooking water, one ladleful at a time, as needed, if needed to loosen the sauce. |
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