Green Lantern the Animated Series Episode 24
With Green Lantern: The Animated Series coming to a close you could await that the tension and activeness would be ramping up every bit the story of the Anti-Monitor'south invasion reaches its meridian. "Scarred" would evidence y'all right with 20 minutes of catholic revelation, foreshadowing for what could accept been and action which will keep you on the edge of your seat. As the coiffure of the Interceptor returns to Oa the crew find themselves on the wrong end of Appa Ali Apsa's wrath while lite years away the Aya Monitor continues to devour organization after arrangement.
When Hal, Kilowog and Razer investigate the Scientific discipline Director'southward quarters for clues on how they might be able to defy the Guardians' orders and save the 24-hour interval, they observe that there is a lot more to the female Guardian than anyone idea. A couple of wonderful Easter Eggs can be found in the Science Director's quarters and lab, mainly the ominous Book of the Black and the beginnings of the Alpha Lanterns. In that location's also a reference to the Guardians' past history of originating from Maltus that continues the habit that the bear witness has of embracing the entire mythology of the Green Lantern universe which makes fans love the testify all the more.
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| Capital letter One – what's in your ring! |
Anyone already versed in the Green Lantern lore tin can skip these side by side two paragraphs if you're already familiar with the history, only the Book of the Black ties direct to the emotional spectrum with Black existence Death itself. In comics continuity the female Guardian known as the Science Director here is left scarred by her battle against the Anti-Monitor during the Sinestro Corps War. Every bit the flagman of the Book of the Black, Decease's version of the Book of Oa, Scar as she is named becomes a central figure in the return of Nekron and the infamous Blackest Night event where all the Corps come together to prevent all life from being eradicated from the universe.
The Blastoff Lanterns were creations of the Guardians which serve as the Internal Affairs division, a merging of the all-time of the Green Lantern Corps with applied science making them an amalgam of the Corp and the Manhunters. And long before becoming the Guardians of the Universe the Guardians hailed from the planet Maltus along with the Zamarons. There's a lot of history at that place and some of which is still being revealed in the pages of the comics even now but I remain impressed with how the creators of the serial accept remained true to the cloth of the universe while making information technology easy to digest for those who aren't steeped in the lore.
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| Don't touch that book! |
With some mysteries uncovered the crew sneak away from Oa to the mysterious coordinates establish in the Science Director's secret lab but to discover that she survived her encounter with the Anti-Monitor, just not without picking the same scars every bit her comics counterpart. Here the series takes a really interesting plow by revealing Aya'south surreptitious origin, tying together even more of the mythology in a very creative manner.
Scar reveals that she used a piece of the entity of volition to form Aya. In Green Lantern lore each emotion in the spectrum was represented past an avatar, an embodiment of the emotion.Ion, the entity of Will looking very much like a whale, was kept in the primal power battery throughout history unbeknownst to the Green Lanterns themselves. Besides imprisoned there was Parallax, the bug like avatar of Fear, which led to the rings' weakness to yellow, the colour of fear. In comics history Parallax influence Hal Jordan for years at the behest of Sinestro, sentenced to death in the fundamental battery alongside the entity until Hal entered the bombardment himself and the victim of possession by the fear entity.
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| An Alpha Lantern epitome |
There's so much more to that story that I won't go into here, but there are some interesting implications for the animated series that spin out of that. We've seen that the rings don't react well to the xanthous aurem crystals which implies that in the show's continuity that Parallax might be in their bombardment alongside Ion, and then when Scar reveals she used some of the entity you could wonder if what was used to form Aya was all Ion, all Parallax, or possibly a little of both. Either way it's this spark of 1 or both entities which resulted in Aya being more than simply some other artificial intelligence with her existence imbued with a spark of life which reminds me a fleck of Cortana from the Halo video game series.
At any rate "Scarred" picks up steam when the crew render to Galia'southward planet to collect aurem crystals to create a warhead that might disable Aya long enough to go through to her. This was a great call back to episode eight ("Fright Itself") which many people, myself included, considered a fleck of a filler episode at the time but now carries greater significance now. It's at this phase of the episode that the heroes are actually put in a bind when Scar turns on them, launching the missile at Aya as Razer tries to reason with her.
What follows is slap-up drama and action as Aya retaliates confronting them and LANOS proves himself a LAME-O no more. By the fourth dimension the stop credits roll our heroic threesome are left stranded over again without a transport and the odds stacked firmly, and highly, against them. My dandy anticipation of what'south to come in the next 2 episodes in tempered only past the realization of the wasted potential left backside by conclusion makers who clearly don't know the value of what they have.
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| Hal shoulda tried the sometime "look out, behind you lot!" trick |
Jeremy Adams does a wonderful chore balancing the action, humor, drama and the lore as he did with his script for "Blue Hope". As has become a authentication for the series the writing is superlative notch and the writers have always done such a wonderful task of providing well crafted scripts which don't brownnose to the audience but provide plenty meat for the well read viewer. There are a lot of prime time network shows that aren't likewise written equally this serial and at least in my stance there are very few animated series that are in the same league as what we've been spoiled with by both Light-green Lantern: The Blithe Series and Immature Justice.
Adams gives LANOS a wonderful opportunity to be the hero and provides Sarah Douglas great fodder for her villainous plow as Scar. Information technology was too great to see Razer endeavor to reason with Aya and be willing to reveal so much of himself; a far cry from where he started. I'm not sure if information technology was in the script or it was a visual gag that someone else in the crew came up with, simply I couldn't help but recollect of Gandalf hitting his head on the ceiling of Bilbo's domicile in Lord of the Rings when Kilowog found himself in a similar position in Scar'south quarters.
And then hither we are with only two weeks left and so much more than that we all want to encounter from this show. Knowing the seeds that are planted here makes it all the more than bittersweet that again the universe beyond the printed page fails to provide the Green Lantern mythology aplenty opportunity to exist shared with the earth. That's certainly not the fault of anyone directly associated with the series who have proven time and again that they get it. "Scarred" gets ten out of 5 lanterns – like Aya, this episode performs outside its my designed operational parameters!
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