Green Lantern Animated series

[Raph's Girl]

Looks like we're getting a new Green Lantern Animated series (probably on Cartoon Network) in 2012!

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=26424

[Jester]

Just in time to get kids up to speed so they can release the GL movie...maybe...or maybe not since IMDB has it slated for a 2011 release date. *shrugs* Could be fun.

[gobo]

An animated followup to the liveaction film, I presume? I'll gladly watch. I wonder if they'll ever get to the Parallax era of Hal's life... That'd be an interesting development.

[Brodie]

Rayner or bust.

[Samhain]

Hell yes. I will glady watch this.

[ToTheNines]

Is Bruce Timm involved or not?

Rayner or bust.

Agreed.

[Ninjinister]

I wonder how they'd handle a kid-friendly Blackest Night? I hope if that storyline comes to light, it's done respectfully enough to where it's not hideously dumbed-down.

[Spitfire]

If it's like Justice League and not Brave and the Bold I'd watch it. Hell I'd take the tone of the last 2 seasons of The Batman if I had to as well.

[ToTheNines]

People at toonzone are saying it's gonna be CGI...

[Andrew NDB]

Rayner or bust.

I think you and I see completely eye to eye on that. But you just know it's going to be Hal.

[gobo]

People at toonzone are saying it's gonna be CGI...
:sick: Not that I hate CGI (still), but I'm considerably less enthused if that's true.
I think you and I see completely eye to eye on that. But you just know it's going to be Hal.
I'd love for it to be Rayner too, but since it's the first ever GL series and hot on the heels of the live-action movie, Hal's surely gonna be the star. But, if they introduce his coworkers later on, maybe they can switch the focus to the team... or another GL entirely.

[Andrew NDB]

It's a foregone conclusion. The cartoon will be about Hal, and it'll be positioned as a quasi-continuation of the Ryan Reynolds movieverse.

[ToTheNines]

Ugh, I still can't believe they cast Reynolds for that role.

[gobo]

He'd make a more fitting Flash. That's for sure. Only time will tell if he can pull off an Air Force soldier well.

[Raph's Girl]

Josh Keaton (Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Spectacular Spider-Man) has been cast as Hal Jordan!

Also, plot:

As Earth's Green Lantern, Hal Jordan is used to being in dangerous situations -- but he's never faced anything like this! Set at the farthest reaches of deep space, Hal must face down an invasion from the Red Lantern Corps. Hal is soon joined by an all-new group of heroes on a mission to protect Guardian Space -- and the Green Lantern Corps itself.

Now who's all eager for an animated series where the bad guys barf blood? :P But don't fret for the Red Lantern storyline will be dealt with in 13 eps, the next storyline deals with the Manhunters.

http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/1104/07/index.htm

[gobo]

http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/1104/07/index.htm
Didn't notice a mention... Are they still planning on CGI?

[Raph's Girl]

Didn't notice a mention... Are they still planning on CGI?

Last I heard it was CGI.

[ToTheNines]

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[Brodie]

Red Lanterns? Sold.

No Rayner? Returned. Without a receipt.

[Ninjinister]

So now the show's about over. To be honest on the whole, I enjoyed it more than Young Justice (which I do still love), although that might be my GL bias shining through.

"Loss" is still a punch in the gut of an episode and "Cold Fury" proved to follow that up with a kick in the nuts. I have this sinking feeling that things aren't going to go well for everyone on the main cast in the end.

With the additional Lantern Corps and the recent reveal/appearance of a key player from that storyline, I can't help but feel like they were indeed building up to Blackest Night. The fact that this is seemingly where they may have been headed eventually, coupled with the fact that it's just damn good and even the "filler" episodes seem more meaty than most series, makes it hurt that this'll be gone in two episodes.

[NinjaPug]

I hate that we only get two more episodes of this show. It was definitely better than I was expecting. Hopefully Beware the Batman is a good replacement.

[Half Shell]

I don't know why... Why the hell the do this with the shows. Really can't understand the way this exec's think... This series is great. I have enjoyed every story. I think the have made a real good 3d series for Green Lantern. I really wish it returns.

[sdp]

Saw that the entire show was on Netflix and I'm going to begin watching it. I've never been a big fan of GL but every time he appeared in DC shows I always enjoy the character a lot and his mythos but not enough for me to look closer at his mythology. But counting the show is supposed to be good and it's now cancelled it's a good time to check it out.

I had watched the first five episodes before when they were being aired but then lost my ability to watch them and didn't care enough to torrent them. I watched through the first six episodes today and here are my thoughts, I'll post my thoughts when I finish the show (or sooner if I become a huge fan of the show) I think the Bruce Timm name attached to it and marketed so much hurts the show since we're all expecting DCAU level of entertainment and sadly it's not on par. It's not a bad show though and it feels so different, not like a normal superhero show, and while I liked the first episode with Hal being a normal superhero on earth and would've liked seeing more of that the direction the show takes makes it far more interesting. The show feels a little "alone". The Nick TMNT show has the same problem but at least with Green Lantern it makes more sense since it is set far away in space. The dialog isn't great, it's a little boring for both kids and adults, the mood of the show is pretty great and the storylines are interesting, but I think the show has a problem that the storylines don't really pay off until the end and the payoff while good makes you wonder if it was worth the boring set up in the beginning.

[TheSkeletonMan939]

Here's how broken the process is for testing new shows at Cartoon Network (http://giancarlovolpe.tumblr.com/post/82641459722/a-little-behind-the-scenes-look-of-the-early)(specifically, Green Lantern). Very upsetting (though the ending of the cartoon makes me smile every time).

[sdp]

Well I finished the show and it was great, sad to see it go but at least unlike other shows *cough*YJ*cough*, it left pretty much all loose ends tied very well while also leaving enough stuff for future seasons to explore, very well written that is something that Weisman has to learn how to do. The second season.

One thing I didn't like is it rushed through many things, now in hindsight it was good they did it since we got to see many things before it left, but had it not been cancelled I would've preferred they had taken their time with some things which I'll mention. The show doesn't feel like a normal superhero show, it really does feel like a space cop show which is great since it's something different. I wish we had seen more of Hal Jordan being the GL on earth though as a hero, even if only one full episode of seeing him as a hero, we never really see this in the Justice League shows he's in because they have bigger threats, I would've liked to have seen some of his rogues that weren't GLCorps oriented. The first story arc is pretty well done. The second story arc with the anti-monitor was great, but again I wish they had saved him as a bigger threat, you're talking about the biggest threat in all of the DCU that Darkseid can't even compare, even one 13 episode story arc is not enough for him and you have him replaced so soon? Sure the story arc was still good but it was kind of bad to see him go out so quickly, especially since he did seem like a big threat. Aia wasn't as good of a villain, it was neat how it tried to replicate when Hal became insane and tried to do the same in the comics.

Talking about Hal, he is a little stiff and boring but that's his silver age personality I guess, better than trying to rip off Tony Stark like the movie did. The different colored lanterns works pretty well, better than I thought, since it's a "younger" universe it works well unlike the comics DCU where after all these years they just randomly appear. The way they introduced Guy as the next GL was good, and loved how they set up John Stewart for a future episode. I'm sure Kyle would've made it eventually but I wonder how they would've done his origin since what makes him so badass is that he's the only Green Lantern and the didn't seem to be wanting to replace Hal. I liked the crew they had going but I still wish we could've seen Hal interact with more of the other Lanterns like we have on other shows and Lanerns we have come to like.

Would've loved to have seen more, the CG also worked great for this series. I can honestly say that GL wouldn't have worked better as a traditional 2D animated show. Too bad the show was sent to die on DCNation, and the movie being badly received and the toys of said movie not selling killed any chance this show might've had.