Blackest Night : a wee bit predictable

[Freakzeek]

So Blackest Night 3 revealed just how you kill these Zombies


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Green in combination with any other color lantern

now the big question becomes how do you see the Tie-ins ending without massive bail out by The Lanterns?

[titanfan]

Well, I kind of assumed that from the beginning--seeing as this event started from the pages of Green Lantern...

[Desaad]

But it will still strike me as a cheat and/or cop out if some Deux Ex Machina scene occurs in which everything gets solved by some corps members coming to earth and destroying all the zombies.

That really isn't good storytelling. The problem should, in some way, be solved by the characters in question. And really, with Batman's "Sci Fi" chest, something like Boom Tubing everyone away seems perfectly plausible.

[Slaughter]

What about other people who also yield light? Halo, Ray, Dr. Light...

In my mind, the best way to deal with Black Lanterns would be to make a "cleaning squad" after earth is evacuated. Send the Earth Lanterns + a lantern of another color + the heavy hitters + Dr. Light or other light manipulators. Use the two Emotional Welders to shoot the lantern while the light manipulator splints their beams to hit more black lanterns. Then use the heavy hitters as tanks or to crush black rings.

[Alex Smith]

What about other people who also yield light? Halo, Ray, Dr. Light...

In my mind, the best way to deal with Black Lanterns would be to make a "cleaning squad" after earth is evacuated. Send the Earth Lanterns + a lantern of another color + the heavy hitters + Dr. Light or other light manipulators. Use the two Emotional Welders to shoot the lantern while the light manipulator splints their beams to hit more black lanterns. Then use the heavy hitters as tanks or to crush black rings.

They mentioned those other people in the issue. Haven't really seen how effective they'll be yet.

[Desaad]

To be clear, I don't think you need to KILL the Black Lantern zombies to effectively solve the problem -- just contain them in some way to put a cap on that part of the story. For it to be a satisfying conclusion, the main characters have to be directly (and chiefly) responsible for the 'defeat', coming up with the strategy or technology is the minimum, I should think. If a bunch of lanterns just zoom out of the sky and disintegrate the lanterns en masse all across the mini series, it's not only repetitive, it's empty.

Let Superman banish them to the Phantom Zone (I know that's not an option given what happened earlier in the Superman books), let Batman Boom Tube them to the center of the sun/universe/whatever. Let Raven summon the souls of the dead to attack the zombies...whatever. None of those will permanently defeat them, but I suspect that will take care of itself by the end, and each would deliver a satisfying conclusion to their conflict with the respective DC characters.

[Munkiman]

It makes sense, so it wasn't a huge surprise, but I wasn't specifically expecting it. So no, I don't think it was predictable.

In other news, Geoff Johns teaches kids the POWER OF TEAMWORK, as originally brought to you by Saturday morning cartoons! :P I kid, I'm loving Blackest Night.

[OzBat!]

But it will still strike me as a cheat and/or cop out if some Deux Ex Machina scene occurs in which everything gets solved by some corps members coming to earth and destroying all the zombies.

That really isn't good storytelling. The problem should, in some way, be solved by the characters in question. And really, with Batman's "Sci Fi" chest, something like Boom Tubing everyone away seems perfectly plausible.Sure... if you're assuming that destroying the zombies is the end-goal. It's clear from the story that they're just there to elicit an emotional response, and then gathering energy and funnelling it elsewhere. The real story conclusion will be following that trail and stopping the mastermind. The zombies themselves are merely tools, and a stop along the story-telling road.

[Desaad]

Sure... if you're assuming that destroying the zombies is the end-goal. It's clear from the story that they're just there to elicit an emotional response, and then gathering energy and funnelling it elsewhere. The real story conclusion will be following that trail and stopping the mastermind. The zombies themselves are merely tools, and a stop along the story-telling road.

Agreed, but for the Batman, Superman and Titans mini series to be satisfying stories in and of themselves (and we were told that they would be), there has to be some reasonable resolution that directly grows out of the previous issues and/or the main characters featured.

As I say, they don't need to destroy the zombies, I'm not looking for them to take out Nekron here, but they need to solve THEIR challenge sufficiently.

And really, it's easy enough to do that, even with the zombies being indestructible for the most part. They have options, and destroying those respective zombies would in no way negatively impact the Blackest Night narrative story.