Green Lantern: The Animated Series

[Jared]

Since JLU went off the air, none of their many animated projects has connected to it.

It's easy to pretend that Public Enemies is!

[kalorama]

there have been plenty of cartoons that had a star and and their sidekick where the sidekick was bigger. Mighty Max comes to mind. He was a kid and the big warrior guy was plenty bigger I'm not suggesting Kilowog be a giant but have a design fitting of someone that's the Corps Drill Sergeant. He's supposed to intimidate the recruits and be a feared warrior.

Well, (A) Hal Jordan isn't a kid, he's a warrior/soldier, so I'm not sure that comparison holds, (B) Kilowog is bigger than Hal; noticeably so (just not by an extreme margin), (C) he looked pretty intimidating and fearsome to me.

[1505627]

It's easy to pretend that Public Enemies is!

not really, crisis on two earthes, however, is

[Mac Danny]

I liked it a lot, but I want to see more variety of constructs. It's a waste of a power ring to just keep making baseball bats and hammers.

The guardians also looked a lot cooler than the damn green lantern movie.

[Tenacious_AA]

I couldn't stand the animation, so didn't watch all of it.
Clone Wars animation is so much better and more detailed.

[kalorama]

not really, crisis on two earthes, however, is

Not really.

[joemagnum611]

Well, (A) Hal Jordan isn't a kid, he's a warrior/soldier, so I'm not sure that comparison holds, (B) Kilowog is bigger than Hal; noticeably so (just not by an extreme margin), (C) he looked pretty intimidating and fearsome to me.

He was a short round fat guy

[Superbeast]

He was a short round fat guy

No,. That was Zilius Zox. Get your eyes tested.

[kalorama]

He was a short round fat guy

What show were you watching?

Kilowog was at least a head taller than Jordan who (judging by how he towered over Carol) is well over 6 feet tall. Was he toweringly massively? Nope. But "short"? not even close.

[boyhangover]

I couldn't stand the animation, so didn't watch all of it.

This right here is a good statement abouth this show.

[Karl O'Neill]

Awesome first episode. This is gonna rock.

[Toonimator]

Kilowog is like Ben Grimm. A lot of the comic artists depict both as giants, but they don't NEED to be. Ben Grimm started out as shorter than Reed, I think, even when he was all Thing-ed out. Kilowog's attitude is more of what matters; he's big enough in the show. Most drill sergeants aren't huge bulky guys towering over their recruits. They just SEEM that way cuz they get up in the recruits' faces and yell a lot.

In the GL film, they made Kilowog have rhino-like skin... that little connection is applicable to the show's Kilowog, too. Rhinos are big & tough, but LOOK at 'em. They're kinda squat. Kilowog's as big as he needs to be in the show, IMO.

As for comparing this to CW's animation, CW wasn't super-detailed at the start (or didn't seem that way, compared to recent eps), nor as well-animated. It's improved tremendously over the seasons. I think GL can, too... the animation was pretty great all-around, it's just the rendering that looked a bit iffy.

I like starting out with the Reds... I like that they're not mostly mindless rage-beasts like the comic has 'em (changing, I know, in the new ongoing). I like that they're sorta like some 'holy crusade' of vengeance. And I can't wait to see how other Corps figure into things! They can easily have Larfleeze show up. The Indigo Tribe being out in the frontier makes perfect sense. Zamora could be there, too, perhaps with flashbacks of Hal's previous encounters with Star Sapphire (possessing Carol). The Blues would work if they abandon the Ganthet/Sayd origin of it... and with Rev's talk of hope I wonder if his sacrifice could somehow be tied into the origin of the Blues... maybe he's their 'Ganthet' figure, or he's resurrected as a Blue, or something.

And I love the whole 'Guardian space' thing. One of my biggest beefs with the 'believability' (silly as that is, in a book about superheroes) of the whole GLC idea is that the Guardians are Guardians of the ENTIRE UNIVERSE and divided it up into a mere 3600 sectors patrolled by TWO Lanterns each. That is one ridiculously huge amount of space--mostly empty--for two dudes to patrol, especially if they're like the Lanterns from Earth that play Local Superhero as often as Space Cop. That's not even close to a single Lantern for every GALAXY. SOOOOOOOOOO much of all those sectors must have tons of activity the Guardians wouldn't like going unnoticed, and don't even mention times when Lanterns of different sectors team up for any length of time leaving whole sectors unprotected AT ALL!

Anyway, the show's model for the Corps is still ridiculous (tho I don't think they gave a number in the pilot for how many Lanterns per sector), but a lot more bearable with the idea that the Guardians' influence/protection has a limit and there's a whole lot more Universe out there they barely even touch.

[dupersuper]

Not really.

Though not in the same universe, it is a retooled JLU story.

[kalorama]

Though not in the same universe, it is a retooled JLU story.

No it's not. It's a retooled version of the Morrison/Quitely Earth-2 OGN.

[1505627]

No it's not. It's a retooled version of the Morrison/Quitely Earth-2 OGN.

no, it was conceived as a DCAU movie, and even when they removed all the references it still fits in pretty well.