~ Blackest Night - Discussion Thread ~

Originally posted by -Pr-
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i agree with SOME of what he said, but i think he's being a bit OTT...

Originally posted by OneDumbG0
- How will the massacre of Sector 666 ultimately connect to Blackest Night?

Spoiler:
Ultimately, no connection.

- Why is the Power of Will so important, i.e., why does Will + another emotion sever BLC connections? why did the BLC wait to attack the Central Power Battery when they hit 100%?

Spoiler:
Ultimately, the Power of Will can sever connections just because. And the attack on the Central Power Battery ultimately didn't matter since the entire GL Corps couldn't do squat to Nekron anyway.

- What will happen when Nekron tries to raise Batman?

Spoiler:
A corpse that looks like Batman will spew out BLC rings and immediately dissolve.

- What did Hal's father say to him at his moment of death?

Spoiler:
A perfect opportunity to revist Hal's greatest fear, by confronting his father's moment of death via his dead father coming back in the flesh. Perfect opportunity completely wasted.

- How did the emergence of the combined Corps in the War of Light bring about Blackest Night and how will the various Corps' combined power end it?

Spoiler:
The War of Light didn't bring about Blackest Night. Anti-Monitor powered the Black Lantern Battery before the War of Light ever broke out. And the combined power of the various Corps didn't mean squat to Nekron.

- Is Sinestro truly the greatest Lantern of them all?

Spoiler:
F@ck, no. Since he was punked and all his master plans didn't mean sh1t in the end. Deadman and Nekron himself (ironically revealing the one entity that could defeat him) defeated Nekron. Phail.

Originally posted by OneDumbG0
uhuh I'm still angry for these reasons:

except:

- How will the massacre of Sector 666 ultimately connect to Blackest Night?

Ok, that wasn't answered. Fair enough.

- Why is the Power of Will so important, i.e., why does Will + another emotion sever BLC connections? why did the BLC wait to attack the Central Power Battery when they hit 100%?

Because will is the balancing and central part of the spectrum, in effect the key part?

- What will happen when Nekron tries to raise Batman?

He couldn't, because as Hal and Barry mentioned later, Bruce isn't dead.

- What did Hal's father say to him at his moment of death?

Hal got over his father's death during the SCW.

- How did the emergence of the combined Corps in the War of Light bring about Blackest Night and how will the various Corps' combined power end it?

Because the white light used to be all those lights combined, until Nekron splintered it. Them coming back in to action meant that Nekron's nemesis had returned.

- Is Sinestro truly the greatest Lantern of them all?

No. When he should have been representing life, he was only in it for himself. As someone said, his hubris was his downfall.

Originally posted by -Pr-
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i agree with SOME of what he said, but i think he's being a bit OTT...

glare

I just think that having this many different lantern corps in DC all at once was too much of a huge change, in such a short length of time. Makes me not want to read future GL books at all, tbh.

My only hope is that something will happen in the near future to clean all of this 'superfluousness' up.

Originally posted by -Pr-
- Why is the Power of Will so important, i.e., why does Will + another emotion sever BLC connections? why did the BLC wait to attack the Central Power Battery when they hit 100%?

Because will is the balancing and central part of the spectrum, in effect the key part?

Originally posted by -Pr-
- What will happen when Nekron tries to raise Batman?

He couldn't, because as Hal and Barry mentioned later, Bruce isn't dead.

- What did Hal's father say to him at his moment of death?

Hal got over his father's death during the SCW.

Also, truth: Hal overcame his greatest fear in SCW, but it's still his greatest fear. And we never did know what he said. I mean... literally everybody encounters the ghosts of their past except for Hal?

Originally posted by -Pr-
- How did the emergence of the combined Corps in the War of Light bring about Blackest Night and how will the various Corps' combined power end it?

Because the white light used to be all those lights combined, until Nekron splintered it. Them coming back in to action meant that Nekron's nemesis had returned.

- Is Sinestro truly the greatest Lantern of them all?

No. When he should have been representing life, he was only in it for himself. As someone said, his hubris was his downfall.

Spoiler:
AFAIK, the White Light didn't return. It always was inside the Earth. The War of Light didn't awaken the White Light, nor did it herald it's return. Nekron literally had to force it out. In other words, the War of Light was a gratuitious Power Rangers wank-fest that ultimately preceded and didn't cause, nor resolve Blackest Night.

The one character that Johns managed to imbue with personality and he screwed it up. Hal's personality is wooden at best. Barry is simply Hal + superspeed - GL ring with some d1ckish anger arbitrarily thrown in. Sinestro seemed nuanced, and seemed two steps ahead of everything, but ultimately his machinations meant nothing, did nothing, and resolved nothing. The best he got after reverting back to mustache-twirling, was making fun of Agent Orange at the end.

Anger renewed... and rising... RISING. cursing

^ The way I see it Will being the linchpin could be explained that without the necessary will to back it up any emotional sentiment, be it rage, hope, love, what-have-you is bound to fail when confronted with serious adversity like the Black Lantern Corps. Emotions are no good if you don't have the chutzpah (Will) to make things happen.

^ Meh.

Still angry...

... or I could just be displacing my annoyance on Guy Gardner not having a bigger role in the fight against Nekron:

^ This was a very rare case where using Guy a bit more couldn't possibly have made the story any worse. biscuits

Originally posted by Galan007
^ This was a very rare case where using Guy a bit more couldn't possibly have made the story any worse. biscuits

I loled at the "Skeletor" reference. Though I did have to call shenanigans on the

Spoiler:
Max Lord mind controlling Guy thing. Shouldn't most GL's, especially one like Guy, be able to resist telepathy with, y'know, willpower?

In the face of SCW...Blackest Night falls flat.

With the way it ended all touchy-feely it could have been announced as all being a dream...

Ugh...the cliche 'dream-sequence'...this is the way it felt to me.

Originally posted by JakeTheBank
I loled at the "Skeletor" reference. Though I did have to call shenanigans on the

Spoiler:
Max Lord mind controlling Guy thing. Shouldn't most GL's, especially one like Guy, be able to resist telepathy with, y'know, willpower?

GLs have mixed showings vs. TP. So you could see it as a low showing, but not an absurd feat by any stretch.

Unless he somehow retained his powers, Deadman (if he can even be called that anymore) really got the shitty end of the stick upon being resurrected.

Yeah i'm liking the ronnie raymond/jason roush Firestorm.. i hope he gets another ongoing after brightest day

I wonder if Aquaman still has his waterhand...hmmm...

This event blew away that utter shit of Final Crisis.

I give Johns props for the story. Not the greatest but the most action pack and at times intense moments I read in awhile. Always kept me wanting to know what would happen next. I have no complains.

I also give props to Johns for resurrections. Pretty much covers up the mess Didio and Morrison of killing characters just to shock and make the bad guys look like real jerks.

My only critique were the spin offs. If it didn't had Geoff Johns on cover...don't buy it.

DC do the right thing and leave the event as it is...we (ooops! I meant non Morrison fanboys) don't want another extentensive useless garbage like Final Crisis Aftermath.

Johns and Dini...the REAL talent @ DC. (including others of course...)

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Wonder if Superman from 'Earth 2' came back too...

Originally posted by WickedDynamite
This event blew away that utter shit of Final Crisis

What did you not like about FC?

Originally posted by theICONiac
What did you not like about FC?

I pretty much said it in the FC thread. 😬