You think you’ve got work troubles? In the 2011 high-flying trash fire Green Lantern, Hal Jordan — who already has a perfectly good job as a test pilot who crashes planes — is suddenly kidnapped out of his life and forced to join a cult of alien bully space cops. On his first day, his new co-workers don’t explain his job description; they just throw rocks at him, and tell him that he’s worthless. Then the stupid science council refuses to help him save his planet from their greatest enemy, even though that’s specifically the thing that they hired him to do.
Luckily, this week on the podcast, I’m joined by Joe Hennes of ToughPigs.com to help me make sense of this utterly senseless film.
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Here’s Act 2:
And here’s Act 3:
Next:
A weekend popcorn report on
The Flash!
— Danny Horn
Superheroes Every Day 
I remember reading that – and this may be a bit of backwards engineering, but… – Oa is derived from Zero-A, because Oa is located at the center of the Universe and the middle of all 3600 sectors. So. Fun fact: I used to love GL stuff and this movie killed it for me.
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Weren’t the 3600 sectors radiating from OA, like slices of a pie?
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I honestly don’t remember a map, because I think I would have taken umbrage to a map that thought of space as a 2D-ish pie shape versus a sphere, but I can see them at least *saying* that’s how it worked.
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SUPERMAN III turns 40 today!
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Nice coverage. I like your detail because it means I never have to waste my life watching this or “Eternals.”
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