Captain Untouchable
Nov 7th, 2011, 03:24:31 PM
In celebration of Salty Nerd, the Cartoon Network (in America) will be showing the first episode of the new CGI Green Lantern series. There's some sneak-peek footage available:
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I am most definately not a full-on Green Lantern fan, so I'm not really in a position to critique the plot and the story too much: as far as I / we / the internet is/are aware, the story will focus on the conflict between the Green Lantern Corps and Red Lantern Corps.
Visually, it looks like they're trying to echo The Incredibles. I'm a big Incredibles fan, so that scores bonus points with me. I'm not sure if the youtube clip contains "finished" footage, or if there will be some polish to it. I hope it's the latter - Kilowog in particular looks a little bare - but the animation seems to get the point across, and you can certainly tell who people are meant to be.
Based on the sneak peek, it seems like a cartoon for children. I realise that sounds a bit redundant, but a lot of the DC cartoon releases are retellings of the comics that just happen to be in an animated format. With Green Lantern alone, the First Flight and Emerald Knights animated movies seemed to have an older target audience than this does. The Red Lanterns seem very "tame": I have no idea who that skinny chap is, but he didn't seem like he was someone who wields wrath like a weapon.
Hopefully they'll do more with the Red Lanterns than the clip suggests. As it stands I'm left wondering why they didn't pick the Sinestro Corps, if all they were looking for was an enemy group. The only reason I can think of is that controlling fear is a very evil thing to do: as demonstrated by characters like Mera and Guy Gardner, you can be angry enough for a red ring without being a full-on villain. There might be more scope to teach some morality lessons there, with repentant villains and all that?
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I am most definately not a full-on Green Lantern fan, so I'm not really in a position to critique the plot and the story too much: as far as I / we / the internet is/are aware, the story will focus on the conflict between the Green Lantern Corps and Red Lantern Corps.
Visually, it looks like they're trying to echo The Incredibles. I'm a big Incredibles fan, so that scores bonus points with me. I'm not sure if the youtube clip contains "finished" footage, or if there will be some polish to it. I hope it's the latter - Kilowog in particular looks a little bare - but the animation seems to get the point across, and you can certainly tell who people are meant to be.
Based on the sneak peek, it seems like a cartoon for children. I realise that sounds a bit redundant, but a lot of the DC cartoon releases are retellings of the comics that just happen to be in an animated format. With Green Lantern alone, the First Flight and Emerald Knights animated movies seemed to have an older target audience than this does. The Red Lanterns seem very "tame": I have no idea who that skinny chap is, but he didn't seem like he was someone who wields wrath like a weapon.
Hopefully they'll do more with the Red Lanterns than the clip suggests. As it stands I'm left wondering why they didn't pick the Sinestro Corps, if all they were looking for was an enemy group. The only reason I can think of is that controlling fear is a very evil thing to do: as demonstrated by characters like Mera and Guy Gardner, you can be angry enough for a red ring without being a full-on villain. There might be more scope to teach some morality lessons there, with repentant villains and all that?