Saturday, October 27, 2012

Green Lantern: Emerald Knights

Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (2011)

Directed by Chris Berkeley, Lauren Montgomery, and Jay Oliva

 
Wow this one was weird. I'd put it in the weirdness of Allstar Superman. Not weird in a bad way. Just   weird.
If you're like me and have not read the comics, then this is a nice little view into a hand full of other Lanterns. I say it's weird because there's so many stories and flashbacks WITHIN stories, that you can easily forget something is just a tangent from the actual overall story.
Animation is pretty nice. Choice for voices is also enjoyable (Nathan Fillion of Serenity and Firefly, Jason Isaacs from Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Harry Potter, Elisabeth Moss from Girl, Interrupted, and other awesome talent).
I really really love that there's SO MANY character designs for humanoid and non-humanoid creatures. I mean I understand lots of bystander characters go into tons of animations, but usually they're all the same species as the main character(s). So lots of respect go out to the whole team that created and animated all the other worldly Lanterns.

So Hal Jordan has been trying to show rookie Arisia the ropes when evil strikes. Arisia has to go through trial by fire as Krona, in all his anti-matter villainy, enters through a sun to destroy the Green Lantern Corps.
During the wait period for Krona is when Hal Jordan and Sinestro tell Arisia all these stories of other Lanterns.
Green Lantern from Princess Laira's sector. This Lantern perished while defending Laira's father and her people. Upon this Lantern's death, the ring chose Laira next. (image from http://static3.aintitcool.com/assets2011/glekglc.JPG)

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