Last night's sixth episode of Lanterns, "Bad Optics," concluded with John Stewart summoning the late Hal Jordan's "Halogram," and it looks like the pair will set about attempting to find out who killed the veteran hero in next week's penultimate episode.
The teaser sees John teaming up with the projection of a younger Jordan to conduct an investigation, but the people of Rushville probably won't be too willing to assist them after the devastation that was visited on the town ten years prior.
Episode 6 also featured the return of Nathan Fillion's Guy Gardner. The Firefly alum spoke to Variety about his Lanterns role, and what makes Gardner stand out as a very different Green Lantern to both Jordan and Stewart.
“Guy is very concerned about brand and corporate sponsorship; he has financial goals. He wants to open a bar, he has retirement plans; he’s not a dummy. I think he’s TikTok literate, he understands trends. I think he’s done more than one dance or two,” Fillion says with a laugh. “That’s part of his schtick. He wants to not just be Green Lantern, but a famous Green Lantern.”
Fillion also admitted that he shared similar concerns as a lot of fans when it comes to the various different tones we've seen in the DCU so far.
“My concern was consistency. I knew there was going to be a shift in tone. What I didn’t want was for there to be a shift in the character himself. So I just likened it much to, if you were to spend a weekend in Metropolis, or spend a weekend in Gotham — you’d be the same person, but you’d have very different weekends.”
“We collected secondhand comic books in stacks about two feet high, and it was a real mishmash across the board," he added. "But I got a real, solid knowledge base about pretty much everything DC, Marvel. I confess I didn’t see the value of Guy Gardner back then. I, like many people, disliked Guy Gardner. I think we’re kind of supposed to dislike him.”
HBO in association with Warner Bros. Television and DC Studios. The pilot episode is co-written by Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof, and Tom King, who are co-creators for the series. Mundy serves as showrunner. The first two episodes are directed by James Hawes, with Stephen Williams, Geeta Vasant Patel, and Alik Sakharov also tapped to direct. The series is executive produced by Mundy, Lindelof, James Gunn, Peter Safran, King, Ron Schmidt, and Hawes. Based on the DC comic characters from Green Lantern.
The series stars Kyle Chandler, Aaron Pierre, Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, Poorna Jagannathan, Laura Linney, Jason Ritter, Ulrich Thomsen, Nathan Fillion, J. Alphonse Nicholson, and Jasmine Cephas Jones.
The series follows new recruit John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) and Lantern legend Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler), two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.