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Post by tonebone on Jun 3, 2021 9:56:03 GMT -5
Bit of both. I hate that New Who slowly evolved into nothing more than some kind of Action, Pseudo-Scifi, romance when Moffat took over (it got really bad when Matt Smith started). If you want an idea of what I'm talking about, go watch the Star Trek TNG movies then compare them to the TV series, totally different feel
I love Hartnell the most, this crotchety old man in police box tormenting everybody. Peter Capaldi's run as the doctor was closest to matching it in feel
I was excited with the news that Capaldi was going to be the next Doctor, having enjoyed his performance on The Thick of It. And he was good, but I found the writing of the series on the whole had gone into a downswing by the time he came on board. There were still some good individual episodes but I found his tenure a bit of a disappointment, in spite of liking his Doctor and Jenna Coleman's Clara, one of the best Companions ever. I didn't mind Capaldi as the Doctor, but I found the scripts to be too introspective ("Why this face?"), and too cloying and always trying really hard to make Capaldi seem younger and cool (guitar, sunglasses, etc.). You would think they would have just cast a younger guy if they were so conscious about his age. I have to disagree with you about Clara.... oh, Clara... I found her to be the most boring, contrived companion, ever. I developed a pavlovian response to her stupid theme playing every time her face came on the screen. She was such an empty, vapid character (despite her being a wonderful actor). And then, OF COURSE, she is revealed to be THE ONE, the key to everything, the only being in the universe to be able to Bla Bla Bla. (This is a reoccurring misstep in the New Who era, with virtually ever female companion being THE ONE.) I never even watched the last Capaldi season, and only watched a couple of the Whitaker episodes. The writing just isn't there for me. I re-watched a couple of Tennent episodes, recently, and was blown away. I had forgotten just HOW GOOD it was, for a while.
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Post by brutalis on Jun 5, 2021 7:38:50 GMT -5
I had a Major Matt Mason as my grandmother had just started working at a T G & Y store as cashier. That was an Easter gift one year. He was the poor man's G.I. Joe stand in. But he was a spaceman, so I loved the heck out of it even though wasn't much for him to do as a single toy figure. But it fit well with my interest in all things spacey so my imagination found ways to help ol' Matt get into and out of space worthy trouble.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 5, 2021 8:30:34 GMT -5
I had a Major Matt Mason as my grandmother had just started working at a T G & Y store as cashier. That was an Easter gift one year. He was the poor man's G.I. Joe stand in. But he was a spaceman, so I loved the heck out of it even though wasn't much for him to do as a single toy figure. But it fit well with my interest in all things spacey so my imagination found ways to help ol' Matt get into and out of space worthy trouble. I had quite a few MMM figures and vehicles, probably at least 2/3rds of the product line. Let me tell you from experience— during cicada season, the empty cicada husks found on tree trunks make a perfectly suitable Venusian monster horde in the mind of a 7-yr. old boy! Regardless of whether you had one or a dozen figures, it was still a toy that required imagination as an engine. These guys... VS. these things.... equals hours of fun for kids back in the day!
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Post by brutalis on Jun 7, 2021 8:26:10 GMT -5
Which One is your favorite ring slinger? Half Jordan, John Stewart or Guy Gardner?
Mr. Jordan has my vote as he is the one I grew up with. Stewart comes in 2nd as he is a well fleshed character and has his share of time in the spotlight over the years, with really good mileage in the JLU animated world. Gardner I just never really got into, even during the Bwahaha years of JLA when he began getting attention.
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Post by foxley on Jun 7, 2021 9:00:56 GMT -5
Alan Scott
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 7, 2021 9:22:52 GMT -5
This. Usually I'm a stickler for staying within the parameters of a question...but Alan Scott by a few miles. That being said, any character is only as good as the creators who are working on that character.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 7, 2021 11:30:32 GMT -5
Hal Jordan (all of him, not just half) was the star of the second comic book I ever read. He is my Green Lantern.
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Post by brutalis on Jun 7, 2021 11:48:32 GMT -5
I almost added the original GL but opted to just go with the Corps. And didn't include other Corps as to not further dilute the options.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 7, 2021 12:47:56 GMT -5
I had a Major Matt Mason as my grandmother had just started working at a T G & Y store as cashier. That was an Easter gift one year. He was the poor man's G.I. Joe stand in. But he was a spaceman, so I loved the heck out of it even though wasn't much for him to do as a single toy figure. But it fit well with my interest in all things spacey so my imagination found ways to help ol' Matt get into and out of space worthy trouble. I had quite a few MMM figures and vehicles, probably at least 2/3rds of the product line. Let me tell you from experience— during cicada season, the empty cicada husks found on tree trunks make a perfectly suitable Venusian monster horde in the mind of a 7-yr. old boy! Regardless of whether you had one or a dozen figures, it was still a toy that required imagination as an engine. You, sir, are a GENIUS!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2021 18:43:53 GMT -5
Which One is your favorite ring slinger? The Torchbearer himself, Kyle Rayner.
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Post by chadwilliam on Jun 7, 2021 18:56:43 GMT -5
I have to go with Alan Scott, as well, if only for that weird origin. "Three times shall I flame green! First - to bring death! Second - to bring life! Third - to bring power!" Walking through walls, regularly being mistaken for a ghost, surrounded by an aura of green flames - it really felt in those early tales that Scott might have unwittingly made a deal with the devil in exchange for surviving that train catastrophe - that is, if he did survive.
Besides, there's something about a flying hero who doesn't wear a cape which just seems, I don't know, insincere to me.
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Post by majestic on Jun 7, 2021 20:26:15 GMT -5
Alan Scott. I prefer the Golden Age versions of Green Lantern and Hawkman. And the Silver Age versions of Flash and Atom.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 9, 2021 9:46:52 GMT -5
I'd also have to go with Alan. Really liked Thomas' re-telling in Secret Origins
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2021 11:14:31 GMT -5
Hal was my introduction to Green Lantern, and this Gil Kane cover issue was my first GL purchase as a kid, I still remember picking it up at the newsstand and thinking how cool it looked. Challenge of the Super Friends was around this time as well so he definitely was my GL growing up (also had the Super Powers figure). But really close second was Alan Scott after I got into all the Golden Age heroes later on.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 9, 2021 12:14:25 GMT -5
I was never a Green Lantern reader. I read Alan Scott's origin story in an old hardcover collection of stories from the golden age, and I loved the mystical aspect of it. For all their frequent crudeness, golden age tales often managed to really capture the sense of mystery that should go with the genre (a sense of mystery that was very elegantly pastiched in Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay). I don't remember ever reading another original Green Lantern story, though!
Hal Jordan I got to know from one forgettable GL/GA comic and one really cool Blue Ribbon Digest that collected several early adventures. That one remains "my" Green Lantern, solely on account of being the first one I got to know; I don't view the concept of the character as being intrinsically better than that of his predecessor.
The ones who came later I know even less. John Stewart, the few times I got to read of his adventures, never struck me as having a particular "voice". He was sort of a superheroic blank slate as far as I'm concerned. Guy Gardner was a Reaganite GL, whose best use was as comic relief in Justice League (again IMO). I don't really know Kyle Rayner, although I liked how he and Connor Hawke were friends and heralded a new generation of heroes in the JLA before the Nostalgia Ray blasted them into irrelevance.
The Corps was a great idea, but it fell victim of the great post-Phoenix 1980s slaughter: "hey, we have these numerous characters who don't have their own title... what if we killed or maimed most of them? Wouldn't that be cool?" Later repowering or resurrections don't cut it, and don't get me started on refrigerators.
The Green Lantern from Kingdom Come was pretty neat, too.
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