Why Does Hal Jordan Die in the Pilot Episode of 'Lanterns' on HBO Max?

 The following blog will discuss spoilers from the pilot episode of Lanterns on HBO Max.

Green Lantern; credit: DC Comics

9.3 million people viewed Lanterns during the first three days it was available on HBO Max, with 6.6 million of those viewers coming from the U.S. This is the biggest premiere for a DC Studios show on HBO Max. In this respect, it was a big deal.

Opinion: Pilot Episode of Lanterns was Lackluster

The pilot episode of Lanterns did not get off to a great start. The show has a gloomy and darker tone, and we don't see Hal Jordan get into his suit one time. Instead, we meet a kid who is in training from a young age to seek out Hal Jordan (to be his trainee) and a pessimistic and alcoholic Hal Jordan, who is jaded about the world. Hal Jordan's identity is revealed.

In my opinion, it's not a great start for one of Earth's greatest superheroes.

Spoilers coming...

The show fast-forwards to 2016, and the boy is now an adult John Stewart, played by Aaron Pierre and he is now learning from Hal Jordan, who tests him in various ways. Most of the tests involve leaving the ring in plain sight to see what John Stewart will do. One of those times, John Stewart leaves the ring on the dashboard of a car and drives it off a cliff, leaving John to figure out how to survive in deadly situations.

Hal Jordan is Found Dead at the end of the Lanterns Pilot Episode

What's even crazier is that we find the titular hero (played by Kyle Chandler) dead by the end of the episode, with a gunshot to his head (see image below). 

Who killed Hal Jordan in Lanterns TV show on HBO Max?

Hal Jordan in pilot episode of Lanterns on HBO Max

What Happens in the Pilot Episode

In the pilot episode, Hal Jordan goes to investigate murders at a football game and suspects that aliens were murdered because there is no one making a fuss. Hal and John investigate. Hal gets to interrogate one of the aliens and postulates that since he has no clue who Harry Potter is, he must be an alien. The alien is only able to recite facts about events in sports and history, but has no real knowledge of pop culture.

Therefore, he must be an alien!

Meanwhile, Hal and John are invited to a cookout at the sheriff's home, and her husband reveals that he is aware that John had slept with his wife. 

The episode finally ends in 2026, where the sheriff and John go back to the football bleachers to find Hal with a gunshot to his head.

What a way to end the episode with a bang.

The action was not spectacular in this pilot episode, and I wasn't very impressed.

The placement of a dead Hal Jordan 10 years into the future suggests that he upset a powerful alien, or that he died at the hands of someone connected to the alien he questions earlier in the episode.

What did you think of the pilot episode?

Sci-fi Show, 'The 100' Season 1 on the CW Gets a Season 2 with Ratings

The 100 CW Poster

Sci-fi Show, 'The 100' Season 1 on the CW 

The 100 on the CW is a sci-fi drama based on a book series by Kass Morgan.

The show takes place in a future where the Earth was abandoned due to nuclear war 97 years earlier, forcing humans to look to space for survival. They built and live in a space station orbiting above the Earth, with the capability of coming back to Earth with shuttles. As food and water begins to deplete, the leaders aboard the space station have to make hard decisions. They first decide to send 100 of their delinquents down to Earth to see if it is habitable. In reality, the leaders knew this would be a death sentence, to give those aboard the station a better chance with less people to drain the ship's resources. To monitor #The100 on the Earth, each juvenile is fitted with a vital signs bracelet. As life signs abruptly end, the space station begins to think that The 100 are unable to survive on the Earth.

The 100 land on Earth (in once was the Eastern U.S.) and find out that the planet is habitable, and that there are humans that did survive on Earth this whole time. These humans appear to be feudal and aggressive toward outsiders, particularly The 100 that "fell from the sky."

For the duration of Season 1, The 100 mainly takes place at the base camp that they have built on Earth, and the scenes back up inside the space station. However, in episode 13, the surviving 100 members are gassed by an unknown group and the episode ends inside a quarantine unit inside of Mount Weather. This indicates that there was a group of surviving humans that still possess technology and modern equipment.

Which Character from 'The 100' on the CW has Developed the most over Season 1?

Watch the video below to see the answer.

The 100 Season 1 Ratings on the CW

The sci-fi show, 'The 100' on the CW ended with suspense, and the CW did not hesitate to pick up the show for a 2nd Season.

According to TVSeriesFinale.com, they partly credit the CW for airing The 100 right after Arrow as the lead-in show. The 2.7 million viewers on the Season 1 premiere was a great start for the sci-fi show, and ended with almost 1.7 million viewers.

Below you can see the Nielsen ratings for each Season 1 episode of The 100 on the CW.

Nielsen ratings for Season 1 of The 100 on The CW

Sources:
"The 100 Season 1 Ratings." TVSeriesFinales.com.

Immigration Problem Solved: 5 Ways To Stop An Alien Takeover

Alien artwork by Didier Konings

Illegal aliens and the immigration laws are all over the news. It's a hot-button topic in political circles with a general election coming up.

But domestic aliens are less invasive than aliens that attack from outer space.

So take a moment to consider the real threat of an alien takeover, and how you can prepare yourself, with some help from popular Hollywood films.

5 Ways to Stop an Alien Takeover:

1. Use knowledge gained about the aliens to take the upper hand. In The Darkest Hour (2011), Emile Hirsch plays a young entrepreneur that is taken surprise by invisible aliens that attempt a worldwide takeover. These electric emitting aliens can only by fought with microwave guns (that a brilliant Russian creates on a whim), and a little American ingenuity. In Cowboys and Aliens (2011), Jake (Daniel Craig) wakes up with amnesia and a high-tech blaster sealed to his wrist. Aliens attack and cowboys must team up with indians to ward off the gold-hungry aliens. Ella (Olivia Wilde) turns out to be a friendly alien, and they all learn the hard way that a bow-and-arrow is useless when fighting alien immigrants from outer space. They have no intention of learning English, despite working in a U.S. gold mine. A laser gun and a little dynamite works a lot better.
2. Run and let the angry birds do the fighting with biological warfare. In War of the Worlds (2005), the humans are ineffective against the alien invasion, however the bird flu is what sends the aliens packing. Look, if the birds of planet Earth want to fight for us, why stop them? Its about time they pull their weight.
   Note: This has nothing whatsoever to do with Angry Birds in Space.
3. Let the friendly aliens fight for you. In The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), an alien friendly comes to Earth to prevent the G.O.R.T. robot from wiping out humanity altogether. If Keanu Reeves is on your side, who can be against you? Or how about in Transformers (2007) when friendly robots come from outer space to help defend Earth from the power-hungry robots that want use Earth for a new home?
4. Take an alien fighter ship and take revenge. In Independence Day (1996), aliens attempt a worldwide takeover, and an American fighter pilot – played by Will Smith – takes one of the alien ships back to the Mother ship and takes a surprise with him to blow them into oblivion.
5. Find an intergalactic Stargate and lead a ground-based rebellion against the alien threat. In Stargate (1994), Kurt Russell plays an army Colonel with a mission to destroy the gateway between planets to protect Earth. Unfortunately, he finds that the alien enemy must be stopped by blowing up the Pyramid-like spaceship first.

If you think you can add to this list, feel free to leave a comment at the bottom.

Abortion is the American Holocaust; Over 53 Million Dead

Fetal stage of Prenatal development

Today marks the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion in the famous trial of Rowe v. Wade.

I am not a WWII Holocaust survivor, but I am a survivor of the American Holocaust, brought about by the legalization of abortion.

I can say this because a family member told me that abortion was suggested, because at the time, my mother was not married to my father.

I am very thankful that I was given the chance to live, and thankful that God has given me an opportunity to walk upon the Earth.

I want to bring up a video that Ray Comfort has made, called the "180" Movie, and can be viewed here on Youtube.

180 Movie

The video goes in depth about how terrible the WWII Holocaust was, but there is now a bigger mass killing taking place today, thanks to the legalization of abortion. By the way, Adolf Hitler sanctioned the murder of 11 million people.

The most shocking truth found in the 180 Movie is that many younger people have no clue who Adolf Hitler was.

Adolf Hitler

Those who do remember who Hitler was, do not hesitate on the question: "If you could go back in time, would you kill Hitler's mother, when she was pregnant with Hitler?"

Killing a baby makes you no better than any other murderer in the history of time. Taking a life is the same whether it is inside of a mother, or walking on the Earth.

Baby in the womb at six weeks

Above is a picture of a baby in the womb at six months. The safest place on Earth should be the mother's womb.

Wikipedia says:
"Prenatal development is the process in which a human embryo gestates during pregnancy, from fertilization until birth."

"By the end of the 10th week of the gestational age, the precursors of all of the major organs have been created in prenatal development."

Ray Comfort discusses with real people off of the street the challenging subject of abortion, and I recommend that you watch this video regardless of which side of the issue you believe.

Again, the 180 Movie can be viewed here.

Allowing abortion to go on in this country is a present-day Holocaust that is no different than allowing Hitler to kill people in Nazi Germany during WWII.

All babies deserve the right to live. There are many loving homes that are willing to adopt a baby.

I will end with this shocking abortion statistic, since the Supreme Court decision, Rowe v. Wade.

Abortion statistic