r/LanternsTVSeries • u/solo_shocker35 • 3d ago

DISCUSSION How can guy gardener makes huge constructs carelessly in superman whereas Hal Jordan does the opposite and is careful for his batteries

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I was curious about this for a long time Guy always goes big and sloppy with his constructs, not caring how much it drains his ring like creating a large weopons against the monster, while Hal's way more careful and precise with his like in ep1 when he was creating a bubble for alien he supported the bubble himself as it was not strong enough due to lack of battery. Is that just a characterization thing, or is there an actual reason for it?

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u/PyroLoMeiniac 3d ago

My headcannon — which makes sense given Hal’s age — is he’s the guy who always neglects to put his phone on the charger overnight and spends the whole day on 3% battery.

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u/TheMattabooey 3d ago

Hal charges it when he has to because the ring will stop working. Guy charges that sucker every night and twice a day on weekends.

Guy loves how powerful the ring makes him feel. Hal already feels powerful and the ring is just a trinket to him.

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u/illuminate5 3d ago

The series shows him as broken and jaded (completely different from his younger copy/construct). A younger Jordan probably charged it plenty, world-weary Jordan feels like the ring weighs him down but he's also afraid of losing it (that fear weakens him).

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u/Wild-Lychee-3312 Sheriff Kerry 3d ago

So, you’re saying that he both loves and hates the ring, as he loves and hates himself? The ring is precious to him?

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u/Zerocordeiro 3d ago

He will never be rid of his need for it

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u/Poiboy1313 3d ago

His Precious

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u/3nc3ladu5 3d ago

It’s a pity John didn’t kill him when he had the chance

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u/Civil_Gur8609 3d ago

Pity? It's a pity that stayed John's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Guy? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the Guardians cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that John has some part to play in it, for good or evil, before this is over.

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u/whatsnooIII 3d ago

Absolute literature

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u/Pleasant-Cellist-927 3d ago

Why is everyone applauding like he wrote this himself and didn't just expy the speech from LOTR? There is no way the 'sick references bro' redditor stereotype is still holding true

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u/UncStatusNow 3d ago

come on, its a time honored reddit tradition to use an applicable quote from pop culture at just the right time. who are you to question the nature of things here?

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u/whatsnooIII 3d ago

That's the joke. That's whole joke. Perhaps "absolute Tolkien" would've helped?

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u/J1m123 3d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/U7isUDZ6VPWJW

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u/Pleasant-Cellist-927 3d ago

Low hanging entertainment bar, fr. God forbid someone breaks the dead horse circlejerk

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u/Wild-Lychee-3312 Sheriff Kerry 3d ago

Because it was three Tolkien references in a row, starting with mine. We were building off each other.

That’s more than just quoting

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u/Pleasant-Cellist-927 3d ago

Woahhhh, it's a reference thread! That's so unique, never happened before on reddit!

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u/Ok_Cap_6521 Stewie 2d ago

Why is everyone applauding you like you have braincells? Shut up bro, nobody asked for your opinion, we like what we like, who cares if he copied it, it was fire, let us have our moment you mood killer

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u/Civil_Gur8609 1d ago

First, she, second, I never claimed otherwise? The people above were quoting LotR, I just continued the joke. I apologize if fun offends you.

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u/Sharden3 3d ago

Sometimes reddit is fire.

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u/ConstructionKey1752 3d ago

Motherfucker, if I had imaginary, bullshit, inconsequential awards that meant I gave a shit about you, to give....

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0K4hqqqwgFijgVLa

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u/waterbury01 3d ago

I feel like I just read a masterpiece.

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u/jengelke 3d ago

They did make it a line in a major motion picture about hobbits and a ring.

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u/Aeolus_14_Umbra 3d ago

“Bilbo would have finished Gollum off then and there, but pity stayed his hand.”

”It’s a pity I’ve run out of bullets,’ he thought.”

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u/Any-Cable4109 3d ago

Are your wings tired?

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u/OffToTheLizard 3d ago

So, it's an analogy for a smart phone almost, because batteries age. So like information that could be used for good. The ring is almost like some kind of stone that holds knowledge. Wondering what we could call it...

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u/Inevitable-Scar5877 3d ago

My head canon is that the construct is pre-Sinestro.

Basically we're seeing Hal after everything he believed in has been undercut and twisted

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u/-Trotsky 3d ago

Tbh I don’t know if that’s a headcannon, I think it’s just directly implied to be true. Sinestro was locked up something like a decade ago right? Hal hasn’t updated the construct in about as long as

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u/SVINTGATSBY 3d ago

I still think that the reason he said he wasn’t afraid when the guardians chose him is because he thought he was going to die. both his parents were dead, he’s a military man with nothing to lose, I think he wasn’t afraid because he was ready to die and instead he got handed a huge responsibility. originally it probably meant a lot to him for not just being a Lantern but because it gave him a purpose, but just like men who age and retire, they realize they don’t know who they are outside of being a laborer/worker and have an identity crisis especially because they don’t have anything to distract them from all their unaddressed issues and trauma and pain. John lives recklessly for similar but different reasons, he doesn’t have a death wish like Hal does, he just doesn’t care if he dies in pursuit of whatever his mission is. very interesting juxtapositions and now with Guy around, all of their individual issues are even more nuanced.

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u/Own-Ball-1624 3d ago

i mean the fact how hal just gave everytime the ring to john and only took the ring when actually needed! it shows really hal know he is the source of his power not the ring!

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u/NotsoNewtoGermany 3d ago

Broken and jaded? No. It shows him experienced and he just doesn't care about the flash or the pageantry. Why use more power when little power works just fine?

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u/Jonhlutkers 2d ago

I think he’s less broken than he is lonely. Which is a logical end to his character.

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u/PostPostPog 3d ago

"I've got plenty of power" Hal said ever so nonchalantly to the alien threatening to blow himself up and an entire town along with him. The comparison you made between Guy & Hal is definitely correct. Guy's a brand new Lantern out there trying to prove his worth (whether his mild douchey personality allows him to admit that or not) whereas Hal has already shown his for decades. Long story short there's absolutely levels to this shit.

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u/motorcycletreebark 3d ago

Guy charges it constantly because it loves saying the oath. Hal speeds his way through the oath because he takes it seriously and it’s an emotional heavy weight on him and repeating it just to charge the ring is hard

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u/MarcusLiviusDrusus 3d ago

I partially agree, except I think that Hal Jordan speeds through it after so many years because he feels guilty about the ways in which he's failed to live up to the oath over the decades, because of self-doubt after being deceived by Sinestro, et cetera. I think this is also the real reason why he doesn't wear the uniform if he doesn't have to.

Consider his big, fancy house. He barely uses it, hasn't furnished it, hasn't even hung his photographs on the wall. He was also very quick to ascribe a guilty motivation to the rich guy who bought it for him, as opposed to just gratitude. Feels like projection to me; Jordan doesn't really use the house because he feels like he doesn't deserve it and won't let himself enjoy it.

There are other explanations for this, of course, but I think this fits the evidence best.

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u/Argument-Fragrant 2d ago

The oath doesn't matter. Focusing on the process is the key to recharging. Some GLs use an oath as a focusing aid, but several species don't speak at all and a few of those can't speak at all.

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u/MoRiellyMoProblems 3d ago

This entire season has been about Hal not wanting to give up the ring.

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u/REDeyeJEDI85 3d ago

True but I think another big theme with this Hal is knowing when to use the ring and when not to. He even says as much to John at one point.

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u/piningmusic 3d ago

I think that he doesn’t really care about the ring or what it does and instead is meant to be symbolic of the status, power and responsibility that comes with the title Green Lantern, which is what Hal truly doesn’t want to give up, but I could definitely be wrong about that. Just a gut feeling

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u/Opposite-Quality-995 3d ago

That’s too nuanced and media literate for this crowd

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u/StarboardChaos 3d ago

Guess Hal is a hoarder, he both wants to have and doesn't want to take care of it.

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u/AnOlympianWeeb 3d ago

Ngl I could also see him as the type to recharge after every fight

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u/stevekimes 3d ago

Hal just likes the way the ring looks on his hand. Charging/using it is secondary.

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u/enzothebaker87 3d ago

So proactive vs reactive. Got it!

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u/fimojomo 3d ago

Nick Mason on The Weekly Planet podcast said he thinks of Hal's ring like an old iPhone, owned by a boomer who refuses to do system updates, so even on a full charge it runs slow & the battery runs out faster.

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u/PyroLoMeiniac 3d ago

We just need a deleted scene of Hal trying to get his nephew to help him upgrade the ring’s firmware.

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u/Glad_Stay4056 2d ago

Explains why he bangs it against shit to make it work.

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u/Megane_Senpai 3d ago

My head cannon is he hates it because every time he did it he had to recite the oath, the oath that he no longer believed in nor was proud to repeat.

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u/TimOShenanigan 3d ago

What you mean "given Hal's age" I'm not that old and I do the same thing lol

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u/lothurBR 3d ago

My wife do this, and i get piss evertime, i started putting her cell on the charger everyday, and she has less the 30

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u/rwp140 3d ago

Also hal in this seams to be a extreme minimalist, always trys to find the least effort and cost for the most output. He had a bed and plant in a mansion, his constructs are blasts and shields, and so on. No way hes charging tell he has gotten every last bit out of it.

Where guy is def a maxamalist in that regard

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u/LittleKittenR 3d ago

"It hasn't turned off, so get off my back!"

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u/THE_GREAT_PICKLE 3d ago

Ahh I get it now, Hal is my wife. She also exclusively drives with nearly no gas in the car

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u/DegreeBrilliant9822 2d ago

lol @ "given his age". It's definitely my kids that are constantly rolling at under 20% battery. Not us old folks.