Trailer Lanterns | Official Teaser | HBO Max

Artamo · 2026-03-12T00:31:02+0000

Pulpfan1971 said:
Sweet Summer Child, "The Secret Empire" was an epic from the early 1970s (Cap 160-179) and it ends with the President of the US (whose face is never shown) committing suicide.

The "Secret Empire" you remember was an homage to that story decades later

Ooooooookay.

sabrinathecat · 2026-03-12T15:27:47+0000

Older Beholder said:
So, out of interest, did u not like Andor? or have you not watched it?

Never watched. I was too disgusted by "Book of Boba Fett," and "Kenobi" that I have lost all faith, confidence, and interest in Di$ney's $tar War$ to be willing to take another chance on being so disappointed ever again. Not until KK and her lot are gone will I give any SW product a chance.

Reef · 2026-03-12T15:37:03+0000

sabrinathecat said:
Never watched. I was too disgusted by "Book of Boba Fett," and "Kenobi" that I have lost all faith, confidence, and interest in Di$ney's $tar War$ to be willing to take another chance on being so disappointed ever again. Not until KK and her lot are gone will I give any SW product a chance.

Your choice, but you are missing out. If Boba Fett and Kenobi were the karmic price we had to pay for Andor, I’d happily pay it again. Not only was Andor the best Star Wars I’ve seen in decades, it was one of the best shows I’ve seen…period. And so eerily relevant, I’m amazed they got away with making it.

Rabulias · 2026-03-12T15:52:39+0000

sabrinathecat said:
Never watched. I was too disgusted by "Book of Boba Fett," and "Kenobi" that I have lost all faith, confidence, and interest in Di$ney's $tar War$ to be willing to take another chance on being so disappointed ever again. Not until KK and her lot are gone will I give any SW product a chance.

You are probably sick of hearing this, but Andor really is different from just about anything else in Star Wars (it is close to Rogue One, obviously, but even that is a different tone). Did you see Rogue One? Did you like it?

Andor is really worth a watch.

jian · 2026-03-12T16:20:44+0000

Yeah, Andor is just very different. Tony Gilroy basically said, "they're going to let me make a prequel to Rogue One so it's going to be an extremely engaging person-level examination of how fascists come to power and how that changes everyone and everything, and how there are as many paths to resistance as there are people" which is a hell of a reaction. Andor is probably therefore the best fictional examination we have of how we go from apparently business as usual to all-out fascism, it barely needs the Star Wars veneer. It stands proudly alongside the classics of the genre - The Iron Heel, It Can't Happen Here, 1984, The Man in the High Castle, The Handmaid's Tale, Julia - and is incredibly relevant in these troubled times.

I must commend Disney to some degree for letting creators play around with the premises they're given, especially in the TV series. It hasn't always worked out - heck, it usually doesn't work out - but we get gems like WandaVision and Andor. And even flawed gems like Eternals, which I really liked but I can see why many other people didn't.

Lanterns feels like a similar idea - let the creator go with an off the wall idea that they really like and see where it goes - but WB/DC aren't really as far along that road as Disney is, so we'll see how it gets implemented.

chuckdee · 2026-03-12T18:57:29+0000

Aaron Pierre Joins DC Studios’ Superman Sequel ‘Man of Tomorrow’

The actor is already in the DC fold thanks to his upcoming HBO show 'Lanterns.'

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Speculation is rampant. Will Hal end up becoming Parallax? Or just die? Or just retire? I'm waiting to see, but excited to see Aaron Pierre getting so much work!

Older Beholder · 2026-03-12T21:41:04+0000

sabrinathecat said:
Never watched. I was too disgusted by "Book of Boba Fett," and "Kenobi" that I have lost all faith, confidence, and interest in Di$ney's $tar War$ to be willing to take another chance on being so disappointed ever again. Not until KK and her lot are gone will I give any SW product a chance.

So basically, you’re doing the meme where the guy is turning back down the tunnel he dug moments before reaching the diamonds.

Older Beholder · 2026-03-12T21:47:51+0000

I like the idea of taking one of the more over the top comics / characters like Green Lantern and doing a quite literally ‘down to Earth’ version.

sabrinathecat · 2026-03-12T22:15:39+0000

The droid and Vader were the only good parts of Rogue One. Director seems to be in severe need of a reminder that movies are meant to be seen. In the original movie, even when it didn't make sense for there to be any lights in the trash compactor, it was always easy to see what was happening. And Vader cutting his way through the rebels was the opposite of the Vader that is calmly walking around just minutes later in the original movie--this was pure "fan" "Service."
So no, I did not enjoy Rogue One. Brian Daley's Star Wars Radio Play did a vastly superior job of telling essentially the same story in a way that was a great deal more compelling.
If I want a political drama that seems oddly prescient, I'll watch Babylon5 or the (Original British) House of Cards series.

No TV show can be so good that it warrants enduring BoBF or Kenobi, any more than any TV show can recover from the utter tedium of (hot take trauma warning) the 1st season of Game of Thrones.