LANTERNS: Every Shot We Haven’t Seen Yet | Eps 5-8 Explained

Who did kill Hal Jordan? What is. Sinestro's plan? And how much fear. should we feel for this yellow-colored. planet of fear coming up on Lanterns? Welcome back to New Rockstars. [music]. I'm Eric Voss, and here is every shot we. know of that is remaining in this season. of DC Studios Lanterns, organized. episode by episode by when I think it. will happen. We are now halfway through. the season with the back four episodes. remaining, and now I have gone back. through every pre-season trailer, next. episode promo, behind-the-scenes. featurette to explain over 100 shots. that I think are still remaining for.

this series, and grouped by time period, 2016 versus 2026 versus some other time, and by setting and by general context. So, in this video, I'm going to predict. how this is all going to go down, but. I'm going to do a favor for all of you. spoiler-averse folks and organize this. chapter by chapter. So, if you only want. to get a sense of what I think will. happen in episode five, but if you don't. want to know what's going to happen in. the finale of episode eight, you can. stop watching at that point. Or, if you. want to skip the episode five stuff and. skip right ahead to the end, you have an. option to do that, too. I'm doing it. this way because I love you, especially.

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Redditor JustJohn17 actually edited. together a solid 2-minute string out of. trailer footage that I agree, I think. all belongs in episode 5 coming Sunday, September 13th. And again, spoiler. warning if you don't want anyone to. reassemble the context of these trailer. shots. If you want some less contextual. shots for episode 6, 7, and 8, you can. skip to the chapters beyond this one. Okay, from this it looks like episode 5. is going to pick up from Hal jumping out. of the rental car and allowing John to. crash into the light pole at the end of. episode 4. Now there's a trailer shot. showing Hal walking back up to that. wreckage and checking in on John. >> Sorry about that, Junior. I have to move.

you off the game board. >> And then John, with his knee jammed into. the glove box, will struggle to get out. of the rental car as it catches fire. And then he's going to look out through. the flames out the window and see. Manhunter Zoe Macon not dead standing. across the street watching as the entire. car explodes. She is wearing the same. blue jean jacket that she was wearing. when she left John's motel room in. episode 4. So, as I pointed out in our. episode 4 breakdown, somewhere in the. shot of her walking out of the motel. room to her truck, she pulled a kind of. Texas switch and it was a hologram or. some kind of visual decoy that actually.

drove away in her truck to make Hal. Jordan think she was killed by her own. space lasers. I actually think she's. going to rematerialize from that. bracelet left on John's nightstand. There's a shot of Manhunter Zoe in the. empty unused Rushville hospital sitting. beside what I assume is a heavily burned. and bandaged up John Stewart. But then. in an extreme close-up of her fingers on. his heavily burned eye, a shot that we. saw in the recent episode 5 preview, we. see her dropping some of her Manhunter. blood on that green eye, presumably. healing John Stewart completely here,

the way that Manhunter Zoe cured Will. Mekon's cancer. Now, there are shots. from promos where we hear citywide. warning to all citizens of Rushville and. shots of them arming up with weapons. >> Residents of Rushville, this is not a. drill. I repeat, this is not a drill. >> I think when word gets out of Anton's. group's attack on the town, all citizens. of Rushville will be alerted that these. alien invaders have come to town to hunt. the Manhunter and they're all being. prepared for these walking alien bombs. We actually see another town hall. meeting. It's like the one in episode 2, but it's a different scene because now.

Hal and John walk into the room together. and you can see Carrie and Black Hat. William Mekon Sr. together on stage. addressing the whole town. So, if Hal. and John are together, I'm kind of. curious what the context is here because. it seems like they're going to spend a. lot of episode 5 apart based off of all. the other shots. So, who knows? This. might also be 10 years later in 2026. because there was also this. behind-the-scenes image that shows a. super gray Hal Jordan and a 2026 bearded. John Stewart alive together in a diner. So, there's going to be some scene with. them alive together in that time period.

at those ages, but it's kind of hard to. tell because it seems like the people of. Rushville never actually age based off. of the nutritional and health care. privileges provided by the Manhunter. But, back to the episode 5 shots, one of. those alien bombs, as we see in trailer. shots, will arrive at the gates of Mekon. Ranch with the study the past written on. the gate. It seems like William Mekon. Sr. himself will be seen greeting the. guy at the gate as William points a gun. at him, but we see this guy getting out. of his car and it's like a scene out of. Zero Dark Thirty because boom, the whole. area explodes. I was about to say this. is going to be the death of William.

Mekon and he's about to be as overcooked. as his ribs are, but I think he actually. gets away. By the way, there's also this. shot from the weeks ahead trailer at the. beginning of the season where it looks. like one of Anton's aliens runs directly. at the weenie structure on the Mekon. Ranch and blows up that whole building. But, this diner that John called Anton. to meet him at, we know from shots that. Hal will arrive at this place as a. shootout has already taken place. It. looks like in this parking lot are going. to be a whole bunch of shell casings and. a corpse of someone that was shot. outside the door. By the way, this is. the diner just outside of town where. John Stewart met Zoe Macon back in.

episode two. But now in episode five. based off of some trailer shots inside. of this diner how Jordan will find more. dead bodies and then bubble up with a. green shield as Anton's crew opens. machine gun fire on him and then Anton. himself will now step up right to him. I. assume here is when we're going to learn. that Anton's real identity is Atrocitus. from the planet that the Manhunter wiped. out. But the reason I think both Anton. and Will Macon will survive for a later. scene is because another trailer shot. shows Anton in Macon's office from. episode three. And remember how in my. episode four breakdown I pointed out.

that laser emitter that's on Macon's. desk as being the same tech that we see. on the wall of the killing floor of the. slaughterhouse. Now we see it activate. here aiming a bunch of lasers right at. Anton. So is this just going to end in a. standoff? Will trying to laser slice. Anton like this just blow up the whole. ranch house? And then in another shot we. know that Hal Jordan's going to land on. the road directly in front of Sheriff. Carey and then she's going to hold him. at gunpoint. >> The best thing you can do for all of us. is just go. >> Trailer shots show the Rushville water. tower that Hal and John use as a lookout. perch. Two of the support beams will. break and that whole thing's going to.

collapse. And then in a field we're. going to see Hal facing a swirling. darkness cast by some of Macon's. darkness guns that we saw in episode. four. But Hal now using a pair of those. special goggles he's going to see right. through this and be able to use his ring. and finally manifest something that's. not just a bubble or a dome, a freaking. tornado that will suck up one of the. explosive aliens and make them detonate. high up in the air. This shot looks. awesome. Now if Hal Jordan is a native. Nebraskan or just a Midwesterner or. someone from the plain states, I feel. like tornadoes would be part of his. past. Maybe even something that he. feared as a kid or some kind of.

obsession similar to what birds were for. John Stewart. There's going to be a huge. action sequence where we see Hal Jordan. in the downtown area of Rushville as. trucks come up shooting at him. He uses. his ring to disable one truck and take. it off the road, but there's a whole. bunch of shots of these satellite lasers. converging on the front of a building. and blasting it. This is not the town. hall because that's the domed building. across the street. This might be Will. Makin Jr.'s bar that they were in in. episode 4 and in episode 1. I mean, we. do see John Stewart inside of this bar. in this footage for episode 5. Either.

way, it's not a huge downtown area in. Rushville. We're talking about maybe a. dozen buildings. And then Hal sees the. satellite lasers converging on something. and he manifests another huge green dome. to block it. So, now that we know that. this is the Manhunters technology, tech. that she shared both with Hector Hammond. but also keeps on making ranch, this. must be the Manhunter targeting one of. Anton's group, maybe Anton / Atrocitus. himself, and then trying to fry him from. low orbit. Maybe Hal is blocking it. because he doesn't want the whole town. to get caught in Anton's blast. Now. again, we know that John Stewart will be.

healed from his wounds by Manhunter Zoe. and wearing medical scrubs right back. into that guns and ammo shop from. episode 4 and pick up the sniper rifle. that he left behind on the counter when. he just took the scope. A. behind-the-scenes shot shows that Hal. will charge at John when John is wearing. these clothes in what looks like Hal. Jordan's motel room as they seem to be. fighting over the lantern and the ring. It's going to be a pretty nasty fight. They're going to be smashing through the. room, breaking the walls and the. furniture, and then John at some point. will put Hal in a headlock. It looks. like John Stewart's going to completely. knock out Hal and leave him unable to. get up.

>> How was yours? >> John's going to leave with the lantern. in his hand and we're going to see a. part of the parking lot motel sign will. have been destroyed, presumably by some. of those satellite lasers, and then. we're going to see the grizzly aftermath. of this battle in downtown Rushville. A. severed human leg and foot, two girls. crying, and then John Stewart walking up. barefoot through this rubble holding the. lantern as Makin's goons surround him at. gunpoint. Sheriff Kerry is going to be. among them giving John a real stink eye. stare, and I just wouldn't be surprised. if that's where episode 5 ends. Yeah, trailer footage has shown us a lot of. what I think is going to be in episode.

5. So, let's now move on to episode 6. There seems to be some disagreement. among fans following this stuff closely. as to whether episode 6 or episode 7. will be the Hal Jordan flashback origin. episode. Some think it will happen as. the penultimate episode of the season, episode 7, but I actually think it's. going to be in episode 6. Why do I think. that? Well, because according to. Wikipedia, episode 6 is being written by. Damon Lindelof and Tom King, the first. episode that these guys are credited on. since the pilot episode. And I think Hal. Jordan's origin is a critical part of. this series Bible that Damon Lindelof, Tom King, and Chris Mundy developed. I.

think it's why they reordered the. original episode 5, John Stewart's. origin episode, back to episode 3 to. avoid two origin episodes back-to-back. But who knows? Maybe this Wikipedia. listing is wrong and we won't know until. we see Sunday night's episode or episode. 6 which episode is which. But here I'm. going to group together all the shots. that I think are part of this episode, whether it's episode 6 or episode 7, and. for now let's just assume it's episode. 6. There have been some early trailer. shots showing the day of Hal Jordan's. father's funeral. There's an Air Force. flyover as young Hal Jordan sits beside. his mother. In the pilot episode, we. learn that Hal's father was an Air Force.

test pilot who died in a crash when Hal. was very young. You know what would be. really interesting in retrospect? The. first episode of any TV show is referred. to as the pilot, but back in the show. Damon Lindelof was first famous for. Lost, the first episode of that show was. cleverly titled Pilot, which we actually. find out was a bit of wordplay because. the whole point of that episode was to. find the pilot in the cockpit of Oceanic. Flight 815. What if we look back on that. episode and realize that it was really. about the pilot, Hal Jordan, or the. pilot, his father? Lindelof, I see what. you're doing. Anyway, Hal Jordan in.

episode 4 said that his father claimed. to be fearless, but that he actually did. fear something, something that he would. not admit to John Stewart. Hal also. mentioned that his mother died of. cancer. My theory was that Hal Jordan's. father was an Air Force test pilot in. the 1970s who wanted to be a NASA. astronaut but just didn't have the right. stuff to do it. But based on trailer. shots, these will all apparently be. memories that 2026 bearded John Stewart. witnesses by joining Hal Jordan's. hologram recorded in 2006. So, I think. there's going to be an interesting. physical memory structure for this. episode, whether it's 6 or 7. And among.

these, I think will be this grim. industrial-looking location with a tower. venting some kind of blue-colored energy. in what looks like 2006-era Hal Jordan, maybe the hologram or maybe a memory. with that era of Hal himself, faces Al. Sinestro who screams. So, maybe this was a memory from 2006 or. maybe it's the hologram in 2026. revisiting the moment in 2016 where Hal. Jordan apprehended Sinestro and brought. him in after Sinestro's attempted coup. against the Guardians. This location. could be Oa and we could be looking at.

the central battery of Oa right here. I. mean, it's certainly grimmer and more. cyber-punky than I would expect given. the design of the rings and the lantern. that we've seen so far on this show. The. trailer back from July shows two shots. of 2026 bearded John Stewart paddling in. a canoe across a foggy stormy lake and. seeming to arrive to this platform. So, it might also be a location on Earth, but either way, it's going to be part of. the Hal Jordan memory episode, I think. So, let's move on to the next batch of. shots for episode seven or maybe episode. six. It seems like episode seven for now. is being credited to Justin Brit Gibson.

and it's the only episode this season. that he's credited on. So, whatever. episode these shots are part of, we do. know that there is going to be some. shots where 2026 bearded John Stewart is. back in Rushville. But, it's some period. of time where it is not snowing. It's. not around the time of the discovery of. Hal Jordan's body that we saw at the end. of the pilot episode. But, in this. scene, John is going to be facing Will. Makin Jr. and punch him in the face. This also appears to be the same episode. where John appears beside a lantern. signal and where Guy Gardner appears. Nathan Fillion from Superman in. Peacemaker season 2 attacking lantern.

signal like this seems like something. Guy Gardner would suggest having gotten. the idea from Batman's bat signal in. Gotham City. I actually think this is. going to take place before the events of. 2026 at the end of the pilot episode, maybe back in 2025 when that ring first. disappeared off of Hal Jordan and went. over to Guy Gardner, which would justify. why he has the ring during the events of. Superman which is set in 2025. And I. think this will be the episode where we. see John Stewart in the town jail as Guy. Gardner chats with him. >> They're going to send an army.

to put you down. >> First time I met Hal Jordan, he was. [music] in jail, too. >> Finally, we're on to our final batch of. remaining shots that we haven't seen. anywhere. And let's assume these will. come up in episode 8, the finale. Though, it's certainly possible that. they come up in the Hal Jordan flashback. episode, which would be either episode 6. or 7. And maybe none of the trailers and. promos so far have showed us anything. from the finale. That would be possible. With TV series like this, they do tend. to edit and finish the effects and audio. mixing on the later season episodes. while the first half of the season is. starting to air. Like, I'm assuming.

episode 8 won't even be locked until. later this month. But, the final batch. of shots we're going to talk about shows. us this yellow-tinted landscape. Whatever this world is, it is arid and. dead. There are at least two moons. visible in the sky. So, from that, we. would assume that this is not Earth. In. many shots from here, it seems to be. just two characters, 2026 bearded John. Stewart in the 2006 era hologram. But, in this shot from the weeks ahead. trailer, there are definitely three. figures here. We know 2026 John will be. wearing the Green Lantern ring here as.

he picks up this dried skull. And. there's this massive. extraterrestrial-looking floating. structure above their heads. And. everything we can see here is, as Chris. Martin would say, "It was all yellow.". So, one theory is that this could be. Anton's home planet after what the. Manhunter did to it. The skull could. belong to one of Anton's race. And this. whole structure could be something that. the Manhunter built and completely. flattened and terraformed the planet. Another theory, though, a theory that I. really like that I don't know if this. show will have the balls to go through. with, is that this could be the remains.

of Coast City in Southern California on. Earth after that city gets destroyed. And what is overhead is actually the. beginnings of Engine City. Arguably, what Coast City is most famous for comes. from 1993 Superman number 80, the Deadly. Alliance storyline, where Cyborg. Superman and Mongol destroy Coast City, killing 7 million people, and then. converting the rubble of that city to. Engine City for their Earth War World. plan. In the pilot episode, various. shots of Coast City were literally just. Los Angeles with the iconic US Bank.

building scrubbed out of the shot. Now. again, we do see two moons overhead in. this other shot. So, for this to be. Earth, they would have had to add a. second moon to this shot in the trailer. just to misdirect viewers like us. I. don't know, I wouldn't put it past them. for a twist this big. But the key detail. of these shots is of course the color. Everything is yellow. Yellow, we have. learned, is the color of fear and of the. fear entity Parallax. In the Emerald. Twilight event, Hal Jordan, grieving. over what happens to Coast City, gives. in to the fear entity of Parallax and. lets fear take over his whole body. That.

could be Sinestro's plan this whole. season, to corrupt Hal with fear so that. Sinestro can escape and start the. Sinestro Corps of yellow lanterns. That. could be why the series is called. Lanterns, not Green Lantern, as we're. going to see lanterns of multiple. colors. So, who killed Hal Jordan? Well, if you watched my last Lanterns video, maybe that isn't Hal Jordan in that. shot, but actually the Manhunter taking. his form while the real Hal Jordan is. still alive out there, and he just has a. yellow ring. And that could be why we. see these two people alive together. sitting in that diner booth in the. behind-the-scenes shot from that era. Comment down below with your thoughts on.

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