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Hello everybody.
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Um, I don't even know what to call this.
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Um, don't tell Adam I did this because I don't think but he won't know because I don't think he listens to it.
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Um I had an idea that maybe Adam and I would start doing some solo content, try to maximize the amount of money we're spending to keep this service open and justify it.
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So this is episode one of what I inevitably come up with hopefully a clever nickname for.
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So, as I'm sitting in my car, casually driving to work, I was thinking about the TV show Lanterns that just ended this week.
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And I guess I just wanted to kind of give my casual thoughts while I was on my way to work today.
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And maybe a little more on my way back.
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So I really enjoyed the show Lanterns.
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I mean, to me, Green I love Green Lantern as a concept.
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And I know a lot of people have a particular Green Lantern they like to see or need to see in order to enjoy something.
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And so if that's the kind of person you are, like, I mean that's great.
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I'm not here to discredit anybody's personal opinion on something.
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Um I but like to me I I'm just happy to see Green Lantern.
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And especially live action, because while I enjoyed the 2011 movie, I can admit that it's not the best.
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And I know that I know we've had some animated movies, some were good, some were not so good, but anytime I get to see my favorite hero, I I'm happy.
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I mean, you could put anybody, anybody on the screen from the from the Green Lantern universe universe, and I would check it out.
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I mean, yo, you if you put Kilowag or Tomara Ray or Rot Lop Fan, I'm in there.
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Or even you know what?
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I'll I would watch Daffy Duck as the Green Loon Turn again from that animated series.
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I don't remember which one it was.
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But, anyways, um, I really liked the show.
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Um, I thought it had a really strong start uh with Hal Jordan, the dynamic between Hal and John, the setup of why what's going on with the Macons, why are there aliens on Earth looking for a manhunter, and who the manhunter is.
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Plus, with the little button on the end of episode one, that Hal Jordan is dead.
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Or will be dead, rather.
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And I thought it was pretty solid.
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And I love I love the dynamic between Hal and John.
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You know, Hal, you know, kind of being this like grumpy, cynical lantern who who how do I want to say this?
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It kind of just just like Ben in the game too long, I guess, for lack of a better.
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That's not that's not the best way to say it, but that's the first thing that comes to mind right now.
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And and to the to the Hal Jordan fans out there, I I sympathize with you.
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I will say that while I would probably say I'm more of a guy, Gardner, and Kyle fan than I am Hal or John, I I can I can acknowledge that it has become a trope as of late that, you know, we gotta get rid of Hal Jordan so that way Jon Stewart can be front and center.
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And, you know, a trope is a trope.
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I mean, I'm I'm all for it, you know, because I enjoyed the story, but to the people who I know there are people out there who they view Hal Jordan as their Green Lantern or the Green Lantern, and everyone else is a sidekick.
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And if that's how you feel, I get it.
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And I apologize- I'm sorry.
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Like, I I don't think it's fair either.
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Even though it doesn't upset me, I I can I I sympathize with those people, especially seeing that he's older, on his essentially on his way out, and then supposedly just gonna be dead.
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Although superheroes very rarely stay dead unless you're Quicksilver from Avengers Age of Ultron.
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Overall, I really liked the show.
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Um, if I had to pick, there was a couple of things that I didn't really um didn't really vibe with me.
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And in no particular order, as I just kind of casually sit here and think.
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I didn't understand the guardian, I think her name was Liana.
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I it was it was just weird.
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The universe they set up, it it's it's it's weird to me that you know she that you know I get I get why I get the story why John's dad was, you know, passed over as Green Lantern, why but sorry, uh alright, but no, I just I don't know the the the way the Guardian randomly took this interest in Jon Stewart and then like the family like honed his skills or home honed the type of person they wanted him to be to be a Green Lantern, and while many of those things were questionable how they did that, it was just kind of bizarre the way the Guardian just kind of casually shows up and is like, oh, this the rings, you know, the ring selection isn't process isn't perfect, or and and I just wonder if they don't like Hal Jordan because obviously back in whatever year that was, they already had planned Hal Jordan's exit.
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Why did they you know
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why why couldn't they just take the ring from him?
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Why is the ring doing things that the guardians don't want?
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And then the the way that John kind of went through all that work just to take the ring and then return it to the Liana, and I get I get that the idea was that you know he saw what it did to Hal, and he saw what he had to go through to get it.
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But I don't know.
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I just you know to go through all that and then not keep it, and then to get to the end of the the series the season, and then he takes it back, which I will talk about.
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And I don't I don't know, that was just kind of weird, and then the weird relationship between John and the Manhunter, and why I guess the Manhunter wanted to die, and that's why she let John shoot her.
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I don't know.
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I mean, I guess I'll have to rewatch it.
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Maybe I'm missing something.
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I'm not I'm not an expert.
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You know, if you want experts, you gotta check out channels like the podcast of Oa or uh Mosaic Comics or The Lantern Cast because they've been doing this a lot longer than I have.
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And been Green Lantern fans for a lot longer than I have.
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Um, I've been a Green Lantern fan for the past like uh 20 years, which holy crap, 20 years.
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But, anyways, some something else that I I had a thought and I forgot it.
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I wasn't planning on editing this, but if I'm gonna keep taking these long pauses, I guess I'm gonna have to.
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Um so I don't I don't know.
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I mean overall, I really I really liked the show.
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Um I guess I guess I'm jumping around a lot.
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I I liked I thought it was odd, but I liked the way that John got the ring back from The Guardians.
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I know the idea that it's kind of questionable how how did like why did he wait all the way until he was buried with the ring to try to take it?
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But like I I I understand that I like you know I I I I think that the idea was that you know he needed the ring to come back from Oa, because he couldn't get it from there.
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And obviously, if he took it off Hal's finger while he was laying in the casket, everybody would see.
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So it wouldn't be a secret.
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And then I think the fact that he waited that long until he was buried was to demonstrate how, you know, just like with the sniper mission, how he he is patient, he plays the long game.
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And then I thought it was a clever callback that you know he takes the ring, he's got no way to charge it, but he pounds on whatever the car was and gets the five-second recharge that Hal Jordan showed him in the beginning of the series.
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Season.
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Hopefully, it's a season, not just a single series, but I don't know uh what their plans is.
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I think they have plans to bring John into the wider universe.
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I'm not sure.
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I'm not James Gunn.
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I don't get to make those choices.
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But I if I had to pick two things, personally, the two things about the show that kind of like really not that I didn't like, but I question, especially if we're not gonna get a season two, is I want to know what happened with Hal.
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I don't remember the exact dates, but when John as a kid sees Hal Jordan on TV in that interview, which he didn't have his secret identity, which I it's it's fine with me, I guess.
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I don't know.
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But he didn't he didn't keep he he didn't keep the Okay, no, no, no, no, sorry.
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He seemed like he was a regular guy, just doing his job and happy about it.
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But then he turns around, and then we see him in episode one, and he's already kind of grouchy and um he's already grouchy, cynical.
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And then when John sees the Halogram and sees that like he's probably like the perfect balance between the two, and found out that Hal hasn't updated his backup program or whatever it's called into the ring.
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What happened?
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What happened in the past 10 years that he didn't want any like a record of?
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And again, I might be missing this.
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I'm not an expert.
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When I post this, um, I will tag those other pages so you can feel free to check those out.
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And then lastly, and I may come back to this as I think about it throughout the day, the last thing I wanted to talk about was guy card.
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I saw this complaint online.
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This is one complaint.
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Sometimes I think people are incredible.
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This is one complaint that I can't get on.
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Maybe John.
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John will strong enough to maintain contract when he's not with the wrong necessarily in proximity.
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I don't know.
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I'm gonna think about this and then afterward elaborate on it.
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So see you in six, seven hours.
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Alright, part two.
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Is
there anything else I've been thinking about with lanterns?
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Um I hope there's a season two.
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Or some sort of continuation of the story.
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I don't want this to be the last time we see John.
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I like John.
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I like Aaron Pierre.
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Oh, I guess the one last thought I had, because I don't think I included it in the first half, is how hard is it to make a power battery?
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Like, I'm still not a hundred percent sure where Sinestro was.
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Um I thought that I thought he was I I've seen that supposedly it may have been the planet that was dis destroyed by the manhunters, the the the those aliens that showed up to try to destroy uh Brushville?
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I don't know.
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Either way, seemed like it was an abandoned planet and there was nothing there, and then Snestro's just like, oh yeah, I built this lantern.
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Did the manhunter bring him the parts to build it?
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And then I'm honestly a little sad that the last episode didn't end with words.
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Oh, John charging his ring and then it being yellow.
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I believe they made a comment.
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Sinestro said something about there being yellow in the in the um yellow in the on in the lantern on the lantern, something like that.
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And I thought for sure that was gonna be the the button on the end of the series was John charging that ring and the lantern turning yellow.
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But I don't know.
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We'll see.
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But alright, I think that's all I got for lanterns.
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Um, I guess we'll see how this weird little rant musing, whatever you want, this little musing goes that um maybe I'll do more.
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Maybe Adam will do more.
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Adam doesn't know I'm doing this, I'm going rogue, so hopefully, this isn't the end of a friendship and a podcast.
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But okay.
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We will see you guys soon.
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Goodbye.
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Two other things I thought about while I was on the road.
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Uh number one, I enjoyed how Jordan using the ring or charging charging the lantern and saying the oath like super fast.
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As though like the words bothered him to hear it, and he was saying it out of obligation.
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Um, I know in the past Green Lanterns didn't have to say the oath, it was just something they did, it kind of kind of was just a way to I don't know, like reaffirm their like will and like maybe even like their like like maybe like like like personal spiritual mental strength, whatever you want, however you want to describe it.
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Um I was just watching Green Lantern the animated series and I remember there was a scene where Hal if it is a requirement how running to jump and charge his battery off of the will engine and just really quickly reciting it as he's running.
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Um either way, and then also when he went back to when he went back to see Sinestro, I was kind of disappointed.
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I was kind of hoping that it was gonna be a little bit of a turning point when Hal was talking to Sinestro, and Hal made the point of saying, I'm not evil like you are.
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I thought maybe it was a little bit of a turning point.
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Not necessarily that everything was gonna be hunky-dory and they were gonna be friends, but I don't know.
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When you saw how well they acted together, well, the characters specifically worked well together after that, you really saw were like, oh, this this could work, this could be a good thing.
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But obviously that's not the way it goes because Hal, you know, leaves John the same way he did in the first episode, crashed into a telephone, well, jumping out of a car, although this time trapped in a telephone pole.
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And then whatever the deal is that the manhunter took the time to s let John burn in the fire, then save his life, just to then let him kill her.
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I don't know.
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There's plenty of YouTube videos and other podcasts that can get into this way deeper than I can.
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Or will.
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Because again, this is just as I'm driving to work, or driving in general, and then the ending with the cop shooting Hal.
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Um, I don't I don't exactly remember like the dialogue and the setup.
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I know that it had to do with Hal and like the relationship with the sheriff, and why he shot him was a little confusing.
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Like, I'm sure the idea was that he was just like protecting her son and just like in the in the moment reacted.
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But honestly, to me, the part that really I wouldn't say rubbed me the wrong way, I just thought was confusing or unrealistic, was she shot him in the head, and then Hal just sits down.
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Now, I imagine it's possible maybe they kind of walk rope themselves into a corner and were like, well, this is how he is when we found him, so this is how he has to get here.
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But I don't know.
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Movies aren't realistic, but I don't know how many times you should have to get the heads up.
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And the next traffic lights ten ride.
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I don't know how many times you shoot somebody in the head and they just plop straight down.
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No head shot back.
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I don't know.
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Okay.