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Wednesday said:
Basically, cuz, like Dave said, I would have preferred anything over an entirely new plot device. I never like it when they create something new to explain something away, especially when there are so many reasonable answers that exist in continuity. Better ideas have already been given in this thread, in my opinion. I would have preferred mind control by a pre-established villain or even the messed up clone explanation to what I got.

Speaking of which, personally, I was betting (and hoping) Parallax would be related to The Red discussed in The Mosaic. The Red was an impurity in the ring which caused John Stewart to seek control by violent means, very much like Hal Jordan did when he turned into Parallax. In fact, Stewart's personality was VERY Parallax like when "infected". Anywho, Gerard Jones used this idea of an impurity in the ring taking over a GL's mind a little while BEFORE Hal Jordan died, which would have given it more credibility in my mind. There would have been a few snafoos in the plot, but The Red would have given him a great way to bring back Sinestro if he'd resolved those snafoos properly, since The Red took the form of Sinestro in Stewart's mind then escaped into space, never to be heard of again (as far as I know).

When I'd heard rumors that an out had been written into Hal Jordan's fall and rumors that an impurity in the ring was to blame, it just seemed that this was the route Johns was going to take.

But whatever. I just think there were better ideas that held ground in old stories, and I like that kinda thing. His idea makes sense, but it seems like he only used it to avoid using an idea that was already thrown out at one time or another by some fanboy on the web.

So yeah...




Ooookay... But I was talking to ROY about Emerald Dawn. You know, Hal's "Origin Story".

I think the parasite is shitcrap too.