Stargirl Season 2 - Discussion ( Spoiler Warning)

Yes, and it glowed green.

 

I'm hoping/expecting that be this season's storyline: her discovering that and becoming a human being (as opposed to an over-enthusiastic one-note super-hero).

Do we think he'll turn into a baddie? or join the League? It would be lovely to think he'll just be an enthusiastic mechanic, but I can't imagine him not being a Chekhov's tinkerer.

I don't remember a ring storyline? Could you remind me why it would need charging please?

BTW, you're not an Architecture professor are you? You remind me of one of mine.


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That's how Green Lantern rings work. The lantern is the power battery that charges the ring. Traditionally, the rings need to be recharged once every 24 hours; that originally meant once a day no matter what, but modern interpretations tend to assume it's 24 hours' worth of typical use, so that it would drain faster with heavy use or retain a charge for a long time if used rarely.

 

Originally Jade didn’t need a battery or a ring, she was a living power battery and IIRC focused the green energy through a birthmark. Later she joined the GLC and got a ring. Might have lost her natural connection to the green flame or something.

 

I know Jade from Infinity Inc. in the 1980's, I don't know if anything has changed.

Back then she didn't have a ring, she had a kind of glowing star on her hand and otherwise had regular Green Lantern powers. She didn't need a lantern.

Watching the show, when she touched the lantern during the fight (and why didn't she do it downstairs? I guess we had to see it happen.) the ring started glowing. I'm imagining two possibilities. She got the ring after her dad died, but lantern was kept in JLA HQ for safety reasons. Or, it's not an actual ring and it's like her star birthmark only it just looks like a ring.

 

Yes, but there's a complicated backstory there that the makers of the TV show might have preferred to avoid diving into. Adaptations often mix and match elements from different incarnations of a character -- like how every live-action adaptation of Barry Allen has been closer to Wally West in some ways, e.g. needing to eat large amounts to power their speed or having an affiliation with STAR Labs. Or how Batman: The Animated Series' Dick Grayson Robin had the costume and the computer skills of Tim Drake, while The New Batman Adventures' Tim Drake was essentially given Jason Todd's backstory.

 

The show's version of Jade is most likely not a natural-born Metahuman and therefore didn't genetically inherit the powers that her father could only access through the Starheart Lantern and Power Ring, which means she wouldn't inherently have the powers that her comics counterpart does.

 

^ I just did a rewatch and there was clearly a ring on her finger. Her eyes and the ring were lit up green and then both shut off the green after the fight. So I'm inclined to agree, although both the old JSA and ISA last season had no shortage of metas, so who knows?

 

I was referring to Jade doesn't need a ring because her powers are internalized.

 

In the comics. The show is its own separate reality and can reinvent things however it wants.

 

Yes. Joel McHale from Community plays Sylvester Pemberton. He was originally called The Star-Spangled Kid in comics, but is listed as Starman on the Wikipedia page for the Stargirl show, so the writers may have decided to simplify a bit (Ted Knight was the original Starman in comics).

Joel McHale as Sylvester Pemberton / Starman: A member of the original JSA who used an anti gravity Cosmic Staff invented by scientist Ted Knight that Courtney later finds.

 

That is true. She may just be a GL here.

 

Just curious though do you think they'll go with the lantern as a magical item (per the original Green Lantern comics); or do you think they'll introduce the actual Oan controlled/created Green Lantern corps circa the '60s Hal Jordan?

 

I wouldn't be surprised if they just glossed over the origin/explanation. This show doesn't seem to go in for explaining where powers and technologies originally come from, except to say "This stuff used to belong to the JSA." I mean, we're into season 2 and there still hasn't been a word of explanation of what the hell the Cosmic Staff is and how it has a mind of its own.

 

The Staff is a life support escape pod, for a very small alien marooned on Earth.

Yeah.

It's a space ship.

 

Advanced A.I. like Chuck. Only this one is called "Ted".

 

I don't know if we'll get an explanation either. However, Scott's Lantern was ret-conned to have a connection with the Guardians of OA.

 

Alan Scott's Green Lantern powers have always been magic-based, even on the post-Flashpoint Earth 2.

 

Several connections. Well, at least two I can think of.

 

I just looked it up, and it didn't happen, but I thought that Kyle gave Jade a green lantern ring as an engagement ring.

What a cheap bastard.