‘Lanterns’ Episode 2 Recap: It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green

The Guardians of the Universe must have a terrible HR department if a Green Lantern is allowed to treat a trainee the way Hal Jordan treats John Stewart on HBO‘s Lanterns. Constantly belittled and insulted, kept in the dark about vital information, forced to perform tasks that are demeaning or dangerous with little to no bearing on his actual job as the next Green Lantern, John takes nothing but grief from this guy, and has nothing but grief to show for it. I get that John is a chain-of-command guy — we’ve seen how he was raised — but this isn’t Pete Hegseth’s military. You’re still allowed to complain about abuse. After tossing a bucket of cold water on him to wake him up (you see what I’m saying? it never ends with this asshole!), Hal tells John it’s time to learn to fly, without any fur