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Discussion on Character Development in TV
Tom entiende esto m- más de lo que Chris y yo entenderemos jamás,
pero he tenido suficiente
experiencia trabajando en el mundo de los cómics y pensando: "Estás,
estás, tú... estás explotando a este personaje por un periodo
de tiempo, y luego alguien
más lo va a explotar. Pero tienes que reconocer y,
y rendir homenaje a
todos los que explotaban al personaje an- antes que tú". Y entonces, pero creo
que en definitiva entendimos que el piloto presentaba un, eh,
un conflicto, y el conflicto era un anillo, dos tipos.
Ajá.
Y uno... Y, y Hal no quería renunciar al anillo,
aunque estaba más cerca
del final de su carrera—
Por supuesto.
... de lo que debería. Y creo que hay, hay,
hay mucho dentro del
zeitgeist que todos estábamos sintiendo sobre la idea de
cuándo,
si, cuándo es momento de ceder—
Claro.
el poder institucional de un cargo a
la, la más...
gene... a la siguiente generación.
Ajá.
Y la idea de que Hal no quería soltarlo.
Y creo que si estuviera viendo eso en la tele, pensaría:
"Van a encontrar una
forma de llegar a un acuerdo y van a hacer dos anillos.
Y ellos, y, y, y van, van, los dos van, van a, van a
poder compartir al final".
Compañeros. Todo se va a dar.
Y, y, y eso se sentía muy cursi
y frustrante y, y
nada propio de HBO ni de Linterna Verde.
Así que pensamos: ¿y si le indicamos a la audiencia que
solo, o sea, que Hal no iba a llegar hasta el final de
esta temporada? Al menos eso es lo que presentamos
aquí.
Sí.
¿C- Cuándo, cuándo queremos mostrar esa carta? Es como: hagámoslo ya.
Hagá-, hagámoslo en el piloto.
Ajá.
Queremos que la gente que termine el primer episodio sepa
exactamente en qué se está
metiendo, en vez de llegar hasta el final y luego matar
a Hal. Mmm, eso, eso parecía un recurso barato.
Sí. Lo divertido en lo que pensé
fue: ¿a cuántos fans de Hal Jordan
hiciste enojar al matarlo en el primer episodio?
A todos.
A todos, incluyéndonos a nosotros.
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Original transcript (English)
Tom understands this m- more than Chris and I ever will, but I've had enough experience kind of working in the comic space and going like, "You're, you're, you, you are mining this character for a period of time, and then someone
else is gonna mine it. But you have to acknowledge and, and pay tribute to everybody who was mining the character be- before you did." And so, but I think that ultimately we understood that the pilot was presenting a, um, a conflict, and the conflict was one ring, two guys.
Mm-hmm. And one... And, and Hal didn't wanna give up the ring, even though he was closer to the end of his career- Of course
... than he should be. And I think that there, there, there's a lot kind of in the zeitgeist that we were all feeling about the sort of idea of when, if, when is it time to kind of like hand over-
Right ... the institutional power of a position to the, the younger gen- to the next generation. Mm-hmm.
Um, and the idea that Hal didn't wanna let go. And I think that if I were watching that on TV, I'd be like, "They're gonna find a way to compromise, and they're gonna make two rings. And they, and, and, and they're, they're, they're both gonna, they're, they're
gonna be able to share at the end." Partners. It's all gonna happen. And, and, and that felt like very kind of like hokey and frustrating and, and not HBO and not even Green Lantern.
And so we were like, what if we signal to the audience that only, like, that, that Hal was not gonna make it until the end of this, uh, season, at least that's what we're presenting here. Yeah.
W- When, when do we wanna show that card? It's like, let's just get it. Let, let's just do it in the pilot. Mm-hmm. We want people who are leaving the first episode to know exactly what it is they're
getting into versus to get all the way to the finale and then kill Hal. Um, that, that felt like it was cheap. Yeah. The fun thing that I thought about was how many Hal Jordan fans did you piss off by killing him in the first episode?
All of them. All of them, including ourselves.
