{"id":2062,"date":"2011-06-10T16:29:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T16:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2011-06-10T16:29:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T16:29:25","slug":"i-whooped-at-130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2011\/06\/10\/i-whooped-at-130\/","title":{"rendered":"I whooped at 1:30"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul Dini will know why.<\/p>\n

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Green Lantern is one of the comics I’ve loved best all my life. During my childhood it became a “foundation myth”, a storyline that matters profoundly to me, so that it underlies a lot of my fiction, sometimes covertly and sometimes a lot less so —<\/p>\n

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…Helena stopped on the stairs, looked up at the glowing object that Kit was carefully unwinding<\/a> from the hook where it had been hanging.<\/p>\n

“What’s that? Oh, don’t tell me!” Helena said, sounding genuinely impressed. “Wonder Woman’s magic lasso? Is that<\/em> real, too?” And then she paused. “I thought it was supposed to be gold.”<\/p>\n

Not for the first time when dealing with his sister, Kit was left briefly speechless.<\/p>\n

Helena got a musing look. “And if that<\/em> can be true, maybe other stuff from the comics could be real, too? Like — I can’t remember: what are those guys called who have the green glowy rings? Like them. Wouldn’t it be great if there was<\/em> this interplanetary brotherhood with all kinds of creatures, you know, banding together and using their powers to fight evil…”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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…So I have been concerned about this film since it was originally mooted. Nobody likes having their foundation myths screwed up….<\/p>\n