Musing: Green Lantern & Sinestro

So, Sinestro is in the new Green Lantern movie, and he is still a Green Lantern until, I'm told, the very end. This decision has baffled me. Considering the reviews, there probably won't be a GL2 until they reboot the franchise. Why save his most iconic villain for a sequel that they were not sure they would get?

Ultimately, I decided that they were attempting to imitate the Dark Knight saga. First movie sets up origin and uses two more obscure villains, second uses arch nemesis. Batman Begins used Scarecrow and Ra's Al Ghul, The Dark Knight has Joker. First Green Lantern uses Parallax and Hector Hammond, second will use Sinestro.

There is a problem with that, though. First off, Green Lantern is not as popular as Batman will ever be. Batman had the big name going for it, GL does not. Second, the writing for the DK Saga is much better than what I'm told GL has. The Dark Knight is considered to be a modern day classic, while Green Lantern is considered to be a subpar summer blockbuster. Put that together and it looks like there won't be a sequel.

It seems that they imitated surface qualities of a successful work without looking deeper. So, basically what happened when they created the Dark Age of superheroes. Oh well. at least this time there are less guys named Bloodkill.