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I of the things I've personally enjoyed almost Green Lantern: The Animated Series is the way that the show's creators build in some nods to things like Star Trek or Lord of the Rings and so on.  This week's episode, "Fright Itself" feels like a classic Star Expedition episode where the crew encounters two races at odds with each other and information technology's not clear who is right and who'southward incorrect.  Equally the story unfolds we detect that everything isn't what information technology seems to be and in the end the two races are more alike than they thought.

"Fear Itself" starts out with Hal and Kilowog lamenting the quality of the nutrient stocked by the Interceptor and the differences in the their cultures leads to some humor about each Lantern's idea of what's appetizing.  Aya, still recovering from her dismemberment at the hands of Atrocitus, points the 2 to a nearby planet where the two fix out in search of food.  The two Lanerns goe their separate ways and each encounters an alien race which has come into a misunderstanding with the other.  Ultimately we learn that ane side is harvesting the nutrient supply of the other, a food supply which just happens to exist the mysterious yellow crystals we saw in the prison during the "Razer'south Edge" episode. After a battle between Hal and Kilowog the two Lanterns help both races notice a peaceful solution to their dilemna.  Razer meanwhile wrestles with charging his band in low-cal of his feelings nearly the Ruddy Lanterns and Aya tries to assist but to accept her lack of  understanding of organic life stick out similar a sore thumb.

mmmmm……tasty!

While "Fear Itself" seems like a very loose nod to the classic "Devil in the Nighttime" episode of Star Trek the tribute to the testify is thematic in nature only and in that location are a number of great moments that go on to flesh out the testify and provide hints about what is to come for the crew of the Interceptor.  We see via a dream sequence the tragic nature of Kilowog'due south by and the desruction of his homeworld, Bolovax Vik which does a nice job of adding some layers to the character.  The moments between Aya and Razer continue to exist high points of the show, and the care that Aya takes to arts and crafts a replacement adjuration is matched by Razer's willingness to let her think she helped him while he resigns himself to have the true oath and recharge his ring in confinement.

Vanessa Marshall

Kilowog gets the romantic interest in this episode in the alien female person Galia, voiced by Vanessa Marshall.  Marshall also provides the voice of Black Canary in Young Justice and has done previous DC Comics projects like Batman: The Brave and the Bold (Toxicant Ivy), Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (Wonder Woman) and Lego Batman: The Videogame (Catwoman/Poisonous substance Ivy).  Galia provides Kilowog with a connexion to his past and by the finish of the episode he is clearly taken with her and, like Helm Kirk in whatever archetype Expedition episode, leaves her behind on an conflicting planet while he once more takes to the stars.

The foreshadowing of the emotional spectrum plays out once again in this episode every bit we see the effects of the mysterious yellow crystal which nullifies the Light-green Lantern power rings besides equally instills fright at shut proximity.  This fourth dimension nosotros encounter the long term furnishings of the crystals with Galia'southward people using it in and then many things in their daily lives that they live in a natural fear of the Nadara, the jellyfish-similar creatures for whom the crystals serve as a main source of food.  Kilowog ingests and so much of the substance that he launches into an set on on Hal when he see him in the company of the Nadara, a sequence which stands and the main activeness of the episode in a neat battle between the two friends.

My enemy, my marry

Green Lantern: The Blithe Serial is something I look forward to each week and while "Fear Itself" is a lot of fun and is a bit lighter of an episode, it points out the inherent trouble of assuming that those who seem to oppose you are wrong – a proficient lesson for everyone when we run across so many examples of people rushing to judgement rather than trying to larn from our differences.    4 out of 5 lanterns.

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