I want to argue that, but we're dealing with a multiverse of 'everything is canon, even the commercials'. It gets stupidly confusing the deeper you go.
That takes me back... I don't idly browse it as much nowadays, but only because I spent both middle and high school flipping through it every second I had a computer until they blocked it.
Canonically, the Indigo Tribe was established by Abin Sur and one of his buddies. Maltusians not included.
I question how exactly that happened, given that he died and gave his ring to whatshisface, but good point, we don't know whether or not that's what happened in this universe.
It was something he cited when he unleashed the legal asskicking to save Cadbury Eggs, earlier.
I'm a bit out of date (or too up to date) on this slang; does "cassette" just mean audio cassettes, or did people call VCR, Betamax, etc cassettes? I'm trying to figure out if OL essentially just said "Yeah, I used to watch cartoons all the time on my stereo", or if it's just a subtle hint that he's not quite the age he claims to be.
Yes it was mentioned in his interview with Dana Dearden, Truggs even said that this could have gotten the attention of the legion since he publicly admitted to have traveled through time.
The moral is twofold:
Why? Paul has really never talked about 1) How the cultural timeline of Earth Prime compares to Earth-16, nor 2) What year he left. The moment Kyle talks about this with anyone it's just going to be met with a shrug and a suggestion that maybe cassettes and Transformers stuck around longer on Earth Prime.
I believe he's referring to an audio casette, though I also find that wierd, especially since stereos should still be in use in 2005, as I pointed out above, and since VCR was also in fairly widespread use in 2005, when the fic takes place, mainly due to Blockbuster still being a thing. Netflix was still only shipping out DVDs, and I think was a bit behind Blockbuster in popularity.
Transformers toys were still a thing in the late 90s / early 2000s. There were even PS 2 video games, though those might have been made to commercialize the movies. VCRs shouldn't be obsolete in this world yet, as it didn't become completely obsolete until streaming services became big, which was a little after this.
Probably. On the other hand, the GL they're meeting is one of the good ones, so at least they're unlikely to get trouble from him, specifically.
So did I.
Mostly because it's harder to weaponise hope. And harder to identify good recruits. And they don't have anyone who's worked with blue light to any significant degree.
I mean, it's been about two weeks since he told Paul about the sharing of the records thing, and he kinda seems like he's telling him something new here, even though he already told him that he was being given access to a bunch of records on old GL techniques.
I mean, these seem like tractable problems. After a few weeks (or was it months? Not sure), Alan was able to spar Lantern Stewart pretty well, and people being actively motivated *does* work a lot better for basically all of the colors. I'd assume that the Controllers could adapt the algorithm they have for Orange Lanterns to Blue Lanterns, and Paul's ability to see emotions still does work on non-orange colors. And a good number of the Controllers bonded to the Central Power Battery don't appear to have been part of the orange ring project, and they still seemingly get along making rings and lanterns fine. But yeah, they are *reasonably* large problems, if ones that can be dealt with.
