Posted on 09/05/2026 7:57:06 PM PDT by Mount Athos
TV writer Vanessa Baden Kelly recently appeared on the New Rockstars podcast with hosts Erik Voss and Jessica Clemons, where she spoke about her experiences writing the comic book series — which has revealed itself to be a rehash of BLM-era preachy messaging. But she also spoke about where she came from before her TV writing career.
(...) But after the year 2000, she took about a ten-year break from the entertainment industry and became a left-wing community activist. By 2011, she went back to seeking work as an actress and also as a writer.
Baden Kelly claimed that her acting career stalled when “diversity” started “slipping backwards” around the year 2000.
“I was working for Karen Bass while still trying to audition, but nothing was really moving because we had slipped backwards in the diversity revolution. And so I started to write,” she said.
In another segment, Baden-Kelly claims that she wrote the Lanterns scene where a character was explaining racism to an alien because “it’s 1986 and this lady knows nothing about nothing.”
The podcast’s co host suggests that the alien species which recruits Green Lanterns around the galaxy may not have known much about race relations on Earth because the Rodney King riots had not yet ravaged Los Angeles when this scene occurs — decades after the Civil Rights era. Baden Kelly enthusiastically co-signs his speculation.
The HBO series came under heavy criticism for its third episode in which one of the characters delivers a lecture on “white privilege.”
The series is produced by James Gunn and helmed by Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof, who took a similarly race-obsessed approach in a sequel series to Alan Moore’s Watchmen.
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By the way I think this author deserves some kind of medal for authoring many great conservative articles over the years.
Explains more why the series is not doing well at all.
Watched it for 2min and was done
Explains more why the series is not doing well at all.“
That does not matter. It is on a streaming platform. They can run this dreadful woke crap and they don’t have to worry about ticket sales or ratings based ad revenue. They can dump this BS among the rest of their content and get the propaganda out.
The series is well-imagined and benefits from Kyle Chandler as an aging, weather worn, jaded superhero. As always, for the sake of enjoyment, one learns to mentally edit out the bits of woke crap.
Me too.
I’ve seen estimates of the budget for the season range between $80 to $120 million bucks.
Talk about pouring money down a rat hole...
So I see the listing and go “Ah! The Green Lantern Corps - space police made up of totally different types of aliens working together to enforce justice and save the universe. No way Gunn’s PC pirates can woke that one up.”
I was wrong. And he owes me two hours of lifetime for watching “Supergirl”. Fifty years plus of comic lore to draw upon and he makes her a self-pitying punk on a bender in an obvious remake of “True Grit”.
Somewhere between “Superman” (which was pretty good) and this fiasco James was apparently kidnapped and neutered. Perhaps by the Wachowski ‘sisters’ who used to be brothers.
Watching grown men running around in pajamas and capes - seems kinda stupid unless you’re a little kid.
I’m a chick, not a spring chicken.
I grew up watching George Reeves and still love superheroes.
But the people making them these days do not.
So I watch, read stuff by people who did.
Some things never get old. :-)
BTW, Max Fleischer’s Superman cartoons from the early 40s are great.
They should be ashamed to call them selves producers and writers that more like Propaganda Inc. fits.
F lanterns and the horse it rode in on.
“editting out” is Satan’s work. :)
You have no principles. Tsk.
Really? Did you grow up Amish?
Not all superheroes wear capes.
18.1M views of the above tweet.
Now let’s see how Lanterns is doing...
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/lanterns-episode-3-ratings-10-million-viewers-hbo-max-1236850717/
Oh, dear...
It gets better. Now people are being begged to watch...
“I Just Hope People Will Stick It Out With John”
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