'Lanterns' Takes Away the Ring and Sends John Stewart Home
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The story shifts to 2026 for this episode, and it shifts with a Green Lantern who no longer has a ring. John Stewart returns to Rushville to investigate Hal Jordan's death — and, in the same trip, to find some closure of his own. That's spoiler territory, so consider this the warning before the rest of the season catches up with you.
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The interesting part isn't the time jump; it's the missing ring. Take away the power and a Green Lantern episode has to work as an investigation — knocking on doors instead of willing problems out of existence.
Or it just underlines that the ring was the fun part. A ring-less hero returning home to dig into a death is the genre's standard move for signalling seriousness, and seriousness is not the same thing as a good case.