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Well, I suppose if there is a precedent. It just seems super-dumb to me, and rushed through so you can't really tell what's going on. Perhaps I'm wrong but I don't think of Emerald Dawn as innovative comic book entertainment, whereas I expect some freshness, intelligence and verve from Morrison.
Sure. He's not required to follow that or any other GL story. Just saying, he can reasonably expect GL-familiar readers to know what's going on in that scene, because pre-Kyle GLs were stymied or saved by quick color changes pretty often.
It wasn't the most ground-breaking use of that idea, though, I'll give you that. I found Morrison's previous methods of weakening Kyle, which usually revolved around screwing with his willpower or attention span, much more interesting.
So if you were Hal Jordan and wished up some tinted glasses so yellow objects looked rosy, would that be OK? Because it seems we're going on what colour things look. How about if you exposed the threat to ring-created sodium lamps, don't they make colours appear differently? Couldn't you use the ring to make yourself permanently colour-blind or unable to see yellow? Would that work?
I think generally it's been characterized as "whatever color it is from the "point of view" of the ring construct is what matters." So tinted specs don't help, because the construct will still be encountering yellow light or some such from the object at the point of contact. OTOH, if you wrapped the target in the same tinted material, then ring constructs could handle it without a problem.
That point of view can definitely be altered, though. In Ganthet's Tale Hal fired a blast at another GL while retreating at near-lightspeed, and it got Doppler-shifted from green to yellow and went through the guy's shields. Which was nifty. Larry Niven thought that one up.
Could different lighting schemes change the yellowness of a target in a useful fashion? Dunno, but it's quite plausible. It's a cool idea; I'd like to see it in a story.
Couldn't Flash have whizzed off within a millionth of a second and hauled a vat of pink paint into GL's flightpath? That would have been a lot more fun and satisfying than the dust-cloud.
Well, I thought the point (a point, anyway) was that Flash couldn't afford to step away from the folks he was shielding from the explosion. Otherwise, sure, or he coulda just caught John himself. (He could probably also have stolen John's speed and stopped his fall, or done any number of I'm-the-nigh-omnipotent-Flash things, but hey.)
Wouldn't you feel that paint posed a problem for the same reason you gave for dust, though? Namely that GL's still yellow but just doesn't look it? |
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I WANT TO BELIEVE, just like Fox Mulder.