Damon Lindelof Talks 'Lanterns' Season 1 Finale, Sinestro's Role, and John Stewart's DCU Future Collider's Steve Weintraub interviews Damon Lindelof, co-creator of HBO Max's 'Lanterns', about the Season 1 finale. Lindelof discusses the decision to kill Hal Jordan, the significance of the green and yellow color schemes, Sinestro's survival on the island, and how the season concludes with John Stewart becoming a full Lantern. In just a few short months, DC and HBO Max's Lanterns has taken the world by storm, with both critics and fans praising the show's True Detective-style approach to two of DC's greatest sci-fi heroes: John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) and Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler). Both known as the hero Green Lantern in the comics, Lanterns has flipped the sci-fi genre on its head to craft a gritty, mature, terrestrial story that differs greatly from other tales in this universe like Superman and Supergirl. Now, Season 1 of the series has finally drawn to a close, with the mystery behind Hal's murder finally solved.John Stewart's Future in the DCUWhile Lanterns closes the book on John's story before his confirmed return in James Gunn's Superman follow-up, Man of Tomorrow, some questions do remain about his future as Earth's definitive Lantern. To answer those questions and more, Collider's Steve Weintraub had the extraordinary opportunity to speak with Lanterns co-creator Damon Lindelof to discuss the Season 1 finale and its many behind-the-scenes secrets, such as Sinestro's (Ulrich Thomsen) surprising role in the series, whether we could see the Hal hologram again, and John's role in the DCU's future.Check out Weintraub's full interview with Lindelof below: The 'Lanterns' Team Had to Ask "To Sinestro or Not To Sinestro" "He's very resourceful." COLLIDER: The title card and imagery throughout the season play heavily with green and yellow. How much were you telegraphing through color rather than dialogue? DAMON LINDELOF: A fair amount, I think. I do feel that when this all began, just between Chris, Tom and myself, Tom was obviously, I would say, the graduate that had a postdoctoral in Lanterns lore.I had an undergraduate bachelor's in Lanterns, and Chris probably a high school education. And so inside of that process, Tom educated us on what were the essential critical parts of the storytelling, sort of under the very specific question that I think Chris Mundy asked, which is,"If you're doing a Lanterns show, a great Green Lantern show, what are the things that have to be in it?" And so yellow came up very early, particularly because yellow is a Lantern's weakness. And then kind of got into the Sinestro Corps and some of the deeper cuts, etc., etc. But I think that the idea of: how are we going to use yellow in the show, both as motif, as signal of fear, of vulnerability for Hal and John, just kind've was in the groundwater, as it were.Sinestro, Yellow and Hal's FateAnd so I do think that it permeated the visuals, but also the storytelling, especially once we brought in the rest of the writers and the "To Sinestro or not to Sinestro" question was posed and answered in short order. It was, "Well, you can't do Sinestro and not start working out of the green and into the yellow, as it were." Very nerdy. But how is Sinestro surviving without food and water on that little island? LINDELOF: Oh, he's very resourceful. Well, A. Sinestro is very resourceful, but I'll say, "How long was he alone without Hal?What supplies and/or sundries did Noah leave him with? So some combination of species and how long they can go without food and traditional water, and also what did Hal and/or Noah bring that is now run out?" is the short answer to your excellent query and something I'm sure that the fans will be nitpicking about, as I would expect them to. Damon Lindelof Knew How 'Lanterns' Season 1 Was Going To End From the Start "You're going to kill him off in the pilot? What are you, insane?Why Hal's Death Had to Stick" Close How early on did you guys figure out the season would end with John putting on the ring, becoming a lantern, and finally flying? LINDELOF: Early. I think that idea came from the very early days of the larger writers' room.And I think that part and parcel of making the hardest decision, which was, we're going to get a lot of mileage out of a story that its central conflict basically revolves around one ring, two people vying for the ring. And, in order to play fair, it felt like one of them definitively had to end up with it, and I don't think that there was any question amongst Tom, Chris, and I, and certainly once we brought in the larger room, that Hal's death had to stick in order for it to be felt.And even though, as an audience, as a DC fan, as a writer, the ridiculousness of, "Okay, now you can play with Hal Jordan, you're going to kill him off in the pilot? What are you, insane?" But also sort of understanding that it didn't feel like John could take the ring until Hal was gone, and that there was some degree of stewardship under Hal, but also a lot of things that Hal would get wrong. We had the ingredients, but in terms of how to prepare the casserole, the last instruction was Hal has gone for good and sends John on his way.That enables John to accept the ring on his own terms vs