Hello Fanterns!

Glad you liked the episode.  Now, onto the question of how the planet can survive going into another universe without freezing into a ball of ice.  Giancarlo, Jim, and I spent time on that as someone, maybe Bruce Timm, brought it up.  The thing is, Planet Steampunk is circling a dying sun so it HAS velocity, it’s moving. 

In the show Duke Nigel says something about making the calculation to where the rip should be.  He’s not speaking about where Hal can meet Kilowog, Aya, and Tomar-Re or even avoid the Anti-Monitor.  He’s speaking about where the rip should be made to move Steampunk world from its present orbit into a new orbit around a viable sun. 

In the original script (which always has to be trimmed in editing) there was a line like “After looking at the map Hal Jordon provided me with…” or something like that.  I haven’t seen the episode recently so I don’t know if that made it.  But, when Kilowog is speaking to Hal they are far away—we don’t really say how far—but they aren’t near Biot.  So there you go.  We made up science to do it but that’s the logic.

I love that guys expect this sort of fine detail because we also dislike when other shows cheat or have gaping plotholes you can drive a planet through, but it ain’t that easy to get us, either.

Best,

Ernie Altbacker

P.S. Sorry to disappoint some of you but it’s Duke Nigel FORTENBERRY, not Thortonberry.

To Elfgrove on Gil’s name.  It’s Gil K. Broome, Esquire.  Gil Kane (artist) and John Broome (writer) created Hal Jordan AND Guy Gardner, among other awesome characters outside of the GL world.  So, Gil K. Broome.  And his middle name is Kane in my headcannon, at least.