‘Lanterns’ Season Finale Breakdown With Tom King

Joanna Robinson (0:30)

Tom King here on the show to talk about the Lanterns finale. Mallory Rubin, anything you want to say about that?

Mallory Rubin (0:35)

Not only is Tom King the co-creator, one of the co-creators, along with Damon Lindelof and Chris Mundy of Lanterns and an executive producer of Lanterns, he is one of the great comic book writers and creators in recent memory. So it was really a treat to talk to Tom about this finale and about the season of TV, but also just a balanced story about Apples, about Billy's Dip, about football, Star Trek and about being a nerd who loves this stuff. We really had a blast. It was such a treat to get to break this all down with Tom.

Joanna Robinson (1:08)

This is a full spoilers, all of it. All of the time discussion. From minute one. So for the Lanterns finale, if you have not watched that yet, go watch that and come back and listen to our conversation with Tom King.

Mallory Rubin (1:18)

Then mere hours after that, come back to the House of R feed, the Ring of Earth YouTube channel, because our deep dive, correct, on the season finale will be waiting for you first thing Monday morning. You know the drill from there. Watch, follow, hang out with us, send us your emails, do it all.

Joanna Robinson (1:38)

Excellent, so we're gonna get to our conversation with Tom King right after this.

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Joanna Robinson (4:10)

I want to start. I've actually, this is a cheat. I've actually heard you talk about this elsewhere, but I found it so fascinating that I'm going to ask it myself, just in case our podcast listeners haven't heard it.

Tom King (4:20)

I feel like it's a test, and if I say a different answer than before, I'll have screwed it up.

Joanna Robinson (4:24)