From: 0juan_e@spcvxb.spc.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Hypothesis on GL weakness -YELLOW
Date: 27 Jul 92 00:40:07 GMT
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

Boy Oh Boy Oh Boy.

What a mess!

I mean -we have physic explainations about yellow, the ole' StarCore theory
of Alan Scott's ring, and somebody calling the yellow "weakness"  MORON 
(actually, I saw the post that referred to the yellow impurity as MORON
 -I found it very distasteful for someone to openly "flame" someone in public
for just expressing an opinion).

Well, I'm gonna throw in my two cents (what the Hell, everybody else has 
except Dan Quayle -he'd probably think it had something to do with "Murphy 
Brown" anyway).

In "THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS" #223, the origin of GL power stems from the 
Green crystal that is in the center of the Main Battery.  According to 
that issue, the crystal is empowered by the "blue" mental energy of the 
guardians themselves, with a "yellow" impurity that stabilizes that energy
in the crystal, thus giving off green energy; since the origin of the 
"yellow" impurity has never been established -this hypothesis I offer,
the "yellow" is the natural color of the crystal itself.  The crystal is
a creation of the guardians' science as a store for their "blue" mental
energy.  But according to issues of "Green Lantern", inwhich Guy Gardner
(still a member of the Corps) in quest of the "false" GLs with G'Nort,
the crystal has to be able to independantly regenerate it's store of energy 
(this hypothesis was supplied by Guy Gardner's explaination of Anti-Oan power);
it is possible to hypothesize that in order for all previous hypothesis to 
remain true -the "blue" mental energy had to intermix with the crystal, 
possibly integration is beyond that of molecular bonding, this could more 
explain the reason why the GL ring energy color is green besides color mixing.
According to the Millenium series, the Manhunters' weapons were powered by the
Green Energy of the Central Battery, with no apparent weakness to Yellow. 
In the re-telling of Allen Scott's origin, in the anniversary special of
"Green Lantern", it is explained that Scott's ring and battery are the remains
of a former Green Lantern and his stuff.  In this version, the Green Lantern,
that Scott got his power from, was this sector's Green Lantern before Abin Sur,
who abused his power, especially over the people of China.  The Guardians,
to teach this renegade a lesson on humility, "programmed" his ring and battery
to be ineffective against a certain substance, the weapon's of those he 
oppressed -made of wood.  Possibly, with this in mind -coupled with the 
Manhunter rebellion, the Guardian's imposed the "Yellow" weakness as a means 
to remind the members of GL Corps that they are not all powerful; thus a recent
addition, and since the GLs and Guardians couldn't do anthing to Guy after 
taking Sinestro's ring - this weakness to yellow cannot be cancelled.

It is safe to say that the weakness of GL power to Yellow is not light spectrum
dependent (this is for debates as to a say an orange light or object capable
in incapacitating GL power because of its "composition").  I hypothesize that 
the "Yellow" weaknss has nothing to do with the "impurity" of GL power, it
is a programmed response to just "pure" yellow, inwhich the GL power has no 
direct effect upon anything yellow but could be overcome by using indirect 
methods.  If it was the Yellow of the Impurity of GL power, than it is logical
that something more connected to that Impurity is involved than the yellow
of the light spectrum which follows the dictates of Earthly physics. 

                                Thanks
                                Ned
                                St. Peter's College