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A review of this week's Lanterns, "Trust Fall" — with spoilers — coming up just as soon as I swear on the life of former Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne...
Alan Sepinwall
"Trust Fall" doesn't return to the 2026 timeline where Hal has been murdered, but it otherwise advances the story a fair amount, even as it splits up its two would-be partners for most of the hour. It also gets substantially nerdier than the pilot, even if most of its references are to comic book things that won't get explained until later(*).
(*) If you don't want to know anything until it comes up in additional episodes, I'll be putting all the details in bullet points at the end of the review. Feel free to stop reading before then.
Hal doesn't want to train John, nor is he very good at it. His idea of a lesson on how to use the ring to fly is to blithely tell him, "You fly." When John tries thinking of it, he instead conjures up a green bird, to Hal's hilarious expasperation. Later on, the bird turns out to be something of a mystery: not just John's reasons for conjuring it, but the fact that he's able to keep it intact for a couple of days, even when he's half a continent away from the ring(*).