User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 202 "Earthlings" discussion/@comment-128.54.156.144-20120506165637/@comment-5037975-20120506182016

This is a major plothole in the story :) The GL leaders in the comics (the Guardians of the Universe) are fairly notorious amongst comic fans for being, ummm... up their own behinds and fairly incompatent. I'm not up to speed on Lantern lore, but in comics I do beleave the rings are sopposed to moniter everything a GL does and alert them to mind control and stuff. In YJ this may not be true, but knowing how large the corps are it's a very large leap to assume that no one at all knew they where doing something and had not stipped them of their rings after the 16 hour event, or even looked into the League as a whole.