Simplified Synopsis of Blackest Night

Let's see, what do we have at the 1/4 point? A recap:

Black rings fly around, enter a grave, dead person arises.

Rinse, lather, repeat. Again and again and again.

Green Lantern and Flash have the same conversation they've already had in Flash: Rebirth and Blackest Night #0 (Barry Allen was apparently revived with short-term memory problems. Hal Jordan, of course, has a ready excuse for his mental problems).

Rinse, lather, repeat.

"Shocking" revelation of yet another dead person revived. Gasp!! Who could have imagined that yet another dead person with ties to a living hero would arise?!?

Rinse, lather, repeat.

I know that Geoff Johns has never been known for giving us the most briskly moving storylines, but this puppy is 25% over now...can we get past the repetitive preliminaries now and maybe get some actual story going?