RumHam Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 Quote Though the events of the original Watchmen comics play a significant role in the shaping of the series’ world—a place where the internet and cell phones don’t exist—they aren’t what the show is really about. Rorschach might have been a misunderstood antihero originally, but here his name and iconography have been co-opted by terror cells of white supremacists known as the Seventh Cavalry, who are coordinating a mysterious attack that’s meant to change the world as the series begins. In the show, Robert Redford has been the president for decades and ushered in an era of American liberalism complete with legislation meant to address the country’s history of anti-black racism and socio-political disenfranchisement. The pejoratively-referred to “Redford-ations” have made it so that the victims and descendants of racially-driven subjugation no longer have to pay taxes. Unsurprisingly, there are more than a few enraged white people—like the Seventh Cavalry—who hate that aspect of their society. Huh. https://io9.gizmodo.com/hbos-watchmen-wants-to-dig-into-the-heart-of-american-r-1838914665 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RumHam Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 Reviews of the first six episodes are starting to come out. Largely positive. https://www.metacritic.com/tv/watchmen-2019/season-1/critic-reviews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 Not sure what to expect [and maybe that's good] but I'm looking forward to it. I'll second the Regina King bit by Martini. She's a riveting actress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mexal Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 Very much looking forward to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raja Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 This is going to be litty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted October 17, 2019 Author Share Posted October 17, 2019 Watchmen: Dave Gibbons Illustration (Promo) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 That's awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BigFatCoward Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 Reviews are distinctly meh. Hope it's not a crushing disappointment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raja Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 47 minutes ago, BigFatCoward said: Reviews are distinctly meh. Hope it's not a crushing disappointment. They are? Feel like I've seen plenty of positive ones. Though those are generally reviewers that liked The Leftovers. Based on what Lindelof has said in one interview, it seems that race is going to feature prominently during the season. I'm intrigued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RumHam Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 It's got twenty one positive reviews and two negative on meta-critic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raja Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 I don't read reviews as a rule, as I'm one of those that likes knowing nothing about a show or a movie before going in, mostly going off twitter accounts of reviewers I follow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redriver Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 3 hours ago, Raja said: I don't read reviews as a rule, as I'm one of those that likes knowing nothing about a show or a movie before going in, mostly going off twitter accounts of reviewers I follow. Why do you follow reviewer accounts if you don't read reviews? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 5 hours ago, RumHam said: It's got twenty one positive reviews and two negative on meta-critic. They arent saying it's bad. They are saying it's fine, its good. I was hoping for great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raja Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 6 hours ago, redriver said: Why do you follow reviewer accounts if you don't read reviews? Because I read them after watching the series or movie in question, not before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 All the reviews I've seen say it is good. A lot of them focus on how its different from the first 'books' etc., discussing the updating of the political and other crises from where / when the alternate universe kicked in with the figures that people know from the books. I don't pay any attention to that stuff. If I needed to know all that then I don't need to watch the Watchers. do I? The differences though, including the racial horrors, makes this iteration a whole lot more interesting for me than the previous, such as this means I'll start watching this where I wouldn't if it were the previous milieu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMC Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Gotta say I'm pretty encouraged by the reviews. I think Lindelof has identified the conflict that is akin to the Cold War in the mid 1980s - the conflict that will define that next generations. And I'd like to see his thoughts on that through such a prism. So, yeah, definitely gonna watch tomorrow/tonight. Was on the fence before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Wow. I don’t know The Watchmen at all. This is one helluva world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 To quote a line from the episode: "What the Eff?!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nictarion Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Yep, this is a Damon Lindelof show all right. Enjoyed the first episode in all its crazy glory. Like the cast so far. Regina King will be good lead. Irons was a nice choice for Ozzy. I’m intrigued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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