How very interesting. I was on the fence about watching it. I enjoyed the film, but not enough to inspire watching a sequel TV series that, apparently, is taking a different route. Turned out,...
How very interesting.
I was on the fence about watching it. I enjoyed the film, but not enough to inspire watching a sequel TV series that, apparently, is taking a different route. Turned out, that route might be an interesting one.
For anyone curious about the title, I think it's a little click baity, but I found the quote.
For anyone curious about the title, I think it's a little click baity, but I found the quote.
The most respectful way Lindelof could adapt Watchmen is by being impossibly rude to it, by excavating the assumptions the original series makes and examining them with a cold, ruthless eye in search of something new to say. It starts to get there: Where Watchmen the comic offers sexuality as a sort of catchall sociopolitical explanation for vigilantism — nearly everyone is just extremely horny and can only fuck by either beating up other people or themselves getting beat up — the television show digs another layer, replacing sexual repression with American white supremacy.
Any shows that deal with White Nationalism in a superhero world is an interesting mix, given that Superheroes are a protector and a power fantasy, that some good person out there can subvert the...
Any shows that deal with White Nationalism in a superhero world is an interesting mix, given that Superheroes are a protector and a power fantasy, that some good person out there can subvert the process and the system and do what needs to be done to save the world. But if the system is corrupt and the world isn't in immediate danger, that good person is kind of an other, and the power to subvert the system, if they are not explicitly on your side, could easily be used against you.
How very interesting.
I was on the fence about watching it. I enjoyed the film, but not enough to inspire watching a sequel TV series that, apparently, is taking a different route. Turned out, that route might be an interesting one.
For anyone curious about the title, I think it's a little click baity, but I found the quote.
Any shows that deal with White Nationalism in a superhero world is an interesting mix, given that Superheroes are a protector and a power fantasy, that some good person out there can subvert the process and the system and do what needs to be done to save the world. But if the system is corrupt and the world isn't in immediate danger, that good person is kind of an other, and the power to subvert the system, if they are not explicitly on your side, could easily be used against you.