Official Watchmen Thread

[Fillerguy]

do you live here? cause if you do/did it just sounds like bs.

:/ im an american and both sides of my family are too. I can trace my bloodline at least 200 years down to the decade we have off the ships in chains. This country and its people have fukked with my people the entire time. We werent even considered citizens a quarter of that time. fukk America.

 

[PoorAndDangerous]

Hooded Justice (Watchmen)





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I see. I checked reddit and they were saying that it's what Hollis Mason assumed in his book but nothing concrete. Who knows....we'll find out soon enough.

Been a while since I read it, but we'll see.

Could be multiple hooded justices, although with how old homeboy is it would lineup with the original minute men I think

 

[Aintnobodystupid]

finally watched it. i am not very familiar with the watchmen storyline, so i cant really rely on that to help me understand this stuff at all. it is a weird ass show but intriguing. i will stick with it but i need this to start making some sense pretty quickly.

"Lindelof's take is set in an alternate history where "superheroes" are treated as outlaws. Watchmen embraces the nostalgia of the original trailblazing graphic novel while attempting to break ground of its own."

That's from an article on what the shows about.

 

[DiMarzio86]

I dont know what yall talking bout it was amazing! Dark intelligent and extremely stylish ! amazing hour of tv im hooked! and yes ive read and watched watchmen and u know what I DONT GIVE A ... that was amazing hour of tv! full of symbolism and important themes? what else u want? idiots...

 

[old pig]

I dont know what yall talking bout it was amazing! Dark intelligent and extremely stylish ! amazing hour of tv im hooked! and yes ive read and watched watchmen and u know what I DONT GIVE A ... that was amazing hour of tv! full of symbolism and important themes? what else u want? idiots...

how many ppl said otherwise if any?

 

[DiMarzio86]

coli militants bickering about the race relations in this show... its all we wanted we got a black protagonist we got a extremely interesting story ( i know its just one ep but im hooked) we got action and the vibe and music was just amazing

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

the first episode was just ok to me

will be interesting to see how this continues every season, i guess theyre doing different time periods

 

[DiMarzio86]

 

[richaveli83]

He's either a superhero or...

I think thats a TV version of the character.

However, remember it opened with the little boy watching Bass Reeves take off the hood. So its possible he was part of the original minutemen. Just blended in years ago.

Obviously stretching this theory, but figured out ways to blend in/cover his eyes better than the TV version.

 

[Abraxus]

finally watched it. i am not very familiar with the watchmen storyline, so i cant really rely on that to help me understand this stuff at all. it is a weird ass show but intriguing. i will stick with it but i need this to start making some sense pretty quickly.

Go back and read the novel, comics and then watch the movie. It is one of the most true movies to comics I’ve ever seen and I’ve been reading a long ass time

 

[DiMarzio86]

Go back and read the novel, comics and then watch the movie. It is one of the most true movies to comics I’ve ever seen and I’ve been reading a long ass time

I agree its one of the most page to page recreation movies. PERFECT!

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

Could be multiple hooded justices, although with how old homeboy is it would lineup with the original minute men I think

Just realized something else...

You know how Bass Reeves was the inspiration for The Lone Ranger. Yet, Hollywood used a white guy.

Its the same thing going on. White guy playing the tv version, but the real hero was black

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Am I the only one not surprised those white supremacist are using Rorschach as a symbol/hero for their hate?

An antihero whose recluse, revenged filled and doesn't take no for answer. We've seen it before with Punisher.

Yeah the Punisher symbol is actually used by alt right groups in the real world..

 

[Monoblock]

Just saw the first episode last night and WOW. They actually showed the massacre of Black Wall Street. I wasn't ready. It looks like they taking the book approach to this instead of the movie especially with the raining squids. I love this alternative history depiction but still being grounded in US history. I'm pretty sure the little boy in the beginning is Hooded Justice and some fukkery is going on where they trying to depict him as being white. I forgot about the Bass Reeves fukkery Hollywood did with the Lone Ranger too. Everyone here knows I hate Lindeloff for what he did with Lost but I might just forgive him if he pulls this shyt off. Amazing 1st episode

 

[semicko82]

I'm not paying HBO for one show sooooooo