Watchmen (HBO) TV Show • Page 16

You think he was vibrating those atoms too?

 

Wait, why am I arguing about a comic book dick?

 

Which dicks do you want to argue about?

 

even comic book dick is polarizing on chorus dot fm

 

I'm not convinced the perspective of this show is "hard left" at all

 

yeah, i don’t think it’s hard left. it seems relatively politically neutral, which i don’t mind, because while politics were a large part of the comics, it is pretty far from the most interesting part of the series.

should be notable to say one of the most “pure” characters of the show is a republican junior senator from oklahoma

 

So far...lol I have no doubt that guy is up to shenanigans, even though this should could be called "Watchmen: Hero Shenanigans"

 

Keene’s grandfather was the former leader of the Tulsa KKK before Crawford took over, that dude is definitely not a good guy.

 

If he was, Laurie would have eaten him for breakfast

 

Essentially, this world is Lindelof's view of a "liberal dystopia," ie what would happen if all of the alternate history stuff from the original book was followed by 30 years of complete liberal dominance in American politics. One thing I agree is this wouldn't result in a great utopia or whatever - but based on which things in this world are dystopic (eg "police are too woke") and his personal comments about how too much dominance of either side would be wrong because politics need "balance..."

Suffice to say he's not making the same critiques I would, lol

Basically, he's saying the problem with liberal dominance is not enough representation of right wingers in government, not anything wrong with liberals themselves (other than wagging fingers and liking regulation)

 

I think the show’s politics are pretty firmly on the left, at least thus far and with respect to issues like systemic racism and police brutality.

 

Idunno, essentially the political choice we're presented with in-world is neoKlan versus fascist, completely unaccountable masked cops. Until it's more clear that the show doesn't view those cops as good guys either I'm unconvinced. Certainly a lot of progressive things have happened in the world, especially with systematic racism and reparations and stuff, but based on Lindelof's comments he seems to think those things aren't working because liberals have been too dominant and conservatives haven't been given a voice. Which is silly.

 

Yeah see I think the first episode was almost trying to lull us into thinking the cops were the good guys (albeit with some violent/questionable methods) but then the second episode really pulled the rug out from under that notion with both the raid on the Nixonville and the reveal that the good guy chief of police is actually a cokehead klansman. It’s like, yeah outwardly they’re anti-racist and they seem to employ a pretty diverse police force, but the foundation is rotten and it looks like that rot is only going to be further exposed as the show goes along. That doesn't seem like a position the show would take if it was trying to paint police in a positive light or advocate for more representation of conservative viewpoints.

 

Could be, my reading of that was it was supposed to be shocking because the chief they loved had betrayed their cause and wasn't actually one of them. But you might be right. It's just really hard for my view of this not to be informed by his extremely dumb comments, especially because they were made in an interview about this show and not just when talking about politics out of context or something.

One thing's for sure, Alan Moore would hate all this lol

 

Yeah, hey, I mean I'm just going off of what we know now from the three episodes and the Peteypedia stuff. That interpretation could absolutely just be me projecting my own politics onto this. I had no idea Lindelof made those comments either, that's some real whack enlightened centrist crap for sure. I could be totally wrong about where all of this is going by the end of the season lol

ftfy

 

lol i love how close to Batman shadow man or whatever looked like haha

 

obviously

 

alan moore hates everything. water is wet.

 

I say "would" because there's no way he's watching it lmao

 

He doesn't need to watch it to hate it haha

 

Senator dude is totally involved with the conspiracy

 

I feel like if he wasn’t such an abrasive person, he’d enjoy this since it’s probably the best adaptation of his work.

 

to be fair....low bar

 

Oh totally

 

iMacs were really cool looking computers, I think that design has held up well over the years.