hunter2012 said:
With the good reviews I'd like to ask before watching, is the white supremacy bits just an eye roll or does it actually get preachy? It's probably just bad timing that I just finished "the Boys"(and the conceited Christian camp episode), so I really don't feel like being preached at again.
Robert C. Christian said:hunter2012 said:
With the good reviews I'd like to ask before watching, is the white supremacy bits just an eye roll or does it actually get preachy? It's probably just bad timing that I just finished "the Boys"(and the conceited Christian camp episode), so I really don't feel like being preached at again.
Wasn't preachy, The Cavalry is described as a white supremacist group but, not actions or background is really given.
If actual history is preachy, you won't like the opening scene.
Eye roll (for now)hunter2012 said:
With the good reviews I'd like to ask before watching, is the white supremacy bits just an eye roll or does it actually get preachy? It's probably just bad timing that I just finished "the Boys"(and the conceited Christian camp episode), so I really don't feel like being preached at again.
Same boat here. Enjoyed the pilot. Interested to see more. Obviously a lot of it is a mystery to me for now, but it didn't make it less enjoyable. That said, the white supremecist angle seemed trite, but obviously, given that it feels there's a lot more to this, I'm willing to be patient on that one for now.easttexasaggie04 said:
I'm in the demographic that has never seen The Watchmen. I pretty much have no idea what's going on but still enjoyed the pilot episode. I actually kind of like figuring it out as I go.
Stop the presses!!! This is unheard of!!!Old Tom Morris said:Same boat here. Enjoyed the pilot. Interested to see more. Obviously a lot of it is a mystery to me for now, but it didn't make it less enjoyable. That said, the white supremecist angle seemed trite, but obviously, given that it feels there's a lot more to this, I'm willing to be patient on that one for now.easttexasaggie04 said:
I'm in the demographic that has never seen The Watchmen. I pretty much have no idea what's going on but still enjoyed the pilot episode. I actually kind of like figuring it out as I go.
PDWT_12 said:
Stolen from Reddit. Pretty cool detail
TCTTS said:
Two things:
1) If we're citing "most of the viewing audience," reactions on the whole seem to be positive, which would go against your own, personal "contrived and uninteresting" feelings, whether most of the viewing audience had a problem with the "wokeness" or not. You can't cite them on one angle and not the other.
2) It doesn't matter whether I'm right or wrong. You're missing the point of my argument. I'm saying let's put away the pitch forks until we know for sure. Seeing as Lindelof seems smarter than to ultimately go that route, and the fact that one of the main tenets of Watchman is literally that things on the surface aren't what they seem, let's not do the typical, cliched TexAgs thing of criticizing "wokeness" or SJLs or "libs" or whatever until we've seen the whole thing. It's like once every six weeks or so people come out of the woodwork to b*tch about this kind of stuff in regards to an unseen movie or series, before we have all the facts/context, and it's never, ever accurate and none of the people b*tching about all that nothingness ever come back and say, "You know what, I overreacted." It's just rinse and repeat and it's happened so many times here that I'm just trying to say, once again, let's wait 'til we have all the pieces in front of us. Then, if it ends up being as bad as you think it's going to be, go nuts and gripe all you want.
Bigfootisreal said:
I re-watched last night after the Astros got creamed. Much better than my initial impression.
Weird question- but why are the black couple's kids white?
Alan Moore thinks he's a witch and is salty because he signed his rights away and didn't like the deal he got after the fact. I wouldn't read too much into him not being involved with an adaptation.BQ08 said:TCTTS said:
Two things:
1) If we're citing "most of the viewing audience," reactions on the whole seem to be positive, which would go against your own, personal "contrived and uninteresting" feelings, whether most of the viewing audience had a problem with the "wokeness" or not. You can't cite them on one angle and not the other.
2) It doesn't matter whether I'm right or wrong. You're missing the point of my argument. I'm saying let's put away the pitch forks until we know for sure. Seeing as Lindelof seems smarter than to ultimately go that route, and the fact that one of the main tenets of Watchman is literally that things on the surface aren't what they seem, let's not do the typical, cliched TexAgs thing of criticizing "wokeness" or SJLs or "libs" or whatever until we've seen the whole thing. It's like once every six weeks or so people come out of the woodwork to b*tch about this kind of stuff in regards to an unseen movie or series, before we have all the facts/context, and it's never, ever accurate and none of the people b*tching about all that nothingness ever come back and say, "You know what, I overreacted." It's just rinse and repeat and it's happened so many times here that I'm just trying to say, once again, let's wait 'til we have all the pieces in front of us. Then, if it ends up being as bad as you think it's going to be, go nuts and gripe all you want.
Dude, it's scoring below 50% with the audience on rotten tomatoes (which you seem to be ignoring) . And yes, like I said- it seems hamfisted and woke for wokeness sake AT THE MOMENT (should have added that clarifier)
And as for your comment about people *****ing about things they haven't seen, I was genuinely excited about this one. I can see why Alan Moore wanted nothing to do with this one now.
I am hoping it gets better, but the dialogue was pretty terrible, visuals were nice though.
Bigfootisreal said:
I re-watched last night after the Astros got creamed. Much better than my initial impression.
Weird question- but why are the black couple's kids white?
TCTTS said:
(I say this right as Champ edits/deleted his SJW comment, of course.)
My assumption was that because of the gun shot wound she talked about to the classroom she isn't able to have kids.Bigfootisreal said:
I re-watched last night after the Astros got creamed. Much better than my initial impression.
Weird question- but why are the black couple's kids white?
