Posted on 10/21/2019 8:38:41 AM PDT by rktman
Damon Lindelof created a re-imagining of Alan Moore’s The Watchmen on HBO...to portray redneck racists versus black vigilantes.
The premiere episode on Sunday, “It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice,” introduces disjointed elements of this parallel present day universe. Racism is the center of this retelling. The story starts with a flashback to the 1921 Tulsa race riots. Gunshots echo everywhere while people on fire run away screaming in terror. Members of the KKK, all in white, stampede through the streets. This is very different from The Watchmen of comic lore, which focused more on nuclear and international threats.
Today, white rednecks live in a trailer park known as Nixonville, while masked members of the police force are not allowed to carry weapons, unless their lives are in danger. The members of the Seventh Cavalry (which Bustle says is “a reference to America’s racist origins”), a group of heavily armed white men with machine guns and prescription drug addictions, have issued a video message announcing their mission to bring about an ethnic cleansing. The Cavalry wear Rorschach masks, in homage to the Batman-esque hero in the original comics, Rorschach.
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I cancelled HBO years ago and improved my life.
Since reality isn’t living up to the left’s feverish nightmares of rampant, Trump-inspired racism and vigilantism, they had to create it on screen. The left really WANTS and NEEDS that sort of thing, so is trying to create it with their ongoing demonization of “whiteness.” What better way to push vulnerable young whites into the arms of white-supremacists?
Not claiming to be an expert by any stretch, and I never read any of of the originating material and only saw the movie a few times, but in the movie the script seemed to take a lot of pokes at the implied ill social effect of both right and left ideologies as their society decays. There was nixon’s strong grab on power in this alternate history with his multiple presidential terms and also big capitalist barons with lots of power, but it was the Comedian to some degree and particularly Rorschach who pointed out the liberal degradation and filth on the streets. It was a social dystopia on all sides, basically.
It doesn’t surprise me that HBO turned it into an anti-right story. In fact, I honestly would be surprised if they didn’t pick up the rights to the story specifically for that agenda. It’s how they roll, including running the likes of Bill Mahar and doing a lot of psuedo-documentaries with hard left slants.
Not knowing any background, it was just odd enough to hold my attention.
I think you remember correctly. The original theme was that everything had broken down on all sides and people could not come together to fix society’s problems. The “solution” (different in the comic and in movie) was to create a single massive problem that would unite people with a common purpose.
And here we have this new iteration which seems to be: “The right-wing is bad; let’s throw rocks at them.”
I guess they gave up on that “unity” thing.
I’m tired of this incessant whining. If whites wanted y’all gone, y’all would be gone. Now pull your pants up and take responsibility for your crap.
Indeed. What’s worse than being an ethnic minority in a country run by white Christians? Being an ethnic minority just about anywhere else.
I enjoyed it as well—I just kept waiting for the black looters and rioters to show up—well maybe that will be in the next episode. ;-)
Why would anyone expect anything different from an HBO show?
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