Didn't need to see Dr. M's dick again.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4401940&forum_id=2#39270621)

Every tech site I go to is fawning over this show like it was the best tv show of the decade. I cant tell if this is just because it was overtly shitlib or what

See

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/12/watchmen-not-game-of-thrones-proved-to-be-hbos-show-of-the-decade/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4401940&forum_id=2#39271894)

One way to measure the success of HBO’s Watchmen has been how satisfying it is to watch the show completely rewrite its source material, trading its anxieties for current ones, taking its criticisms of superhero fiction and extending it further to make it a criticism of power and the whiteness of that power. In this new Watchmen, superheroes aren’t just the purview of thrill-seekers and proto-fascists. They’re how white supremacy digs its roots deeper into the culture: not just by seizing power, but also by seizing our fantasies. We all wanted to be heroes, but white faces were the only ones behind all the masks and superpowers, by design.

And so, across the eight episodes leading up to this finale, Watchmen took a sledgehammer to this foundation. It corrected its fictional history the way we have begun to correct our real one, re-centering the main thrust of its stories on the people of color previously ignored. Hooded Justice, the first superhero, is not the white man historians assumed he was, but a black hero born from the trauma of the Tulsa race riot and refused justice at every turn by the racist country he tried to serve, first in war, and then with a badge. Doctor Manhattan, the godlike superhuman, is reinvented under the guise of Cal Abar, a black man living in Oklahoma. The villain of the show is a folksy white senator, friendly and seemingly well-intentioned, secretly leading a cabal of racists who want to help him steal the powers of a god, simply because he feels entitled to take them.

The Watchmen comics are celebrated because they challenged popular notions about superheroes and comics, changing our perceptions of what they could be. Over thirty years later, HBO’s Watchmen is doing the same thing, by upending the foundation of Watchmen itself. If it never gets a second season, that’d be enough — even if the finale doesn’t quite stick the landing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4401940&forum_id=2#39271904)

Replace whitey with blacks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4401940&forum_id=2#39271913)

It was a good piece of entertainment that played in the Watchmen universe without upsetting cannon.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4401940&forum_id=2#39271997)

@Toure

The finalle of #Watchmen  was so powerful and satisfying in the way it brought all the strands together. The show that had once seemed discordant, telling five or six stories at once, was finally one brilliant symphony playing all together. The writing on this show was amazing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4401940&forum_id=2#39271940)

Critics fawning over the black god should step back and realize that it's just white god doing blackface for amusement.

Didn't mind the woke stuff, except that the writers unsurprisingly are unable to frame white supremacists as other than cartoon villains which makes the motivation of keene and the 7th kavalry - an interesting concept - seem really unrealistic.

Other silly thing is pretending Dr. Manhattan would suddenly care about this women more than any before.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4401940&forum_id=2#39272832)

maybe you are right.

The show did not have to hide the fact that Dr. Manhattan was in blackface by never showing his face as a white man (or blue white man). By showing him only as his selected black look, they are trying to push the meme that he is black, as opposed to in blackface.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4401940&forum_id=2#39274774)