'Watchmen' Star Regina King on Bringing a "Wonderful Story of Legacy" to Life

[ohmylol]

'Watchmen' Star Regina King on Bringing "A Wonderful Story of Legacy" to Life https://t.co/7DgrqtAZRQ
- Live Feed (@TheLiveFeed) October 21, 2019

There are major spoilers about the first episode and the novel so be careful if you don't want to get spoiled.

Comments

[rhapsodeeinblue]

I watched it last night and really liked it! I mentioned this in Roundup but I immediately liked that it's Going There with addressing white supremacy head-on.

And it looks like* racists are mad lol

Those mad about #WatchmenHBO being "too woke"...uh...have you read Watchmen?https://t.co/w4J5KKuRmL
- The Mary Sue (@TheMarySue) October 22, 2019

[dnttllhrry]

Short answer to that tweet is No.

[scriptedending]

We just watched the first episode last night, and I am definitely intrigued!

Regina King is always great, and it's excellent to see her in a leading role.

I liked the actor playing her husband in Black Mirror, but so far he seems kind of wooden in this.

Loved the heavy use of Oklahoma throughout; a musical with a dark heart seems to fit very well thematically with the show and its setting. And I should have seen the end coming from the song they used for the show title - "Pore Jud is Daid". I've always thought the last line of that song was one of the creepiest things in the musical.

I am curious to see where they go from here.

[rhapsodeeinblue]

Oh and HBO just released documents that explain more about the show's universe:

A batch of in-world documents give some insight into Watchmen's universe https://t.co/pxa2xERxav pic.twitter.com/EfldWpYaJH
- io9 (@io9) October 22, 2019

I only saw the movie and didn't read the comics which the show is more closely related to so it explains stuff like the squids etc. lol (and yeah I've basically been reading up about the alt timeline of the comics)

[meow_tan]

i love alt history so all this extra info is super fun

[yrudoingthis2me]

Can you spoil me about the squids? I was so confused last night after watching ep1. Hubs and I enjoyed it but were left with a lot of unanswered questions since neither read the comics either.

[dnttllhrry]

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a29523851/watchmen-squid-rain-explained/

[alienjiive]

Oh man, that's gonna be tough to watch but I'm glad they're bringing attention to it. So many people even Black people don't know about that event.

[rhapsodeeinblue]

It was emotional to watch! I definitely didn't learn about it in school or anything.

[alienjiive]

So is this really different from the movie? Cause I fell asleep on that shit.

[rhapsodeeinblue]

lol

Yes it's different

[alienjiive]

Mmmk so I just read the entire plot summary of the comic and then I read what this new show is all about and now I'm incredibly interested tbh. I didn't know it was a sequel series, I thought it was a TV show version of the same story.

[rhapsodeeinblue]

It's weird because the marketing was like "this is a remix" because like... what does that even mean?? (Part of why I didn't watch as it aired but then saw how much people liked it so gave it a try a day later.) They should've just said it was a sequel to the comic tbh!