I'm genuinely curious to hear what people who haven't read Watchmen or watched the film make of all this. Especially after episode 2.
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The problem with the Will as Hooded Justice thing is that there are massive contradictions if the comic is canon. There's no way he was passing as a White guy in a shoddy costume while pretending to be in a relationship with Sally Jupiter and secretly dating Captain Metropolis. None of that adds up. But it's possible the HJ we saw in the Minutemen simply wasn't the original (Will) but an imitator or stand in. Like maybe they realized HJ was Black so they gave a White guy into bdsm his identity for PR reasons.
The show is a direct sequel to the comic. Some things in this show just won't work if it wasn't like squid rain, ozymandias in general and why the white supremacist were trying to make a dirty bomb with watch batteries. It's what I don't subscribe to the idea of Will being Hooded Justice. It doesn't line up with what we know about in in the comic.
HBO provided some supplementary material about what went down in the time gap between the comic and show.
https://www.hbo.com/peteypedia
I’m curious to see if they attempt to explain how what we know about Hooded Justice from the comic can work with Will Reeves. It’s possible that Will was the original Hooded Justice but was replaced when the Minutemen formed and the other heroes and PR people found out that he was black. In episode 2 we’re shown a scene of Hooded Justice stopping a robbery. In that scene he appears to be a white guy. But again that’s how society remembers him. Historical events can be covered up. As we’ve witnessed in real life with so many people having never heard of the Tulsa Riots. I had heard of it but I admit that I had no idea of the extent of the horrible incident until I did some research after watching the first episode.
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Regina King knocks this ish out the park man. This show has the potential to be something electric man, and i'll be honest I was skeptical. Just wow. It's crazy seeing how alot of internet commentators reacted to the first episode. Black Wall street's destruction really is something that should be explained in depth to all americans. I'm all in hopefully HBO doesnt waste my time like the did with GoT though goodness gracious.
There is so much history that is ignored or buried that it would make you head spin.
Along with others.Yes. It's an honest to god real life event. The state of Oklahoma has done a good job keeping the incident buried.
Folks have to remember everything in your text books has to be voted on and APPROVED at the state and local level (at least in Texas).
In Texas we have had folks trying to get history books that do NOT mention claimed from 2008-2016-there was no President of the United States, Bill Clinton was NEVER married and Helen Keller never existed.
Lets just say those books never made it to a vote at the state level.