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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Or how the technology to make humans functionally immortal exists today but too many people feel ~icky~ about living for longer than a hundred years so welp... snipe: I haven't been watching this show. Is it still good?
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:They can take organs, wash out the cell material, seed the remaining matrix with your stem cells, and grow new, rejection-proof organs. I guess that explains Keanu Reeves.
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if you think this isn’t a service that billionaires currently receive in SE Asia...
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Lampsacus posted:snipe: I haven't been watching this show. Is it still good? Last week’s episode is probably the single best episode of TV I have ever seen.
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I try a lot of series but most don't keep me interested long enough to view more than a couple of episodes, but this? I'm counting down the hours every weekend until the new ep is released. The only other show that grabbed me this hard is Breaking Bad (and Better Call Saul).
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:It is extremely at odds with everything about him in the book, but literally the inverse of what he is in the book, so not irrelevant. They’re just all about white supremacy in opposite ways. As I said in critic thread, even nite owl isn’t 100% sure in the comics and his various more hosed up behavior can be explained by him growing to hate the minutemen and covering himself.
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Yeah there are lots of photos of Hooded Justice in the comic and material and he looks huge. It's the only thing that doesn't square well.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:As I said in critic thread, even nite owl isn’t 100% sure in the comics and his various more hosed up behavior can be explained by him growing to hate the minutemen and covering himself. I wonder if Moore originally was trying to use Hooded Justice as a representation of his "the KKK were the original american masked avengers" point. HIs costume is so very lynching reminiscent that its an interesting choice that he's the first canonical hero. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZczUrno_Wg Dope theme tune too. Although something about the monologue makes me think of Henry Rollins?
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I don't really follow discussion of this show on the internet. Did anybody ever get around to putting the Pepsi Man theme over the Lube Man chase
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massive spider posted:I wonder if Moore originally was trying to use Hooded Justice as a representation of his "the KKK were the original american masked avengers" point. HIs costume is so very lynching reminiscent that its an interesting choice that he's the first canonical hero. There's a couple good joke puns in the soundtrack titles. Check it out on Spotify or apple music or whatever if you haven't
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Another possible in-fiction reason for HJ incongruities: the Hooded Justice we see in the book is rarely, if ever, the original Hooded Justice. There are two possible explanations for this. 1. More than one man filled the role of Hooded Justice in the Minutemen. Will's disillusionment with the team and Metropolis is a big part of his arc in the episode; it's entirely possible they replaced him with more of a team player (maybe even because of the incident where he blows the dirty cops away in the episode) and the HJ we see most of the time in the book is his replacement. 2. The Minutemen's story in the book is being filtered through the memory/imagination of Hollis Mason and the paradigm of Under The Hood. That Mason got HJ wrong in his book is a given - Before Watchmen (tho prolly not canon in the show) suggests he lied about it on purpose, Petey in the show believes he didn't actually know who HJ was and was projecting his own fantasies/politics - but it's less clear how much of what we see of the past in Watchmen is from his point of view. Baku fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Dec 2, 2019 |
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The flashback in the book is Sally's memory, not Hollis'. And yeah, comic HJ is coded as a sadomasochistic fascist as another critique of superheroes.
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Rewatching Ep1 and the overt Under the Hood sitting on the Chief's desk seems more like a reference to him being 7th Cav/KKK rather than just a nod to the source material...
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Mantis42 posted:The flashback in the book is Sally's memory, not Hollis'. Yeah, tho either way that leaves the first thing I suggested as an option. I dunno, I don't find the idea of multiple Hooded Justices unbelievable. Not only is it perfectly in-line with the comic book hero stories Moore was writing about - almost every major masked vigilante has been more than one person - it's in-line with Watchmen itself and the show. There were two Night Owls and two Silk Spectres, Dr. Manhattan can literally be two people at once. Laurie's following in her dad's footsteps (becoming a nihilist g-man), Angela's inheriting Will's legacy, Lady Trieu appears to be the new Veidt, and Looking Glass has as many similarities to Rorschach as the 7K do (literal tinfoil hat guy, alienated loner, only comfortable in his mask, even some physical resemblance). Everybody's got a legacy and every mask outlives its owner.
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There might be a little more to Will’s story, since they bothered to set up Mueller in AHS, but with two episodes to go I hope they don’t give too much time up to continuity discussion.
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Did the critics get tonight episode or is it new for everyone? A few pages back people were theorizing poo poo was going to get real once the preview episodes were done.
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Mr. Nemo posted:Did the critics get tonight episode or is it new for everyone? This is the first non preview episode. And this should be the day when whatever was alluded to at the end of episode 4 happens. And it should be the last year of Veidt's captivity (prior to the show's timeline at least).
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Mantis42 posted:The flashback in the book is Sally's memory, not Hollis'. Is this stuff in the original? I gotta finish the book
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Way too much foreshadowing to not have Dr. Manhattan show up Hell yeah, Looking Glass killed all the people sent to get him and stole one of their masks to get back in.
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They still have Ghostbusters in Watchmen world.
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Thiiisss intro with the tiny dancing marionets is amaaaaazing
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holy poo poo this show loving owns
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Ok, didn’t see that coming. Funny bit with the old school remote not working right away.
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Did that vietnamese cop have purple hair? Did Dr. Manhattan make anime real?
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Did that fart actually happen?
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So the judge a younger Adrian Veidt clone? That pig jury wackiness is a Veidt move. Also a machine to depower Dr. Manhattan? Edit: Oh great a Dr. Redneck. Alkabob fucked around with this message at 03:40 on Dec 2, 2019 |
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Veidt is Lady Trieu’s father. The d in his message was her first name or “daughter” or “dear” or some childhood pet name.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Veidt is Lady Trieu’s father. The d in his message was her first name or “daughter” or “dear” or some childhood pet name. Sounds right.
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This show is amazing and half the fun is the reactions in the thread and people piecing things out.
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Oh come on, dog pile with the grandma death.
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I know the overall story/subject is out there but the story telling in this show is outstanding.
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Arist posted:WHAT THE gently caress Not empty quoting.
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oh man everyone saying Jon is Cal was right
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Codependent Poster posted:oh man everyone saying Jon is Cal was right who??????????
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The implication that Cal is Dr. Manhattan is stupid. This show is best when it has new ideas and keeps the book at arm’s length.
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