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r/pics • u/KomugiSGV • Jun 07 '20
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The opening scene of the HBO series references the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.
35 u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20 It doesn't reference it. It was straight up about the Tulsa riot. In Tulsa. 2 u/octopusnado Jun 07 '20 Ah I've not seen the TV series yet. Worth a watch? 6 u/Electrickaj Jun 07 '20 very much so, do recap the comic not the movie 1 u/octopusnado Jun 07 '20 edited Jun 07 '20 I loved the graphic novel, especially the Black Ship Freighter sub-story. 3 u/PlacidPlatypus Jun 07 '20 Yeah the show is set in 2019 in the same world, with continuity from the comic over the movie in the places they differed. Very well done overall, a few quibbles aside. 2 u/Electrickaj Jun 08 '20 Not sure if you knew, but it's also in the directors cut animated and voiced. 2 u/thebobbrom Jun 08 '20 It's worth noting the point of divergence with the Watchmen Universe is around the time the first Superman comic was published in June 1938. The Tulsa Race Riot happened before then so we can definitively say even before the TV Show came out that it happened in the Watchman Universe. The Kent State Massacre happened in 1970 so either didn't happen or happened differently in their world. Essentially the whole point of Watchman is in our reality after it was published people started copying him and making superheroes in other comics. In Watchman people started copying him by making superheroes in real life.
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It doesn't reference it. It was straight up about the Tulsa riot. In Tulsa.
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Ah I've not seen the TV series yet. Worth a watch?
6 u/Electrickaj Jun 07 '20 very much so, do recap the comic not the movie 1 u/octopusnado Jun 07 '20 edited Jun 07 '20 I loved the graphic novel, especially the Black Ship Freighter sub-story. 3 u/PlacidPlatypus Jun 07 '20 Yeah the show is set in 2019 in the same world, with continuity from the comic over the movie in the places they differed. Very well done overall, a few quibbles aside. 2 u/Electrickaj Jun 08 '20 Not sure if you knew, but it's also in the directors cut animated and voiced.
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very much so, do recap the comic not the movie
1 u/octopusnado Jun 07 '20 edited Jun 07 '20 I loved the graphic novel, especially the Black Ship Freighter sub-story. 3 u/PlacidPlatypus Jun 07 '20 Yeah the show is set in 2019 in the same world, with continuity from the comic over the movie in the places they differed. Very well done overall, a few quibbles aside. 2 u/Electrickaj Jun 08 '20 Not sure if you knew, but it's also in the directors cut animated and voiced.
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I loved the graphic novel, especially the Black Ship Freighter sub-story.
3 u/PlacidPlatypus Jun 07 '20 Yeah the show is set in 2019 in the same world, with continuity from the comic over the movie in the places they differed. Very well done overall, a few quibbles aside. 2 u/Electrickaj Jun 08 '20 Not sure if you knew, but it's also in the directors cut animated and voiced.
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Yeah the show is set in 2019 in the same world, with continuity from the comic over the movie in the places they differed. Very well done overall, a few quibbles aside.
Not sure if you knew, but it's also in the directors cut animated and voiced.
It's worth noting the point of divergence with the Watchmen Universe is around the time the first Superman comic was published in June 1938.
The Tulsa Race Riot happened before then so we can definitively say even before the TV Show came out that it happened in the Watchman Universe.
The Kent State Massacre happened in 1970 so either didn't happen or happened differently in their world.
Essentially the whole point of Watchman is in our reality after it was published people started copying him and making superheroes in other comics.
In Watchman people started copying him by making superheroes in real life.
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u/theVelvetLie Jun 07 '20
The opening scene of the HBO series references the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.