What The Heck Is HBO's Watchmen Series?

Is HBO's Watchmen supposed to be a sequel to the graphic novel, a reboot, or something in between? Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-Screenrant

The HBOs Watchmen looks like it will atone for all of Zack Snyder’s Watchmen-related sins (Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice remains unforgiven). But how exactly will Lost writer Damon Lindelof fit his new show into Watchmen past?

Well, the short answer is that he’s ignoring the 2009 movie. Instead of adapting the exact story of the comic like Snyder did, Lindelof is, in his words, “remixing” the comic into the 21st century. Where the comic was about the Cold War, the new show will be about the resurgence of racial tensions in America.

The show takes place 30 years after the events of the book, in a Tulsa Oklahoma that combines the comic and real life. It incorporates the real world by starting the show with a scene of the Tulsa Massacre of 1921, where the most affluent black community in the country was wiped out by an angry white mob. It also incorporates the squid-pocalypse that killed half of New York City, but ended the cold war in the Watchmen comic. It is in the shadow of these two events that Watchmen unfolds.

In Watchmen’s alternate 2019, the police wear masks, after being targeted by a white supremacist terror group called the Seventh Kavalry. Some of the detectives even get to wear full costumes like Sister Night, whose getup is half-nun-half-batman. There is also her co-cop, Looking Glass, whose reflective mask is an apt update of Rorschach’s ink-blots. Speaking of which, the Seventh Kavalry have appropriated the erstwhile trench-coated vigilante as a symbol of their hate, each of them wearing a version of the classic Rorschach mask from the original comic.

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