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I felt like this episode had many problems. And I liked the last five minutes better than rest of it.

The previous two Watchmen articles were posted at noon eastern time. I saw this one orginally had a timestamp of 1:24 am. The timestamp on this one has changed to midnight since then.

Thought: What if Michael has been causing mischief on earth for millennia and that’s why people believe all those things about the devil?

I’m really happy to see an another article acknowledging the diversity in writers’ rooms and crews that led to this beautifully and responsibly written show that deals with anti-black American racism.

I have seen a lot of coverage of HBO’s Watchmen talk about it as if Lindelof figured out how to depict American racism all on his own. I wish that more of the coverage would talk about and name the black people in the writersroom and in the overall crew who contributed to this rich piece of work and made sure it was

Thank you for the write up. I wish primary schools did a more thorough job in teaching this information. 

This made my day! Thank you for sharing!

I explained myself just fine. You wildly misread what I wrote. It’s still right up there. You can read what I wrote again and then read what you somehow heard that isn't even close to what I was saying.

That wasn't what I said lol

The critics were/are overwhelmingly men. Too many men bash the kind of sentiments and interplay that feature in stories focused on love and kindness and say things like “that kind of thing is just for teenage girls” in the most derogatory of ways. Stories about finding love and kindness should be and are for

Thank you for covering this story

I’m not interested in having a national leader who I have to spend parsing what i THINK he meant versus the super racist shit they say. We already waste too much time on the current one with that type of nonsense.

In the Northeast school usually started the Wednesday after Labor Day. In the South I have seen it start early to mid August. I went to school in the Northeast. My cousins lived in the South. The always started summer vacation about a month before me and went back to school about a month before me.

That Trump sounds unhinged on social media isn’t new. Trump sounding desperate, however, is”

“if you allow one, then you have to allow all of them.”

I feel like you skipped the most obvious possibility: it was programmed by white men who almost exclusively only know of non-white women and girls through the lens of pornography and objectification.

There is a long history of children being removed from Native American, Black, and Latinx homes for almost no reason at all by government officials like CPS and treating white families differently. 

This. All of this. 

Basically no comments from Jezebel or The Root? Sadly, not surprised. It's pretty much covered in the article that this is about a population of those least cared about.