Is this the movie where Superman holds up the wing of Air Force One and babbles on about the American way or something?

Blackface is when a white actor changes their appearance to play a black character. Problems with blackface include its history of mocking people of color and denying them opportunities to play themselves.

The Snyder Cut strikes me as a classic example of conspiracy culture where the actual item could never possibly live up to the hype its own adherents have manufactured around it.

True that, considering we have a self-proclaimed stable genius in the White House right now.

The self-proclaimed world’s smartest man. It might make a difference.

I mean, what we know as of right now is that his grandfather was a member of the KKK, which would probably have made his grandfather an active member of the Klan around the time of the massacre. And Crawford isn’t disgusted enough by it to have thrown it out. Indeed, quite the opposite, he created a custom lit hidden…

This whole line of “Ozymandias wouldn’t do that” critiques is just a different shade of people inappropriately lionizing characters from the comics. Yes, Veidt thinks he’s the smartest, most omniscient person in the world, just like Rorschach thinks he’s the only hero left in the world. Neither of these things is…

Last time I checked, this show is not called Lost and there is no smoke monster.

a white cop, who is revealed to have ties to the KKK, being hanged from a tree is most definitely about racism.

If you don’t think the show isn’t really about racism, I’m not sure what to tell you. The show opens with footage of the Tulsa race massacre. One of the first bits of action on the show is a white guy who is pretty clearly part of a racist militia killing a black cop. The protagonist is asked whether she got…

And also would have reacted as he did when he made it out of the “preserve”.

I think you want everyone to believe in the Space Squids for a while. But if, after averting armageddon, you’re also trying to set up a utopia and you’ve engineered the election of a like-minded President, you might want to clue him in so he can aim budget money at Head Start and reparations and whatever else instead…

That’s a very good point.

I disagree. Rorschach’s journal was never explicit about what was going to happen (because he didn’t know before sending off his journal), AND it got sent to a rag, AND he had an extensive criminal record as opposed to Veidt’s pretty stellar reputation at the time both as a costumed hero and as an entrepreneur, AND…

Having the video makes sense to me.

Kinda yes, but...

There WAS that thing that he did that was extremely reckless, that being the “failed” assassination attempt against himself that he set up, allowing himself to be shot at without being 100% sure his catching-the-bullet defense would work, and then being absolutely PUMPED afterwards like a goddam sports…

“I feel like the show isn’t about racism . . . It seemed like it was more about the white supremacy movement”

Did you spot anything in the episode suggesting that the scene was perhaps less than 100% accurate? Anything at all?

That’s the “American Hero Story” show-within-the-show, though, and the episode goes out of its way to demonstrate that it gets a lot of stuff wrong. It’s even interrupted by Laurie calling it garbage.

“That version of Veidt is never shown recording a video (and the reference to Redford’s political career is mostly a one-off joke about the divergence from our reality);”