Four episodes into a nine episode run, and I think I'm done with Watchmen. Using the Tulsa white supremacy riots of 1921 as a backdrop offered an intriguing start, but it's been downhill since then.
Glancing around at various sci-fi review outlets I see that I'm in a distinct minority. What they see as a slow and thoughtful reveal of facts just seems pretentious and dull to me.
More bluntly, I just don't like any of these people. I don't understand what motivates any of them. (Even as horrible as Rorscach and Ozymandias were in the comic book, you can at least understand why they do what they do.)
And given that we're almost at the halfway mark, it doesn't help that we're still introducing main characters.
Boo.
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