29th September, 2020.
Right …
I have to confess, this is — quite possibly — going to be one of those posts I start tonight: on 29th September, 2020.
But may well finish, tomorrow.
In case you hadn’t guessed?
I got awakened, this morning, at just after 4 o’clock.
To find a drunk sleeping on my doorstep.
You can find out more about it in today’s Daily Teaser: here.
Yes: I ended up phoning the police.
Which is when my mysterious visitor decided to move on.
After swearing at me a lot.
Frankly, after all that … ?
I’m knackered: and going to bed.
But wanted to get started on this review: of what I’ve seen on TV, tonight.
Yes: I’ve seen episode two of Watchmen …
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29th September, 2020.
Episode 2 — Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship — opens with a scene during WW2: showing us an unnamed Nazi Commandant dictating a propaganda leaflet to his secretary …
With the leaflets dropped over a detachment of African-American troops heading back to camp.
To a little boy, reading it in his front room
Back in the now? Angela (Regina King) is in deep shock: having found the lynched body of Judd (Don Johnson) … and a mysterious old man called Will (Louis Gossett Jr): who claims to be the man hanged Judd, and that Judd had skeletons in his closet.
But has to take place in a raid on a local Seventh Kavalry base.
Angela … ? Is understandably tired, emotional and confused.
And collapses, whilst attending Judd’s wake.
Finding out, in the mean time, that Will is right.
There really is something unpleasant in Judd’s closet.
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| Judd’s skeleton. |
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Right … I’ll apologise for this post’s delay: I usually write these things on the night I watch the show.
But given I was up from four in the morning, yesterday?
I wanted to start this post … and finish it later.
To have my cake and eat it!
So … what did I make of Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship?
It’s another killer episode … !
For starters it’s inching the plot slowly forward.
We’re not totally seeing where things are going — Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship is only Episode 2, after all — but we’re getting hints that Judd, his relationship with Angela, and events of the White Night Riots seem to be key.
Then there’s the characters. Angela is showing us she’s a sympathetic, Will is suitably mysterious, Judd — in flashbacks — is showing us he’s not what he seems.
There’s a fantastic supporting cast as well: Angela’s regular police partner Looking Glass (Tim Blake Nelson) is just one among many, as is Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Angela’s husband, Cal.
They’re just the highlights.
Then there’s the world building …
Dear lord, the world building is superb.
Two episodes in? The USA’s flag is different: the usual star spangled square in the upper left hand corner is a star spangled blue central circle.
The USA’s led by President Redford.
We’re getting hints that Hooded Justice — the original costumed vigilante in the original graphic novel — is other than he seems.
Pirate comics have been replaced by American Hero Story*.
Technology seems very different.
The world of Watchmen seems to have very little in the way of computers: trust me to notice that!
Frankly?
The series is expanding on a much loved world.
And, from where I’m sitting?
Improving it immensely!
* In a trivial piece of meta-wot’sit†, the fictional show’s version of Hooded Justice is played by Cheyanne Jackson: a regular in later series of American Horror Story.
† An invented term that means “I don’t know what I’m talking about, but think the word Intertextuality may be needed. Or relevant … or something …”
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