"How do you know he’s 7K?"
"I got a nose for white supremacy, and he smells like bleach."
-- Judd Crawford and Angela Abar, Watchmen: "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice"
Hello again, everyone! My co-host Jesse Jackson and I have returned with another new episode of The Fandom Zone Podcast! This time, we discuss "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice", the first episode of the HBO series Watchmen, introducing Regina King as Sister Night, Don Johnson as Judd Crawford, Tim Blake Nelson as Looking Glass, and Jeremy Irons as Ozymandias!
In this episode, Jesse and I talk about things like showrunner Damon Lindelof, our background with the original Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons Watchmen comic book limited series, the Watchmen characters being a substitute for the Charlton Comics superheroes DC Comics acquired, Dave Gibbons associating with the TV series, Zack Snyder's 2009 Watchmen film adaptation, the TV series being a sequel set 34 years after the original comic book series, star Regina King, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' score, Angela's double life as a baker and Sister Night, white resentment toward "Redfordations", The white supremacist Seventh Kavalry twisting Rorschach's legacy for their horrible agenda, old Will Reeves claiming that he lynched Judd, the 1921 Tulsa race riot not being taught in schools, friend of the show Ken Schaefer being curious about Watchmen, people thinking the Watchmen TV series is bad because it's "woke", Judd's murder being the new version of the Comedian's murder, Judd singing "People Will Say We're in Love" from Oklahoma!, why Judd didn't wear a mask like the other police officers, everyone hating Panda, Looking Glass and the interrogation pod, what happened to Dan Dreiberg the second Nite Owl, HBO's supplemental backmatter website Peteypedia, Ozymandias' imperfect clone servants Mr. Phillips and Ms. Crookshanks, Adrian writing a Doctor Manhattan play "The Watchmaker's Son", our favorite quotes of the episode, Fandom Zone news about various comic book TV shows, and more!
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Be sure to come back next week, as Jesse and I review "Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship", the second episode of HBO's Watchmen, right here on The Fandom Zone Podcast!