One of the greatest things that cinema can do is to force us to face an inconvenient truth, and by helping us process it we can grow and even achieve catharsis. This episode does almost the opposite, and I would have forgiven more if only it were better made.
As a European, I thought that the "Hollywood liberal agenda" was mostly an exaggeration of Fox news types, but this episode sure does try to convince me that it's something real.
Instead of aiming to heal a fractured society, this just seems to preach hate as a response to past hate. It seems to only be made for US liberals to further justify their ideology, as it just drives an oversimplified black vs. white narrative, without even mentioning the wealthy land-owning elite that's responsible for most of this. Everyone that gave this a 10 has no idea that the rest of the world doesn't follow their framework and just wanted to see flawed superheroes deal with a complicated world.
Message aside, it's also not very good in terms of writing. The cinematography is excellent, but felt almost wasted. Characters seem to be shallow stereotypes, and the story has so many things that don't seem to make sense when you think for more than 5 seconds about them that it's hard to suspend disbelief.
The biggest thing this shares with the Watchmen comics seems to be the yellow font.
As a European, I thought that the "Hollywood liberal agenda" was mostly an exaggeration of Fox news types, but this episode sure does try to convince me that it's something real.
Instead of aiming to heal a fractured society, this just seems to preach hate as a response to past hate. It seems to only be made for US liberals to further justify their ideology, as it just drives an oversimplified black vs. white narrative, without even mentioning the wealthy land-owning elite that's responsible for most of this. Everyone that gave this a 10 has no idea that the rest of the world doesn't follow their framework and just wanted to see flawed superheroes deal with a complicated world.
Message aside, it's also not very good in terms of writing. The cinematography is excellent, but felt almost wasted. Characters seem to be shallow stereotypes, and the story has so many things that don't seem to make sense when you think for more than 5 seconds about them that it's hard to suspend disbelief.
The biggest thing this shares with the Watchmen comics seems to be the yellow font.