Regina King is disappointed by fans criticizing her new HBO series “Watchmen” because it’s nothing like the original comic book series.
The award-winning actress stars as a wife, a detective and a masked vigilante known as Sister Night who takes out her revenge on racists.
In the popular 12 issue DC Comics series, published from 1986 to 1987 and based in New York City, the non-traditional superheroes were depicted as everyday people with more than their share of anxieties and insecurities.
The iconic comic book inspired television shows, films and books. HBO’s new series “Watchmen” picks up in 2019 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Viewers are disturbed over the fact that the series is so politicized and strays from the original comic book.
For example, the show opens with a reconstruction of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre – when a white mob attacked and killed hundreds of black residents in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Regina wants critics of the show to explain what makes them so uncomfortable about HBO’s current political adaptation of the novel.
“With some people, I wonder if it’s one of two things: were you truly a fan of the graphic novel? Because if you were, you’d realize there was a political story in there,” King told Digital Spy. “And two, did it feel less political for you because you, as a white man right now, watching this, it’s making you uncomfortable? Which one is it? A combination of both?”
Fearing that the series will be canceled, King urged viewers to “keep watching”, explaining: “I would like for (viewers) to reserve their judgment until they get to the ninth episode. From there, then express what you feel. But please let your expression be truly what you feel.
“I won’t be satisfied with an answer that says, ‘I don’t like it because it wasn’t anything like the graphic novel.’ That wasn’t the intention,” she added. “I need you to dig a little deeper to tell me what it was that made you feel uncomfortable. I feel that that’s very fair… Now, tell me why you feel uncomfortable?”
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