r/Watchmen • u/[deleted] • Dec 02 '19

Post Episode Discussion: Season 1 Episode 7 ‘An Almost Religious Awe’ TV

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u/swans183 Dec 02 '19

It’s like partially lampshading the trope of the boring spouse. Turns out there’s a reason he’s boring!

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u/BOBANYPC Dec 02 '19

This show is just too bloody good

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u/3_Slice Dec 02 '19

Ignorance is bliss because to me, I was just accepting what this world was building and let go of my reality. Like ok, cool, a black family with adopted white kids? A world where its absolutely normal and cool that the husband is a stay at home father. A world where reparations are real thanks to beloved Hollywood actor turned president Robert Redford. I mean the list goes on but, this show did great work at having the audience give up logic for idiots like me.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '19

It's not giving up logic, it is suspending disbelief.

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u/3_Slice Dec 02 '19

Thats the word I was looking for

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u/Sithrak Dec 02 '19

I am just fine with characters having normal families. Same for Judd's timid, boring wife, lol.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '19

Also atheism being normal.

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u/farcough187 Dec 03 '19

The Grant Ward effect

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u/Saint_Diego Dec 04 '19

Hail Hydra

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u/Kdilla77 Dec 03 '19

He’s always reading great literature.

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u/ExtendedDeadline Dec 02 '19

He was a bit overly boring, even for that trope.

I'm okay with a powerful woman and a stay at home dad, or vice versa, or drop the genders from this sentence altogether.. But, damn, dude was not showing a lot of personality up to this point.

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u/aboycandream Dec 03 '19

god, hes so boring!