Four episodes into the
Watchmen series, after reading through the really good comic book.
Not going to (fully) review it, yet (or maybe never), until I'm done with the whole season. Mainly to give it time and a chance to grow into something good, as it is pretty underwhelming so far.
But, one scene, in particular, annoyed me. I'm easily
annoyed, but not easily
offended, like social justice warriors. However, the scene where their kids were arguing about heaven, at breakfast and the father telling them quite bluntly that it's "pretend" was just...wrong. Is the guy supposed to be an atheist and someone who's very honest and forward with the kids?
Are the writers (one of who I read also worked on LOST and other stuff) atheists and is that how they are, at home, with their family, and they wrote a bit of themselves into the guy's character or...?
Is that their perception of atheists? That they'd just bluntly shut down talk of heaven, outright calling it "pretend." Is that really how they imagine a conversation about heaven with atheist parents? Surely actual atheist and rational skeptic parents would essentially tell their kids the same, but more subtly and perhaps they'd ask them questions, to get them to think about certain things and arrive at a conclusion and stuff like that. No considerate parent would just verbally slap them like that, telling them it's all "pretend." Who the hell wrote that scene.