Truth, Justice and The American Way

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Arts, Science Fiction, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Tracing the history of the superhero genre can reveal a lot about how we understand our own history, and how history gets whitewashed. Shawn Taylor, John Jennings and Art Burton look at how black superheroes evolved from a black Wild West lawman to HBO's Watchmen. And I talk with John Valadez about Mexican American masked vigilantes who may have inspired Zorro, and other masked heroes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tab for a cause is a browser extension that lets you raise money for charity will do
0:04.8	in your thing online.
0:06.6	Whenever you open a new tab, you'll see a beautiful background photo and a small ad.
0:11.6	And part of that ad money goes towards a charity of your choice.
0:15.6	It's free and incredibly easy.
0:18.1	Transform your tabs into a force for good in just 30 seconds.
0:22.4	Sign up at tabforacaws.org slash imaginary worlds.
0:29.4	Here listening to imaginary worlds, a show about how we create them and why we suspend
0:33.4	our disbelief.
0:34.7	American Mollinsky.
0:37.7	At first I thought this was a terrible idea.
0:40.5	Damon Lindelof, one of the show runners from Lost, was going to reboot the Watchmen, which
0:46.8	was a groundbreaking 1986 graphic novel about retired, semi-fascist superheroes.
0:54.6	Now there already was a Watchmen movie in 2009.
0:57.8	It was a commercial and critical dud.
1:01.6	But Damon Lindelof said that the HBO series would be a sequel, taking place 33 years after
1:08.3	the events of the comic books.
1:10.5	A lot of people besides me were pretty skeptical about this project.
1:15.2	But his Watchmen TV series turned out to be one of the best single seasons of serialized
1:21.6	sci-fi fantasy TV that I have ever seen.
1:25.9	I mean the rumor is that HBO is not going to make a season 2 because season 1 was such
1:30.2	a perfectly told story.
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