Damon Lindelof's Watchmen

they probably look like Picasso ladies to him

In the comics he's on this long arc of becoming more and more estranged from humanity, from ditching Janey for Laurie, to spawning duplicates of himself to concentrate on pleasing her while he conducts experiments, to forgetting she needs to breathe. He could easily compartmentalize all of his relations with Angela and be up to whatever he gets up to elsewhere

Thinking about it Trieu can't be thinking of throwing everyone into the aleph, it must be opt-in in some way, like a Nostalgia kiosk or clinic, otherwise why the emphasis on Oklahoma

I’ve found engaging in plot speculation to be less enjoyable, and sometimes more disappointing, over time

I would, however, find it entertaining if the giant machine makes everyone have the experience of being banged by the Dr. Manhattan dildo simultaneously

why the emphasis on Oklahoma

she figured out Dr. Manhattan was there?

here I sit
brokenhearted
watching Watchmen
and Ozymandias farted

(in other words, I'm finally caught up)

After listening to the rather good episode of The Nod podcast about Watchmen, I am going to check this, but is it any good? Will it make me crazy like Mr Robot does?

We'll have to wait for the finale to be sure, but Esmail and Lindelof are not that similar as showrunners imho

would crookshank

*fart*

having just caught up on this week's episode, it's increasingly obvious that the weak link in this show is when they try to shoot locations dressed up as elsewhere - the vietnam scenes in this one, and the new york / new jersey scenes from the hooded justice / looking glass origin episodes, look terrible and are extremely unconvincing

Idk the look of all that felt appropriately comic book-y. Didn’t seem out of place for this show.

saigon didn't bother me since we're obviously in a completely alternate reality.

my biggest problem (and I still enjoy the series for what it is) is the way it became over-expository as we went further on. I had to keep rewinding to make sure I was following each surprise development in the last one, and it took away from what I loved about the first three eps or so - the character focus, the way it used the Tulsa massacre to tie into modern racism, the Redfordations as a pejorative, how modern hate thrives on plausible deniability, with key members hiding their membership, and having leaders trying to curb the violence so their hate can reach a wider audience.

but I still really enjoyed the reveal in the last one, and making Hooded Justice black in ep 6, with the rest of the New Minutemen being as bigoted as the society he protects.

yeah there's been a pivot to explanatory exposition, to the extent that Laurie even seems to offer weary meta-commentary on it in the last episode; I'm inclined to think it's deliberate but I'm not sure what the purpose would be

I would assume that 10+ years after the end of the war (and after Vietnam had become a state?) Saigon would have been pretty thoroughly Westernized, even more so than it had been under the French.

Laurie's meta-commentary was at first a relief, but then kind of eye-rolly to me. "don't tell me your evil plan" has been used to Jedi handwave away excess exposition in too many shows/movies. "hey see even we know we're doing it, so it's ok to do it!".

I'm hoping though, that now that the bombshell is done, that it stabilizes a bit. i still liked the ep but I don't want too many more like it

welp not too many open questions left now!

I forgot this was on..welp guess im staying up

Stay for post credit but. Have they done that before? I usually don’t keep watching because I don’t want to see the spoilery “next week on” bit so kinda random that I caught it this week.

That was a first. My guess is they couldn't figure out a non disruptive way to work that into this episode. (they were right)

a god walks into abar

best episode of the series, I think?

still don't know who Lube Man is though

he's the one who shot at the outrigger

at this point I'm expecting that to get explained but tbh I'd way prefer a few things were left alone. how far we've come from Lost

prepare to be surprised when we find out that Petey is Lube Man next week

So Dr. M must have unwittingly transferred some of his powers to his adopted son, right?

I assume the swimming pool thing has something to do with that too

So Dr. M must have unwittingly transferred some of his powers to his adopted son, right?

He must have transferred them somewhere given all the talk about it; idk about "unwittingly" tho

I fully expect a scene of Regina King going full Akira next week

xpost well, if he was Cal at the time of transfer then I don't know why he would know what he was doing

we already saw the kid levitating stuff, so it must have happened in the tunnel period

one of the better straightforward explanations of the perception of time and causality I've seen on screen

turns out doc m transferred all his powers to the eggs that angela smashed on the floor, she's gonna have to lick the raw eggs off the ground if she wants to become dr wo-manhattan

lol

occurred to me just now that the scene of the good doctor obliterating the 7k members was an allusion to that moment in the comic where he vanished the original rorschach

so where have the squid been coming from during the last few years?

Tevin Campbell's fish tank

veidt had a vivarium in Karnak in the GN, he probably has an aquarium too

so judging by the candles the post-credit scene was taking place three years prior to the events in the 'present' of the series. Plenty of time for Ozy to escape and find a way back to Earth (landing on the farm land I imagine)

maybe this is a challop but I thought this was a better, less fussy take on time travel paradoxes than "The Constant"

A lot is riding on the final episode, I fear. Last night's was another great one, but we're still no closer on a lot of the plot threads wrapping up. Not that I expect them all with a neat little bow, but it's going to be a tough landing to execute after such a terrific run this far. I was not expecting them to handle the Dr. Manhattan reveal well, but it worked.

If only he had been able to finish making those waffles

All that really needs tying up is what Trieu's deal is.

And isn't the Seventh Kavalry's actual plan still kind of not fully known?

there's really not that many loose ends left

xpost to give the Senator Dr. M's powers?

they wanted to kill dr m and then give his powers to senator keene. but idk if they know about how the doc can transfer his powers. i think the plan was to put keene in an intrinsic field generator and then hope that he reassembles himself like osterman did?

The comic explained that Osterman's accident was singular and couldn't ne replicated, and that his unique mind was what helped him put himself back together as Doc Manhattan. Presumably whatever they did to him in this episode was to get him to help Keene put himself back together the same way?