Damon Lindelof's Watchmen

when rage did their onstage naked protest against pmrc in the watchment timeline they were painted blue

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some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses

I'm still stuck on the raw egg thing. That Angela, she's so crazy, not even the slight risk of salmonella will deter her from obtaining godlike powers! Also people eat raw egg all the time, it's not a big deal.

That was a joke by Lindelof, no? Like, the idea that that's the risk she's taking, not the risk of becoming a god? Or at least that's how I read that comment, I wouldn't have thought someone would think he was being serious.

Does he make jokes? Idk. I'm new to Lindelof.

Btw I was hoping for a glimpse of Trieu-as-Manhattan, just to see what kind of god she would have been.

seems like this show was best when it was doing its own thing rather than hewing closely to the comic (the hooded justice ep was the best and was mainly doing its own thing).

the main aspect of the story that bugged me was that dr manhattan left earth because he no longer gave a fuck about humanity due to his way of perceiving existence. him coming back to earth in order to fall in love and live like a normal human doesn't make any sense

Yea i had a hard time buying Dr Manhattan's motivations.

blue balls

not caring about anything might be a thing one might want to change

alternatively I suppose one could argue that he specifically chose this outcome because it led to his death

"i cannot self-terminate"

Or it led to the transfer of his powers to someone with experiences/memories that would allow her to so easily unlatch from humanity

this hilarious clown

That’s why I think HBO is calling it an ongoing series. I didn’t say to them, “Guys, this is going to be nine episodes, and it’s going to be like ‘Chernobyl,’ and then we should just walk away.” And so it’s unfair for me now to say, I’m changing the rules.

it's unfair for Lindelof to change the rules about how much Watchmen exists in the world

dude learnt about white supremacy from writing his multi-million dollar fanfic

if I learned anything through the experience of writing the show and reading all the things that I’ve been reading, it’s the insidiousness of white supremacy. I don’t think that I ever would have even put it in the show if I felt like we were going to try to convince the audience that it could be defeated.

mfer did his entire TV show to prove he was smarter than people who found him annoying in 1987

When I read the original Watchmen, the thing that I was completely and totally obsessed with was Hooded Justice. I would talk to other people with familiarity about Watchmen, and I’d go, “I like that they never told us who Hooded Justice was,” and they’d look at me like, “Who?” And I’d be like, “You know, Hooded Justice? He’s one of the original Minutemen,” and their eyes would glaze over. I was like, “Oh, okay, nobody else cares about this thing.” But that obsession became the foundation for this season of Watchmen. And so, maybe somebody will do the same with Lube Man.

digging up the damning quotes

The amount of mental energy people spend on something they ostensibly hate never fails to amaze me.

enh as far as bad/silly/embarrassing lindelof interview quotes go those all rank pretty low

the sic bot's neural network is not that sophisticated yet guys

anyway see you all again itt in 2-3 years

im not sure i would watch a second season.

The amount of mental energy people spend on something they ostensibly hate never fails to amaze me.

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Just coming here to say that James Wolk (Keene) is the only white man with no lips who would be allowed to absolutely destroy me

Bob Benson?

AKA my husband!

: )

A lot to be disappointed/annoyed by in that finale but Will Reeves reading the wiki synopsis of his backstory episode might've been the low point.

haha

I watched the first 15 minutes of this, completely baffled. And is that Crockett? Wtf

In the Watchmen universe it was Tubbs and Crockett

and Crockett was played by Anthony Michael Hall

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“Was I a worthy adversary?”

“...no.”

Gotta say, Irons’ take on Veidt grew on me

just feel like there was a whole lot of terror and weirdness in the early episodes that had leached out of it by the end - mainly the real world resonance of the 7th cavalry stuff which was totally neutered when all the old characters took centre stage

still overall positive vibes towards this unlikely good show

particularly love that “aw shit” hovering menace soundtrack motif that did a lot of heavy lifting re getting me to buy in to the early eps

just feel like there was a whole lot of terror and weirdness in the early episodes that had leached out of it by the end

yep. can't believe I've gotten to the point where I'm complaining that a Lindelof show/movie wrapped up too neatly, but here we are. Great show overall though

Calsters did you say the same thing watching Knives Out?

I watched the finale a second time and I def agree it was too neat / brushed aside too many of the more difficult themes. But it's less of a problem if it comes back. (Which it will; viewership went up over the course of the season, which is pretty rare.)

also, call me crazy, but on rewatch (esp given the multiple references to other US presidents throughout the ep), "for all that he could do, he could have done more" struck me as a sneaky Obama reference

psyched for season 2 based on this sneak preview

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not been following this thread for fear of spoilers but just watched the last episode and was gripped throughout. loved this show, pleasantly surprised at how effective it was considering the history of Alan Moore adaptations. I'm surprised (not surprised) there are so many haters itt

Most of them didn't watch it tbf

If I didn’t care after the first ep, should I keep watching?

probably not but if yer curious you'll know for sure whether to keep going by the end of 3

Why would you come onto 1400 post long thread about one season of a shoe and ask if you should keep watching? That is some weird behavior.

that shoe in full

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Like I just listened to the first track of a Solange album and then turned it off but I’m going to post on the Solange thread to ask if it’s worth it to keep listening.

This article has some weird errors (“the League of Super-Heroes”?), but I thought it was interesting for how it compares the ending of Doomsday Clock to the finale of the series.

lol I saw Dr. Manhattan with the Flash and Green Lantern and was like nope

in a parallel world, one very slightly more cursed than our own, zack snyder is directing a doomsday clock movie which unites his watchmen and justice league universes

this show makes me wish i had the energy to watch tv shows or movies. just the fact that when this guy read watchmen as a kid he spent the whole thing asking "BUT WHAT ABOUT HOODED JUSTICE?!?", which was uh sort of the same reaction i had to it? i did eventually get over the idea that Alan Moore was the Greatest Artist in History and I never came up with an elaborate follow-up based on reading Ta-Nehisi Coates to explain Hooded Justice's backstory.

I am still weirded out by the Nash Bridges thing. I remember back in the '90s when Nash Bridges was killing Homicide in the ratings and the Homicide showrunners kept making fun of it in response, and now Lindelof is saying he wants his show to be more like "The Wire".

Why would you come onto 1400 post long thread about one season of a shoe and ask if you should keep watching? That is some weird behavior.

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