In the Watchmen universe it was Tubbs and Crockett
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 00:17 (four years ago) link
and Crockett was played by Anthony Michael Hall
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 00:23 (four years ago) link
https://www.npr.org/2019/12/17/789015343/new-research-identifies-possible-mass-graves-from1921-tulsa-race-massacre
― DJI, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 00:57 (four years ago) link
“Was I a worthy adversary?”
“...no.”
Gotta say, Irons’ take on Veidt grew on me
― Conceptualize Wyverns (latebloomer), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link
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
― umsworth (emsworth), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 01:47 (four years ago) link
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
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 02:02 (four years ago) link
Calsters did you say the same thing watching Knives Out?
― akm, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 02:16 (four years ago) link
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.)
― Simon H., Wednesday, 18 December 2019 02:36 (four years ago) link
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
― Simon H., Wednesday, 18 December 2019 02:45 (four years ago) link
psyched for season 2 based on this sneak preview
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EMG9ho3VAAAeZBC?format=jpg&name=large
― WHEEL! OF! FORESKIN! (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 19 December 2019 11:01 (four years ago) link
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
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Thursday, 19 December 2019 12:02 (four years ago) link
Most of them didn't watch it tbf
― Simon H., Thursday, 19 December 2019 12:19 (four years ago) link
If I didn’t care after the first ep, should I keep watching?
― calstars, Thursday, 19 December 2019 12:27 (four years ago) link
probably not but if yer curious you'll know for sure whether to keep going by the end of 3
― Simon H., Thursday, 19 December 2019 12:42 (four years ago) link
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.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 19 December 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link
that shoe in full
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hippoquotes.com%2Fimg%2Fwatchmen-quotes%2F146836.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
― WHEEL! OF! FORESKIN! (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 19 December 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
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.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 19 December 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
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.
― I'm off Twitter, and high on life! (morrisp), Thursday, 19 December 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
lol I saw Dr. Manhattan with the Flash and Green Lantern and was like nope
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 19 December 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link
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
― i chop up the orange and chomp on the inside of it (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 19 December 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
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".
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Thursday, 19 December 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, December 19, 2019 8:39 AM bookmarkflaglink
https://i.ibb.co/85swbBC/downloadfile.pngpurano shei diner kotha
― Bublé in the changer, I wish I was dead (Neanderthal), Thursday, 19 December 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
Uhh i have no idea what that link is below the pic lol
you guys are aware that don johnson has done lots of other acting since miami vice and nash bridges, no?
― akm, Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
also I guess this is a spoiler but he's not around for very long if his presence is a big issue for you
― akm, Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
i'm not weirded about by don johnson acting, it's the notion that one of the more forgettable filler series of the '90s should have the artistic legacy it does. it's like finding out that timothy van patten, star of "the master", is an acclaimed prestige director.
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
Nash Bridges might've been forgettable but Miami Vice was all-time
― umsworth (emsworth), Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
most TV writing/directing lifers start out in crappy series' writers rooms. Or at least that used to be the trajectory.
― Simon H., Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
yeah I'm confused. what's weird about either a) lindelof having written for nash bridges early in his career or b) the star of nash bridges having a relatively small part in this tv show?
― xmas respecter (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
nothing
― akm, Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
except for people who don't understand how hollywood works
it's like finding out that timothy van patten, star of "the master", is an acclaimed prestige director.
omg how did I never make this connection before
thread delivers
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
i understand how hollywood works, i just don't work the same way
i get stirling silliphant, or if not him (he did think he wrote dozens of better scripts for "route 66") hollywood, would probably prefer to be remembered for "in the heat of the night" than for "the swarm" but it's still kind of fucked up that those scripts both came from the same pen.
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Thursday, 19 December 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
Don Johnson was funny in Sick Note
― Bublé in the changer, I wish I was dead (Neanderthal), Thursday, 19 December 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
Also who is "you guys"
― Bublé in the changer, I wish I was dead (Neanderthal), Thursday, 19 December 2019 22:38 (four years ago) link
I guess crockett retired and moved to this other universe where he’s still a cop but everything else is fucking weird?
― calstars, Thursday, 19 December 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
What happened here
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 20 December 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
As much as I loved Miami Vice, I always felt like he was such a non-presence as Crockett. Like, anybody could have filled that role. I think he was really good in this, and I also loved his short role in Eastbound & Down.
― beard papa, Friday, 20 December 2019 02:29 (four years ago) link
he was fun in knives out
― 525,600 gecs (voodoo chili), Friday, 20 December 2019 02:50 (four years ago) link
Don Johnson was iconic as Crockett!
― Nobody uses the phone anymore (morrisp), Friday, 20 December 2019 02:57 (four years ago) link
Lol imagining Crockett ending up in fucking Tulsa
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 20 December 2019 12:48 (four years ago) link
there's a miami in oklahoma! wouldn't even need to change the name of the show!
― i chop up the orange and chomp on the inside of it (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 December 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link
the logical move now is for s2 of Watchmen to be set in Miami
― Simon H., Friday, 20 December 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link
don johnson's imperial-phase cokey self-confidence has aged into a slightly worn charm that he's become pretty adept at using to play charismatic bastards at either end of the charisma / bastard spectrum, i'm always happy to see him tbh
― i chop up the orange and chomp on the inside of it (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 December 2019 12:55 (four years ago) link
nash bridges is better than alan moore's watchmen
― mark s, Friday, 20 December 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
https://wiki.tarantino.info/images/thumb/CMpic.jpg/250px-CMpic.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 20 December 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
Looking Glass pulls his speeding car over to ask his ex-wife if she ever really loved him
― Bublé in the changer, I wish I was dead (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 December 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
The first half of the series was considerably better than the second half, the more I think about it.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 20 December 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
since ep 6 was in the second half I'd disagree, but first 2/3rds was better is true.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 20 December 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
6 + 8 were my overall favorites even if I think the Manhattan plot overall distracted from the more intriguing stuff in the first half
― Simon H., Friday, 20 December 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link