Damon Lindelof's Watchmen

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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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?

also I guess this is a spoiler but he's not around for very long if his presence is a big issue for you

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.

Nash Bridges might've been forgettable but Miami Vice was all-time

most TV writing/directing lifers start out in crappy series' writers rooms. Or at least that used to be the trajectory.

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?

nothing

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

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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.

Don Johnson was funny in Sick Note

Also who is "you guys"

I guess crockett retired and moved to this other universe where he’s still a cop but everything else is fucking weird?

What happened here

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.

he was fun in knives out

Don Johnson was iconic as Crockett!

Lol imagining Crockett ending up in fucking Tulsa

there's a miami in oklahoma! wouldn't even need to change the name of the show!

the logical move now is for s2 of Watchmen to be set in Miami

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

nash bridges is better than alan moore's watchmen

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Looking Glass pulls his speeding car over to ask his ex-wife if she ever really loved him

The first half of the series was considerably better than the second half, the more I think about it.

since ep 6 was in the second half I'd disagree, but first 2/3rds was better is true.

6 + 8 were my overall favorites even if I think the Manhattan plot overall distracted from the more intriguing stuff in the first half

Agree. Show lost me when it became an exposition fest. Tho the penultimate episode was good

I'm still hung up on it not being 12 eps, so imo #6 still feels like the halfway point to me. Maybe it's because they were still taking their time up to that point, with easily 5 eps of material cut down into 3 for the final act. Anyway, this was overall far better than it had any right to be. It was overall a pleasant discovery.

I want a Dr Manhattan toilet

Show was very compelling throughout, a lot better than the mediocre film obv.

The playing around with time was very clever, obv the hooded justice episode employed it well in a more direct way but the Manhattan reveal episode did it remarkably well.

Don Johnson’s presence was key I think because he sauntered through the episode like a born leader, very charismatic, a beloved figure, we’re invited to like him, and the twist of course is he’s one who slowly turns into this malignant presence after his death. Johnson is a very good actor and always has been, his skills have been employed in some pap but he’s got the goods. The cyclops leadership getting cooked at the end was of course very satisfying.

It was a show to get immersed in and might bear rescreening though it was difficult to watch at times; it doesn’t shy away from the particularly specific American strain of ugliness that is built into the country’s dna.

seeing rumblings that HBO doesn't want to do a s2 without Lindelof which if true is ohhhhhhh the irony lmao

HBO won't pursue second season of 'Watchmen' after creator bows out

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2020/01/16/watchmen-second-hbo-season-wont-happen-after-creator-bails/4491269002/

Creator

they forgot the scare quotes

hbo should bring in someone else to do season 2 against lindelof’s wishes

you mean like Alan Moore?