Damon Lindelof'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?

don't think Moore would be interested

Xpost man you love spoiling joeks don't u

Lindelof has already "given" his "blessing" to do future seasons without him, so AT&T are being perfectly consistent in cancelling it

this is a major bummer. show was so good. but maybe this prevents it from inevitable decline.

enh I still think he'll do it a couple years down the line

Still think the finale was very disappointing, but not in a series-destroying way.

Really the worst lapse taste was that rawk cover of I am the walrus at the very end. A truly horrible decision

that was spooky tooth!

i was repeatedly surprised by this and liked it quite a bit up thru and culminating w the hooded justice ep, but as a corny dr. manhattan bro who loves a dr. manhattan performance was also waiting excitedly the whole time for dr. manhattan to appear. loved the reveal of dr. manhattan and texted tolerant friends screenshots all thru the dr. manhattan episode. then the show plummeted straight off a cliff as a direct result of the presence of dr. manhattan, like he was an anvil it had been tied to. if alan moore did curse the show that was the curse.

i don't blame the actor who played him here but Manhattan was pretty boring.

i guess that one mystery character they showed one, slippery pete or whatever he was called, the guy in the outfit going down the sewer drain...we'll never have any idea who that guy was.

maybe my irony detector is broken, but the ancillary materials made clear/explicit it was the agent

yes, petey is lubeman, this is canon

Yeah, it was canonically confirmed via the Peteypedia entry after the last episode.

slippery pete was a coincidental joke name that i now see was eerily accurate

(i forgot the agent's name and didn't read the ancillary materials)

iirc, "Lube Guy" was the name that picked up traction.

just very little bc of the lube

i think read that he included the lubeman bc this season emerged from lindelof's own obsession with the mystery of hooded justice's identity (which he built the season around) and he wanted to leave a mystery for others

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

Because of "Watchmen." Decades of historians have been trying to let the world know about this massacre, and it took an alternate history comic book drama to break the wall of racism. IDK whether to laugh or cry, but let no one say fiction has no power in the real world. https://t.co/l7ixJN5JlQ

— N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) February 20, 2020

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/watchmen-cast-coronavirus-psa-washmen-1203547415/

So now Lindelof is serially publishing an alternate reality time travel Hilary fanfic thing: https://nextdraft.com/something-something-something-murder/

sorry I mean Hillary.

streaming for free all this weekend: https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/06/hbo-watchmen-streaming-free-juneteenth/

Maybe I'll give this a shot...

Pretty great season of TV imo

Gonna try to watch this ifpi can figure out a way to stream on my TV

So it was fairly entertaining, perhaps a bit sillier than I was expecting, and lingered too much on flashbacks, but I appreciated how true it was to the original, even down to its approach to plotting, while building and expanding upon that world for the modern day. I do think it was clearly made with more seasons in mind, and it's a little disappointing they aren't continuing.

Also, this went right over my head

if you're all watching the Watchmen for free on HBO this weekend don't miss what the writers did here.

Happy Father's Day from Fred T and Sons. pic.twitter.com/2jYIkxaL9r

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) June 21, 2020

Powered through it all yesterday, goddman outstanding.

WATCHMEN (HBO, 2019) pic.twitter.com/mM8uYIFhAh

— Alan Sepinwall (@sepinwall) July 1, 2020

goddman outstanding

"Goddman" is the naked blue guy, yeah(?)

I really wish this season had stuck the landing, so much of it was so great

Same! Great buildup, and the finale was like a Heroes episode

omg that's exactly right

this needs to get another season if only to redeem itself from that

Alan Moore, who has not willingly written for DC Comics (bar one six-page 9/11 charity story in 2001) since the 1980s, due to their interference with and theft of his work, had their #1, #3, #5, #6 and #7 best-selling comics in 2019.

That year, DC had $20, $25, and $30 paperbacks of Watchmen in print with different covers, and $40 and $50 hardcovers of the same book.


(#4 was a YA book about Raven from Teen Titans, the other four were Batman comics, including the one that had his penis removed.)