[TV] Watchmen

[Redwyrm]

Trailer for a new series of Watchmen episodes (which caught me by surprise)

Not sure how or if this is connected to the movie or comics.

[Gallahadd]

I've been keeping an eye on this, and I was a little worried and what they'd produce...

But honestly? This trailer has me kinda hyped... From what I've heard, they were considering a Fargo-styled Anthology series. Set in the same world as the original book, but not at the same time as the events depicted. From what I can take from this trailer, they're running with that, and the army of Rorschach wannabes will be the enemies for the season.

[Zoldor]

This looks like serious trash. Outside NIN doing the score, this is going to be pander to the anit-cop/pro-cop crowd for shock value. Can't wait to see Allan Moore hate the fucking shit out of this. Makes the movie look like gold.

And to respond to OP who knows it is basically someone taking what is known from bits and pieces of the comics and just running with the name and modern buzz trends to make a show from what I'm seeing. Maybe I'm wrong, but I've read the original comics and the Before the Watchman stuff and I'm seeing nothing recognizable besides some characters. It all looks post the comics with Rorschach surviving. Maybe a possible spin on the Doomsday Clock series but that involves a lot of the DC characters. So who fucking knows.

Looks like totally author concocted shit to me.

[Sorshen]

Looks like fan fiction of some Watchmen universe related story.

[Ihavewaffles]

It all looks post the comics with Rorschach surviving.

He didn't survive, splat!

[Waynhim]

Can't be worse then the movie. They should have left the comic alone.

[Ihavewaffles]

Watchmen: Featurette | HBO

HBO
Sep 9, 2019

The wicked ride starts 10/20. Watchmen examines how we as a society feel about heroes, most notably people who wear masks and fight crime. #HBO #WatchmenHBO

Watchmen is based on the graphic novel co-created and illustrated by Dave Gibbons and published by DC.

[eschatological]

Bump, as this has started airing now on HBO.

[jimboa24]

I never read the comic, and I definitely didn't care for the Snyder film, so I'm judging this show on its own merits. After watching the premier, I'm not sure what to think other than that I'm left with many, many questions and that I'm very intrigued.

The premier lacked a lot of the typical "shock" shit that HBO shows are known for (gratuitous nudity, excessive violence, a metric ton of profanity) which genuinely surprised me, in a good way. I mean yeah, there was a little bit of each, but it's not like in some of their other shows where it's a constant display of tits, ass and dicks, buckets of blood and non-stop fucks and shits in every other sentence. I'm a bit weary about the racial stuff because I'm just tired of constant heavy-handed racial divide stuff, both in fictional media and in the news, but not enough to not watch it. I want to know more about the mythology of the show - why are we focused on Tulsa, a pretty unimportant city in the middle of America, instead of some major metropolis? What's up with the squid raining from the sky? What did that one guy mean about "trans-dimensional attacks"? How and why did Rorschach's imagery get picked up as the symbol of what is basically the modern Ku Klux Klan? I'm pretty sure the real Rorschach would have hunted down and murdered these guys. How does any of this relate to the events in the comic and/or movie? What is a decidedly not-dead Ozymandias doing, what does he have to do with what's going on in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and what is up with his creepy staff? I'm confused by how things got so bad that for their own safety, the police started to wear masks, but not so bad that they took away their firearms. You would think that if America became so dangerous that cops hid their identities that they wouldn't also be stripped of their firearms.

Like I said, lots of questions, and the show is interesting enough to make me want to keep watching to find out.

[BloodyAngel12]

If you have never read the comic, this quick explained video will help.

[Appelgren]

Can't be worse then the movie. They should have left the comic alone.

The movie is great.

[Sorshen]

The movie has some problems, but overall it's fine.
Idk what are they trying with this tho, except some classic "it's not porn it's hbo" shock value.

[PACOX]

People are mad because a little history was thrown in. Time to resub to HBO.

[Jotaux]

I thought it was pretty good. The police needing special permission to unholster their gun seems impractical. In an emergency situation they are so screwed.

[jimboa24]

I thought it was pretty good. The police needing special permission to unholster their gun seems impractical. In an emergency situation they are so screwed.

Right? Like I said in my post, if things are so dangerous for police that they have to hide their identities, making it even more dangerous for them by disarming them seems both stupid and cruel.

[StillMcfuu]

Right? Like I said in my post, if things are so dangerous for police that they have to hide their identities, making it even more dangerous for them by disarming them seems both stupid and cruel.

This show is going to be made or broken on how they handle the back story from the end of the Watchmen movie to now.
It will be interesting to see how they do it.
Outside of that, this episode was a real slow burn that did very little to kind of set a stage.

[eschatological]

I'm a bit weary about the racial stuff because I'm just tired of constant heavy-handed racial divide stuff, both in fictional media and in the news, but not enough to not watch it. I want to know more about the mythology of the show - why are we focused on Tulsa, a pretty unimportant city in the middle of America, instead of some major metropolis?

Well, the Tulsa race riot is an actual historical event that happened in 1921. I don't know why they specifically chose it, maybe someone else can fill in if the Watchmen universe has some sort of connection to it. It could just be a good place to anchor it.

[gaymer77]

Can someone please explain to me the whole raining squid thing in Watchmen? I know the HBO show is based off DC's Watchmen and I've never read/seen/heard of them until now and thought I'd ask on here to see if someone could explain the whole raining squid thing.

People are mad because a little history was thrown in. Time to resub to HBO.

If you have Hulu you can add it as a package for $15 a month which is usually what it costs from cable/satellite providers too or the stand-alone HBO-Go. Its how I watch HBO stuff all the time.

[BloodyAngel12]

I gave you a video to watch that will bring you up to speed, without having to read the comic.

[s_bushido]

Can someone please explain to me the whole raining squid thing in Watchmen?

In the movie, they replaced the fabricated giant alien squid invasion of the comic with the framing of Dr. Manhattan for vaporizing several cities. This is apparently following the comic rather than the movie. But both were a ploy by Ozymandias to bring the world back from the brink of nuclear annihilation. (if I remember correctly)