Watchmen is amazing. I have no idea where it's going...and that's a great thing. Sometimes as Fanpeople we adhere so close to the mythology, we want things to match what we're familiar with. Damon took a much tougher road....
He wanted an audience to experience the same mindfuck we felt thirtysomething years ago when Watchmen dropped as a comic...it's a true adaptation because this show has adapted the previous mythology and evolved...
If the comic was ragtime, and Zach Snyder's adaptation was swing, Lindelof's "Watchmen" is BeBop. It's taken the chords of a standard and flipped them inside out, the way Charlie Parker turned "Cherokee" into "Koko."
It also raises bigger questions...like who gets to tell a black story? If Ava, or Jordan, or Ryan or Ta-Nehisi had walked this path, people would be like "Why does it have to be so black? Instead, knowing this, Damon is cashing in his fanboy credibility differently...
He was able to Jedi Mindtrick HBO into making a multi-million dollar treatise on race by cloaking it in superhero mythology, using the comic medium to speak hard truths, which is what the best comics do in the first place...
And yes, even though heroes like Francis Ford and Marty don't understand this, this is the power of the medium...it's one of the only mediums that helps a generation that hates history to look backwards...
With one fell swoop, people are now googling Bass Reeves and the Tulsa/Black Wall Street riots and finding out that...yes...these are based on real events.
