To say another nice thing: the costumes really are good. Snyder made them all seem like larger-than-life figures where Lindelof understands they're meant to look closer to this: 
Just got spoiled for the twist, unfortunately. This show will have to suddenly transform into the best TV show ever to make that work.
"Yeah, well, he's no Cal." Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.
Latest in a long series of dumb jokes played oddly serious: as s3xytimes begin, the Careless Whispers saxophone plays.
oh wow they DID replace Schindler's List with a Spielberg movie about the big squid. and it's a whole thing. how tasteful.
Dumb joke played oddly serious #2: "Call it a squid pro quo."
Jeremy Irons is entertaining but a total miscast. The original Veidt resembles an archetypical superhero and projects a calm confidence. Irons comes off as... well, as a Republic serial villain.
Also, Lindsay was right:
Dumb joke played oddly seriously #3: episode closes with slow, sad, acoustic version of Careless Whispers
That's all I can take today... I Shall Return
Made a mistake while threading this so here's one of the most important things wrong with this show:
If it's alright with everyone, I'm going to watch more Watchmen.
Nostalgia pills are a good idea! It doesn't feel grounded in the way I think Watchmen usually does, but the original comic ends... the way it does... so I don't have a leg to stand on there.
Nostalgia pills are a good idea! It doesn't feel grounded in the way I think Watchmen usually does, but the original comic ends... the way it does... so I don't have a leg to stand on there.
this lady just took some magic pills and astral-projected into the body of her grandad and made out with her granny
I want to save my substantial thoughts on The Politics for a proper piece but suffice to say that this Cyclops thing is extremely stupid, perhaps the worst thing in this terrible show.
Can't believe Hooded Justice did nothing wrong
weeding out the epilleptics, I see
Say what you will about Sherlock and 'the boomerang did it' but I don't believe they ever had him 'solve the mystery' by him taking pills that give him an extensive flashback that just shows him the solution (Abominable Bride doesn't count)
Hooded Justice fought the Klan and all his dumb kid can do is mope about how Masks Bad and the show agrees with the KID
taking an entire bottle of Nostalgia pills and feeling like shit afterwards, or as I like to call it, going to see Rise of Skywalker
This explanation for how the Nostalgia pills work is good fake science!
this cure "literally flushes Nostalgia from the cortex" so we gotta put that stuff in the water
like literally any body-swap story, this would be better if it was about a trans person
I deleted an earlier tweet that I felt was too harsh on this kind of thing, but this show is hopped up on its hologram nonsense. I get that this is a story where a giant squid can be teleported across the world but it's still just alternate history rather than the future.
this show is extraordinarily, unforgivably bad at exposition. Characters rattle off entire paragraphs of information that the other person already knows, just for our benefit.
I Return
Lindelof said that because Veidt was originally in control, he wanted to put him out of control. Gives him an impossible situation and watches him weasel out of it. The result simply portrays Veidt as a Special Smart Boy.
Lindelof said that because Veidt was originally in control, he wanted to put him out of control. Gives him an impossible situation and watches him weasel out of it. The result simply portrays Veidt as a Special Smart Boy.
That lawyer just did the Rocket Raccoon thing of winking with the wrong eye
Dumb joke played oddly serious #4: Veidt farts. this show is terrible.
#5: Veidt is judged by a jury of literal pigs???
I knew I was going to hate the twist but I didn't know they would be so cruel as to set it to a no-lyrics piano version of Life On Mars
🎶Doc Manhattan would not be a good boyfriend🎶
🎶That was the point of Laurie in the original🎶
🎶That was the point of Laurie in the original🎶
"I'm still not convinced you know what's going to happen next."
"Your favourite song is about to play."
(megalovania sound) duduDU DU
"Your favourite song is about to play."
(megalovania sound) duduDU DU
I don't think Doc Manhattan's experiencing-all-time-at-once deal is 0% true, but the original was clear that it's partly about his own indecision, going along with things, allowing himself to be a puppet. Show drops all that and makes him another Special Smart Boy
Dumb joke played oddly serious #6: when Dr Manhattan is sad it plays I'm Mr Blue
this is correct
The Dr Manhattan CG is _very_ rough, like a PlayStation 2 model becoming canon to Real Life
Okay, all caught up. Tentative conclusion: show bad
Highlights from this interview include:
- "how could Doctor Manhattan... be in service of Angela's story? The answer was intuitive: love."
- they didn't tell the casting director Cal was Dr Manhattan
hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/watc…
- "how could Doctor Manhattan... be in service of Angela's story? The answer was intuitive: love."
- they didn't tell the casting director Cal was Dr Manhattan
hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/watc…
Guy playing Dr Manhattan didn't even find out he was Dr Manhattan until after the second episode. Spoiler culture once again stopping actors from doing their jobs to the best of their ability: washingtonpost.com/arts-entertain…
Back at it again for the #WatchmenHBO finale. Thinking about how Lindelof answered the question 'What does a new Watchmen story need?' not with 'Another symmetrical issue/episode' but with 'Dr Manhattan's big blue schlong'
Trieu is talking to Veidt at 2008 Antarctica now. You can really tell that Lindelof thinks Veidt was right to kill three million people with a big squid.
If Lindelof wrote Doctor Who he'd say destroying Gallifrey was good, actually
If Lindelof wrote Doctor Who he'd say destroying Gallifrey was good, actually
He also writes Veidt as desperately needing validation and praise, which just wasn't there in the original.
"I wrote a randomising algorithm so nobody could spot any pattern" I know almost nothing about algorithms and even I know that they suck at being random. It's the first thing you learn about algorithms. Trivial point but it stuck in my craw.
Spoiler for a twist here...
I buy that Trieu is Veidt's kid. What I don't buy is that Veidt specifically and deliberately doesn't fuck because he considers it "heathenistic." Veidt wasn't ever especially religious and he does not have r/nofap vibes
I buy that Trieu is Veidt's kid. What I don't buy is that Veidt specifically and deliberately doesn't fuck because he considers it "heathenistic." Veidt wasn't ever especially religious and he does not have r/nofap vibes
this is a moot point though, the question of Veidt being in character was answered when he Did A Big Fart (this show is terrible)
"The refrigerated vault with all your vials of cum"
the W H O M ?
the W H O M ?
lindelof: "this show is very anti-racist, anyway intelligence is hereditary"
they brain you up, your mum and dad
they brain you up, your mum and dad
show seems to think that Veidt was noble to give all his money away and allegedly 'build himself up from scratch.' determined to miss the point as much as possible.
Credit where it's due, the twist with the statue got me
this show is ultimately about a rich genius swooping in to save the day because it thinks that's what the original Watchmen was
Veidt designing harmless baby squids implies that he cares about civilian casualties. If he did, he'd just have made it rain harmless baby squids in the first place, or staged an alien threat in some other way.
we all wear a mask... in so ciety
show seems to unironically think that the FBI would ever arrest the President so add that to the list of ways this show has NO concept of systems
it's bad for anyone to desire or deliberately obtain the power of a god. unless that person ticks enough diversity boxes. then it's Woke
in conclusion: this is one of the worst-written shows I've ever seen
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