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Watchmen |OT| This is the Moment
- Thread starter Kenzodielocke
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Just came across this HBO statement about Watchmen's viewing numbers:
If it's doing that well, I wonder if the network allows it to be a one-and-done series.
If it's doing that well, I wonder if the network allows it to be a one-and-done series.
They were, but it looked like a supply that was stolen as they were prying the boxes open
I am expecting bad things if Lindelof does not want to come back.
I'm amazed anyone would do that regardless. Do people not watch the Next Time teases?
EDIT: I GET IT IM WRONG 🤣 IM TIRED OF NOTIFICATIONS LMAO
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I never, ever do. I stayed for Life On Mars, then bailed.
We dont get the Next Time trailers in the UK, at least I think we don't?
You don't think since his creation someone group or person hasn't been thinking of a way to become and/or destroy him
It's worth mentioning for people with HBO Go/Now, at least, because the teases are separate.
I didn't know Watchman was meant to be a one and done? Seems like a hell of a lot of build up for something to be concluded only in two episodes.
Yeah! Same here. By the look of it, I thought they were building the plot for a few seasons.
I suspect we'll be getting something like this from LG very soon.
Ooh! Good catch! I was caught up thinking that the identity of the unmasked 7K guy was important. I didn't even consider that LG probably swiped the mask.
I'll need to go back and watch episode 7 again and pay closer attention to the 7K guys busying themselves around the lab as Keane talks to Laurie.
So was there something after the credits besides the Next Time tease? I don't understand that tweet.
Tweet was today, so they probably mean this Sunday's episode.
I never do for any show. They practically spoil the themes and beats of the next episode.
These teasers/extra featurettes are not always there depending on the service you use to stream HBO or country you're in. For example, when streaming the show live in Canada they don't show the Next Time teasers at the end. So it's entirely possible for someone to stop before the end of the credits.
i believe a write up of this week's episode also mentioned next week having a post-credit scene
Sepinwall mentioned sticking around for after the credits as well, so it's definitely for this coming Sundays episode.
Why would I want a bunch of stuff spoiled a week ahead?
The best "next times on"s were always Mad Men's. Matt Weiner didn't want to do them, but AMC made him, so they were mostly just people opening or closing doors and random benign lines of dialogue.
i never watch the next episode teaser. i dont want to know anything about any tv shows next episode.
It feels really weird to me that people actually wanna argue that Steve King and the Proud Boys could take on Doctor Manhattan because they studied really hard. Is this like the Batman prep time thing or something?
Presumably 7k is descended from the Cyclops people who had mind control tech in the 1920's. You seem to be making the common misconception that racists are dumb instead of just plain evil.
White Supremacists run the world and have taken over the white house.
You're missing the legacy of White Supremacy and it's link throughout our systems and institutions by being blinded by more outward, extreme versions of it.
Yeah that's exactly like fighting a being that is basically god.
Ok? There's no reason they can't have top scientist who have been working on it for years. Ozy managed it for a little bit in the 80's. They have tech from lady trieu
I mean the first two of three volumes are out. No official word of a complete collection or anything.
I think it existed in part for those viewers who haven't read the comic or seen the movie. They are out there.
So I just caught up and here's some errant thoughts/questions:
Is it just me or was episode 5 like really dull compared to the rest of them? Was I the only one that in the beginning thought that Christian dude campaigning at the amusement park was Laurie's lanky sex partner? They looked a lot alike. Also I'm finding in general Wade/Looking Glass has been the least interesting character.
So Keene/Cyclops/The Seventh Kavalry's plan is to kill Dr. Manhattan and thus...become Dr. Manhattan(s)? How would killing him make them become him? There doesn't seem to be any obvious correlation there but I read Watchmen 10 years ago and only read the Wikipedia synopsis of the original graphic novel to get a little refresher before watching this show, so maybe I'm forgetting some attribute of his superpowerdom which would lead to dead Dr. Manhattan (also how do they plan to kill him? With their silly mesmerism strobe light? How does that thing work for like literally everybody? How did Cyclops pull something like that off during World War 2?) = steal Dr. Manhattan's powers.
So are we supposed to accept that Angela has known her husband is secretly Dr. Manhattan all this time? Why was she surprised when Lady Trieu was like "Yo did you know Dr. Manhattan lives here!???? Don't you wanna know who he is??" Was the idea with that scene that she was pretending not to know? Why does she accept that her husband is Dr. Manhattan? This twist just seems so out of nowhere.
Why did Lady Trieu clone her mom, exactly? Did they explain that? I'm gonna guess the answer for this next question is nobody knows, but what is the deal with the Millenium Clock? Also does Lady Trieu seriously have like one employee that isn't her mom-daughter working at her business which is worth over a trillion dollars (I'm referring to that one woman with the hard hat)?
What is the deal with the elephant? Is that supposed to be an elephant in the room joke?
Clair de Lune in that moon scene...really guys?
Does Damon Lindelof only know like the most popular 'adult' pop-culture stuff to directly reference to make his show seem deeper than it is? (Things Fall Apart, Ozymandias, I Don't Want To Set the World On Fire, For Whom the Bell Tolls)
Okay so...Adrian Veidt is on Europa? How? I don't get this stuff at all to be honest. When the Game Warden yanks his back, he like warps back. So was he on that satellite? Where is this idyllic countryside supposed to be? Who is he trying to ask to save him? What is the deal with the fetuses in the river? Why is he making this play? Didn't he purposefully bow out of the public eye in the first place? So how did he end up imprisoned? Maybe my lack of deep familiarity with the source material around Watchmen is hindering me here because I honest to god do not understand what is going on here at all.
So we're in agreement the trap door was goofy as shit, right?
Why does Veidt want Redford in office? He's in whatever-prison so he has like no connection to Earth, so it's not like he can use Redford as a puppet.
Is it just me or was episode 5 like really dull compared to the rest of them? Was I the only one that in the beginning thought that Christian dude campaigning at the amusement park was Laurie's lanky sex partner? They looked a lot alike. Also I'm finding in general Wade/Looking Glass has been the least interesting character.
So Keene/Cyclops/The Seventh Kavalry's plan is to kill Dr. Manhattan and thus...become Dr. Manhattan(s)? How would killing him make them become him? There doesn't seem to be any obvious correlation there but I read Watchmen 10 years ago and only read the Wikipedia synopsis of the original graphic novel to get a little refresher before watching this show, so maybe I'm forgetting some attribute of his superpowerdom which would lead to dead Dr. Manhattan (also how do they plan to kill him? With their silly mesmerism strobe light? How does that thing work for like literally everybody? How did Cyclops pull something like that off during World War 2?) = steal Dr. Manhattan's powers.
So are we supposed to accept that Angela has known her husband is secretly Dr. Manhattan all this time? Why was she surprised when Lady Trieu was like "Yo did you know Dr. Manhattan lives here!???? Don't you wanna know who he is??" Was the idea with that scene that she was pretending not to know? Why does she accept that her husband is Dr. Manhattan? This twist just seems so out of nowhere.
Why did Lady Trieu clone her mom, exactly? Did they explain that? I'm gonna guess the answer for this next question is nobody knows, but what is the deal with the Millenium Clock? Also does Lady Trieu seriously have like one employee that isn't her mom-daughter working at her business which is worth over a trillion dollars (I'm referring to that one woman with the hard hat)?
What is the deal with the elephant? Is that supposed to be an elephant in the room joke?
Clair de Lune in that moon scene...really guys?
Does Damon Lindelof only know like the most popular 'adult' pop-culture stuff to directly reference to make his show seem deeper than it is? (Things Fall Apart, Ozymandias, I Don't Want To Set the World On Fire, For Whom the Bell Tolls)
Okay so...Adrian Veidt is on Europa? How? I don't get this stuff at all to be honest. When the Game Warden yanks his back, he like warps back. So was he on that satellite? Where is this idyllic countryside supposed to be? Who is he trying to ask to save him? What is the deal with the fetuses in the river? Why is he making this play? Didn't he purposefully bow out of the public eye in the first place? So how did he end up imprisoned? Maybe my lack of deep familiarity with the source material around Watchmen is hindering me here because I honest to god do not understand what is going on here at all.
So we're in agreement the trap door was goofy as shit, right?
Why does Veidt want Redford in office? He's in whatever-prison so he has like no connection to Earth, so it's not like he can use Redford as a puppet.
Watchmen subreddit just produces
Opening shot of the video store
The elephants are all over Trieu
As far as Silk Swingers:
Also Janey's earings from the comics
There was a copy of Fogdancing in the rack, too. We saw the paperback being read by the egg farmer lady, Mrs. Clark. It's written by Max Shea (pirate comic author) and in the back pages of the GN, it's said to have been made into a movie twice.
True. I also rarely watch the previews because I consider them to be spoilers.
In this case yes, it's been proven someone can block out part of his future sight right? Then you find out he's pretending to be human then set a plan in motion