I'm with you regarding those being pretty poor, yeah. Haven't seen the show in years though.
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Reviews for HBO's Watchmen starring Regina King are out (84 on MC)
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One of my go to reviewers (along with Sepinwall and Matt Zoller) loved it
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so i assume they didn't find out about what he did and he's not in prison
I wouldn't skip the movie. Even though it skips big parts of the book and misses the point of how the final plan is supposed to work. It has some pretty good performances and a great soundtrack, and fun fights.
It's worth watching as a separate work, just read the book first if you can (everyone should)
huh, i havent seen anything about her since she used to write for the av club
the more you know
It's a good thing the showrunner here is Damon Lindelof, who is a well known landing sticker!THR said:
Hopefully Watchmen has higher viewing numbers than Leftovers did so that more people can move on from a 9 year old opinion.
No clear evidence. Only Rorschach's journal. But that's hearsay.
I was worried. The trailer looked unappealing to me. I guess the show actually focuses on the lead characters more than the trailer led on.
The Oregonian Kristi TurnquistOct 15, 2019
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"Watchmen" suffers from the sense that anything can happen at any time, so nothing really matters. ... As with "The Leftovers," the talented cast members do their best to tie together the various portions of the unfocused storyline.
Eat shit, Oregonian.
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"Watchmen" suffers from the sense that anything can happen at any time, so nothing really matters. ... As with "The Leftovers," the talented cast members do their best to tie together the various portions of the unfocused storyline.
Eat shit, Oregonian.
Depends on how detailed Rorschach is in the journal. Payments from Veidt (Pyramid Corp) directly to many folks implicated or otherwise involved? There's a pretty juicy trail of evidence him and Nite-Owl found.
E - not to mention there are living witnesses who might change their minds, Jupiter, Nite Owl, hell Manhattan if it came down to it.
I haven't been following this at all except for the trailers. Are they using the movie or the comic as the basis for the show? From the trailer, I gather than it takes place years after Adrian's plan.
Maybe that's why there's a group that have taken his likeness. To wrong the injustice.
It also doesn't help that he left it with a far right wing rag. Even with a little evidence I could see it being depicted as a far right conspiracy theory.
The comic is canon to the show.
That's my impression, his story got out and at least some people believed it enough to take action.
I'm looking forward to this.. The Boys knocked me on my ass already this year but I still got an appetite for more.
"emotional territory of the leftovers combined with the pop sensibilities of Lost"
IN.
Why are people talking about this like it's a sequel to the comic? I thought it was a reimagining that isn't really connected to the events of the comic?
Seems to be more of a story that takes places in that world, after the events of the comic. All that happened, I think.
Not necessarily a direct sequel 🤷🏿‍♂️
Judging by that tweet, this is the anti- Snyder Watchmen - which sounds good to me.
The comics happened, it takes place 30 years later, characters from the original story are some of main characters here. Lindelof mostly argues about what calling something a "sequel" entails.
Lindelof: "Yes. Look, [the new series] certainly fits into the "sequel" box, and definitely doesn't fit into the "reboot" box. We treat the original 12 issues as canon. They all happened. We haven't done any revisionist history, but we can maneuver in between the cracks and crevices and find new stories there. But for all the reasons you just articulated, we wanted to make sure our first episode felt like the beginning of a new story rather than a continuation of an old story. That's what I think a sequel is — the continuation of an old story."
It's a classic piece of American lit at this point, enjoy it
Don't know if anyone else chimed in yet, but Lindleof said it's written as a self contained sorry that can be continued if it takes.
I'm super excited to see it. And while it may be for all the wrong reasons, it's pretty cool to have a show take place in Tulsa.
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