The first season of HBO's Watchmen is also the final season of Watchmen.
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Watchmen is using Probably Veidt to help catch up non-Watchmen readers on the comic's lore.
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Over thirty years later, HBO's Watchmen is doing the same thing, by upending the foundation of Watchmen itself.
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He also compared the original Watchmen to his Watchmen by saying they are like the Old and New Testaments and that the original is canon.
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And through his revelation, the viewer learns that the ultra-violent squid attack in Watchmen, like everything in Watchmen, means so much more than what it originally seems.
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Emily: Oh, I think a lot of people would rather not see Watchmen continue — including, notably, Lindelof himself, who has said several times that he's told the Watchmen story he wanted to tell.
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For all that, "Watchmen" appears to revel in its impenetrability.
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In 2012, DC Comics launched a prequel series, Before Watchmen.
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Average readers might not notice what makes Watchmen so different.
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Watchmen turned out to be a commercial and critical success.
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Don't fuck it up, Zack Snyder, like you did Watchmen.
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Westworld, Star Trek: Picard, Watchmen, Snowpiercer, and so many more.
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Now we have to watch out for the neighborhood watchmen.
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At a Watchmen pastors briefing in Unionville, N.C., on Oct.
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Damon Lindelof and Regina King expect "Watchmen" to be divisive.
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I'm changing things up for Episode 6 of HBO's Watchmen.
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In the pilot of HBO's Watchmen, the cultural revolution continues.
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But Watchmen doesn't really have enough real estate to wait.
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How will the minds behind Watchmen wrap up this story?
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Guess everyone now knows how many people are watching Watchmen.
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READ MORE: A second season of HBO's 'Watchmen' isn't a sure thing and will depend on how audiences respond to season 1Lindelof has called his "Watchmen" series a "remix" as opposed to a straight adaptation.
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That it somehow manages to do so while radically reconfiguring everything we think we know about both this TV adaptation of Watchmen and the original Watchmen comic more generally is an even more amazing trick.
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The first trailer for Damon Lindelof's adaptation of Watchmen is here.
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The Watchmen graphic novel starts and ends in the same place.
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And particularly from its third episode on, Watchmen is frequently great.
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Watchmen debuts Sunday, October 20, at 9 pm Eastern, on HBO.
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Assigning someone to watch the watchmen is a long-overdue safeguard.
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But "Watchmen" will wrap things up more concretely, according to Lindelof.
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He also co-edited The Watchmen, an iconic comic book tome.
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This article contains spoilers for the sixth episode of HBO's Watchmen.
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A meditation on trauma, Watchmen isn't for the faint of heart.
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For this we also have "Watchmen" to thank, or to blame.
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In a way, "Watchmen" was a victim of its own success.
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But not all Watchmen adaptations have been, uh, quite so successful.
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Watchmen This week filled in the blanks on Angela's origin story.
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Watchmen is making the move from page to screen once again.
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Or did "Space Junk" feel like just another episode of Watchmen?
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We eat dinner while watching the latest episode of The Watchmen.
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Here are some of the most intriguing Watchmen season finale theories.
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HBO&aposs critically acclaimed new series, "Watchmen," was completely shut out.
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There might even have been better shows than Watchmen in 2019.
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But the way we feel about Watchmen, any adaptation of Watchmen, and the rich world of comic books like it, are feelings sparked by our own personal values, perceived hypocrisies and injustices, and barometers of heroism.
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With all the noise around how there'll probably never be a second season of Watchmen this week, I figured I should finally get around to writing about Watchmen since it's been weeks since it wrapped up.
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In the end, Doomsday Clock and HBO's Watchmen are stories that struggle with the legacy of the original Watchmen comic book series even as those inside the stories struggle with the events of the original series.
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First, the color yellow plays an important role in the Watchmen comics.
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The original Watchmen was a story about a world with no options.
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Two episodes into HBO's Watchmen, the show is already brimming with mysteries.
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No doubt, we're all allowed to feel any which way about Watchmen.
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I think Watchmen handles its racial elements well, but you might disagree.
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HBO will attempt to film Alan Moore's classic, "unfilmable" graphic novel, Watchmen.
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It's looking like HBO's take on Watchmen is, in fact, a sequel.
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"Compass" opened a dozen years ago, two years before "Watchmen" hit theaters.
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Damon Lindelof's take on "Watchmen" makes its debut on HBO Sunday night.
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A new adaptation of the graphic novel "Watchmen" is coming to HBO.
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"Watchmen." And I'm almost done with Season 1 of the HBO show.
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"He's a lovely man, I'll tell you that," the Watchmen actor said.
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The first feeling after watching the finale of "Watchmen" is relief. Whew.
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" Absent from this year's Globe nominations, however, was HBO's new show "Watchmen.
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The Watchmen It was original while staying true to the source material.
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In 2019, Watchmen (the comic) was arguably more trouble than it's worth.
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To start, people are showing up in big numbers to watch Watchmen.
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HBO&aposs "Watchmen" was snubbed entirely, failing to gain a single nomination.
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"Watchmen" will have a chance at redemption at the Emmys next year.
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Don't bother getting your hopes up for more Watchmen at this point.
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The first Watchmen teaser is finally here, and it is chaotic and intense.
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The "Watchmen" series is being written and produced by Damon Lindelof ("The Leftovers").
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The Easter eggs inadvertently highlight how different HBO's Watchmen is from the comic.
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Like other superhero stories, Watchmen spins out allegories for our real-world ills.
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That's also the implication of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's original Watchmen comic.
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Lindelof and his team have taken a similar tack for their TV Watchmen.
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Do you think there's any possibility for hope left in the Watchmen world?
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The first couple episodes are disorienting, even if you know the "Watchmen" story.
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That's what the original "Watchmen" did, and that's what we wanted to do.
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What Lindelof's "Watchmen" does illustrate, though, is the enduring sway of the original.
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The original Watchmen, however, are the stuff of legend in the new show.
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Watchmen is going to go beyond Angela's investigation to touch on something big.
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Her debut in HBO's Watchmen makes that apparent with that big blue vibrator.
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All will be revealed on the season finale of Watchmen, airing next Sunday.
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King is also the woman currently leading HBO's flagship high-concept drama, Watchmen.
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As I've been saying all season, I haven't read the original Watchmen comic.
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The choice of which Watchmen characters return for those sequels is also telling.
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Back in May, Lindelof shared on Instagram an open letter to all Watchmen fans.
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This Insta post is the first formal tease HBO's released for the Watchmen series.
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Watchmen Among the show's accumulating mysteries, this episode adds another: Who was Judd Crawford?
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Because Damon Lindelof's new TV series version of Watchmen debuts Sunday night on HBO.
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"Watchmen" has already been turned into a big-budget film by director Zack Snyder.
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King mentioned the upcoming HBO superhero series Watchmen, in which she plays the lead.
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That might sound like a question with an obvious answer: You just do Watchmen.
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When Watchmen was published, it spoke specifically to the time that it was created.
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Lots has been written about how Watchmen is a show about race in America.
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Watchmen on HBO makes that a key theme more obviously than the comic does.
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But sometimes, cybersecurity comes with its own set of problems: who watches the watchmen?
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HBO's adaptation of the classic graphic novel Watchmen is officially coming to small screens.
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"It's nice to don the tights every now and then," the Watchmen actor said.
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Or are you sticking it through to watch the premier or the Watchmen series?
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And in the world of "Watchmen," police officers wear masks to protect their identities.
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But for all those issues, Watchmen remains magnetic in the moment of watching it.
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Watchmen has come back to the cultural fore today through two different sequel works.
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In that, there seems to be a warning that "Watchmen" was wise to heed.
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"Watchmen" also arrived during what, in hindsight, was an annus mirabilis for comic books.
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It's an effective subversion not only of the superhero genre, but of Watchmen itself.
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It may not be subtle, but the message is clear—Watchmen is back, everybody.
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In HBO's Watchmen, the masked crime fighters aren't vigilantes with superpowers, they're grizzled detectives.
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Warning: Light Watchmen spoilers ahead (for both the HBO series and original graphic novel).
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"Watchmen" and "Game of Thrones" were among some of TV's biggest snubs and surprises.
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That's the version that I feel like I'm seeing, via Doctor Manhattan, in Watchmen.
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From Watchmen to Euphoria, Succession to Insecure, do you already love all things HBO?
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"The mainline comics would break your heart, but Watchmen blew your mind," Bernardin says.
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"Watchmen" wasn&apost the only great TV series snubbed by the Globes this year.
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The Watchmen Season 1 finale is all about closure, and it more than delivered.
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It pains me, too, to admit that Watchmen has ... not been growing on me.
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HBO's "Watchmen" creator Damon Lindelof posted in support of the movement on Instagram, saying, "I'm not saying I've seen it, but if I HAD, I would unequivocally support the powers that be to #releasethesnydercut" (Snyder directed the 2009 movie adaptation of "Watchmen").
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Watchmen is primarily concerned with who keeps the people with the most power in check.
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You might wonder whether this sequence is being used to infuse Watchmen with false gravitas.
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I like that Watchmen dares to balance not-unfamiliar contemporary politics with the superhero fantasy.
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I also tossed in some Watchmen, Harry Potter and loads of Game Of Thrones quotes.
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HBO also has a series based on the graphic novel "Watchmen" slated for its service.
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HBO's "Watchmen" TV show from "Lost" and "The Leftovers" cocreator Damon Lindelof premieres October 20.
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The first episode of HBO's "Watchmen" series continues the celebrated story of the graphic novel.
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" Likewise, "Leftovers" co-creator Damon Lindelof is creating an adaptation of the comic books "Watchmen.
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I've never actually seen "Watchmen" before, but they told me not to watch the film.
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A man dressed as Rorschach, a character from "Watchmen," at 703 New York Comic Con.
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"Watchmen" dissected both the characters who did this and the readers — us — who loved them.
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It's both the world that "Watchmen" created and the one that it warned us about.
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HBO's "Watchmen" isn't a remake; Moore has disavowed it, as he did the 2009 film.
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He's the only being in the Watchmen-verse (that we know) who possesses actual superpowers.
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It's far from the most difficult of Watchmen moments when all is said and done.
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In fact, the crew might not even be familiar to fans of the Watchmen comics.
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For one, adapting Watchmen is a big undertaking, so how exactly are they doing this?
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Is it possible Watchmen is trying to explore that theme in more ways than one?
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I listen to the Bald Move Network Watchmen recap podcast, We Do, while I cook.
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In this new Watchmen, superheroes aren't just the purview of thrill-seekers and proto-fascists.
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But HBO's "Watchmen" suggests his crusade is fundamentally righteous — that his brutal work is necessary.
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Watchmen This week revealed the identity of a long-mysterious character from the graphic novel.
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How Veidt's layer factors into the end of Watchmen Season 1 remains to be seen.
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Read on for all of our best guesses at what's really going on with Watchmen.
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But "Watchmen" also asked: What if black people were among the ones wearing the masks?
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This teasing first look, via the official Watchmen Instagram... well, it doesn't tell us much, actually.
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He'll use Watchmen character Rorschach as a central point, which should appeal to comic book readers.
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Lindelof's version of Watchmen would not involve Snyder, Variety says, but instead start again from scratch.
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There is no Western comic book or graphic novel more revered or more discussed than Watchmen.
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But I've already talked a lot about how I feel about Watchmen in my official review.
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In Moore and Gibbons' version of Watchmen, giving someone unrestrained authority is a recipe for disaster.
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"Fans of 'Watchmen' have already seen the material advance beyond the original limited series," he said.
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The Umbrella Academy is a superhero show that sounds more like The Watchmen meets Arrested Development.
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If you're getting on an airplane and need something meaningful, get the infinitely re-readable Watchmen.
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That script ended up becoming the TV series "Watchmen," also for HBO, which debuted on Sunday.
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HBO's "Watchmen" centers on a white supremacist group returning to terrorize the Tulsa, Oklahoma police force.
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Watchmen airs Sundays on HBO and is available to stream on HBO GO or HBO NOW.
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The "Watchmen" rights have bounced from studio to studio, director to director, for over two decades.
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Before Snyder, Paul Greengrass came the closest to getting his vision of "Watchmen" off the ground.
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HBO's "Watchmen" is off to a hot start even before its first episode premieres on Sunday.
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We're still hoping Damon Lindelof will change his mind and turn Watchmen into an anthology series.
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Yet, we're going to talk about this one because, well, it's from the cast of Watchmen.
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"That connects with what I think is the central core of all 'Watchmen' ideology," Lindelof said.
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We're very proud of Watchmen, but what I'm most interested in what Damon wants to do.
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HBO's new Watchmen series is one of the most brilliant and electrifying uses of IP ever.
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Moore retrenched: Captain Atom became Doctor Manhattan, the Question became Rorschach, and the book became Watchmen.
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Phil Armstrong wants the new wave of "Watchmen" curiosity seekers to ponder the post-1921 reality.
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Watchmen has more to say on the subject of cops in the context of racial injustice.
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Watchmen was a phenomenal show that kept fans coming back and discussing what they just watched.
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These are all questions Watchmen has to answer with next week's "Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship."
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There are night watchmen trudging through the snow and a lamplighter with his ladder and lantern.
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"Space Junk" also unveils the ways in which Watchmen connects to creator Damon Lindelof's prior work.
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Moore created the idea of "Watchmen," and Gibbons and Higgins built the world to contain it.
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HBO turned to literary greats to bring you His Dark Materials, Watchmen, and Big Little Lies.
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Where past adaptations have failed, I think HBO's "Watchmen," currently airing in its first season, succeeds.
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For its first four episodes, Watchmen told a relatively chronological story set in the (alternate) present.
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Their work on Watchmen is their best since they started the decade with The Social Network.
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Now, thanks to HBO's Watchmen companion site, Peteypedia, the secret of Lube Man's true identity revealed.
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"Watchmen" invited viewers to imagine a world in which "the superman is real and he's black".
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Somehow, 32 years after the conclusion of the original comic, Watchmen is ending all over again.
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Mr. Moore did not support of the idea and thought Watchmen should stand on its own.
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So in honor of Sunday night's Watchmen premiere, here's an exhaustive and kind-of-sort-of-hopefully definitive breakdown of every reference and wink to the original Watchmen comic, from the extremely obvious blood drips to the brief shots of props in the background and beyond.
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And that was written by Alan Moore, author of Watchmen and master of the dark, gritty reboot.
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It also boasts a network of indigenous watchmen in remote regions and a 1,000-strong commando force.
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Maybe Watchmen, HBO's upcoming adaptation of the beloved deconstruction of comic book heroes, will consume our imaginations.
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On Sunday, the HBO series "Watchmen" recreated the Tulsa Race Riot of 213 in its first episode.
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A Watchmen packed with Easter eggs doesn't show how faithful Lindelof and crew are to the original.
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In Watchmen the series, Lindelof and company constantly let viewers know they're riffing on a past product.
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Left to their own devices, Watchmen tells us, the powerful are capable of some pretty heinous things.
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Also on the docket is a series based on the beloved graphic novel "Watchmen" by Alan Moore.
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One of my favorite things about Watchmen is the amount of detail that's poured into each panel.
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The world of the TV Watchmen is just as cruel as our reality, but in different ways.
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In the case of "Watchmen," it received a score of 98% from critics and 43% from audiences.
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Four watchmen at the building opposite said none of them had seen any police raid that evening.
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Watchmen Agent Laurie Blake knows a few things first-hand about the masked vigilantes she is after.
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HBO's new comic-book-inspired series "Watchmen" is one of the best new shows of the year.
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Reports confirm that OG Watchmen Silk Spectre, Doctor Manhattan, and Ozymandias will all appear at some point.
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How long: ~9 hours over 9 episodes How to watch: Watchmen is now streaming on HBO Now.
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As a fan of "Watchmen," I was like, O.K., Adrian Veidt has to be in the show.
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In HBO's "Watchmen," beginning Sunday, that fissile storytelling material is history: specifically, America's legacy of white supremacy.
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In addition to Watchmen, this has largely consisted of Reznor and Ross's collaborations with director David Fincher.
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The Watchmen premiere, "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice," is a tight hour of television.
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At the end of the episode, though, Laurie gives Watchmen viewers a delicious bit to chew on.
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"Watchmen" began with a simple question of: What would superheroes be like in a credible, real world?
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"Watchmen" has become a bona fide pop cultural phenomenon that fans and critics are equally impressed with.
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"Watchmen," the best TV show of 2019, was completely snubbed from this year&aposs Golden Globes nominations.
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Ten years later, they are scoring Watchmen on HBO, bringing an exciting urgency to the show's action.
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Watchmen was serialized from 1986 to 1987 and became a perennial best seller as a collected edition.
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"I started to think that for 'Watchmen' maybe the more interesting point is to think about masking and authority and policing as an adjunct to superheroes," Lindelof told EW. "In 'Watchmen,' nobody has superpowers — the only super-powered individual is Dr. Manhattan and he's not currently on the planet."
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"Watchmen" In "Watchmen", Damon Lindelof managed something few thought possible: one of the most celebrated novels of all time could be "sequelised" by a different creative team, decades after it was first published, for a different medium and in pursuit of different themes—and still find new highs.
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How Perfect Pieces Make Watchmen a Brilliant Whole Looking at the Future of Comics: Will They Survive Digitization?
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"No one came to us and said, 'Hey, you should do Watchmen in the DC Universe,'" Johns says.
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But one of those things, arguably the most important, was a vague sense of how he's approaching Watchmen.
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But many Americans knew little to nothing about the riots until an episode of the "Watchmen" last year.
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Watchmen is a complete and circular story, set in a grim world where inevitable cataclysm is eternally approaching.
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" Moore uses a different translation of it in the original comic, rendering it as "Who watches the watchmen?
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But in HBO's Watchmen we have a world where what happened in that comic is the status quo.
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Game of Thrones' final season will air this April, and Watchmen is set to premiere later this year.
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The original Watchmen is canon, he says, but the show will neither be a sequel nor a reboot.
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Lindelof himself is a Watchmen fan, but his vision will likely differ from Zack Snyder's 2009 film version.
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Countless movies, including Independence Day and Watchmen, turned to McLaughin when they needed a cameo from a journalist.
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Johns hopes the book is serious and gritty like Watchmen, but he also wanted to inject some humor.
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This comes after the company published, in 2012, Before Watchmen, a series of prequels to the seminal work.
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The script also included an artist's rendition of her as what would become her "Watchmen" character, Sister Night.
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In "Watchmen," this is the same note we saw the child and old man holding in episode one.
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"That would eliminate many problems," Moore said after one of the hosts of the "Aroostook Watchmen" suggested it.
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And by extension, so have most of the other people in the Watchmen universe, including Angela and Laurie.
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He was also a comic book editor, perhaps most notably on DC's pivotal Watchmen series in the 1980s.
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Yet "Watchmen," for all its laurels, has always had a more muted, or at least less profitable, legacy.
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An earlier version of this article misstated how long Richard Nixon was president in the "Watchmen" comic book.
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"Watchmen" works hard to hammer home that racism is bad, but doesn't look deeply into how it works.
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One of the main themes of this new Watchmen, highlighted in last week's episode, centers on transgenerational trauma.
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This Extraordinary Being is illustrative of how and why [showrunner Damon] Lindelof's approach to Watchmen works so well.
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Notable examples include "Banshee" and "Rectify"; current shows like "True Detective" and "Watchmen" share some of the characteristics.
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Near the end of the original Watchmen, a seemingly alien squid materializes right in the middle of Manhattan.
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A harrowing telling of it also opens the HBO series "Watchmen," which brings it to urgent cinematic life.
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What Petey is obliquely referring to, in a meta way, is Laurie's adventures in the Watchmen graphic novel.
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Laurie Blake was not the most powerful, or the most visible, or the most impactful hero in Watchmen.
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It&aposs these small details and nuances that make it so hard to adapt "Watchmen" for the screen.
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And so, across the eight episodes leading up to this finale, Watchmen took a sledgehammer to this foundation.
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But if that's the bar, then where is Sandra Oh for Killing Eve, or Regina King for Watchmen?
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It's the episode where Watchmen newcomers especially finally come to understand who this god-like being really is.
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Regina King, who plays Angela Abar on HBO's "Watchmen," didn't score a nomination despite giving a showstopping performance.
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"Watchmen" is HBO&aposs most popular new series of the year and has received rave reviews from critics.
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"Watchmen&aposs" snub is even more perplexing when you consider what was nominated for best drama series instead.
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Plus, you have to admit Watchmen has a bit of a point when it comes to her narcissism.
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There were understandable temptations to compare "Watchmen" to "Westworld," another sci-fi concept adapted from an existing property.
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To that end, and to Adam's point, Watchmen has definitely hit the point where everything is a clue.
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READ MORE: HBO's 'Watchmen' TV series will tell a completely different story than Zack Snyder's film adaptationLindelof said in a revealing letter to fans on his Instagram last May that he turned down offers to adapt "Watchmen" for TV on two separate occasions before finally accepting when asked a third time.
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Jon joins the other Night's Watchmen in defeating some mutineers who killed Jeor Mormont and took over Craster's Keep.
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A new trailer for Watchmen from San Diego Comic-Con has premiered, building on moments from the first trailer.
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There are references to Dr. Manhattan, and a previous class of vigilante fighters that longtime Watchmen fans will recognize.
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The trailer is also another reminder that Lindelof's Watchmen isn't a direct adaptation of Alan Moore's classic graphic novel.
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Think the ponderous moral ethics and abrupt violence of Zack Snyder's Watchmen adaptation blended with Deadpool's R-rated irreverence.
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But the larger issue with updating Watchmen today is that it now reads as a very deliberate period piece.
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In many ways, its structure resembles an episode of Lost, the show that made Watchmen creator Damon Lindelof's career.
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Just as off base was Zack Snyder's 2009 cinematic interpretation of Watchmen, which received a bevy of mixed reviews.
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There might have been other ways to revisit Watchmen, or at least other voices to tell this particular story.
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That a black woman is our chief hero feels like a crucial grounding point for this version of Watchmen.
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Despite glowing reviews from critics, HBO's adaptation of Watchmen is proving to be divisive among some comic book fans.
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But in Damon Lindelof's Watchmen, those scathing criticisms that Moore embedded into the comic series become impossible to ignore.
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"I also wanted to write about power politics," Moore told Entertainment Weekly in 2005 of the creation of Watchmen.
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Watchmen is based on Alan Moore's iconic comic of the same name, which was released between 1986 and 1987.
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If you're a fan of the classic Alan Moore-penned DC Comics series Watchmen, you already know the answer.
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Related: How Perfect Pieces Make Watchmen a Brilliant Whole Looking at the Future of Comics: Will They Survive Digitization?
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Since HBO wasn't bringing a Watchmen panel to the con, the network must have splashed out on something memorable.
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The scholarly Petey is the inspiration for Peteypedia, HBO's online supplement files for background information on the "Watchmen" universe.
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Watchmen This week showed just how expendable life has become for those rich and powerful enough to manipulate it.
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It's a great standalone story that doesn't require extra knowledge of the existing "Watchmen" canon from Alan Moore's comics.
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One of the biggest themes of "Watchmen" is racial division as a white supremacist group terrorizes a police force.
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If the watchmen are not standing watch, the whole security and law enforcement system in Albania may be compromised.
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Snyder's Watchmen was self-consciously beholden to the source material, but failed to capture the richness of the comics.
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Watchmen was supposed to change the way we think about our heroes, their stories, and their impact on society.
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I don't mean the Keystone Kops antics of the annoying subplot involving the constable Dogberry and his idiotic watchmen.
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"Watchmen" is a first-class entertainment out of the box, immediately creating a sad and wondrous retro-futuristic world.
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With HBO's "Watchmen," Lindelof, the TV auteur who piloted "Lost" and created "The Leftovers," has updated the comic's concerns.
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And this weekend, HBO will debut "The Watchmen," above, a superhero story delving into America's legacy of white supremacy.
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HBO's Watchmen has finally premiered, and those of you who have never read the comic probably have some questions.
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Here's the thing about squid: They're responsible for the single biggest attack on US soil in the Watchmen universe.
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In the fictional world of the original Watchmen comic books, the clock never advanced past five minutes to midnight.
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Hearing that Watchmen is being adapted for TV no doubt raises some questions, especially for fans of the comics.
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That idea started to graft itself in the Watchmen universe and needed to be presented in a responsible way.
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Doctor Manhattan is one of the only Watchmen who has powers that allow him to manipulate space and time.
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" About Watchmen, Bloys specifically said: "It would be hard to imagine doing it without Damon involved in some way.
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HBO's "Watchmen," in other words, is trying to analyze masked vigilantes through the prism of race and racial injustice.
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In HBO's "Watchmen," we're treated to speculation in the form of "American Hero Story," a show within a show.
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Watchmen The story behind Looking Glass and his shiny mask offers a clever subversion of the superhero origin story.
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"Watchmen" is considered by many the best TV show of 2019, but not if you ask the Golden Globes.
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The sixth episode, "This Extraordinary Being," redefined the backstory of the first superhero in "Watchmen&aposs" world, Hooded Justice.
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When we leave Watchmen, the United States of America is presumably about to get a major wake-up call.
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In hindsight, "Watchmen" was wise to introduce its new pieces before peeling back the ties to its deeper mythology.
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A foundational work for comics fans, "Watchmen" is a lurid, freewheeling satire, interrogating the American worship of violent superheroes.
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Correction: Huxley had previously served as an effects artist on Watchmen, not Charlotte's Web and Where the Wild Things Are.
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Inspired by the lettering in Batman and Watchmen comics, he came up with what would be known as Comic Sans.
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His pencils and inks call back to the style of Dave Gibbons' original Watchmen art while also being wholly original.
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Excitement around works like The Dark Knight Returns, Maus, and Watchmen expanded the public's ideas about what comics could achieve.
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The role of the US attorneys is to "watch" the "watchmen" in the other branches, including their own executive branch.
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And Lindelof's new HBO adaptation/reimagining of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' influential superhero graphic novel Watchmen is coming soon.
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The edition comes with an excellent preface from Watchmen author Alan Moore and with some stunning art from Dan Hillier.
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Unlike Zack Snyder's divisive 2009 film adaptation of Watchmen, Lindelof isn't looking to re-create Moore's world panel by panel.
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A Watchmen sequel was, by definition, never going to reproduce that sense of a world that couldn't support a sequel.
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Watchmen takes the simple idea of a superhero and forces us to examine why we're so drawn to that fantasy.
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But Rorschach in Watchmen is a repugnant, egotistical nihilist, a hateful, paranoid vigilante who constantly puts himself above the law.
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Moore and Gibbons's Watchmen was so groundbreaking that it also shifted the point-of-view in superhero stories in general.
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The notion of power is a core theme of Watchmen, the show and (to my understanding!) the original comic too.
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Watchmen currently has a 46 percent audience approval score on Rotten Tomatoes, compared to its 19213 percent critic approval rating.
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The first footage from HBO's upcoming Watchmen series and Game of Thrones' final season aired during tonight's Golden Globe awards.
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He said many Maasai watchmen have also been exploited by police who arrest them on fraudulent charges and demand money.
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But this approach didn't work as well on Watchmen, where the divide between text and subtext was the whole point.
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The Dr. Manhattan vibrator made waves — figuratively but also presumably literally — when it debuted on HBO's Watchmen a week ago.
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I admit I don't know much about Watchmen — the comic book series, the 2009 film, or the new HBO series.
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The series brings "Watchmen" into the near-future, centering the narrative around racial division and the rise of white supremacy.
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Is that a reference to "Tales of the Black Freighter" [a comic within the "Watchmen" comic, whose two narratives intertwine]?
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The third episode of Watchmen offers some hints the present state of their relationship, but not what led to it.
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He is, essentially, an MCU superhero, except Watchmen recognizes his monstrosity for what it is, a uniquely American paternalistic pathology.
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Watchmen on the Wall, a group organized by the Family Research Council, brings pastors together in Washington and other places.
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From HBO's Watchmen to The Social Network andGone Girl, their soundtracks have constituted some of the best of the 2010s.
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Watchmen This week's episode asked: If you knew when and how a relationship would end, would you take the plunge?
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Watchmen This week's episode asked: If you knew when and how a relationship would end, would you take the plunge?
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The massacre drew renewed attention in October when the HBO series "Watchmen" opened with a depiction of the racist violence.
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Since the debut of "Watchmen," Greenwood has become a destination for celebrities hoping to see the real Black Wall Street.
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By the end of the third episode, Watchmen has started to lean in on the original comic with more specificity.
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Where the earlier show started out as a trimmed-down adaptation of existing books, Watchmen is more like a sequel.
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This is a direct reference to one of the more well-known Watchmen comic characters, the costumed vigilante called Rorschach.
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" A sense of dread hangs over the series premiere of HBO's Watchmen, "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice.
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Since Watchmen spends its premiere proving the human world mostly lacks superpowers, it seems impossible Mike used any psychic abilities.
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At the end of Watchmen, she is in a romantic relationship with Dan Dreiberg, and both have assumed fake identities.
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From its inception, "Watchmen" had one objective: to create a work that can only be achieved by the comic medium.
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"Watchmen" might have been the year's most audacious undertaking, delicately erecting a new mythology on top of an existing source.
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In the meantime, I'm left thinking of the superb HBO series Watchmen, which is now late into its first season.
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The last shot we see of Angela, and Watchmen season 1, shows her testing out her walk-on-water capabilities.
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Those are sensitive questions for "Watchmen" to answer later — no doubt with a vigor that feels just short of reckless.
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Although King's performance (and the show as a whole) has been widely praised, neither King nor "Watchmen" scored any nominations.
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Later this year, HBO will also release adaptations of two fantasy/sci-fi classics, "His Dark Materials" and "The Watchmen".
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Recent examples like Watchmen and The Mandalorian make a strong case for the value of week-to-week episodic programming.
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What's certain is that the Veidt storyline is where Watchmen gets to burn off all its excess comic book energy.
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It's not the first time that Watchmen — written by Alan Moore, with art by Dave Gibbons — has been adapted for screen.
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Watchmen was never meant to be a regular superhero comic book, and it made its intentions clear right from the jump.
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The covers for all 12 issues of Watchmen — released just over 30 years ago, from 22015 to 22000 — balk at this.
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Watchmen takes place in a world where white supremacist types are killing cops rather than infiltrating their ranks in insidious ways.
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With Go Set a Watchmen on its way, it seemed a poignant time for my 25th re-read of the original.
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For comparison, notable R-rated films of the same genre, 300 (2007) and Watchmen (2009), earned $70.9 and $55.2 million respectively.
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The fifth chapter of HBO's Watchmen takes us right to the end of the comic, and reveals how it all happened.
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The fourth chapter of HBO's Watchmen finally introduces the elusive Lady Trieu and contains some major revelations about the ongoing story.
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A second season of HBO's "Watchmen," which debuts October 20, depends on the audience's reaction, according to series creator Damon Lindelof.
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Here we see the brooding Batman and the idealistic Superman in a mash-up from the director of "Watchmen," Zack Snyder.
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Earlier this year she quoted a line from Alan Moore's "Watchmen" in a tweet, to the joy of comic-book fans.
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This game-changing bombshell changes the trajectory of Watchmen entirely, and it also alters the original, 33-year-old graphic novel.
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"Watchmen" explains much of that history eventually, but at first Lindelof dumps newbies into this strange ocean like so many squidlings.
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Have you been wondering what happened to Regina King after she stepped into that pool in the season finale of Watchmen?
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The name "Rorschach" is also known in pop culture because of its connection to the Watchmen vigilante of the same name.
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Even HBO's relatively straightforward sequel to Watchmen features an entire storyline that takes place several years before the series proper begins.
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Watchmen Damon Lindelof's provocative "remix" of the beloved comic finished the season with confidence, completeness and no shortage of stylistic bravado.
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While Watchmen is a fictional adaptation of comic books about masked superheroes, the HBO series, which premieres Sunday at 221 p.m.
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But, while the focus is a crop of new characters, the series does pretty heavily reference the Watchmen that came before.
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The first Watchmen character who will appear in the television show is Adrian Veidt who also goes by Ozymandias (Jeremy Irons).
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The first big change to Laurie in the HBO Watchmen series is that the character is now going by Laurie Blake.
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Watchmen has gained a whole new fan base since the 1986 graphic novel series was adapted for HBO earlier this year.
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At a time when it's impossible for a new show to break through the noise of Peak TV, King's Watchmen has.
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Shows like Succession and Watchmen and Stumptown asked viewers to keep coming back, to make the time for them each week.
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"It's time to come out of the tunnel," Angela Abar says, pushing an already great episode of Watchmen toward the transcendent.
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When I found out Watchmen wasn't working for you, I was so sad, because it very much was working for me.
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Sometimes HBO reminds us, in the best way possible, that its take on Watchmen is a comic book show after all.
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In Watchmen, the United States won the Vietnam War, and the country became part of the United States as a result.
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And to witness how his relationship with Angela draws her explicitly into the Watchmen canon while preserving her own unique storyline?
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Courtesy of HBO The new HBO series Watchmen is a superhero show that deals with serious themes of race and trauma.
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But also some news about Watchmen—and, interestingly, about a new team-up between Leslie Jones, David Benioff, and D.B. Weiss.
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For fans of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' 1986 comic book series Watchmen, this week is a strange moment in time.
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What if, for the rest of time, Watchmen occasionally cut to Jeremy Irons trying to break free of outer space imprisonment?
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But this also allows Watchmen to create an episode almost completely untethered from its own reality — notice how the title flips from Watchmen to Minutemen at the start, to signify we're going back to the dawn of this franchise's chronology — while nevertheless checking in on the present timeline via Laurie intruding on the flashback at particularly strange moments.
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Lindelof, who also created Lost and The Leftovers, has spoken publicly about fan concern that Watchmen will do injustice to Moore's work.
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But one thing seems clear to me: Lindelof got to make Watchmen because he's Damon Lindelof, of Lost and The Leftovers fame.
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Regardless of how one feels about what Veidt did, his giant alien squid attack and the coverup happened in HBO's Watchmen universe.
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The duality of the self is something this Watchmen is hugely interested in, as we saw with its use of deep Oklahoma!
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Watchmen hinted that it wouldn't be anything like the superhero comics status quo before a reader even started leafing through an issue.
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Part of the joy of Watchmen is in seeing how it borrows elements from the comic to completely invent its own story.
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But they are a big part of what I like about Watchmen so far and why I'm eager to jump back in.
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Moore even purposely set Watchmen in an alternate timeline, because he was afraid that people might be too hung up its politics.
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Watchmen is over 30 years old now but keeps popping up for screen adaptation in an era saturated with comic book media.
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Then he explained how Watchmen, his 2009 film, is about the gritty reality of superheroes — in no uncertain, or family-friendly, terms.
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Like both the Dark Knight Joker and the Watchmen villain, Lex likes forcing other people into conflict to make his philosophical points.
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Watchmen showrunner Damon Lindelof and episode co-writer Cord Jefferson's decision to make Will Hooded Justice makes for a more sorrowful story.
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The Family Research Council, for example, runs "pastor briefings" through its organization Watchmen on the Wall, which claimed 28,000 members in 2014.
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CreditCreditVincent Tullo for The New York Times The chapters of "Watchmen" are marked by illustrations of a clock ticking toward an apocalypse.
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Yet as we look back from our current, superhero-saturated moment, "Watchmen" stands out as the most influential comic of them all.
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It's a tricky recipe that's likely to either please both "Watchmen" superfans and curious viewers or disappoint them equally for different reasons.
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HBO's Watchmen arrived at the end of 2019 and turned out to be a show that fully encapsulates this decade in entertainment.
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Watchmen, the HBO spin on that title, is a story about trauma: the kinds we share and the kinds we suffer alone.
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Their ideology is inspired by Rorschach, a character who died in the original Watchmen, even though he wasn't a known white supremacist.
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But what makes "Watchmen" the greatest comic book ever written isn&apost what&aposs on the page, but the people behind it.
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Originally titled "Who Killed the Peacemaker?" from the Charlton Comics character that inspired The Comedian, "Watchmen" is constructed as a murder mystery.
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The Watchmen comics are celebrated because they challenged popular notions about superheroes and comics, changing our perceptions of what they could be.
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We're one episode and one hour away from the moment when credits roll on the Episode 9 season finale of HBO's Watchmen.
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Watchmen now has a really tight core ensemble of Regina King, Jean Smart, Tim Blake Nelson, Louis Gossett Jr., and Jeremy Irons.
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"Joker" and "Watchmen" have been praised for the innovative ways in which they use superhero narratives to confront oligarchy and white supremacy.
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" Lara Elena Donnelly on Watchmen and race: "My friend Andrew has an essay on his blog about black men in horror movies.
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I'm excited to see where Watchmen takes us on these paths now that some stories are starting to converge a bit more.
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But the original Civil War, released 20 years after Watchmen, focused specifically on the effect a hero's actions could have on others.
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Ideally, it needs to not be seen as blasphemous to the millions of comic book fans who view Watchmen as a sacred text.
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HBO has been releasing little glimpses of its adaptation of the classic graphic novel "Watchmen," but now we've got a full teaser trailer.
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Another new show that HBO brought to Comic-Con was its upcoming "remix" of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's classic graphic novel Watchmen.
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HBO's slate of big-budget shows in the coming years now includes adaptations of "The Time Traveller's Wife", "His Dark Materials" and "Watchmen".
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It's the second try for HBO, which began discussing a Watchmen series with Zack Snyder in 2015, who directed the 2009 film adaptation.
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Nuth envisions a well-defended planet Earth outfitted with "observer spacecraft," which, like watchmen, keep their eyes peeled for dangerous near Earth objects.
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Also, Avengers: Endgame is still dominating the box office, and we have new trailers for HBO's Watchmen series and It Chapter Two. Enjoy!
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Just in case that Watchmen trailer wasn't chilling enough, here's a new trailer of It Chapter Two that'll likely make your skin crawl.
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None of the Watchmen-style back and forth across time that made readers sympathetic to Dr. Manhattan, no Kubrickian vision in trippy colors.
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You may recognize this as the iconic button worn by the Comedian in Watchmen – arguably the most notable graphic novel of all time.
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We examine how HBO's series "Watchmen" and Bong Joon Ho's film "Parasite" bring to light the hidden histories that shape our modern lives.
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But the manager insists that, as in the past, he will somehow find jobs for everyone—as drivers or even watchmen if necessary.
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One of those arrested was a police officer in Macaé, while two others were pipeline watchmen hired by state-run Petrobras' subsidiary Transpetro.
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Creator Damon Lindelof cites a Ta-Nehisi Coates article about reparations as one of the reasons 'Watchmen' focuses so much on US racism
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He was one of the Night's Watchmen who we see in that very first cold-open shot, where they're ranging beyond the Wall.
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The second episode of HBO's "Watchmen" revealed some surprising plot twists, interesting cameos, and was packed with Easter eggs referencing the original comics.
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This is likely a reference to "Tales of the Black Freighter," a fictional comic within the "Watchmen" comic about a ghost pirate ship.
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But if a well-constructed, skillfully drawn setting was the extent of its genius, Watchmen would not have the place it does today.
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HBO reportedly tried to get Snyder onboard for a Watchmen TV series back in 2014, but it fell apart in the early stages.
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Leder told Business Insider that Lindelof approached her about potentially directing and producing his new HBO series, "Watchmen," but she had to pass.
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Allegra: I've become increasingly "spoiled" on the original Watchmen comic in my weeks-long quest to grasp what's happening on the TV show.
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Though he isn't a main character in Watchmen, Hooded Justice is considered the superhero that started the era of masked and caped crusaders.
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In the case of "Watchmen," the producers were able to craft one satisfying arc that came together in the end, then leave it.
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Daniel Greaves, a Winnipeg native and the lead singer of the band the Watchmen, opened the bar in 2011 to showcase live music.
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The original was pretty male-heavy — it was called "Watchmen," after all — but the show is driven largely by women, starting with Angela.
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"Watchmen" echoes some of America's societal ills, and things like "Joker" have been condemned recently for doing so irresponsibly, according to its critics.
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It's been about 30 years since the events of Alan Moore's 1986 graphic novel "Watchmen," which was adapted into a movie in 2009.
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On a late morning in October 2018, I attended a Pastors' Briefing sponsored by Watchmen on the Wall, an affiliate of the FRC.
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The Watchmen premiere tosses you right in, sparing little time to explain the forces that shaped this alternate timeline version of our world.
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Doctor Manhattan is the only being in the Watchmen-verse to possess actual superpowers, but there are other costumed crimefighters in this world.
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The Watchmen premiere introduces Jeremy Irons' character without actually naming him, though his character's identity was confirmed long before the show even premiered.
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Damon Lindelof's sequel series to the landmark 1980s graphic novel Watchmen finally hit HBO on Sunday, and, good lord, it did not disappoint.
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"Fleabag" season two was one of just three shows he gave a nod to (along with Netflix&aposs "Unbelievable" and HBO&aposs "Watchmen").
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Watchmen drops us directly into the horrifying carnage of the massacre through the perspective of one young Black family desperate to get out.
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HBO programming chief Casey Bloys told USA Today that they'd only be interested in making more Watchmen if Lindelof wanted to do it.
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While he hasn't yet appeared in the HBO series, Doctor Manhattan is one of the most recognizable characters from the Watchmen graphic novel.
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As HBO's dystopian superhero drama Watchmen nears its season finale, showrunner Damon Lindelof has started tying together some of the show's many storylines.
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In the premiere of Watchmen, "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice," we see Seventh Kavalry members stockpiling buckets of watch batteries.
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Long before scoring Watchmen, Reznor and Ross' band Nine Inch Nails joined Bowie's 1995 tour, in a creative partnership neither act saw coming.
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But now that Watchmen has aired (and has become such a massive hit for HBO) it sounds like Lindelof is open to more.
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Which is to say: In the moral universe of Watchmen, is it impossible to have god-like powers and still be ethically good?
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But there was no show I felt more evangelical about this year than Watchmen, no show I pressed as fervently on other people.
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To be alive in the world of Watchmen — maybe just to be alive in the world — requires a long memory and impossible resiliency.
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In HBO's Watchmen, the god-like blue man Dr. Manhattan opines about how he could create life inside of a common chicken egg.
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Jennifer: "Watchmen," the series on HBO that just completed its run in December 2019, is a hard look at American history — and mythology.
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Watchmen the show was all too aware of the most obvious failings of Watchmen the comic—it's too white, it's too male—and addressed those criticisms by centering the show on women and people of color; it asked questions about the power structures of the original comic, and also of the real world, and dared to imagine better alternatives than most.
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Watchmen like him are so ubiquitous in India, guarding everything from offices to homes and stores to factories, that their presence goes almost unnoticed.
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Instead, Lindelof's take is set within the world Moore created, using central Watchmen character Rorschach as a way to springboard into a new era.
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As a sequel set in the same world as the original comic, the Watchmen series broadly references the original in plot and world-building.
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And DC published the three comic series that are often heralded as the greatest of all time: Watchmen, Sandman, and The Dark Knight Returns.
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Moore and Gibbons's conceit of Watchmen was to manipulate the heightened genre of superhero comic books to tell a story about our flawed world.
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Despite how much Watchmen bucked comic book trends at the time, it had the weight of one of the medium's biggest names behind it.
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And in many ways, Watchmen seems like an attempt to blend the existentially weighty themes of The Leftovers with the poppier tones of Lost.
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She turned in a titanic piece of TV acting in that season, but Watchmen gives her something just as rich to dig in to.
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Tony Dagradi, an artist and jazz musician, showed sculptures made out of remixed mass media books, like Readers' Digest Atlas, Batman comics, and Watchmen.
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The landscape is surveyed 24 hours a day by a rotating cast of armed watchmen who climb into a fire tower with broken windows.
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Then Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons threw in truly adult sex, violence, and political themes, including mass murder, in their seminal 1986 series Watchmen.
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Business Insider was given a draft of the script written by Nick Cuse and Damon Lindelof (creator of HBO series "The Leftovers" and "Watchmen").
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In Lindelof's "Watchmen" show, which takes place nearly 30 years after the events of the novel, vigilantes are outlawed and police officers wear masks.
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Leaving that thorny issue of creators' rights aside, Watchmen exists as its own cultural entity, claiming attention for itself with some provocative subject matter.
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In my home country, Indonesia, many towns organize their own groups of citizen police, like the watchmen who make rounds from nightfall until dawn.
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So I was wondering what your thoughts were on the place surveillance, or "watching the watchmen," has in a "post-truth" kind of world?
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Former DC Entertainment president Diane Nelson and HBO's "Watchmen" creator Damon Lindelof also posted to social media in support of the movement on Sunday.
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Watchmen isn't supposed to be about hero worship, Moore argued, but rather the dangers of it and of abdicating personal responsibility to said heroes.
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I sometimes have to wonder if Watchmen delights in this sort of extreme violence for extreme violence's sake, even if there are meaningful ramifications.
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For comparison, the "Westworld" season three debut was 24% higher than "The Outsider's" premiere and 13% higher than the "Watchmen" debut, according to Variety.
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Some customers stop in to bury themselves in the familiar panels of Batman or "Watchmen," and there's often a hole where "Persepolis" copies stand.
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Once more, they were evacuating their neighborhood — consigning it not to the flames this time, but to the night watchmen at the construction sites.
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Watchmen's sixth episode, "This Extraordinary Being," unleashed a barrage of twists and turns that turned the episode and the world of Watchmen inside out.
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Masks are big in Watchmen, with everyone from the white supremacists who follow Rorschach wearing his mask to the police who are all masked.
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Allegra: No. Sometimes a story needs to end sooner rather than later, and I think Watchmen did a fine job wrapping itself up here.
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I came away thinking that what Hooded Justice's backstory means for the Watchmen comic was meant to be an integral part of the reveal.
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By the end, it feels like eggs are a central element to Watchmen, solidifying the egg as an incredibly important symbol of the year.
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After seeing the amazing cliffhanger on last Sunday's season finale of Watchmen, it's hard to imagine HBO wouldn't want to make a second season.
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On Sunday evening, HBO's Watchmen—at once a sequel to, and response to, that original comic—aired the final episode of its first season.
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Today, the final issue of DC's Doomsday Clock, the 12-part comic book miniseries that combined the Watchmen and DC Universe characters, hits shelves.
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One thing is clear, if purposefully left unstated by both: The original Watchmen was more right than it could have known, three decades earlier.
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Instead, "Watchmen" leaves us at the electric moment of transformation — the precise instant when foot meets water, flesh meets the elemental, mortality meets immortality.
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Just writing that previous paragraph underscores what a huge task bringing "Watchmen" to the screen entailed, as Zack Snyder discovered directing the 2009 movie.
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Cruz is famous for his love of geek culture—he can enthuse at length about Watchmen and give an impromptu recital of The Princess Bride.
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Alan Moore's Watchmen is a step closer to being adapted once more, this time by Lost and The Leftovers creator Damon Lindelof at the helm.
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There's absolutely no need to read Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's 12-issue graphic novel to understand what's going on in HBO's new Watchmen series.
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In fact, most of the graphic novel is equally homaged and spoofed with Watchmen having its own show within a show, called American Hero Story.
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So I want to ask you both, to finish here: Do you wish HBO's version of Watchmen was a bit more traditionally comic book-y?
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But in this iteration of Watchmen, they also have the power of anonymity, which grants them a terrifying kind of authority that can't be challenged.
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Films like Tron, Watchmen, Highlander, and Her will all vanish at the end of the month, so you know where you should putting your attention.
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Six of them are adaptations, and four of those adaptations are of comics — his breakthrough hit 300, Watchmen, Man of Steel, and Batman v Superman.
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This fight scene nicely encapsulates what I'm talking about: On the page, Watchmen has made a number of "best books of the 20th century" lists.
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Each year, the committee uses around 1,600 kg (3,500 lb) of the rice to pay the watchmen and committee secretary; everyone else works for free.
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Most eyes seem to be on Watchmen, a re-imagining of the famed comic book series written by Alan Moore that's coming in fall 2018.
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Institutional constraints on superhero activity have been controversial ever since 1977, when America's Keene Act took up the question of who would watch the Watchmen.
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I'm leaving Shea's Veidt connection for another day, but Episode 4 also introduces Lady Trieu – one of the show's new contributions to the Watchmen universe.
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Linking to an article featuring the Democrats' worries, the New York Democrat shrugged off the criticism with a line from Alan Moore's "Watchmen" graphic novel.
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Nicole Kassell, a director and executive producer of HBO's "Watchmen," talked to Business Insider about why she was eager to take on the TV series.
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"I felt like we wouldn't be deconstructing the superhero myth because all the characters in Watchmen are just humans who play dress up," Lindelof continued.
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A psychic backgammon player, Eleanor Roosevelt's other great love, Eisenhower's Middle East crisis, and a massive new novel by the author of "Watchmen," Alan Moore.
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The same people charged with researching the effects of legislation for members of Congress could also serve as watchmen for problems that demand congressional action.
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In the 1990s, Terry Gilliam was attached to direct a "Watchmen" adaptation from a script by Sam Hamm, who wrote Tim Burton's 1989 "Batman" film.
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The boy then wakes up with a blood splash across his forehead, resembling the iconic blood splash from the cover of the "Watchmen" graphic novel.
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After an initial outing at the Meadows Museum in Dallas, they've arrived at the Frick Collection, where they ring a single gallery like benevolent watchmen.
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"Watchmen," by Alan Moore, along with Joe Sacco's reports from the front line, R. Crumb's "The Book of Genesis," and a few other graphic novels.
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Watch: HBO's "Watchmen," based on the 1980s comics series, premieres on Sunday and is first-class entertainment right out of the gate, our critic writes.
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When the 12-part comic book series "Watchmen" came out in 1986 and 1987, it upended the traditional idea of what a superhero could be.
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The history of failed attempts at taking Watchmen to the big screen dates back to the early 1990s, when Terry Gilliam was attached to direct.
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Most recently, "Watchmen," based on the iconic graphic novel of the same name, has garnered praise from critics, with a 97% Rotten Tomatoes critic score.
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The success of "Watchmen" is a good sign for HBO as its parent company, WarnerMedia, prepares to launch the streaming service HBO Max next year.
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In the face of a potentially very angry fanbase, Lindelof is dedicated to updating Watchmen to be as inclusive as what current superhero culture dictates.
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While it's inspired by the 1986 graphic novel series, the new HBO show Watchmen is said to only include three characters from the source material.
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And true to form, as seen in her last panel in Watchmen, she carries a gun now and, by the way, is an excellent shot.
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Watchmen, after all, takes place in an alternate history, and many of the political figures in our reality appear in Watchmen's version, albeit with changes.
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If Gibbons and Higgins showed the possibility of comics as a respectable art form, it was "Watchmen" writer Alan Moore who elevated them to literature.
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From everything to modern hip hop to romantic 1950s ballads to classical music, click through to see the best songs from season one of Watchmen.
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That evening features not just one hour of a series derived from a transformational superhero comic book of the 1980s—Watchmen, on HBO—but two.
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It's a potent combination of elements that could well blow up in Watchmen's face, but that seems to be where this version of Watchmen thrives.
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" Anthony Ha on the Watchmen finale: "The structure of the finale is that Lady Trieu is essentially the 'big bad,' which I found very unsatisfying.
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So, years later, when I visited Kolkata I asked a journalist friend about the watchmen, half expecting him to say it was all a legend.
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After Watchmen, many comics thought they needed to hunker down and bet big on characters with lives, with families, with drug problems, and so on.
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In the cold open, we see Archie in his Watchmen-style hood cuffing children to cars to keep them from getting into larger criminal trouble.
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That episode will differ for every single audience member, but I (Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff) am totally unsurprised that "She Was Killed By Space Junk" is the episode where so many of my fellow TV critic pals, regardless of whether they've read the comics the series is based on or not, went from guardedly optimistic about Watchmen to all in on Watchmen.
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The original Watchmen was a comic book series that redefined what superhero comics could be, and in Doomsday Clock, writer Geoff Johns created a story that made that subtext text: Dr. Manhattan, the omniscient blue nude that dominates the original Watchmen, has visited the DC universe of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman and, unbeknownst to everyone, changed its history to create a colder, more violent world.
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Watchmen on duty that night reportedly saw a flash of light coming from the first floor before the fire began to consume the building at 22016pm.
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On the TV front, the streaming service will deliver new episodes of Catherine the Great and Watchmen, as well as the premiere of His Dark Materials.
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The second chapter of HBO's Watchmen has arrived, and with it comes a whole new set of revelations that link the show back to the comics.
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Robert Redford, whose presidential campaign was just getting started at the end of the Watchmen comic, has been president in the series for some 30 years.
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Watchmen is about how even heroes (and in Dr. Manhattan's case, even god-like beings) can be stuck in the boxes the world creates for them.
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He says new series like Euphoria, Watchmen, The Nevers, and His Dark Materials will also continue to carry the network forward in a post-Westeros world.
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Emily: I, for one, hope Watchmen gradually just becomes an intimate character piece that takes place in a world where a blue man lives on Mars.
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Watchmen takes place in a similar but alternate 1985 where Richard Nixon is still president and superheroes, except for ones employed by the government, are outlawed.
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And in a reflection of Moore and Gibbons's Watchmen, she is unexpectedly drawn into a mystery that connects to a massive conspiracy she can barely comprehend.
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So we set Watchmen in a world where Nixon was in his fourth term because you're not going to get much argument that Nixon was scum!
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HBO's sizzle reel also included a first real look at its upcoming Watchmen series, which is being handled by The Leftovers and Lost creator, Damon Lindelof.
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My only 2288 books that month included the truly horrendous Go Set a Watchmen, which proved the perfection of Mockingbird but still felt like a waste.
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A Reuters reporter who went to the office briefly spoke to three watchmen working at the Sifa Towers building, who denied there had been a raid.
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Of course, that brings us to the great question first posed by the Roman satirical poet Juvenal some 2000 years ago: Who will watch the watchmen?
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Other writers and artists in the mid-1980s were changing the way superheroes were perceived, too, most notably Alan Moore, whose "Watchmen" debuted later in 1986.
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HBO's new series "Watchmen" begins with a cold open showing the real historical event known as the Tulsa Race Massacre or the Tulsa Riot of 1921.
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HBO's first comic-book TV series, "Watchmen," debuts October 20 and it's already receiving praise after its pilot premiered at New York Comic Con on Friday.
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Damon Lindelof, the creator of HBO's "Watchmen," told Entertainment Weekly that the series isn't quite the deconstruction of the superhero genre that Amazon's "The Boys" is.
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Narrator: In episode four of HBO's "Watchmen," there were numerous subtle references to the original graphic novel, and even a shoutout to the Man of Steel.
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Narrator: The second episode of HBO's "Watchmen" included a few shocking plot twists and was packed with many more Easter eggs referencing the original graphic novel.
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Moore the comic creator of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell, is also a novelist (Voice of the Fire, and the upcoming Jerusalem), musician, and magician.
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Taking place 34 years after the events of the original, the first episode of "Watchmen" has numerous references and subtle allusions to the 1986 graphic novel.
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The film and television side is packed with comic-book adaptations ("Watchmen"), horror ("The Haunting of Hill House"), thrillers ("Karen Sisco") and sci-fi ("Wayward Pines").
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Moore and Gibbons's Watchmen is a multigenerational saga about a handful of men and women who have donned costumes to fight crime since the late 1930s.
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Normally this wouldn't deter a network from continuing on with a successful show, and Lindelof even gave HBO his blessing to make more Watchmen, but nope.
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ARTS & LEISURE An article on Page 23622 about a new adaptation of the graphic novel "Watchmen" misstates how long Richard Nixon was president in the book.
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ARTS & LEISURE An article on Page 8003 about a new adaptation of the graphic novel "Watchmen" misstates how long Richard Nixon was president in the book.
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Watchmen doesn't hold your hand or feed into your expectations of what a police state-turned-liberal haven where Robert Redford is president might look like.
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The TV ad we see in the premiere for a show called American Hero Story directly references some of the main characters of Watchmen (the comic).
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If the White House has its way, soon fewer people might be watching the watchmen - and some observers fear that could lead to more corporate fraud.
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And it&aposs their collaboration that ultimately made "Watchmen" the masterpiece it is today, shown most obviously by the book&aposs use of symbols and imagery.
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Fans of the comic books had been wondering who the Watchmen would be since before it aired and slowly all were revealed but one: Doctor Manhattan.
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Thankfully, we're not going in completely blind — ahead, five things that we know for sure (or can at least guess) before the season finale of Watchmen.
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In this week's episode of "Watchmen," the show pulls back the hood on one of the story's most elusive figures, the brutal vigilante called Hooded Justice.
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The fallout from his actions affects the characters in "Watchmen," but their impact on society is beyond the scope of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's book.
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None of the Watchmen beyond Dr. Manhattan have real superpowers, but Looking Glass is defined by his weakness and vulnerability, which are not traditionally heroic qualities.
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"Watchmen" is inspired by its graphic-novel source material, which may have turned off the group that votes on the Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
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Angela, who seemed to be drawn slowly but surely into the world of Watchmen over the course of several episodes, was always way ahead of us.
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Superheroes might not exist in this world, but as extraordinary feats go, "Watchmen" is shaping up to be one of this TV season's most impressive accomplishments.
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The director of comic-book adaptations like "300" and "Watchmen," Snyder kicked things off with the 2013 "Man of Steel," which cast Henry Cavill as Superman.
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But the series soured his relationship with DC Comics, who retained control over the characters, and who in 2012 rolled out a companion series, Before Watchmen.
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In the end, "Watchmen" returned to the subject of power: Who holds it, who can be trusted with it and what should be done with it.
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But "Watchmen" is also suspicious of those, like Veidt and Lady Trieu, who want to use power to impose their idea of good on the world.
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Later this year, HBO will debut a much-anticipated drama based on the comic book series "Watchmen" and adapted by the "Leftovers" co-creator Damon Lindelof.
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Watchmen on duty that night reportedly saw a flash of light coming from the first floor before the fire began to consume the building at 7pm.
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Watchmen isn't coming until fall, so you can't exactly watch it this summer—but get ready, because that one is gearing up to be a massive hit.
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"The watchman has become a symbol of the country's nationalism," he said, equating everyone from teachers and doctors to watchmen guarding the country in their own way.
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It's 1992 in the Watchmen universe, seven years after the disaster Ozymandias caused in order to bring about world peace — and his scheme has been found out.
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The first trailer for Damon Lindelof's HBO take on The Watchmen universe has arrived, and with it are some callbacks to the original Alan Moore graphic novel.
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So much of "Watchmen" is about upending our assumptions, though, that it's worth acknowledging what we've actually learned, just to have one foot planted on terra firma.
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The latter, much like HBO's "Watchmen," will seek to transform an underperforming movie based on a popular comic book into, it's hoped, another shade of streaming green.
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Watchmen and Man of Steel director Zack Snyder was back in the news this week, defending his decision to have Batman kill people in Batman v. Superman.
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The 12th and final issue of Watchmen displays a bloody Doomsday Clock on its cover, and it's counted down all the way to midnight, signaling an armageddon.
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What I (Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff) like about this episode is the way it makes sure that Watchmen remains slippery and hard to pin down.
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It is widely considered one of the most shocking acts of racial violence in American history, and it's core to what Watchmen is saying about America today.
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Given that George R.R. Martin has compared the fire-spewing dragons in his stories to our world's atomic weapons, that makes Watchmen an even more apt comparison.
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Snyder has always been a graphic visual stylist, giving films like 300, Watchmen, and Sucker Punch a visceral weight to go with the distinctively garish digital sheen.
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Although Watchmen is a DC Comics property, its writer Alan Moore has been at loggerheads with the company for years, and the worlds have never collided before.
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They are also working with ARG company Alice & Smith, known for their persistent alternate reality game The Black Watchmen, to orchestrate the roleplays and in-person meetups.
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Weekend watchmen were outwitted by thieves who drilled through the walls or otherwise broke into the storerooms to extricate prized crates of garlic worth thousands of dollars.
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Written by Alan Moore and drawn by Dave Gibbons, Watchmen applied a realistic psychological and sociological lens to the idea of superhumans in an unprecedentedly holistic way.
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Lively also cofounded a group in Latvia called "Watchmen on the Walls" that has been known to attack queer people, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Back in 2008, Snyder gave a revealing interview to Entertainment Weekly about how he sees comic books, superheroes, and his upcoming movie (at the time) The Watchmen.
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With this massive reveal, the television show has valiantly pushed the entire Watchmen universe forward, while still in keeping with the spirit of the original comics themselves.
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Damon Lindelof, who created HBO's "Watchmen," explained his decision not to proceed -- at least for now -- by saying he had told the story he wanted to tell.
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And they are our watchmen, keeping vigil over our ponds, marshes, lakes and streams, our meadows and our woods, the quality of our water and our air.
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The HBO series is the latest in a series of alternate history shows on television, following Watchmen, Hunters, and For All Mankind just in the past year.
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"Five hours from now, 2,000 people will have seen the 'Watchmen' pilot," he said, looking ahead to the show's debut at New York Comic Con that afternoon.
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But rather than topple those gods, "Watchmen" ushered in an era in which these golden idols stand taller than ever, astride the entire culture, casting inescapable shadows.
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The Tulsa Race Riot of 220, depicted in Sunday's series premiere of "Watchmen" on HBO, was one of the worst outbreaks of racial violence in American history.
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The new HBO series "Watchmen," which debuted Sunday, begins with a depiction of the Tulsa horror and suggests that its aftereffects could be a recurring plot point.
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In the first five episodes, "Watchmen" feels more loose and comfortable the farther it gets from the racial-history marker it sets down in its opening minutes.
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It's not perfect, and it's just a test, but it's still a fascinating look at what a stripped down, more character-focused version of Watchmen could've been.
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Watchmen trusts its viewers to settle in for the whole ride and accept that everything will unfold at a pace that's necessary to tell an effective story.
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The difference is, unlike the Marvel films that Scorsese spoke out against, the characters who make up the Watchmen crew might not be as familiar to audiences.
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So far, it seems only three of the original Watchmen characters — Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias, Laurie Juspeczyk/Silk Specter II, and Doctor Manhattan — appear in the new series.
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Doctor Manhattan leaves Earth again after the events of the comics, so he has likely spent 30 years off Earth at the beginning of Lindelof's Watchmen series.
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What I want to make clear is that what happens in "Space Junk" is slightly more understandable for people who've read the Watchmen comic, but only slightly.
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Before Zack Snyder's 2009 Watchmen film was even in theaters, there was fandom outrage and concern that Doctor Manhattan's penis could become a huge, sinewy, girthy monster.
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The genius of "Watchmen" also lies in its structure, more specifically its nine-panel grid, a simple yet brilliant way of framing a story for multiple reasons.
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"Watchmen" follows King's character Angela as she unravels a white supremacist conspiracy in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and also comes to terms with her family history of crime-fighting.
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From comic book adaptations like HBO&aposs "Watchmen" to remakes of beloved sitcoms like Spectrum&aposs "Mad About You," there were plenty of remakes available to watch.
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Jason Parham: LOL at "In the world of Watchmen, white supremacists think it's too hard to be a white man in America"—that's our world, too, Adam!
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A quick primer: the original "Watchmen" is set in an alternate time line, beginning in the nineteen-forties, among a group of bickering masked vigilantes, the Minutemen.
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I find myself observing Watchmen from a distance most of the time as I try to make sense of how its world works and its stories connect.
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"Watchmen" can be described a lot of ways, but seen through that lens strictly from a creative perspective, it's a reminder that heroes don't always wear capes.
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The new commercial was directed by Neil Huxley, who previously worked on films like Watchmen and Avatar as an effects artist before transitioning to directing his own work.
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" Lindelof went on to explain that how his Watchmen will be set in the world Moore and Gibbons created, but that "some of the characters will be unknown.
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At a time when the Administration often behaves like a dystopian MoT, it would be important to "watch the watchmen" and create safeguards against political bias or factionalism.
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He was at one point believed to be the man under the Hooded Justice mask, but the Before Watchmen prequel series made it clear that this is false.
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Watchmen is meant to put readers in the blue skin of Dr. Manhattan, who sees all time at once, and so is hopelessly frozen in his own destiny.
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It's developing five (five!) successors to Game of Thrones, but it's also turning to other classic genre properties, such as Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and now, Moore's Watchmen.
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Thirty-three years after the first issue of Watchmen arrived in 1986, it remains clear that the bet is one that Moore, Gibbons, and DC made good on.
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But there's a reason Watchmen has become an immortal piece of pop culture (though it should be noted that Moore isn't a fan of adaptations of his work).
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The Watchmen TV show relentlessly emphasizes that white people's abuse of power has shaped the lives of everyone around them, particularly those who are not white and powerful.
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This comic isn't for everyone, in fact, it makes Watchmen look like Golden Age Superman, but it will definitely strike a nerve with fans of scouring self-assessment.
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Shows like "Watchmen" can be so purposefully elusive that it was nice to see Trieu question Reeves about his passive-aggressive strategy of leaving pills in Abar's glovebox.
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The HBO series acts as a sequel to the canon of events in Moore's original "Watchmen" — all set 30 years later in an alternate version of our 2019.
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In it, the writer of Watchmen is naturally asked about superheroes (an idea he worked hard to pick apart in that book) and their place in pop culture.
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Except today's movies use that to reassure us, while the entire point of Watchmen — indeed, the reference of its title — was to get us to question that premise.
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Related: Gerard Way Resurrects Cult Classic Comic 'Doom Patrol' 'Watchmen' Creator Alan Moore Talks Movies, Magic, and Comics This Nightmarish Comic Book Is Illustrated Entirely with Oil Paintings
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This refers to the fact that in the "Watchmen" alternate timeline, the United States won the Vietnam War because of Dr. Manhattan and Vietnam became the 51st state.
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Emily: In the build-up to director Zack Snyder's 2009 adaptation of Watchmen for the big screen, all involved agreed to change the ending of the original comic.
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And that's the aspect of nostalgia that Watchmen leans into here, specifically because it's the past of someone who was abused by America's long history of systemic racism.
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Coming on the heels of "Watchmen," it's another notable post-movie effort to build a series around a literary property, yielding (in this case) a paper-thin result.
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But Lindelof's apprehension was understandable given both his past adventures in fan rage as a creator of "Lost" and the audacity of his "Watchmen," debuting Sunday on HBO.
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Director Nia DaCosta and executive producer Jordan Peele are bringing it back with this modern reboot/sequel starring up-and-comer Yahya Abdul-Mateen II ("Aquaman" and "Watchmen").
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Racial trauma is about as personal as it gets for a post-colonial America, and the way it's drawn here dovetails effortlessly with the Watchmen story we know.
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The 1980s Watchmen graphic novel, which inspired the HBO show, explains the monster also gave off a psychic blast, killing millions who may have survived the physical carnage.
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Some of the premium network's shows have achieved critical acclaim, with series like Game of Thrones, Big Little Lies, Watchmen, and Succession dominating every corner of pop culture.
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It's also a fact that really seems to grind director Martin Scorsese's gears, so he's probably not thrilled that HBO's new Watchmen series is adding to the fray.
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Two, the work by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins was adapted into a film before, so how will this Watchmen TV show compare to the movie?
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Watchmen creator Damon Lindelof told USA Today that he has no interest in doing a second season of the show that took inspiration from the famous graphic novel.
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Although HBO credits Irons as "Blonde Man" in the "Ice" listings, IMDb and every Watchmen cast announcement has blown that big secret — Jeremy Irons is playing Adrian Viedt.
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Allegra: Alissa, I'm so glad to have another Watchmen universe newcomer join our conversation this week, to confirm I'm not alone in feeling lost, especially regarding this episode.
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That fund helps back programs like the Coastal Guardian Watchmen, which involves at least 14 tribes in the Great Bear area out of 27 that signed the agreement.
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And it&aposs for this reason that, although we will see many great works in the future, there won&apost be another work quite like "Watchmen" ever again.
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When HBO's superhero television drama Watchmen was initially announced earlier this year, fans of the comic books were skeptical about where the network would be taking the story.
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Fans of Alan Moore's original comic book Watchmen were hesitantly excited when the news broke that the dark super hero story would be making its way to HBO.
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For Damon Lindelof, however, exploring such enduring traumas is a primary motive for extending the world of "Watchmen" decades into the past and decades more into the future.
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And HBO is future-proofing for its life after "Thrones" with its adaptation of Alan Moore's "Watchmen," which is one of the most critically praised graphic novels ever.
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The way the show re-contextualized Doctor Manhattan in this storyline helped me invest in the character, whose significance previously felt very much tied to the Watchmen comic.
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Normally, we here at WIRED wait until a show's season is over to really pick it apart, but last night's Watchmen was such a doozy we couldn't wait.
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HBO&aposs "Watchmen" has been watched by an average of 7.1 million viewers over its seven episodes so far across all of HBO&aposs platforms, the company said.
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With that said, if you're going to create something loopy and over the top, well, you could do a lot worse than what this episode of Watchmen offers.
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It needs to be so good that it justifies its existence to the world (we really didn't need a sequel to Watchmen, which ends on a perfectly ambiguous note).
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HBO, too, tried in 2014 to get a Watchmen TV project off the ground in 2014, apparently speaking to Snyder about a deal in discussions that eventually fell apart.
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Spotting the references to the original Watchmen challenges viewers to fill in the missing details of the decades that passed in between the comic book and the TV series.
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Related: 'Watchmen' Creator Alan Moore Talks Movies, Magic, and Comics Learn How to Craft a Feeling of Isolation in Comics Puerto Rico's Superman is a Super-Woman from Brooklyn
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Similarly to Watchmen, the series takes familiar tropes and then filters them through a lens of psychological realism, in the process exposing the troubling expectations underlying their respective genres.
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And so the first episode of "Watchmen" begins with a brutal recreation of the very-real Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921 before cutting to the Oklahoma town in 2019.
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"I had never read anything like this, I had never seen this role, I had never seen this woman before," she said of her "Watchmen" character Angela/Sister Night.
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Watchmen so thoroughly deconstructs the foundational precepts of superheroes that most subsequent writers have made do either by poorly imitating its technique or outright ignoring elements of its critique.
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Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof is in talks to develop a new series for HBO based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's seminal Watchmen comics, according to Hollywood Reporter.
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Cuse and Lindelof, recent collaborators on the HBO series "Watchmen" and "The Leftovers," are slumming a little in genre-movie territory, and maybe also trolling some of their fans.
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In those realms, folks were excited about a green dog, talking about why both Watchmen and Mindhunter seem to be over, and discussing Taylor Swift's new documentary for Netflix.
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Whether you want to tell your Roku to load up Watchmen or type it out on a touchscreen, the Roku app gives you all the convenient options you need.
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It is then that Doctor Manhattan is framed for a staged fake alien attack by fellow Watchmen Adrian (Ozymandias) that kills more than 3 million people in New York.
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It&aposs an adaptation that follows the original beat by beat, panel by panel, resulting in a work that distinctively looks like "Watchmen" but doesn&apost feel like it.
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After the past success of the network's other massive shows like Game of Thrones and Westworld, it only makes sense for HBO to greenlight another season of Watchmen...right?
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As noted, "Watchmen" operates in a world where superheroes were real, and mankind escaped nuclear annihilation thanks to an elaborate plot that killed millions in order to bring countries together.
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Perhaps "Watchmen" TV creator Damon Lindelof felt something similar, since he said last year that the comics "will not be retread nor recreated nor reproduced nor rebooted" on the show.
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Because the whole idea of Watchmen is that it's a world where superheroes aren't so different from the rest of us, I'd probably wager no to all of the above?
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And it's all filtered through a collection of superhero tropes and motifs, which Watchmen uses to tell stories about the world we live in today and how unjust it is.
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The same is true on social media, where some fans have been talking about how they find the new Watchmen far more political than the one they grew up with.
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HBO's Watchmen makes the political underpinnings of the text overt from the beginning, referencing America's history of racial turmoil to set the groundwork for the story's related present-day concerns.
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HBO's description makes sense, given that series creator Damon Lindelof indicated that he wasn't setting out to adapt Watchmen, but described his show more of a "remix" of the comic.
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In the past, the man behind Watchmen, 300, and Sucker Punch has let style suffocate substance, but even his misfires have always had a welcome kink or spark to them.
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Every year, books that were once prominently labeled as unfilmable — Alan Moore's Watchmen, David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, and J.G. Ballard's High-Rise, for instance — successfully make it to the screen.
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At the same time, he's meant to be a brilliant manipulator, seemingly inspired by the far-reaching mogul Ozymandias from Alan Moore's Watchmen, which Snyder adapted to film in 2009.
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The retirement age has been pushed back, and it is not unusual for 70-year-olds to be driving taxis, working as watchmen on building sites and serving in supermarkets.
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Young tenors and basses can launch their careers in a myriad of smaller roles as courtiers, soldiers, watchmen and servants, while female singers have much fewer roles available to them.
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The Tick stars Peter Serafinowicz (Guardians of the Galaxy), Griffin Newman (Vinyl), Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen), Valorie Curry (House of Lies), Yara Martinez (Jane the Virgin) and Brendan Hines (Scorpion).
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READ MORE: HBO's 'Watchmen' is an exhilarating and relevant TV series, and could be genre fans' new obsession after 'Game of Thrones'Clark: Why did it mean so much to you?
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Everyone, please say hello to Silk Spectre II. The third episode of Watchmen introduces FBI agent Laurie Blake, a key character from the comic and a former costumed vigilante herself.
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Strip Panel Naked, the YouTube-based mini-masterclass in comic creation, this week sets its focus on one of the most popular and well-regarded comics of all time: Watchmen.
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Lindelof—who just wrapped up the final season of a different book adaptation, the brain-bleedingly under-appreciated series The Leftovers—has been a fan of Watchmen since age 13.
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Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96%HBO's "Watchmen" series is based on the graphic novel by the same name which is set in an alternate history where heroes are treated as outlaws.
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But the reveal is also thematically compelling because it gets at an idea that seems fundamental to the Watchmen universe: The state and the terrorists are in on everything together.
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"Chasing Cars" is one of the definitive remains of Grey's Anatomy's wide but often-unanalyzed cultural footprint, having been used in a pivotal scene where the Comedian from Watchmen dies.
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Like, before Zack Snyder made movies about Batman and Superman, he directed an adaptation of Watchmen loyal to the source material in every way except its criticisms of the genre.
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Known as the Seventh Kalvary, the group has taken as its uniform the black-and-white-splotched face mask of Rorschach, probably the best known of the original "Watchmen" characters.
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The show in and of itself is a Rorschach test — everybody's going to see something a bit different, based on who they are and what their relationship with "Watchmen" is.
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The legacy of the original "Watchmen" graphic novel is of renewed interest today thanks to the arrival of a new HBO series of the same name, created by Damon Lindelof.
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In an interview published not long after "Watchmen" appeared, Alan Moore was asked about the inherent fascist overtones of superheroes — the link, now much discussed, between Superman and Nietzsche's Übermensch.
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The final character to show up in Watchmen on HBO might just be Jonathan Osterman's Doctor Manhattan (creators haven't confirmed his casting, but he's mentioned throughout the first few episodes).
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Instead, it tells us Veidt in this version of Watchmen parlayed his '80s costumed vigilantism into a follow-up career as a "political kingmaker" and industrialist with a corporate empire.
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To render Doctor Manhattan as a more Adonis-like image of a hero is to ignore what Watchmen is, however, and that is what presaged the controversy around Snyder's depiction.
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"She professes not to be interested in that part of her own history," Lila Byock, a supervising producer on Watchmen and co-writer of the show's third episode, told Slate.
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"Watchmen" was a work of art that was never meant for the screen but a story that was strictly mean to show the greatest strength of the comic book medium.
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Last month she quoted the vigilante Rorschach from the comic book series "Watchmen" while responding to a Politico story that claimed Democratic leaders were trying to "rein in" Ocasio-Cortez.
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All things considered, I had a really hard time rooting against Trieu in this episode, and I think a hard time was exactly what Watchmen wanted me to be having.
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For as much as I want to see more of Watchmen past this season, I almost hope episode nine provides such a definitive ending that the show can't go forward.
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Watchmen in all its forms has argued that having too much money is its own kind of superpower, but also that having too much money functionally makes you a supervillain.
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Every time I read Watchmen, a new version of Rorschach emerges; his status is fixedly flexible, dependent on both the direction of the reader's life, and of the world in general.
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Eli's career was like Watchmen—there were a few memorable moments people still talk about today but overall it wasn't that good and it definitely lasted longer than it should have.
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HBO is looking for its next big series as it bids farewell to Game of Thrones and Big Little Lies, and Damon Lindelof's Watchmen is shaping up to be that series.
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In 20173, ahead of a 22017 Watchmen film adaptation, DC printed 22009,22019 additional paperback copies of the novel, up from the 100,000 sold the year before, the New York Times reported.
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But based on this renewed defensiveness from Watchmen fans about the alleged lack of politics in the original text as compared to the HBO show, perhaps Moore has proved his point.
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I think of it as being sort of like in Watchmen when the Adrian Veidt character watches every TV channel at once and bases his business decisions on what he gleans.
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HBO's "Watchmen," from "Lost" and "The Leftovers" cocreator Damon Lindelof, is an exhilarating and relevant sci-fi mystery that could fill the gap left by "Game of Thrones" for genre fans.
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The father of the boy we see on the cold open of "Watchmen" is shown in his army uniform, bringing this small detail to life in the depiction of the attack.
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"If Beale Street Could Talk" actress Regina King revealed during New York's Comic Con that "Watchmen" creator Damon Lindelof sent her a "lovely" letter to convince her to join the show.
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Narrator: HBO's new series "Watchmen" takes place 30 years after the events in the graphic novel, so there are a lot of references to the original story in the first episode.
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These excerpts, ranging from information about the heroes and team composition to Mason's own musings about vigilanteism, serve as a break in the story and flesh out the world of Watchmen.
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It allowed for a continuation of the themes in Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's The Watchmen — two darker, edgier stories that dissected the idea of the superhero.
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In a hotel near Gramercy Park, King and Lindelof discussed how "Watchmen" channels the comic and how it doesn't, and why the series itself will be a Rorschach test for viewers.
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As a book and a show, "Watchmen" is about how history might have been rewritten if self-styled heroes in masks decided to mete out extralegal justice as they saw fit.
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For "Watchmen" to appropriate a shot like that borders on exploitation, but it's important to the story for realize that Dr. Manhattan didn't win the war through threat of annihilation alone.
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HBO, known for producing prestigious series, allowed Watchmen showrunner Damon Lindelof to tell a story about race in America and explore complex issues within the world of Alan Moore's popular comic.
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This weekend, Watchmen will premiere on HBO, and in addition to trying to figure out who all the new superheroes are, you might specifically be wondering, who is that blue guy?
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On a show as painstakingly put together as Watchmen, it's always a good idea to read everything tossed onto your screen, whether that be via background news bulletin or bus ad.
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Emily: TV shows like Watchmen — where viewers are frequently confused as to what's going on — often struggle to find ways to let the audience know that it's okay to be confused.
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The TV Watchmen sold me on its relevance by resurfacing something incredibly obvious about its source material that years of fan culture had scrubbed away, mostly because the character looked cool.
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The penultimate episode of the HBO series Watchmen aired Sunday night, and in the too-short hour, the show deftly tied together the events of the superhero drama before the finale.
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Every episode of "Watchmen" dances along the precipice of catastrophic failure, like a circus performer who has waved away the safety net, despite the abundant junctures where he could go splat.
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One video highlighted "console quality" games like Beyond a Steel Sky, which looks like some kind of open world-ish sci-fi adventure featuring art from Watchmen co-creator Dave Gibbons.
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Part commentary on racial tensions in America, part deconstruction of hero worship, no one saw Watchmen coming—right up until Regina King's Sister Night (Emmy now, please) whipped them into shape.
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The racist violence nearly a century ago in Tulsa gained new public attention in October when the HBO television series "Watchmen" opened its debut season with a depiction of the massacre.
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"Watchmen" isn't about to give the game away on that, but it does help rebut suspicions that Sister Night wouldn't be as morally ambiguous as the vigilantes in Moore and Gibbons's book.
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Watchmen is a big and bold series, unlike any other TV show I've ever seen, and just when you think it's shown you all of its many faces, it reveals another one.
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When The Leftovers creator Damon Lindelof brings his version of Watchmen to HBO, it will be as an original story with new characters, not a retelling of Alan Moore's classic graphic novel.
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He's made some OK movies (Dawn of the Dead, Watchmen) but he's made even more that have been trashed by critics: Sucker Punch; Man of Steel; Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
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"Someone says to me: '[Ben Affleck's] Batman killed a guy,'" Snyder said during a Q&A after a Watchmen screening event, as seen in a video posted to Reddit on March 24.
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Watchmen working at the opposition alliance building in Nairobi also told Reuters there had been no raid - and guards in a building opposite said they had seen no sign of any raid.
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But for me, the sourest lemon will always be Zack Snyder's Watchmen, [Ed: technically a spring movie, but whatever] which I saw after a friend convinced me it was worth a shot.
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"Westworld" reimagines the 1973 robo-thriller as an exploration of consciousness; "Watchmen," after the too-literal Zack Snyder film, reframed the Cold War graphic novel to focus on America's legacy of racism.
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"Watchmen," created for television by "Lost" and "The Leftovers" cocreator Damon Lindelof, is both a worthy successor to its source material and an exhilarating sci-fi TV series on its own terms.
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See, for instance, HBO's trailer for Watchmen, a show produced by Lost alumni, with built-in marketing hooks since it features characters from a hit graphic novel (and a mediocre feature film).
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The victims are all men from various Malagasy tribes: Antandroy, Tsimihety, Sakalava—night watchmen and groundskeepers of so low a status that no one bribes the island gendarmerie into investigating their deaths.
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One of the details of the original Watchmen that makes me so uncomfortable is that Rorschach — the violent sadist and borderline fascist — is ultimately right about a lot of what he's saying.
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DC Comics' Watchmen imagines a world in which the existence of superheroes drastically altered the trajectory of global events, and HBO's adaptation imagines Watchmen's version of the future as (much more) female.
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More important, I was trying to replicate the feeling that I had when I read the original "Watchmen" when I was 13, which was not dissimilar from being dropped on my head.
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Debuted in 1986 by the writer Alan Moore and the artist Dave Gibbons, the dark and gritty superhero comic "Watchmen" was enormously influential, helping the genre to grow up and get real.
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And Regina King, who's delivering one of the year's best TV performances on HBO's "Watchmen," is also absent on the nominee lists, as is any mention of the critically-raved-about show.
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One of the most anticipated TV releases this fall is the new HBO series Watchmen (premiering October 20), which is based, in part, on the 1986 comic series of the same name.
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Doctor Manhattan, alter ego of the former scientist Jonathan Osterman, is one of the main characters of the original Watchmen comics and has been confirmed to be in the new TV series.
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Considering the secrecy around Veidt's living situation, it's fair to assume he is cooking up a new squid-level plot, and Watchmen season 1 will unveil it over its eight-episode run.
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To Watchmen readers, it's clear that this is based on a true story: The superheroes in question are stand-ins for Nite Owl, Doctor Manhattan, and the power-mad Adrian Veidt a.k.a.
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Watchmen, HBO's sequel / reinvention of the comic of the same name by Dave Gibbons and Alan Moore, came out the gate swinging with a prologue set during the 1921 Tulsa race riot.
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At the time, the joke seemed like another way for the show to slip in some exposition about the "Watchmen" universe, but it underscores the impossibility of achieving justice without serious consequences.
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It's funny, and a little crazy, that Crisis will do that at roughly the same moment that Watchmen is redefining the meaning of superheroes—just like that comics did in the 1980s.
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"Watchmen" acts as a follow-up to the graphic novel, in which a group of masked vigilantes are pulled into a vast and insidious conspiracy when one of their own is murdered.
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And while Watchmen was probably too forthrightly comic book-y for the Globes to really take a shine to it, Regina King, at least, should have gotten a nomination for her work.
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Cruz slyly alluded to a line from the movie Watchmen in which Rorschach, his fifth favorite super hero of all time, famously said, 'never compromise, not even in the face of Armageddon.
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This teaser isn't a surprise though — Lindelof and HBO have been chatting about bringing Watchmen to the small screen for a spell, and it seemed like an almost-done deal earlier this summer.
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Notably, director Zack Snyder's "Watchmen" movie of a decade ago -- which was both grisly and visually stunning -- turned out to be a significant disappointment box-office-wise, suggesting the limits of the material.
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As if you weren't already overwhelmed by the amount of things to watch on TV (if you haven't peeped Watchmen yet, you should), Apple TV+ will be available this time next week. Y'all.
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Written by Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons, Watchmen was published as a limited series between 1986 and 1987, and quickly earned considerable critical acclaim for its mature and satirical take on superheroes.
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What was unique about Watchmen when it debuted in 1986 was that it was fully cognizant of how American politics would set the rules for superheroes, if they existed in the real world.
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While the two series are incredibly different, "Watchmen" should satisfy genre fans — even those unfamiliar with the graphic novel — who are looking to fill the gap left by HBO's hit "Game of Thrones."
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As for the heaven's gate part of the joke, Laurie is directly referencing the lives and actions of three key players from the Watchmen comics: Dan Dreiberg, Adrian Veidt, and Doctor Manhattan himself.
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It appears that the squid-like monster summoned by Ozymandias at the end of the "Watchmen" graphic novel has somehow had the residual effect of causing tiny squid to fall from the sky.
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The 1980s-era of the Watchmen world is seen through the eyes of Looking Glass, the stalwart police officer with a mirrorball face and the uncanny ability to tell when people are lying.
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Written and produced by Damon Lindelof (of "Lost" and "Watchmen" renown) and Nick Cuse, and directed by Craig Zobel (whose credits include Lindelof's "The Leftovers"), the film's most clever wrinkle is exhausted early.
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On Friday, HBO released a brand-new Watchmen trailer, and this time, it's more than just quick, tantalizing shots of DIY Rorschachs and a glimpse of Doctor Manhattan's blue raspberry skin or whatever.
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"Watchmen" doesn't delve much into how this alternative world could have become so reverse-polarized, other than the election of what sounds like a P.C. administration out of an alt-right persecution fantasy.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads With their work for HBO's Watchmen series, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross ended the 2010s much the same way they began the decade: as universally fêted composers.
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It took this HBO series, and Angela Abar's drug-fueled journey through her grandfather's past, to get a front-row look at the origins of... well, everything that makes Watchmen what it is.
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And another HBO series, "Watchmen," was thought to have a chance in the same category — and a better chance in best actress for its star, Regina King — despite starting late in the year.
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I think one of the things that has been tough for people who've never read Watchmen to grasp is that this TV series isn't really an adaptation but an extremely well-done fanfiction.
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For a brief moment in the third episode of Watchmen, a show where anything can happen, a very big something came out of the blue or, rather, a big blue something came out.
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Unlike the story of Clark Kent, who came from space to remain on Earth, Doctor Manhattan looks for somewhere, anywhere but Earth to live and goes into hiding at the end of Watchmen.
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A pulpy little magazine, much like that Esquire issue, starts that confrontation: Watchmen viewers — whether we've read the graphic novel or not — know very little about what happened to Laurie after the 1980s.
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"Watchmen" is a compelling story, but the essence of the series is its critical eye — Moore and Gibbons's attempt to show us something about our world through skillful deconstruction of a fictional one.
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It depicts the in-universe past as a gritty, violent action series — a callback to and satire of Snyder's "Watchmen," which used the thematically rich source material as fodder for high-definition brutality.
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The Watchmen season finale (and possible series finale, unless Damon Lindelof eats another egg of inspiration or whatever) aired Sunday night on HBO, and it was a flawless ending for a flawless show.
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Much of Watchmen has been marked by how far it strays from creator Damon Lindelof's typical comfort zone while offering just enough weirdness to remind you that it is, indeed, a Lindelof series.
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One of the night watchmen is Cuban; so is the waitress at the usual lunch spot; the carpenter just showed up with two Cuban assistants; the salon has just added a Cuban hairdresser.
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One of the night watchmen is Cuban; so is the waitress at the usual lunch spot; the carpenter just showed up with two Cuban assistants; the salon has just added a Cuban hairdresser.
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By contrast, "Watchmen" delivered a mostly satisfying finish, weaving strands together and sawing off most (not all) of the loose ends, while leaving a few tantalizing possibilities to ponder once the credits rolled.
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"I've now come around to thinking that the twelve issues of Watchmen are actually less like a Rorschach test for the reader and more akin to ... a blizzard of words and pictures much like the seething broadcast information from which Ozymandias himself attempts to distill meaning," he wrote in the 2017 annotated version of Watchmen, explaining how he's come to see the book as less open to interpretation and more a flurry of messages for the reader to unpack at their will.
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Watchmen stood as a graphic novel about heroes that deserved far more than the two hours and 42 mins that it received, and Damon Lindelof will have the benefit of that thanks to HBO.
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Zack Snyder's 2009 Watchmen movie is more slavishly faithful to the source material's visual style and dialogue, but its attempt to streamline the story into a feature film flattens out much of the nuance.
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As for those in the middle, who might be curious but not as fully invested, it's worth hanging around, for now, to see where "Watchmen" is heading, as the show tick, tick, ticks onward.
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And in 2300, when the comics' run had wrapped, Watchmen won a Hugo Award, a major accolade for science fiction and fantasy fiction, one of only nine graphic novels to ever win the award.
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HBO's Watchmen gives comic book fans hope that Lindelof and HBO do Moore and Gibbons right, that this timeless story speaks to their souls in a way that other pieces of pop culture don't.
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At the heart of the political reading of Watchmen is the book's most misinterpreted character: Rorschach, a vigilante who both stands up for the truth and acts violently against those whose beliefs he abhorred.
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Its upcoming TV show, "Watchmen," is inspired by the 1986 graphic novel of the same name by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, which is considered a classic deconstruction of the superhero genre.
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This does not mean that show creator Damon Lindelof and his crew are operating on Moore's wavelength though, or that this justifies Watchmen breaching Moore's longstanding (entirely justified) antipathy toward his work being adapted.
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After the names were collected, lists of targeted people were passed to prefecture governments, who forwarded them to district heads, then local police stations, neighbor watchmen, and Communist Party cadres living with Uighur families.
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It's also a gigantic attempt to fill in one of the single biggest pieces of Watchmen lore from the original comic, with its own clever answer to a big question about a secret identity.
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But with unemployment already at historic highs well into his first term, this year's election campaign focused on national security, with B.J.P. members casting themselves as "watchmen" against terrorists and neighboring nations like Pakistan.
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Damon Lindelof's upcoming Watchmen series for HBO is one of the most anticipated new shows coming this fall, but the network has been pretty mysterious about the actual plot of the show—until now.
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The film was co-written by the famously twisty (and unusually nuanced) Damon Lindelof, who's still best known for Lost but whose most recent project, HBO's Watchmen, steered far away from easy political stereotyping.
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Those who watched HBO's recent, radically reimagined TV riff on Alan Moore's "Watchmen" graphic novel can see a very different take on the material in this film adaptation, which was directed by Zack Snyder.
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It's not immediately clear where Veidt is when HBO's Watchmen introduces him; we only know that he seems to live a solitary life in a large castle staffed by some unknown number of servants.
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"The Silk Spectre stood for every second-generation 'legacy' superhero, from Black Canary to Kid Flash," comic book writer Grant Morrison wrote in his book Supergods, explaining how Moore twisted superhero archetypes in Watchmen.
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HBO's take on the Watchmen comics star almost-EGOT winner Regina King as Angela Abar (alias Sister Night) and the plot plays out in an alternate reality more than 30 years after the comics.
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Set in a dystopian Tulsa, Oklahoma, Watchmen has been a series of confusing events, starting with the shocking murder of Tulsa police chief (and secret member of the white supremacist group Cyclops) Judd Crawford.
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Allegra: I love that we feel so opposite about episode five — especially because, as you said, it is an inflection point where Watchmen began to cull from and reference the comic book more explicitly.
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All of that was topped off with an Academy Award-winning techno-industrial-horror score that launched Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross as the decade's composers of America's anxieties (Gone Girl, Bird Box, Watchmen).
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Both come at the idea of the legacy of the original from different angles, and—despite some shared ideas—have very different ideas about what Watchmen, as envisaged by Moore and Gibbons, actually represented.
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The big release this week is, without a doubt, Civil War II. The original Civil War line of Marvel comics asked a big, important question that hadn't been asked much since Alan Moore's Watchmen.
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Still, it was a good day for religious liberty, but the fight goes on and we must be watchmen on the wall, forever diligent in the battle to protect and defend our nation's first freedom.
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So last year, when DC Entertainment announced it was going to launch a series that picked up where Watchmen left off and included the Justice League, the move was met with no shortage of questions.
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Watchmen would certainly fit in with the shows that HBO already airs: it contains plenty of sex and violence, and it's a complicated story that delves into the morality of a world full of superheroes.
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It isn't difficult to trace a line from the themes in Watchmen to Moore's abhorrence of Reaganite politics and policies — the arms race, the Cold War, the way we mythologize authority figures — at the time.
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Watchmen is the first TV project from Lost co-creator Lindelof since the end of his three-season series The Leftovers, which he co-created with Tom Perrotta and which ran from 2014 to 2017.
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And while the Watchmen television show seems to operate within the same alternate history as the original comic, these elements of white supremacy, domestic terrorism, and police brutality are all currently topics of national conversation.
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He's best known for writing such pathbreaking graphic novels as Watchmen and From Hell, but he's always dabbled in other fields, including punk music, literary fiction, and the cult worship of the snake god Glycon.
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Lindelof and his team took a risk by trying to build on such an iconic story, especially since the original creator of "Watchmen" has explicitly said he never wants his work adapted for a screen.
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READ MORE: We looked back at the long history of failed 'Watchmen' adaptationsClark: I felt that music and song choice was really important to the show, similarly to how it was important to the book.
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HBO's upcoming show "Watchmen," based on the comic book limited series and hit movie, will reportedly feature Robert Redford as the longest-serving U.S. president in a world where there is no internet or smartphones.
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Description: "Set in an alternate history where 'superheroes' are treated as outlaws, 'Watchmen' embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel of the same name while attempting to break new ground of its own."
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads An immediate success both critically and commercially, the DC Comics maxiseries Watchmen has only grown in stature over the decades since its initial publication run from 1986 to 1987.
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Dig into the pages of Watchmen with this week's episode of Strip Panel Naked, below: To see more, visit the Strip Panel Naked YouTube page, and check out its Patreon page to support the series.
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With that said, I think Watchmen leaned a bit harder than was tolerable for me on just how dark life was for Will, even if it contextualized who he is in the show's contemporary storyline.
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Over the course of the upcoming series, executive producer and writer Damon Lindelhof (Lost, The Leftovers) plans to flesh out the narrative described in the original DC Comics version and explore the Watchmen story further.
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For a show based on a superhero comic and set in an alternate timeline (in which Richard Nixon was important enough to merit a bust on Mount Rushmore), Watchmen engenders a surprising level of resonance.
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The series is set in the same world as the original story, but takes place 30 years later in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which means the Watchmen cast are, for the most part, playing brand new characters.
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Add in the twisting timelines and developing storylines, and you've got a show that's almost tailor-made for today's Game of Thrones / Westworld / Watchmen-style cottage industry that loves to theorize and debate over shows.
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HBO's Watchmen has given us question after question since the series began, but perhaps the one still baffling most fans is who is the mysterious Lady Trieu, and what is her connection to Adrian Veidt?
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Indeed, Trieu was raised by her mother to be "the world's smartest woman, brighter than a sky full of stars, a redemptive blessing to the world planet," according to HBO's official Watchmen extra materials Peteypedia.
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But if there were a Hooded Justice — if our history of racial violence and trauma had produced an avenger, of sorts — then "Watchmen" seems to say that whether or not it's right, it is justified.
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But narrative aside, along with Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns (and to a somewhat lesser extent the Marvel crossover Secret Wars), Crisis was one of the late-1980s books that changed comic book storytelling.
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At least, we hope so, since this could be the end of Watchmen entirely—creator Damon Lindelof said back before the show premiered in October that it was only meant to be one standalone season.
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After the war ended, the popular Superman radio show ran a storyline in which Superman investigated and defeated the resurgent KKK, some 75 years before HBO's "Watchmen" series had its own heroes battle the Klan.
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Taking a page out of their book, HBO's Watchmen has its own addendum tacked on after the credits roll on episode eight, "A God Walks Into Abar," the second-to-last episode of the season.
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The awards ceremony has an aversion to genre series (the Watchmen snub; Kit Harington's nomination for Game of Thrones marks not just the show's sole nomination but its first nomination for a performance since 2012).
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All of Lindelof's shows are full of grifters and shills, and in "Watchmen" that situation is racialized, through stories about the vulnerability of black people in white institutions, trusting white allies only to be betrayed.
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While the X-Men never quite got to explore this idea, S.H.I.E.L.D. is slowly and steadily asking the question of, "Who watches the watchmen?" in the terms of who is keeping these powerful Inhumans in check.
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When the first six pages were revealed at New York Comic Con, the crowd went crazy for them, especially when the final page revealed the return of Rorschach — a character who was utterly obliterated in Watchmen.
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Some of that felt like the imprimatur of the director, Zack Snyder, a man who embraced the darkness in movies like *Watchmen *and 300 and who has never met a rain-soaked alley he didn't like.
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The remaining waste is picked over by the cleaners and watchmen at the apartment block they live in before being put out in a municipal skip where rag-pickers like Mrs Hiyale search through it again.
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But it also contains a moment when Angela discovers a literal Ku Klux Klan outfit hidden in Judd's closet, a clear indication of where Watchmen stands on the intersection of the police and white supremacist movements.
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The shared-universe idea isn't clever window-dressing in "Watchmen"; it is actively and increasingly important in explaining how this alternate reality came to pass and what role Alan Moore's original characters still have to play.
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Her "joke" about the three dying heroes who are awaiting God's judgment makes reference to major "Watchmen" characters — Nite Owl, Ozymandias and Dr. Manhattan — that have been explicated in only the vaguest terms on the show.
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