Finished the graphic novel and am through a couple of episodes of the animated comic. That was incredibly well done, but I wish they would have found a women to do the female parts
Lindelof is so good at hiding clues in plain sight. I mean, god damn, it was all there. White Night - No explanation of what really happened Cal - Kal-El is Superman Laurie - Constantly talking about how sexy Cal is, and the fact he, for no apparent reason, hid from Angela she met with him without her there. Also, Angela got extremely pissed when she learned the meeting happened. Atheism - Manhattan said several times in the original series people return to what they were when they die: dust. Cal says pretty much the same thing to his children when they ask about death. Most parents would give an explanation with more hope about an afterlife. Excalibur - Without a doubt the best one of them all. Laurie using a dildo which is literally marketed as “Ex-Cal-Abar. You know it's great storytelling when practically no one saw it coming, but everyone sees how obvious it really was after the reveal.
I’m interested to see a bigger flashback from White Night. The clip we’ve seen has Angela getting shot at close range in the stomach with a shotgun then puts it to her temple while she mumbles “Cal.” Manhattan 100% vaporized that dude. It’s also probably how Judd found out about Cal. In the hospital he said there was only one guy who came for her and that she stabbed him, which she did. But it doesn’t account for shotgun guy and that scene is a whole more sinister in retrospect. Fuck, I’m excited.
Unfortunately I saw someone on Twitter point out the 1)Laurie got the hots, 2)the explanation of death to the kids, 3)fact he couldn’t/didn’t/barely could lie, 4)Ex-Cal-Aber, 5) he had no memory of his childhood/growing up, 6)the mention that DM was pretending to be human and the huge denial that it wasn’t possible. I still didn’t really buy it, but it would of been a lot cooler if I hadn’t seen all those dots connected.
Didn’t he also say that Manhattan couldn’t change the color of his skin? I haven’t been troll this hard since the rivals board.
Don’t remember but even seeing that I still flipped out when I saw that glow in her eyes after she hammered his ass.
I don’t know, but didn’t she also say that she invented nostalgia? Am I misremembering? Because I’m pretty sure Veidt invented nostalgia in the novel.
Not a show spoiler, but a book question that I couldn't figure out Spoiler Did the kid by janey and dr. Manhattan ever surface in the universe in any meaningful way?
Thinking more about how Cal keeps watching the clock before the White Night and his insistence that he open his present at 12:01. I wonder if that’ll play into things.
This fucking show, so good. You know it’s great when you can rewatch and still not be bored. Can’t wait to get the book for Christmas
The next episode is titled “A God Walks into a Bar” or A God Walks Into Abar. Also, Angela is Sister Night a “nun”, nuns obviously can’t get married because they are already married to “god”. This show I swear.
Shit, I didn’t recognize young Will Reeves as Michael Murphy aka Regina King’s son from The Leftovers
Apparently there’s a post credit scene for those of you that don’t stay for the “next time on” clips.
what book was Veidt reading I missed it? if they stick this landing next week this is like the perfect season of television.
Now that I've finished the book and animated comic, I can't wait for a full rewatch of this season. It's audience score on RT is in the 40s. Why are people so bad at liking great things
Neckbeards who are upset with the racial overtones, minority female lead, etc. And a lot of watchmen diehards who just don’t think it should ever be serialized
The scenes in the bar with DM and Angela made me think of the dairy farmer/landa scene from inglorious basterds. Just tremendous dialogue driven scenes