Watchmen in Development for HBO

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I'm finally caught up and I loved it from start to finish.

A great companion piece for after watching the series (yes I know it's just the season, but I desperately want them to stop here, or at least tell a different story in season 2): 'Watchmen' Finale: Damon Lindelof on Series Conclusion - Rolling Stone
(warning: SIGNIFICANT spoilers in that link.)

My main beef with the entire series was the gradual upward movement towards large-scale comic-book absurdity - I dislike it for the same reason I disliked the Daredevil season 2 switch to suddenly being about mystical ninjas - but then via the interview I realized that they were intentionally paralleling the comic:

More importantly, when we formulated this list of things that we loved about the original, one of the things on the list was the idea of “starts as gritty crime noir, ends in catastrophically overblown sci-fi resolution.”

Which was reassuring - and helped me remember that no, I didn't like that very much in the comics either. So at least I'm consistent lol.

I would definitely say self-pres. Probably either a 1 or a 6, not sure which.

The more I think about it the more I'm sure he's sp 1. The extreme self-restraint. Frankly, I'd guess he's a 1 just from how he deals with Agent Blake making fun of him! Lol.

I think the writers had a lot of fun sometimes just dropping lines that were like slaps in the face, running against the conventional expectation.

"Is this the 1980s? ... Then who gives a shit about Rorschach?"

Questlove's Finding Your Roots Appearance Directly Influenced a Storyline on Watchmen

I love watching Henry Gates Jr's show and I kinda geeked out over his cameo in this series - here's why it happened, I suppose.

I WAS WONDERING ABOUT THIS. Not having this background, I thought it was just the most bizarre and off-the-wall thing that Henry Louis Gates Jr was playing himself in Watchmen, in that kind of role. I guess it's still bizarre, since it's already real, in a way.