HBO orders Watchmen TV series.

[cybershot]

Could it actually be good!

HBO has picked up its Watchman show for a full season

 

[Reno]

Can’t be worse than the film !

 

[Toast Rider]

Can’t be worse than the film !

Gods....don't!

 

[krtek a houby]

Watchmen prequel (comics, not film)

I think it could be more in depth and HBO could well do it justice.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

If alan moore was dead we could put magnets on him and generate enough electricity to free us from fossil fuels

 

[krtek a houby]

If alan moore was dead we could put magnets on him and generate enough electricity to free us from fossil fuels

I would have thought he'd be quite happy with all this recycling going on.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Can’t be worse than the film !

Challenge accepted

 

[krtek a houby]

Well, this is interesting. Looks like this is set after the events of Watchmen and

Spoiler

Rorschach's journal has, er, inspired people

Liking it.

 

[Balbi]

W for Wendetta

 

[Artaxerxes]

Ugh.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

If it's not Moore it's not Watchmen. The comic book should have been the TV series.
The cult of Rorschachs looks like a terrible idea. Ugh, and apparently batman is in it, as now the watchmen universe is part of the DC universe.

Screw all this stuff and make an America's Best universe TV series. Instead of focusing on the history of adventure books and comics for style use the history of film and TV.
And top ten, make that into a mini series following the exact story.

 

[krtek a houby]

If it's not Moore it's not Watchmen. The comic book should have been the TV series.
The cult of Rorschachs looks like a terrible idea. Ugh, and apparently batman is in it, as now the watchmen universe is part of the DC universe.

Screw all this stuff and make an America's Best universe TV series. Instead of focusing on the history of adventure books and comics for style use the history of film and TV.
And top ten, make that into a mini series following the exact story.

Batman, afaik, isn't in the series. It is separate from the DC Universe (like the original source). I think you're confusing it with the Doomsday Clock series, a 12 issue "sequel" to Watchmen, which crosses over with the DC Universe and various DC characters interact with Watchmen characters.

As an old fart and comics reader of some 45 years, I am happy for sacred cows to be slaughtered. Nobody has to watch sequels/reboots/spin offs...

 

[Yossarian]

I'd be more interested in seeing this become a reality, tbh.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Batman, afaik, isn't in the series. It is separate from the DC Universe (like the original source). I think you're confusing it with the Doomsday Clock series, a 12 issue "sequel" to Watchmen, which crosses over with the DC Universe and various DC characters interact with Watchmen characters.

As an old fart and comics reader of some 45 years, I am happy for sacred cows to be slaughtered. Nobody has to watch sequels/reboots/spin offs...

I sort of am and I'm not. I heard about the sequels and cross over comics (and this is also a sequel), but I saw some people say they saw a reference in the hbo trailer (though I can't see it myself).

 

[Buddy Bradley]

This looks terrible. I mean, really - "Watchmen ... WATCH-men! WATCH, geddit?! So they all keep saying 'tick, tock, tick, tock' - Jesus fuck I am so brilliant, is there any more of that coke left..?"

 

[krtek a houby]

This looks terrible. I mean, really - "Watchmen ... WATCH-men! WATCH, geddit?! So they all keep saying 'tick, tock, tick, tock' - Jesus fuck I am so brilliant, is there any more of that coke left..?"

Did you like the original?

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Did you like the original?

Assume you're referring to the film, rather than the book - yes, I liked how it was relatively faithful to the source material, and some of the casting was great.

 

[krtek a houby]

Assume you're referring to the film, rather than the book - yes, I liked how it was relatively faithful to the source material, and some of the casting was great.

I suppose the question is, does it warrant a sequel and if so, what direction should it take. I'm pretty much sold on this, I loved both Watchmen (book and film) and was a big fan of Lost... I think the world of Watchmen can be expanded in a series and also the consequences of Ror's journal being published. Which I'm guessing forms a big part in the series narrative.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Watching the first episode of this now. It's a bit what the fuck, but in a way that seems like it will all make sense at some point.

Oh, it's by that Lost bloke. So maybe it won't make any sense.

 

[cybershot]

Interesting enough to keep watching.

 

[DexterTCN]

Right..so...

Spoiler

squid...comes from the comic then, not the movie

yeah?

Also...show creators asked that none of the reviewers do any reviews without watching 6 episodes...so we don't have a clue yet. Going someplace.

 

[DexterTCN]

These are really worth reading...he's going into Stephen King territory kinda...

 

[equationgirl]

Definitely a bit what the fuck buti will watch the second one.

 

[nick]

Thought it was great.
Looking forward to the next one.

 

[belboid]

Right..so...

Spoiler

squid...comes from the comic then, not the movie

yeah?

Also...show creators asked that none of the reviewers do any reviews without watching 6 episodes...so we don't have a clue yet. Going someplace.

Forget the movie, it never happened. There are only the original comics.

 

[DexterTCN]

Forget the movie, it never happened. There are only the original comics.

Didn't know that though till the first episode. But yeah, awesome (honestly fuck the movie). They can go for it.

It's the golden age of tv, best time to try it, I'm up for it.

 

[Yossarian]

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Enjoyed the first two episodes. Regina King is rocking it.

 

[DexterTCN]

Louis Gosset Jr as well.

 

[InfoBurner]

Fucking Brilliant. Yeah, for full enjoyment you need to read the novel. If you've just seen the film, some of it wil be puggling.

5 episodes in and just whooping and applauding what they've done with the Moore/Gibbons source material. Love it