# A Watchmen HBO TV Series... \[Open spoilers\]

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**Created:** [June 21, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-watchmen-hbo-tv-series-open-spoilers/789546 "2017-06-21T16:21:47Z")\
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> [@Acsenray](#):
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> It’s the first two chapters of a story. I don’t need everything spelled out in the beginning.
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> And no plot? Of course there’s a plot.
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> In an alternative reality, the police have to hide their identities under a threat from a white supremacist terrorist group. One police officer, who was injured in a mass attack on police several years ago, faked her retirement and now works as a masked detective. A recent resurgence of terrorist activity has resulted in the death of her supervisor/mentor/father figure and it looks like a relative she didn’t know is involved.
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> That’s a plot. There are other plots too. You really want the whole thing laid out for you in the first two episodes? I don’t. There’s enough there to keep my interest.

I don’t want the whole plot, but there’s nothing there so far. What are the goals of any character? Everybody’s killing each other, but to what possible end? So far we see an extension of what’s been going on for years beforehand, how do we know if something new and different is occurring? We don’t know this universe, both episodes have ended with unexplained and unanticipated events from unknown antagonists (if they even are antagonists), but not even a clue of what difference it makes. This is a 9 episode season, they need to explain a lot more than this by the end of the second episode.

If you like this style, that’s fine, but I’m not interested in following along to just end up in a final episode cliffhanger tease for the next season without any real wrap-up of the story so far. That’s just the start of a basketball game that ends up in 100-100 tie with 2 minutes left. I can just wait and watch the last 2 minutes to find out what happens in the end.

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