Hrem? The whole memoir, or just the selections from the book? While I know it’s unlikely, I desperately hope for the former, if for no other reason than I’d like a fuller understanding of Moore’s alternate timeline.
Great, so we’ve got one vote for Veet, one for Vate, and one for Vight. Now we’re getting somewhere!
So! My Veet/Vate/Vight mumbling-to-myself solution isn’t sounding so silly anymore, is it???
Well, actually - yeah, it still sounds silly…
If they do “Under the Hood” like a special on the Biography network or a film-school documentary, it could play properly. Some “archival” footage, a few talking heads interviews, et cetera.
“Tales of the Black Freighter” would need to be a Saturday Morning cartoon series, with maybe three half-hour episodes to tell that particular story.
Anyone else notice that Osterman’s holding the watch in the chamber? Sweet.
I re-read it last night. Still holds up and I’m still noticing things for the first time.
One of the links above said the Under the Hood would be a faux documentary, much as you suggest.
I cannot tell if the TotBF will be live action or a cartoon. Live action would seem costly for a straight to DVD add on.
Plus, I’m not sure how interesting it would really be. If you take it away from the parallel of the Watchmen narrative…it’s just a pirate story…
I suspect that Tales will be done as one 75 minute cartoon which would work out to roughly three “half-hour” episodes (since “half-hour episodes” typically are twenty-two minutes). That’s just a guess based on how WB is doing direct to video comic book stuff lately.
At some point, I imagine WB will have enough content to create the DC Comics channel. I’ve long believed this is the next logical step for WB. Doing it your way would certainly advance that goal.
Maybe I will be accused of being too anal, but it is just Watchmen, no “the”.
Awesome.
I propose “Viddity.”
Here’s the cold water. From this week’s cover article in Entertainment Weekly:
Now we can sit here and talk about how great it is that Snyder has kept all these things from the book. But if he’s changed the ending, how faithful will it be?
Night Owl: “My God, Adrian, when are you going to launch this evil plan?”
Ozymandius: “You can’t stop me, Dan. I’m going to launch it in just thirty eight minutes.”
Night Owl: “Then we still have thirty seven minutes to save the world. Watchmen Assemble!”
Dr Manhattan, Rorschach, Silk Spectre, and Comedian step out and assume fighting poses.
Ozymandius: “Comedian! You’re alive? I though I had killed you.”
Comedian: “That was just a clone Dr Manhattan made to fool you. We’ve been secretly working together all along to thwart your evil doings.”
Dr Manhattan: “Yes, Adrian, I’ve realized now how much I love the world, especially America. My wife and I have reconciled and we’re going to have a baby.”
Silk Spectre: “Thereby proving that love conquers all and laying the groundwork for a sequel.”
Rorschach: “Hey, I’m feeling sane now and the President gave me a full pardon.”
Night Owl: “So the only thing left to do is defeat Ozymandius in a spectacular special-effects battle. Fire up the lasers and get those explosions ready!”
Or it’s an alien invasion but not in New York, but Akron.
Little Nemo, I’m so going to hell for laughing at that!
We can always hope.
I’ve always said, and heard, “Vite.”
I’m ok with such a change. That ending (olivesmarch4th read no further!) was one of the two weaknesses from the book.
I get that the groundwork was properly laid to perform such a stunt. The technology was an offshoot of Dr. Manhattan and the researchers were an ongoing subplot. But I never really thought it would translate to a mainstream audience without seeming cheesy (in part because even as a comic fan it was out off place to me.)
FYI- the other weakness for me was catching the bullet. NO groundwork could be laid for that. It was simply a terrible part of the book.
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Would Watchmen have been a truer “realistic” look at Superheroes had Dr. Manhattan not been in the series?
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ETA- I always read it as V-8.
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Dr. Manhattan is necessary to show the frailties of the other heroes, and how they work and fight and love and struggle to overcome their very human weaknesses to try to Do The Right Thing. Without him, the book would lack a lot of its humanity, because the reader compares the other heroes to him - and in the end, even Rorschach is a more sympathetic and genuinely human character than Manhattan.
Another vote for “Vite”.
Gold. This would be a perfect sig, if I used one.
I AM DISAPPOINTED, VEIDT!
Agreed. Dr. Manhattan is there to show how disconnected someone with real superpowers would become from humanity and the earth.
Honestly, both Veidt and Kovacs show SOME of this. Veidt through his training and intelligence becomes so distant from humanity that he can envision killing millions as just a point on a balance sheet and Kovacs because, well, he’s mad. Even the Comedian is more human than those two in terms of acknowledging the world as filled with real people.
So, in terms of ‘connectedness’…
Nite Owl
Silk Spectre
The Comedian
Veidt
Kovacs
Dr. Manhattan