Spoiler Discussion of HBO’s Watchmen Premiere

On the October 21, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista for a spoiler-filled conversation about the pilot episode of Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen.

 

Opening Banter: 

 

In The Spoiler Room:

• Our relationships to Watchmen prior to this episode
• Worldbuilding - American Hero Story, Dr. Manhattan on Mars, Redford as President, squid rain (are the baby squids part of a government conspiracy?), watch imagery, other easter eggs (Under the Hood)
• Overall thoughts
• Tulsa Race Massacre, real life Bass Reeves
• Cop shooting sequence (need permission to unlock the weapon)
• Regina King as Angela Abar/Sister Night
• Don Johnson as Chief Judd Crawford (why doesn’t he wear a mask?)
• Jeremy Irons as Adrian Veidt (servant relationships)
• Interrogation in “the pod”
• Shootout at the cattle ranch (those cows!), plane crash
• Judd captured and lynched on his way to visit the injured officer in the hospital
• Reveal at the end with the boy from the beginning as the murderer (?)

 

Other Articles Mentioned:

• The Case for Reparations
• ‘Watchmen’ Starts With One of the Best Pilots Ever, Announcing “It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice”
• What’s the Deal with the Squid in ‘Watchmen’?

 

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