Pan |
It appears I was close with my guess about Adrian being on Mars (he is most likely on Phobos/Deimos.) Still dont know why or how. Also, those clever little writers only gave us half the message!
Looks like Wade should not have trusted Keene, and I hope he is going to make it.
Episode 6 looks like its going to be a trip...
Irontruth |
The writing on this show.
The only weakness I can give it is that it lacks poetry in the dialogue. Some poetry is nice now and then.
Other than that, the writing....
The acting is good. The costuming, directing, effects, etc. The acting is legit good, but they've been given really evocative characters to play.
The writing though.
BigNorseWolf |
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I agree with Iron, the writing and the acting is the real strength of this show.
Also I don't think Lady T's Adrian's dad.
Thirdly, I still can't get over Lady T cloning her dead mom and then making her her daughter...
I bet Mom 2.0 really wished Mom 1.0 had bought Lady T that pony....
BigNorseWolf |
Yeah I mean I get that you'd assume he's know how to make different choices...but since it's kind of happening at once for him...it might not be easy for him to distinguish between now and what comes before now.
It had to happen because it happened would be a complete copout.
Dr. Manhattan is just waking up and doesn't have enough powers to deal with it would also work, but he teleported the kids away.
So he's NOT going to teleport the entire family away, wait an hour for his brain to come together, THEN turn the entire kalvary inside out because.....?
Irontruth |
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He isn't in a ground hogs day scenario. It isn't a repeating loop, it is a one time occurrence that all happened.
I'd be curious to see NDT or Sean Carrol break down how to explain his existence in physics. Having dug into some Sean Carroll recently, I suspect a way to describe it would be entanglement.
We all remember the Schrodinger's Cat experiment. It kinda works as a thought experiment, but in reality, we don't have to open the box for the cat to come out of superposition. The particles inside the box have interacted with the box (entangled), and the box has interacted with particles outside of the box (entangled), so the observer and the cat are already entangled.
Particles exist in a wave function until they interact with an external source. If we consider ourselves as a collection of particles, and the future as our wave function (the probability that we would be in any specific place or take any specific action). Dr. Manhattan has already interacted with all possible points of his existence. His wave function has collapsed. There is no probability in what he could or would do. There exists only what he does. Since the wave functions have already all collapsed, he cannot do anything other than what he was done.
It also explains why people near Dr. Manhattan can only do the things they have done. In other points of their life there can be some uncertainty, but the wave function of their existence next to Dr. Manhattan has already collapsed. This of course alters the equation of their wave function away from him, ie, the further you get from an interaction with him the less limited your range of possibilities are. The closer you get to an interaction, the more your particle states must account for the collapsed stated.
I'm not sure if this makes much sense outside of my head. We might need Yellow Dingo back to translate this.
Irontruth |
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I definitely feel as though ep 8 was the denouement of the series. EP 9 was good, and it had lots of interesting moments, but it wasn't as revelatory as the ep 1-8. I intended to just watch a couple of scenes over again, and just ended up watching the whole episode over last night.
A problem with an ever-rising crescendo is that eventually it has to come back down. What it did do beautifully was tie everything together really, really well. I'm sure there are plot holes I'm just not seeing, but at the moment I feel like everything was explained well.
I still think my wave-function analogy is solid.
It looks like there is no season 2 in the works. Regina King is currently working on a directing project, which means she isn't under contract for Watchmen... at the moment.
Lindelof has floated the idea that Watchmen could become like True Detective (ie, the second season will suck... j/k), in that the show is about a theme and mood. In essence, another season of the show would be better served by focusing on the themes and ideas of the original Watchmen, not trying to continue on the story of the characters/actors/writers of the show. The Watchmen-universe still has plenty of room to explore ideas, so that could be cool.
I'm also not opposed to letting this stand by itself, and HBO just making something else new.
Damon Griffin |
I'm also not opposed to letting this stand by itself, and HBO just making something else new.
HBO does have a lot in development. Hard to say what might be good, but I'll at least take a look at these during 2020:
Lovecraft Country
Perry Mason
The Nevers
Avenue 5
The Outsider
I Know This Much Is True
The Plot Against America
Vidmaster7 |
Basically the weird thing about Jon is that even though he simultaneously experiencing all parts of time simultaneously which honestly is a hard concept to wrap your brain around he can't do much of anything to alter it . because then what he saw would change and then you would have a huge cascading effect where time was constantly altering because any action Jon took would be constantly altering himself and his knowledge It would get real messy real fast. He's practically a slave to his own time line. It's like when he says he's knows what your going to say but he doesn't know it until you actually tell him and you have to tell him or he doesn't know. It's a really hard thing to conceptualize.
Irontruth |
I'm rewatching with a friend.
There are so many things you miss the first time through.
Also, there are eggs constantly throughout the show once Will Reeves makes his appearance. Ep 2 credits song is "Egg Man" by the Beastie Boys. The Clarks sell eggs in Ep 4. The eggs Will leaves behind in Ep 3. It's constant. If only they were painted, then they'd be literal easter eggs of content.
There's a ton of background art and visuals that are making reference to a lot of things throughout the show. There is a lot of stuff to pay attention to when you already know what is going on.