I only just forgot Calvary has our names and addresses just wrong
I was like Angela please please we go too fast
Vanity's of Atocha bang your head would spawn
what is this
it's the only way to show you the truth you need to help stop the seventh
cavalry from doing what those are Krishna trying to start a war
well it looks like you got things under control here full costume
Thanks welcome back everyone it's Charlie this is gonna be my non-spoilery
Watchmen episode 1 review I've had a chance to see an early version of the
episode so we'll break it down I'll explain some context for when the series
takes place relative to the previous Watchmen story if you've seen the movie
or if you read the original comic book they're 9 episodes total instead of the
usual 10 you would expect from a traditional HBO series but I will be
doing weekly episodes in Easter Egg videos be sure to subscribe if you're
brand new to my channel I will do weekly giveaways to either for HBO now or for
the comic book series or anything you guys want important context for the
series though this is meant to be a sequel series to the original Alan Moore
comic book not the movie the movie changed some things about the original
comic book so a lot of things that are referenced during episode 1 when they
sort of catch you up to speed on what the world is like in present day it's
the present day of the comic book not the movie it takes place in present day
2019 so it's been 35 years since Adrienne Veet Ozymandias portal in a
giant alien squid de Manhattan millions of people in his attempt to
bring about world peace if it's been a long time since you saw the movie or you
didn't read the comic book quick explainer for how the comic book ended
and how that was different from the movie on earth night owl and Rorschach
are going around trying to uncover this conspiracy that they think that awesome
and iasts is behind Rorschach writes everything down in a journal and then
mails it to the new frontiersman newspaper there's sort of a tag scene at
the end of the series where it seems like they're going to publish that and
reveal all the secrets of Ozymandias as larger plan undoing everything that he
tried to do eventually they discover Ozymandias and his antarctic retreat and
he tells them about his plan to unite humanity against a common enemy that
common enemy being dr. Manhattan eventually dr. Manhattan comes back to
earth witnesses all the destruction and finds out that Ozymandias has been
blocking his ability to see into the future with tachyons when he confronts
Ozymandias Ozymandias gives him his case for humanity and why it's necessary to
blame him for everything so that humanity could
dances of species the way that it needs to dr. Manhattan who's lost most of his
humanity as he's become more and more godlike actually agrees with Ozymandias
but Rorschach isn't having any of it he tells them that you'll have to me
in order to prevent me from revealing the lies that you've been telling
everyone so doctor Manhattan big WTF moment
Rorschach because he thinks that it's for the betterment of human society then
as he says at the end of the movie and at the end of the comic book he's going
to leave to attempt to create some new life somewhere else implying that he's
going to be leaving the solar system in going to another part of the universe
his parting words are nothing ever ends and they've actually been using that
sentence to market the series so obviously dr. Manhattan still very
important to the story of the new modern series the main difference between the
end of the original comic series in the movie is that they substituted the giant
space squid because they felt like that was too weird for non comic-book
audiences for a giant nuclear seeming bomb meant to mimic the powers of dr.
Manhattan so the energy signature would read like it was him who was causing the
explosion once we actually get into the episodes I will reference moments from
the comic books when they come up as Easter eggs in episodes if you feel like
it's too much to actually go back and read the original comic series they
actually did a pretty decent motion comic it received a lot of criticism
because the design wasn't great but they actually did adapt the entire comic
series into a big motion comic condoning or condemning human affairs cannot be my
concern I'm leaving this galaxy for one less complicated but you've regained
interest in human life yes I have I think perhaps I'll create some goodbye
John wait I did the right thing didn't I it all worked out in the end in the end
nothing ends Adrian nothing ever end John wait
what do you mean by just like the original series was a very realistic
hard look at our relationship a society with vigilantes it's the same thing with
the new Watchmen series just updated with more modern context so they have
some modern technology but not others there are some weird things happening in
present day just because of the way things unfolded after the events of the
original Watchmen comic book series so there's no internet
nobody has smartphones because they've been outlawed and because presidential
term limits were abolished in the original series Robert Redford
succeeded Nixon as US president and has been president for the last 30 plus
years even guns have been outlawed but because we have dr. Manhattan in this
world there was a lot of science and technology that they adapted from his
abilities so they do have some advanced technology there are a lot of characters
that they bring back from the original comic book series dr. Manhattan is still
a very important character to the series you have an older version of Silk
Spectre and you have Ozymandias and obviously there's a lot of mysteries
that they have not revealed that we'll find out about in later episodes so I'm
assuming that they included a lot more stuff from the original series the main
antagonist when the series picks up as the trailers have all told you are the
people wearing this war Shack mask they call them the seventh Cavalry the 7th
Calvary carries out a giant hit on the police department so they outlaw
vigilantes the only people that are legally allowed to wear masks are people
that work for the police department or other law enforcement agencies Regina
Kings character takes up the persona sister night when she's in her vigilante
costume instance about the task of taking down the seventh cavalry as she
starts to unravel the mystery behind the seventh cavalry they start to unfurl
more and more Easter eggs from the classic comic book series making it
bigger and bigger obviously this is meant to be a 9 episode series so
they're gonna answer most of the big questions in the finale but whereas the
earlier trailers make it seem like it's a pretty simple situation where the cult
of Rorschach maybe got their hands on Rorschach's journal from the original
series you also this very dr. Manhattan's symbol behind
lorry looking like they're getting ready to brainwash her or interrogate her
making it seem like they're more obsessed with dr. Manhattan than they
are with were shacks Journal genes smart was great as the older version of Laurie
Blake aka so expect her in obviously Jeremy Irons is fantastic as the older
Ozymandias you don't know exactly what's going on with his character right away
but that's part of the larger mystery that they unfurled as episodes go on
even though Alan Moore's material that they're adapting is super dense and
laced with meaning you could deconstruct it for years and it has been
deconstructed for many years the pacing in the first episode is fantastic they
don't throw too much at you too fast obviously I'll be doing Easter egg
videos so I'm we're really looking forward to rewatching the first episode
Don Johnson is fantastic I was actually surprised when he was cast he's not
playing a character from the original series but he does have a lot of good
scenes with Laurie Blake and with Regina King's character they do this weird
thing in the first episode - were they open with a giant flashback that you've
seen in all the trailers - the original from the 1920s in Tulsa
Oklahoma so a lot of the series at least at first takes place in and around
modern-day Tulsa Oklahoma is mundane as that might sound you have to remember
that this is a world where dr. Mann hadn't existed so there are a lot of
fantastical things and big mysteries that appear during the first episode but
part of the fun is taking Angela's perspective as she's sort of learning
about the world of Watchmen and learning about these larger like Lou
Gossett Jr's character tells her a wide-ranging that would blow
your mind and if you didn't hear the good news earlier this year Trent Reznor
and Atticus Ross are doing the music for the series that's right you're getting
Alan Moore story set to Nine Inch Nails music it's really haunting and really
amazing at the same time it's perfect it was a great choice to pick them I've
only seen the first episode so I can't say too much about the other Easter eggs
that they include from the comic book but like I said I'm expecting to find a
lot more as we get on in episodes the way they designed the series to was to
be relatively self-contained to the first season so all the big mysteries
that they set up in the first couple of episodes they will answer by the finale
I did think it was kind of weird that they only went for nine episodes instead
of ten but I think part of the idea is is they wanted to air all of the
episodes before the Christmas holidays so there won't be any kind of break in
the middle of the season I they'll probably enjoyed a little bit
more than I enjoyed Westworld just because I'm a little bit more of a comic
book person and there's so much comic book in this series also happening
really soon too is the Mandalorian series on Disney Plus that's going to be
launching November 12 but it'll be a Friday show for all the
rest of the episodes this is actually the episode scheduled for that so I will
be doing Watchmen and Star Wars Mandalorian episode videos all season
long for the rest of the year
and if you're a really big fan of The Witcher series there's also new Witcher
episodes that will be premiering a little bit later I believe in December
so there's actually a lot of really cool stuff coming up before the end of the
year if you have any big questions about the series that you want me to include
in videos just let me know in the comments but my episode 1 Easter Egg
video my top 10 WTF that we'll post this Sunday night so as long as you have
alerts enabled for my channel you should see that when I post it while you wait
for everything click here for that brand new witcher netflix trailer video and
click here for my Mandalorian Star Wars trailer video thank you so much for
watching everybody stay awesome I'll see you guys tonight