"Who are you?" "Who am I? If I knew the answer to that I wouldn’t be wearing a mask."
there are people believe this world
is fair and good it's all lollipops and rainbows
we don't do lollipops and rainbows we know those are pretty colors that just
hide what the world really is black and white soon they'll shout save us
and we will whisper no
we convinced ourselves that they were gone but they were just hibernating
they came for everybody, all police
coordinated simultaneous attacks at the homes of Tulsa PD until the cops hide
their faces and now the bad guys don't know where they live and who doesn't
want a secret identity
people who wear masks are dangerous we should be scared of them because they're
hiding something
Laurie Blake FBI you know how you can tell the difference between a masked cop
and a vigilante no me neither
they were the vast and insidious conspiracy
at play If I told you about it your head would explode
who are you? maybe, uh... I'm Dr. Manhattan
he lives on fucking Mars you curse too much
oh shit
nothing. ever. ends.
It's only just begun.
Hey guys, Pete here. Today I'm gonna do a breakdown of the new Watchmen on HBO
trailer that they dropped at Comic Con this weekend. like most fans I had been
waiting patiently for this in coordination with the Twitter campaign
and I have to say, wow. I had high expectations for this and my initial
reaction is that they exceeded them. we also got a release date for season 1 at
least that we know now that Watchmen will premiere in October. I'm going to
forego any attempt at looking at this as a straight scene-by-scene breakdown
because it's a three minute long trailer that's packed with Easter eggs instead
I'll look at all the major stuff and the high points and possibly make some more
detailed videos sometime this week where I look at it a little bit closer. this
video will contain spoilers about the ending of the source material the
original comic book series Watchmen so if you're planning on reading that I
would come back after you finished doing it before you watch this video
because it's gonna get spoiled otherwise with that out of the way let's get into
it the biggest takeaway about the new
Watchmen trailer is that they seem to provide a lot of answers to the
questions we had after the initial teaser came out a couple months ago I
was pretty surprised that we found out that Jean Smart's character is in fact
Silk Spectre, Don Johnson's character looks like he's almost definitely
Nite Owl/Dan Dreiberg, and also Dr. Manhattan will in fact make an
appearance and on top of that it looks like he'll be returning to Earth. these
were all theories that were kicking around after the first look video and
there you go we have some answers the nice part about the fact that they're
giving us answers is that we get a feeling that there's a much deeper story
under the surface that we can start to focus on so I'm excited. the trailer
opens with the TV show inside the TV show similar to how the Tales of the Black Freighter
was a comic inside The Watchmen comic it appears that American Heroes Story:
Minutemen is a fictional show about the Minutemen that's inside of the Watchmen
TV show in that we see a robbery taking place in the 1940s era and see the
costume adventurer Hooded Justice arrive on the scene the clerk says who
are you and he replies who am i if I knew the answer to that I wouldn't be
wearing a mask the new character Looking Glass takes notice of this as he's
eating what looks like being straight out of the
can Rorschach style I can't lay out the whole backstory here but the Minutemen
where a group made up of masked adventurers that predate the Watchmen
comic by 40 plus years Hooded Justice was the first guy to put on a mask and
fight crime which inspired others to follow his lead
and do the same this phenomenon changed things and is where the alternate
reality of the Watchmen universe diverges from our world the show
existing is the first of many reminders that even though it looks like our world
the Watchmen universe has definitely developed differently than ours has
after Hooded Justice's corny line and Looking Glass' what am I doing with my
life reaction we get our first introduction to Angela Abraham she says
there are people that believe this world is fair and good it's all lollipops and
rainbows we don't do lollipops and rainbows we
know those are pretty colors that just hide what the world really is black and
white she's talking to a child who is unnamed at this point we see some family
photos in the background but they don't seem to be related to anyone else we see
in the trailer so I don't know who this girl is this conversation jumped out at
me ABB's I was rewatching in that from what we've seen Angela is who we expect
to be the closest thing to a good guy in this story but her way of thinking here
sounds very similar to Rorschach rigid inflexible black-and-white thinking and
the trailer cuts directly to our modern-day Rorschach's for the next part
of the dialogue who was a nod to the opening of the comic books say soon they
will shout save us and we will whisper know so if there's any question as to
whether Rorschach's journal was printed or not this seems to confirm it of
course the existence of this Rorschach cult made that pretty clear anyways but
now they seem to be paraphrasing the journal if not quoting from it from
there we get a little more information about how the Rorschachs are waging war
against the police we hear Chief Judd Crawford addressing the police again we
convinced ourselves they were gone but they were just hibernating we see those
guys preparing to do battle he continues they came for everybody all
police there's a nice overhead shot here where we see that there are quite a few
plain clothes costumed adventurers on the police force alongside the masked the
uniformed cops we see Angela at home it's a husband Cal and we see the
Rorschachs mount an attack on them she looks to hold her own
against them but the real implication here is that they know her identity and
know where she lives to go along with that we hear another voice continue
coordinated simultaneous attacks at the homes of Tulsa PD so the cops hide their
faces and now the bad guys don't know where they live and who doesn't want a
secret identity there's a sequence with Angela at a school where we see that
Robert Redford is the current president in the Watchmen universe which is a
direct callback to the book and a nod to the comedian's pin made out of eggs a la
Angela we get a closer look at the cemetery scene from the other trailer
and what stands out here is that this looks like a funeral of someone
important rather than just any police officer we caught a glimpse of a
newspaper saying Ozymandias aka Adrian Veidt was officially declared dead but I
don't think this is his funeral because well I think it seems a little bit fishy
that they would actually kill him off we see Veidt throughout this trailer and
it's noticeable that he has a cake with one candle that he's blowing out I'm
thinking he might be celebrating the first year of his new life or one year
in hiding or on the run or something along those lines if you look at the
wording on the newspaper article it says he's been officially declared dead not
that he was found dead or that he was murdered so I don't know I don't think
it's likely that he's actually gonna die but let me know what you think about
that the next bit of voiceover says people who wear masks are dangerous we
should be scared of them a little girl says why and the reply is because
they're hiding something if you look at the closed captioning here it says that
this is Cal Abraham but it's a different actor as far as I can tell and I have no
idea who these people are what's going on as a result of that it's interesting
though that he's pointing out that wearing a mask is something that you do
to hide who you are throughout this part of the trailer we see a bus going down
with lots of criminals in a warehouse there are plenty of costume adventurer
police on the scene and so is Special Agent Blake with pirate Jenny who we saw
in the first trailer at her side we also get a look at where those screens that
were surrounding Looking Glass came from it appears as if police do
interrogations in this pod or this room whatever you want to call it but there's
no details about what exactly is going on
here we see the scene where Angela attacks the guy in the camper again
there's a quick glimpse of the newspaper that says president Redford won't be
seeking re-election and then we get introductions between laurie blake and
angela at the cemetery this is where you realize that Laurie took her biological
father the Comedian's last name and that this character is in fact Silk Spectre -
from the comment she says do you know how you can tell the difference between
a masked cop and a vigilante Angela answer's no and she says me neither this
is a very interesting dynamic and I suppose we're gonna see that play out
throughout the series after that we meet Louis Gossett jr. character we aren't
sure who he is at this point but he has some sort of spotlight gadget with him
we see Angela approaching him outside and we hear the voiceover of his voice
say there's a vast and insidious conspiracy at play if I told you about
it your head would explode Angela cuts in to say who are you and he
replies maybe I'm dr. Manhattan Angela points out that he lives on fucking Mars
and Louis Gossett jr. replies that she curses too much there are two scenes
going on here between these characters that are tied together and in the
background we watch a sequence of images while he's talking we watch looking
glass pulling on his mask Ozymandias on horseback riding past the
pirate flag again Laurie walking away from the dr. Manhattan looking booth
that they had at comic-con perhaps she was making a call to her
ex-boyfriend dr. Manhattan and another shot of the incident at the carnival
with all the bodies laying around on the ground there's two other images squeezed
in here that catch your eye as being out of place one looks like a camp site that
could be from some time in the distant past there's a man on the ground that
looks like he's been killed and the second one has a bunch of people
crowding around with smoke in the air then we get our first glimpse of dr.
Manhattan on Mars through a satellite feed David Bowie's song life on Mars
kicks in and then things take off dr. Manhattan brings down a castle looking
structure he'd built that seems to be made of dust we cut back to earth and
get a glimpse of Archie the Nite Owl 2's airship flying through the air
angela is exactly me when she looks up and says oh shit we get the idea that
Don Johnson's character is probably an older dan
dreiberg AKA Nite Owl from the comic he uses Archie's flamethrower to take
out a drone over the farmhouse we saw in the first trailer and I say he's
probably night out too because he also crashed his Archie so it's not clear if
he knows what he's doing here or not it could be that he hasn't flown it for
quite a long time and he doesn't have the hang of it anymore or it could be
that chief Crawford borrowed Archie off the actual night owl I'm leaning towards
it actually being him but we'll have to wait and see either way we see a lot of
fighting going down in different locations with cops
Rorschacs masked adventurers and some civilians at a trailer park that it's
called Nixonville there's a courtroom scene that looks like they're trying
Ozymandias for a squid attack on new york at the end of the book we see an
illustration of the squid the judge is wearing a mask and the court officers
are all wearing wigs and robes so it doesn't look like the US court system in
our world anyway we see car crashes Archie crashing Adrian pushing his
plunger an explosion in the street that could be from American Hero story Minute
Men since it looks like it's in the 40s and we have Ozymandias with a voiceover
who says nothing ever ends it's only just begun we watch as Laurie is in a
faceoff with a costumed adventurer who seems to be on the wrong side of the law
his costume almost looks like an updated Nite Owl get up and we see her shoot
him as he tries to escape a pack of pigs break into the courtroom as Ozy is
talking and we see Angela and the unnamed child she's with in all these
scenes sitting in a car as Tiny squid's rain down from the sky the music winds
down with the shot as the voice-over finishes and he has a very satisfied
look on his face which definitely makes me think that he's up to something
even though the newspapers are reporting that he's dead there's something else
going on the title pops up after that and then we watch as dr. Manhattan walks
down the street and picks up a mask that looks like his face we see the blue hand
so we know it's him and it definitely looks like he'll be making an appearance
at some point in this season it's not clear when he was on Mars it certainly
looked like he was glowing here it doesn't look like that but I
and say that that means it's not him I definitely think this is dr. Manhattan
and he's going to come back to the story so the trailer ends there and I did have
to cut a lot of stuff out but I think I hit all the high points I'm very curious
as to whether chief Crawford is in fact the Nite Owl we know from the casting
that he's got a wife so it's clear that he's not with laurie anymore
he lives in Tulsa she comes in from the FBI so they're all in the same place
also very curious to find out what Louis Gossett jr. role is in all of this I
think this thing looks fantastic I was really looking forward to it it seems to
tick all the boxes of the things I was hoping they would get into I'm super
curious to see what you guys think in the comments there's a ton of new
characters here most of them aren't named I think this guy we know his name
is Red Scare I think he's the only one whose name we actually know from the
casting announcements but there's definitely a lot going on they
definitely are making a lot of references back to the original work
which is very exciting they seem to be doing it in the right way rather than
making it too on-the-nose too straightforward they're doing their own
thing but they're paying homage at the same time and I think that's going to be
fantastic but let me know what you think please
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