This is incredible acting top to bottom
HBO Series: Watchmen (2019) (drops 10/20/19) Thread
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Hmmmm
Angela adopted son was using the same metal builing blocks as the old rich man with the clones.
Angela adopted son was using the same metal builing blocks as the old rich man with the clones.
Wtf silk spectre?
Would have killed everyone at the damn funeral.
Would have killed everyone at the damn funeral.
I wonder if it's Lady Trieu. The 7th Kavalry has a CS924X Teleportation Window that Keane is going to use for a whole separate terror event, but that one window ain't big enough seed a cloud with squidlings.
Throughout the last episode, the question was repeatedly asked, "What is true? or is Anything true?" (TRIEU)
Hold on hold on...
The clones?
That Ichabod Crane from Sleepy Hollow!!!
Well damn.
The clones?
That Ichabod Crane from Sleepy Hollow!!!
Well damn.
I don't trust this keene dude.
There's not ONE character arc that intrigues you at all?
Sister Knight's lineage and how it ties to what's going on?
How did Laurie, as a Fed, take over the Tulsa PD? That's a Municipal Department, not Federal. Why is everybody all good with it?
What does Keane have up his sleeve and what role did Judd play in it? Is this muhfucka even really dead?
How did a former Jehovah's Witness bumpkin become a Human Polygraph and do side work for Corporate America while wearing a concealed tinfoil hat?
That's just a few questions that keep you looking for answers.
There's not ONE character arc that intrigues you at all?
Sister Knight's lineage and how it ties to what's going on?
How did Laurie, as a Fed, take over the Tulsa PD? That's a Municipal Department, not Federal. Why is everybody all good with it?
What does Keane have up his sleeve and what role did Judd play in it? Is this muhfucka even really dead?
How did a former Jehovah's Witness bumpkin become a Human Polygraph and do side work for Corporate America while wearing a concealed tinfoil hat?
That's just a few questions that keep you looking for answers.
dont forget the fuckin trillionaire asian bitch... comin in and out of scenes like a gotdam asian iceberg slim...
her daughter was like mom are you gonna walk me to my room..
she was like .. no bitch...
lol
this series is intriguing af....
Yeah, and did she imprison him and pull a hostile takeover on his Corporations and shit? Also, is that him who plummeted t
o Earth on the farm that she just acquired so she can lay claim on him and hold him at bay? WTF is goin on?
Yeah, and did she imprison him and pull a hostile takeover on his Corporations and shit? Also, is that him who plummeted t
o Earth on the farm that she just acquired so she can lay claim on him and hold him at bay? WTF is goin on?
bruh.. you aint lying.. and when she said I want the house and the forty acres of land..
I was like hmmh forty acres...of land... that sure sounds familiar... reminds you of how a lot of caucazoids
so far every episode is a gotdam cliff hanger like ok what crazy shit they gonna show next...
Im glad I didnt read the novel.. this way I can just enjoy this for what it is, rather than comparing every fuckin scene to the book...
I love the tension between reginas kings character and that fbi bitch...
and regina kings character grows on me more and more each week.
‘Watchmen’: Damon Lindelof Explains Those Pills and What Nostalgia Means for the Show
HBO’s Watchmen sure is spinning a lot of plates at the moment. What the heck are Lady Trieu and Angela’s grandfather up to? What is the Seventh Kavalry planning to do with those portals? Who put Adrian Veidt on a moon of Jupiter and why? And how did a 100-year-old man kill Judd Crawford? We’ve got four episodes left to sort that out, but in its fifth installment, “Little Fear of Lightning,” Watchmen decidedly started tipping in the direction of answering questions.
We finally found out for sure that Adrian Veidt is being kept as a prisoner in space. We confirmed those suspicions that sketchy Senator Keene is working with the 7K. Oh, and there was a giant effing squid. At last. But “Little Fear of Lightning” also finally gave us some answers about those mysterious red pills Angela’s been toting around.
The Looking Glass-centric episode followed Tim Blake Nelson’s officer to his ex-wife’s (disturbing as hell) cloning office in search of answers, where she informed him that the drug is called “Nostalgia” and it’s extremely dangerous. “They outlawed those, because it turns out putting memories in pill form leads to psychosis,” she said in a brief but effective bit of expository dialogue. That doesn’t sound good for Angela, who chugged a bottle of her grandfather’s Nostalgia before getting carted away to a jail cell at the end of the episode.
If you want a bit more detail than memory pills make you crazy, fortunately, Watchmen’s companion site Peteypedia released an old pamphlet for the medication-turned-illegal substance dated back in 2007. “The present is a worrisome time because the future is unknown. That leaves only the past to comfort us,” it reads before delivering some bullet point details on the drug, and some fascinating hints at what’s to come for Angela in the fine print.
The pamphlet reveals that Nostalgia was a “revolutionary, all-natural personally customized medication for people suffering from anxiety, dementia, and psychic trauma” created by TRIEU How does it work? “Nostalgia turns memories of your choice into easily digestible tablets that will allow you to experience those memories in the most lucid way possible.”
It continues, “Nostalgia is a customized psychoactive compound composed of synthetic mnemonic material replicated from the patient’s brain and all-natural corticosteroids drawn from the patient or properly matched blood relative. Tablets are derived through a proprietary process of neurochemical scanning of the hippocampus.” So Trieu scans your brain and uploads your memory into a pill that’s designed specifically for your DNA. The pamphlet also notes that each tablet can hold 1-5 memories, and the pills are coded by color with red pills representing the “most insense”. Now, I’m no math genius and I’m not sure exactly how many pills Angela took, but I’m gonna estimate she just consumed a buttload of memories in the most intense form.
Even while it was legal, taking nostalgia required a doctor’s prescription, a psychological assessment, and a signed legal waiver. The details in the safety information note that the length of the experience can vary and in bold “Never take someone else’s Nostalgia”
Which means Angela is in for a real shitshow of an experience, because also listed in the fine print are the following potential effects of overdosing on Nostalgia: “cardiac arrest; respiratory distress; sleeping sickness; catatonia’ psychic looping’ incessant weeping, laughing, or screaming; random or irregular erections; random or irregular vaginal wetness; involuntary orgasms; explosive flatulence or diarrhea’ kidney, liver, and colon failure; and the complete collapse of the auto-immune system.”
We’ll see exactly what happens when you OD on someone else’s red Nostalgia pills in Episode 6, and from the looks of the trailer, Angel’s taking a fully immersive trip back to some devastating life events. But we’re also going to learn more about what those pills stand for and how the theme of toxic nostalgia ties into the framework of the show.
Watchmen series creator Damon Lindelof explained to Collider that the pills may start out as a MacGuffin, but they’re also a key thematic element:
Before Watchmen even started airing, Lindelof was speaking openly about the role toxic nostalgia plays in the construct of the show and Watchmen‘s comic book history (it’s no coincidence that a bottle of Nostalgia by Veidt crashes to the ground during Laurie’s big confrontation with Doctor Manhattan on Mars.) Speaking with Rolling Stone back in September, Lindelof explained:
I can't wait to see how hard Angela trips and what memories she sees after taking that whole bottle of pills. Here's hoping for some random vaginal wetness as well. LMBAO!!!
HBO’s Watchmen sure is spinning a lot of plates at the moment. What the heck are Lady Trieu and Angela’s grandfather up to? What is the Seventh Kavalry planning to do with those portals? Who put Adrian Veidt on a moon of Jupiter and why? And how did a 100-year-old man kill Judd Crawford? We’ve got four episodes left to sort that out, but in its fifth installment, “Little Fear of Lightning,” Watchmen decidedly started tipping in the direction of answering questions.
We finally found out for sure that Adrian Veidt is being kept as a prisoner in space. We confirmed those suspicions that sketchy Senator Keene is working with the 7K. Oh, and there was a giant effing squid. At last. But “Little Fear of Lightning” also finally gave us some answers about those mysterious red pills Angela’s been toting around.
The Looking Glass-centric episode followed Tim Blake Nelson’s officer to his ex-wife’s (disturbing as hell) cloning office in search of answers, where she informed him that the drug is called “Nostalgia” and it’s extremely dangerous. “They outlawed those, because it turns out putting memories in pill form leads to psychosis,” she said in a brief but effective bit of expository dialogue. That doesn’t sound good for Angela, who chugged a bottle of her grandfather’s Nostalgia before getting carted away to a jail cell at the end of the episode.
If you want a bit more detail than memory pills make you crazy, fortunately, Watchmen’s companion site Peteypedia released an old pamphlet for the medication-turned-illegal substance dated back in 2007. “The present is a worrisome time because the future is unknown. That leaves only the past to comfort us,” it reads before delivering some bullet point details on the drug, and some fascinating hints at what’s to come for Angela in the fine print.
The pamphlet reveals that Nostalgia was a “revolutionary, all-natural personally customized medication for people suffering from anxiety, dementia, and psychic trauma” created by TRIEU How does it work? “Nostalgia turns memories of your choice into easily digestible tablets that will allow you to experience those memories in the most lucid way possible.”
It continues, “Nostalgia is a customized psychoactive compound composed of synthetic mnemonic material replicated from the patient’s brain and all-natural corticosteroids drawn from the patient or properly matched blood relative. Tablets are derived through a proprietary process of neurochemical scanning of the hippocampus.” So Trieu scans your brain and uploads your memory into a pill that’s designed specifically for your DNA. The pamphlet also notes that each tablet can hold 1-5 memories, and the pills are coded by color with red pills representing the “most insense”. Now, I’m no math genius and I’m not sure exactly how many pills Angela took, but I’m gonna estimate she just consumed a buttload of memories in the most intense form.
Even while it was legal, taking nostalgia required a doctor’s prescription, a psychological assessment, and a signed legal waiver. The details in the safety information note that the length of the experience can vary and in bold “Never take someone else’s Nostalgia”
Which means Angela is in for a real shitshow of an experience, because also listed in the fine print are the following potential effects of overdosing on Nostalgia: “cardiac arrest; respiratory distress; sleeping sickness; catatonia’ psychic looping’ incessant weeping, laughing, or screaming; random or irregular erections; random or irregular vaginal wetness; involuntary orgasms; explosive flatulence or diarrhea’ kidney, liver, and colon failure; and the complete collapse of the auto-immune system.”
We’ll see exactly what happens when you OD on someone else’s red Nostalgia pills in Episode 6, and from the looks of the trailer, Angel’s taking a fully immersive trip back to some devastating life events. But we’re also going to learn more about what those pills stand for and how the theme of toxic nostalgia ties into the framework of the show.
Watchmen series creator Damon Lindelof explained to Collider that the pills may start out as a MacGuffin, but they’re also a key thematic element:
Indeed, the name Nostalgia will be familiar to fans of the comics — it’s the same branding that Adrien Veidt was using to sell his perfume before he launched his Millenium line. It all comes back to that pamphlet promise: “The present is a worrisome time because the future is unknown. That leaves only the past to comfort us,” Or as Veidt explained in a letter, when times are tough, “the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality.”
Before Watchmen even started airing, Lindelof was speaking openly about the role toxic nostalgia plays in the construct of the show and Watchmen‘s comic book history (it’s no coincidence that a bottle of Nostalgia by Veidt crashes to the ground during Laurie’s big confrontation with Doctor Manhattan on Mars.) Speaking with Rolling Stone back in September, Lindelof explained:
We’ll see how toxic Nostalgia can get, literally and figuratively in next week’s episode which promises to answer a whole lot more questions and take us on a very unfiltered first-person tour of America’s dark past.
I can't wait to see how hard Angela trips and what memories she sees after taking that whole bottle of pills. Here's hoping for some random vaginal wetness as well. LMBAO!!!
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The mystery of who Jeremy Irons is playing on Watchmen was resolved fairly early in Damon Lindelof’s continuation series, but many fans surmised correctly that the actor would play Adrian Veidt (a.k.a Ozymandias) based on just the trailer. No matter, because Watchmen has raised many more questions in its first season, including whether Doctor Manhattan can take on a human form, what’s up with these “squidfalls,” and just what the hell Veidt is doing on that beautiful estate while the Seventh Kavalry terrorizes Tulsa.
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Turns out, Veidt didn’t just retire to countryside to become a playwright specializing in shows about naked blue god-men—despite what the fancy digs and army of clones might suggest, he’s actually being held captive. We don’t yet know by whom, but Lindelof did recently tell Collider where exactly Veidt’s prison is located. From the interview:
That’s a ways from Doctor Manhattan’s adopted home of Mars, but that doesn’t necessarily shoot down the theory that the erstwhile Jonathan Osterman is the responsible for Veidt’s imprisonment. After all, “Jupiter” is the last name Sally Juspeczyk took on, and Doctor Manhattan was in a relationship with Sally’s daughter Laurie (Jean Smart) for years. Then again, that kind of inside joke might be beyond Doctor Manhattan’s current emotional capacity, so maybe Lady Trieu (Hong Chau) just built an even bigger trebuchet.
Lindelof also confirmed what so many have been thinking about those “anniversaries” the clones and Veidt have been celebrating—a year passes between each visit to Europa: “It’s a story told on a very, very large canvas, each installment taking place on another anniversary of another year that he has spent wherever the hell he’s spending [it].”
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Of the nine episodes that make up season one, Veidt is absent from only one; according to Lindelof, he didn’t fit into the story being told in that particular episode. Any episode with clones and show tunes, though? He’s your man.
The mystery of who Jeremy Irons is playing on Watchmen was resolved fairly early in Damon Lindelof’s continuation series, but many fans surmised correctly that the actor would play Adrian Veidt (a.k.a Ozymandias) based on just the trailer. No matter, because Watchmen has raised many more questions in its first season, including whether Doctor Manhattan can take on a human form, what’s up with these “squidfalls,” and just what the hell Veidt is doing on that beautiful estate while the Seventh Kavalry terrorizes Tulsa.
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Turns out, Veidt didn’t just retire to countryside to become a playwright specializing in shows about naked blue god-men—despite what the fancy digs and army of clones might suggest, he’s actually being held captive. We don’t yet know by whom, but Lindelof did recently tell Collider where exactly Veidt’s prison is located. From the interview:
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That’s a ways from Doctor Manhattan’s adopted home of Mars, but that doesn’t necessarily shoot down the theory that the erstwhile Jonathan Osterman is the responsible for Veidt’s imprisonment. After all, “Jupiter” is the last name Sally Juspeczyk took on, and Doctor Manhattan was in a relationship with Sally’s daughter Laurie (Jean Smart) for years. Then again, that kind of inside joke might be beyond Doctor Manhattan’s current emotional capacity, so maybe Lady Trieu (Hong Chau) just built an even bigger trebuchet.
Lindelof also confirmed what so many have been thinking about those “anniversaries” the clones and Veidt have been celebrating—a year passes between each visit to Europa: “It’s a story told on a very, very large canvas, each installment taking place on another anniversary of another year that he has spent wherever the hell he’s spending [it].”
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Of the nine episodes that make up season one, Veidt is absent from only one; according to Lindelof, he didn’t fit into the story being told in that particular episode. Any episode with clones and show tunes, though? He’s your man.
jus reading thru this thread proves my point you have to b a fan of the comics / books to really dig it ...
if u dont know shit about this show its gonna seem wack or jus ok to u ...
1st ep was good n then ...
i gotta agree
i couldnt imagine watching this show without being a fan of the source material
my lil sister wanted to check it out cause of Regina King & Damon Lindeoff (she is a fan of the leftovers)
i gave her my copy of the graphic novel and told not to watch anything and avoid all comic book spoilers
she loved the book and loves the show
but she the only person i know in real life checking for it
I never watch, "Next Week On..." With any show. I don't like the spoilers even though they're little tiny clips. Every show I've ever watched I cut it off before it so I don't see the spoilers
But those aren't spoilers, they're TEASERS. You can go back to Ep. 1 and see what was coming in Ep. 2 and tell me where they spoiled it? There's still shit that you don't see coming.
Last week, they showed SK handing those pills to LG in his bunker. You didn't find out that it was Nostalgia until this week; his cap is lined with Reflexene, as well as his mask being made of it and for what reason; and so on.
These are just "cliffhangers" to keep you interested without giving up more of the plot...especially THESE days of Easter Egg hunts and episode reviews to keep things buzzing until the following week.
I love this series
Hold hold hold on
The car scene with Angela, Spectre and Petey.
Did they just DISS the watchmen movie????!!!
The car scene with Angela, Spectre and Petey.
Did they just DISS the watchmen movie????!!!
they were talking about the minute men mini series that on tv in the show.
Question for the book readers.
Why didnt Dr Manhattan take care of the Russians?
Why didnt Dr Manhattan take care of the Russians?
he no longer cared about human issues and world politics
he reached a point where humans were insects to him
Thanks.
I know its a comic book but I never got that part.
Dude was beyond humanity but he wasnt beyond fucking this chick.
Yea he is the one writing the Peteypedia and he hates how the show is twisting history. Hence the gay scene just for a reaction. Well basically like a lot of films/shows about history.
he became dettach to humanity and what it felt like to be human.
Oh yeah i got it.
Its because i have heard more and more people recently diss the watchmen movie more and more since the series came out.
Thought the series was making a slick reference.
Btw... i liked the movie for what it was at the time and since.
dr manhattan was multi-tasking lol. fucking his chick while having a few other versions of himself working .
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