The Watchmen TV Series

OK. Far out. I didn't think I'd say this but: Far out.

The attached image shows us the Hooded Justice of the TV series within the TV series: one totally different guy. (He looks exactly the same because of the costume.) The Awesome Mage's Watchmen had a comic within the comic so the TV sequel has a TV series within the TV series.

I watched Episode 1 last year with Ketlan and did not get into it yet. It takes some getting into. How does it connect with AM's original masterpiece? That takes time to transpire. For Father's Day this year, Aileen gave me the DVD set. Obviously, I was going to watch it and I also needed to read about the series to try to understand what these guys are doing. The actors speak very fast in very pronounced accents and make obscure references. Like a child watching a film, I have to accept that I do not understand a lot (yet).

So far, I have watched the first 6 of 9 episodes. A lot is still difficult, especially Veidt's strange predicament. The horseshoe theme seems particularly incoherent but it was repeated so maybe its meaning will become clear. I understand that everything does eventually tie together. Episode 5 brilliantly shows how one of the new characters survived the New York event. The Watchtower was appropriate both because it was in AM's series and because Watchtower fits with Watchmen.

Episode 6 is riveting. The newly created origin story for the previously unidentified Hooded Justice:

is as good as AM's Joker origin story (see also here);
explains the noose around the neck;
explains that, even under the hood, HJ needs a painted eye mask as camouflage. (Watch it. Episode 6.)

Captain Metropolis looks good. The other Minutemen are indistinct because we are seeing them through HJ's memories.

In an earlier episode, a newsboy was announcing that the aliens were a hoax just before HJ's first appearance which is chronologically wrong but I think that that was because someone was remembering first the later event, then the earlier event.

Dave Gibbons said that Damon Lindelof would do it right and it looks like Dave was right. I still have three episodes to watch and maybe the whole series to rewatch.

Masked policemen seem bizarre, then make sense as a role reversal.