Ep 060 - Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2014

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

What if superheroes were real? Would we still revere them so much? Or would they be too frightening for us to handle, too unstable for us to control?

What if they didn't want to save us?

These are the questions that kick off Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, a classic revered by comic fans for its deconstruction of superhero imagery, its compelling Cold War conspiracies, and its engrossing art and characters. Join us this week as we debate "comic" vs. "graphical novel," gripe about origin stories, and outright spoil the end of Watchmen.** No seriously, we talk about the end of this one explicitly from roughly 50:00 to 1:01:30. As always, caveat lector.

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0:00.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,
0:05.1	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:10.4	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	It's Mother's Day.
0:36.9	Did you do anything with your mom today?
0:38.7	Yeah, we went to tea. We had tea with my sister and my girlfriend.
0:44.2	It was delightful.
0:46.1	How proper of you.
0:47.6	They had this little sandwich though that was a roast beef sandwich with fig jam on it.
0:55.8	Figs.
0:57.2	Did you eat it? Did anybody eat it?
0:58.9	Yeah. Were you just like, you figs?
1:00.7	No. Other people really liked it.
1:03.3	I didn't remember that there was figs in it until after I ate it.
1:08.1	What's a fig? The closest I've come to eating a fig is eating fig noodles.
1:13.3	Now, this tasted like someone crammed a bunch of fig noodles inside a roast beef sandwich.
1:18.8	But it wasn't just a sandwich. It was a croissant which.
1:22.0	That's how you get fig jam as you just hollow out a bunch of fig noodles.
1:25.7	Nobody actually knows what a fig is.
1:28.9	Actually, fig newtons bushes. They're just grow on bushes.
1:34.5	Did you hear last year the crops got frozen and it killed all the fig newtons?
1:40.8	There was like a late frost and that's why it was so hard to find fig newtons.
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