Spoiler Discussion of HBO's Watchmen Premiere

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🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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On the October 21, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista for a spoiler-filled conversation about the pilot episode of Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen. Opening Banter: In The Spoiler Room: Our relationships to Watchmen prior to this episode Worldbuilding - American Hero Story, Dr. Manhattan on Mars, Redford as President, squid rain (are the baby squids part of a government conspiracy?), watch imagery, other easter eggs (Under the Hood) Overall thoughts Tulsa Race Massacre, real life Bass Reeves Cop shooting sequence (need permission to unlock the weapon) Regina King as Angela Abar/Sister Night Don Johnson as Chief Judd Crawford (why doesn’t he wear a mask?) Jeremy Irons as Adrian Veidt (servant relationships) Interrogation in “the pod” Shootout at the cattle ranch (those cows!), plane crash Judd captured and lynched on his way to visit the injured officer in the hospital Reveal at the end with the boy from the beginning as the murderer (?) Other Articles Mentioned: The Case for Reparations ‘Watchmen’ Starts With One of the Best Pilots Ever, Announcing “It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice” What’s the Deal with the Squid in ‘Watchmen’? All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS). Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air. Please rate and review the podcast on iTunes, tell your friends and spread the word! Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Slash Film Daily for Monday, October 21st, 2019.
0:04.2	On today's episode, we're going to be having a spoiler-filled conversation about the pilot episode of
0:08.6	Damon Lindeloff's new HBO show, Watchman. My name is Ben Pearson. I'm the senior writer at slash film.
0:13.9	And I'm joined on today's episode by slash film writers why train buoy.
0:17.6	Hey everyone and Chris Evangelista.
0:20.0	Hello folks this is the the official watchman podcast HBO is paying us right now to do this
0:29.4	my check must have been lost in the mail Chris I got to think of the clever name for the name of the podcast because this is our spinoff. Well I'm sure I
0:39.6	guess we should have done this before the show started really We're really bad at our official watchman
0:44.1	podcast. Flash watch. There you go. I just received a communique from HBO and
0:50.4	we've been instantly fired so we don't have to worry about that anymore.
0:55.0	But yes we are going to be talking about Watchman on today's show.
0:59.0	The show premiered last night and it seems to be all anybody can talk about online right now and
1:03.2	for good reason it's a very very good hour of television and lots of questions
1:07.7	lots of mysteries put forth so let's just jump right into that.
1:13.0	Let's start this conversation by talking a little bit about our relationships to Watchman before this episode.
1:19.0	So, H.T. let's start with you.
1:21.0	Did you read the comic? Have you seen
1:22.8	Zach Snyder's 2009 movie based on the comic? What's your relationship with
1:27.3	Watchman? Yes, both. I have an aunt who was really into comic books and graphic novels and would lend me all sorts of things.
1:36.9	She lent me the entire Sandman series and she lent me one time the Watchman graphic novel.
1:41.8	Actually I think she might have bought it for me and I was really
1:45.3	excited to read it because I was deep in the fandom for Lost loss was a
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