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'Watchmen' Episode 4 Spoiler Discussion

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🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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On the November 11, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista for a spoiler-filled conversation about the fourth episode of HBO’s Watchmen, entitled “If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own.”   Opening Banter: Emails!   In Our Feature Presentation: Lady Trieu HT’s observation She REALLY wanted that farm Is this opening scene a flashback? What is the real purpose of the Millennium Clock? Ozymandias statue (“Because he IS old”) Her daughter’s nightmare - was that her experience? Angela Abar Family tree Lube Man! Who is he? Will wants to make sure she received those memory pills, which might connect to Trieu’s daughter’s IV Adrian Veidt Swamp babies! “Your flaws and this thoughtless design…I am most definitely not your maker. I would never have burdened such pathetic creatures with the gift of life.” Launches slaughtered bodies into the sky Crackpot corner Is Cal Doctor Manhattan? (His “accident,” the way he talks to the kids about death, his survival of the White Night) Will can walk! What is he up to? Is Lady Trieu aligned with Doctor Manhattan somehow? Will asks her how much longer until their plan comes to fruition, and she pauses for a second and says, “three days.” Doctor Manhattan obviously had a unique relationship with time, and she knew exactly when the thing was going to crash in the Clark’s backyard Any guesses as to what that thing was? Other Articles Mentioned: ‘Watchmen’ Says That “If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own” The ‘Watchmen’ Reference Guide: “If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own” ‘Watchmen’ Soundtrack From Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross is Now Streaming ‘Watchmen’ Episode 5 Promo: Through the Looking Glass   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 Kris Keochinda for the opening theme song and @sirzapz on Twitter for the 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, November 11th, 2019.

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On today's episode we're going to have a spoiler-filled conversation about the fourth episode of

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HBO's Watchman entitled, If You Don't Like My Story, Write Ben Pierce, and I'm the senior writer at slashfilm.com,

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and I'm joined on today's episode by slash film writers

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Hawaii Tran Bowie.

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Hey everyone, and Chris Evangelista.

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Hello folks.

0:33.0

All right guys, so before we dive into the whole of this episode, I wanted to read a couple of emails that we got specifically addressed to us, this Watchman Recap thing that we're doing on Mondays so

0:45.6

Zach from Grand Rapids Michigan writes in and I'm going to paraphrase his email

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here but he basically says my question comes after I was looking at the Rotten Tomato

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score as well as the IMDb score for Watchman.

0:57.8

It feels like critics seem to unanimously enjoy the show at the time of writing, and I just checked it right the second as well.

1:04.3

This the critic score on Rotten Tomatoes for the show is at 96% but the audience

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score is at 42% and Zach says, I hate to make this political, but do you

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think that this is a case of fans just not enjoying the quality of the show or

1:19.2

do you think it may be related to the subject matter and all of the topics of race and racial

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injustice that the show is dealing with. It feels like Watchman might be giving

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the same bad review bombardment by internet trolls that Captain Marvel received

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after Brie Larson's comments earlier this year. I just saw that score and found it completely surprising and was wondering if any of you had noticed it as well and what your thoughts were about that. So that's from Zach from Grand Rapids. I had not noticed, I had not really paid attention to the

1:44.1

Rat tomato score or the audience score or really the reaction beyond just reading

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like our coverage on the site to be honest with you guys. But what do you guys

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make of that? Do you think that there's

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