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beanieson posted:Dolph Lundgren has a masters degree in chemical engineering and was awarded a fullbright scholarship to MIT. He quit to be he-man though, so maybe he’s not so smart.
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I maintain that Adrian Veidt's physical appearance had to have been based on Dolph Lundgren.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:He quit to be he-man though, so maybe he’s not so smart. His decision is echoing memes through time. What have you done to judge this great he-man?
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Dec 15, 2019 01:17
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I'm not a comic book villain. Do you seriously think I would explain my master stroke to you if there were even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome? I killed Apollo three rounds ago.
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just another posted:I'm not a comic book villain. Do you seriously think I would explain my master stroke to you if there were even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome? I killed Apollo three rounds ago. 
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just another posted:Is there an actor with a physique like that who could also convincingly pull off being hyper intelligent?
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Like others, I am concerned that they will abandon the racial politics for sci-fi bullshit. However, I feel setting up an interesting political world just to resolve everything with a sci-fi curveball isn’t breaking precedent, so I’m not sure how disappointed I’ll be.
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I wonder if they'll even touch on the time loop again, or if it's simply meant to parallel the other out-of-left-field sci-fi concepts like genetic trauma, mind control and memory juice, that all relate to subliminal messages and shared experiences. Also, I predict that the Gamewarden will become God through tomato infusion. A being of boundless love to answer all our prayers? Soon we will all be enjoying our loving cake.
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I hope they follow through on how there’s an Old Testament God who tried and failed to make an Eden, then returns to Earth to experience a mortal life as a Black Jesus before allowing himself to die at the hands of white nationalists. It seems like there’s something they can do with that to connect to the wider themes of racial trauma and historical atrocity in America.
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Finally caught up with this over the last week, and the thread has been mostly fascinating to follow along with. With the conversation of swapping Dr Manhattan’s powers hanging in the air, I’m assuming Angela would possibly/probably get them.
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Dec 15, 2019 15:50
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I hope lube man gets manhattans powers, and a depowered Jon Osterman can raise his family and have a normal life with Angela
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Dec 15, 2019 15:55
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Taber posted:Like others, I am concerned that they will abandon the racial politics for sci-fi bullshit. However, I feel setting up an interesting political world just to resolve everything with a sci-fi curveball isn’t breaking precedent, so I’m not sure how disappointed I’ll be. If it goes nowhere then I wonder if it's an intentional parallel of Captain Metropopis' bait and switch or if they unintentionally satirized themselves.
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Topher is gettin the Dr M powers, or already has them.
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I'm watching the rerun marathon right now, and literally barely into the second episode they have a discussion about how Dr Manhattan can't appear like us. She's having the discussion with Manhattan. Just wtf.
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Grandpa Palpatine posted:I'm watching the rerun marathon right now, and literally barely into the second episode they have a discussion about how Dr Manhattan can't appear like us. There's a scene in ep 4 where Laurie is talking about when she was with Dr Manhattan and says "He's no Cal". It's pretty great.
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Dec 15, 2019 20:47
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Grandpa Palpatine posted:I'm watching the rerun marathon right now, and literally barely into the second episode they have a discussion about how Dr Manhattan can't appear like us. The show telegraphed it so many times, it always as "that's not possible", so much so that if you understood the language of the show you knew they were definitely telling you something that wasn't what was being plainly stated by the characters.
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Oh almost certainly. HBO have to know they’ve got a critical darling on their hands.
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I wouldn’t mind seeing some more stories with different characters in universe, but I’m really hoping that this story is completely wrapped up tonight.
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I have a feeling they wrote this with an ending that's meant to clearly be a single season and now they are going to have to figure out how to change that for the next one. (Kind of like Californication being written as a 1 season show, then becoming too popular not to continue.)
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Spacebump posted:I have a feeling they wrote this with an ending that's meant to clearly be a single season and now they are going to have to figure out how to change that for the next one. (Kind of like Californication being written as a 1 season show, then becoming too popular not to continue.) I mean I'm sure when you're doing a sequel adaptation to a property that has had a movie adaptation as well as its own prequel, there's at least the idea in the back of your head that the people financing it will want it to keep it running. So while I'm sure Lindelof planned it out to be a one and done, I'm sure there's at least room for them to do something for a sequel (which probably just means they don't kill off large swaths of the cast tbh, Watchmen is already weird enough that there is a lot of stuff you can explore in this weird alt timeline)
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The_Doctor posted:Oh almost certainly. HBO have to know they’ve got a critical darling on their hands. Westworld parallels...
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Collateral posted:Westworld parallels... I was thinking True Detective, but same difference. If they’re doing more, I seriously hope it’s anthology and not connected to this plot. And I hope they give the writers some real time to think about what they’re doing. Because pounding out more material in a fraction of the time and hoping people like it is how everything from Westworld S2 to Matrix Reloaded happens.
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I want to see the full American Hero Story
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I'm glad that we might be getting a season 2, but I just hope we jettison all of this grimdark poo poo and go for something more hopeful. I'm think the next season brings back Rorshach, only hes changed, he voted for Hilary Clinton and he now does loads of Whedon-esque quips.
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I would love to see a season dedicated to Will dealing with The Minutemen being a bunch of phonies.
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Dec 16, 2019 00:30
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I’m down for an entire season of Daniel drinking himself to death in a cheap apartment somewhere.
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Blue Nation posted:Season 2 could be Dan and Laurie shenanigans. I would watch a season of Laurie just traveling around the country, dunking on people constantly.
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So the cops having copies of Dan’s Nite Owl stuff for police stuff just kind of fizzled out, huh? Tiny fast airships have no use in dealing with Trieu’s slow construction ships that just grab cars and fly away? Just a hook for the series and maybe a suggestion of how Dan could be part of another season?
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:So the cops having copies of Dan’s Nite Owl stuff for police stuff just kind of fizzled out, huh? Tiny fast airships have no use in dealing with Trieu’s slow construction ships that just grab cars and fly away? I figure Tulsa PD probably only had the one, which they wrecked in the first episode. Those things don’t look cheap and the one they had was pretty old and busted.
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The_Doctor posted:Maybe Lubeman is season 2 bait. I will definitely be tuning in for a Lubeman centric season two. Xealot posted:I was thinking True Detective, but same difference. Wasn’t west world season 2 like almost 2 years after the first season? It was obviously lovely but I didn’t think being rushed was the problem.
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beanieson posted:I will definitely be tuning in for a Lubeman centric season two. it didnt start production until a bit after the last ep of season 1 aired. so, like they didnt even start writing the story until after the last ep was aired. and then it was rushed. no time to gestate or breath
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KoRMaK posted:it didnt start production until a bit after the last ep of season 1 aired. so, like they didnt even start writing the story until after the last ep was aired. Well then that explains it. I’m hopeful for season three, the trailer with Aaron Paul was pretty great.
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Honestly, so far Lindeloff has pulled off Dr. Manhattan secretly living in Tulsa the entire time as a black man and I didn't hate it, so I think I'm gonna be fine with whatever moving forward.
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yeah i think you will be too lol
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I can't wait to see how Adrian escaped his medieval prison cell with a goddamn horseshoe
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was trying to read the thread but then decided to skip past way too many pages arguing agency v free will, all I want to know is have we figured out who Lube Man is yet?
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If Lubeman isn’t Agent Petey I will be shocked.
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