As Nite Owl and Rorschach approach Ozymandias’ fortress, Adrian Veidt takes a walk back through his history, and our Watchmen podcast breaks down Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons Watchmen #11, “Look On My Works, Ye Mighty…” Plus, one of our hosts has seen the first episode of HBO’s Watchmen series and gives their spoiler-free impressions.

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Plus, here’s a transcript of the episode for you to read through as you listen:

Alex:                 Who watches the Watchman and
who watches you watching the Watchman? We watch you watch the Watchman right
through your window like a bunch of creeps. I’m Alex.

Justin:              I’m Justin.

Pete:                I’m Pete, but your-

Alex:                 And this is-

Pete:                Your intro is getting creepier
and creepier, man. You got to figure something out with that.

Justin:              So is Watchman. So is Watchman,
Pete.

Alex:                 It is, and we got a lot of
episodes together. We got two episodes to go here on the comic, and then we’re
going to be jumping into the TV show and by the end, things are going to get
real fucked up.

Pete:                Yeah.

Alex:                 Yeah. that’s 100% truth.
Speaking of fucked up, I’m sorry to do this. Our fourth host, Alan Moore, the
landmark, the benchmark [crosstalk 00:00:42 ]-

Pete:                Can you even call him a host at
this point?

Justin:              What are you talking about? He’s
been here for a couple of the episodes.

Alex:                 Yeah, I remember he had some
good things to say about the last issue, I think.

Justin:              Yeah, he really, really blew
himself up over that last issue.

Alex:                 Oh boy.

Justin:              It’s like, “Chill out dude.
We get it. You’ve Rowe Watchman. But anyway, so he just texted me and he was
like, “Hey, I was there 35 minutes ago.” So I don’t know if we missed
him.

Alex:                 Well, I’ll tell you what, as
long as he recorded his part of the podcast, we’re doing this one over Skype. I
could just edit it in. I can edit it in afterwards, and I’m sure it’ll be
seamless. So, just throughout this podcast episode, let’s take incredibly long
pauses.

Justin:              Yeah, that’s true, and we’ll just
drop in some Alan Moore Bond Moe’s.

Alex:                 Yeah, oh, I thought you were
going to say beneas for some reason. I don’t know why.

Justin:              Interesting, it’s two different
words. Bond Mose, means good words. Beneas means doughnut for rich people.

Alex:                 Speaking of doughnuts for rich
people, we’re going to be talking about chapter 11 and not going intellectually
bankrupt over it. As we talk about Look on my Works, ye Mighty the second to
last issue of Watchman by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. As mentioned, the show
is premiering on October 20th. I don’t know if we want to get into this on this
podcast. I will mention we’re about a week out. We tape these episodes about a
week in advance, and we’ll probably catch up when we get to the show. I did see
the first episode [crosstalk 00:02:14 ] at Comic Con.

Justin:              What?

Alex:                 What? No, I did. I don’t know
if we want to talk about that at all on the podcast before we get into the
issue.

Pete:                What was it like man?

Justin:              Well it’ll be one side of the
conversation, but yeah, let’s do it.

Alex:                 Sure, I’m not going to spoil
anything for anybody because I do want us to talk about a clean and fresh on
the podcast itself, but two observations I will give you all your listeners.
The first one, so they showed off the first episode previously at TCA, the
Television Critics Association. I did talk to some coworkers and friends there
who had seen it, but generally that’s kind of mum, that’s a very private
situation for people watching that stuff. So this New York Comic Con, this was
thousands of fans inside the Javits Center.

Alex:                 It was the first time they
really publicly showing off Watchman, and Damon Lindelof came out on stage, and
I don’t want to ascribe too much emotion for him because I don’t know him personally
or anything like that, but he, in the sweetest way, seemed so nervous about
what was about to happen, which you don’t really expect from a show runner. You
expect somebody to come out, and usually expect them to come out and be like,
“what’s up y’all? We’re showing of Watchman. He came out-

Justin:              But I think that’s makes sense to
me because these are the people … It’s like if someone were to come into your
home and be like, “Hey, I made home videos about you and your family. Here
you go.” Because the fans are that into it. They’re that rabbit about it.
It’s like something so close to their hearts like family.

Alex:                 Yeah, and you could see he was
carrying these handwritten notes, and you could see his hand shaking the entire
time while I was reading them, talking about how much Watchman meant to him
when he was growing up. How it was the first comics that his father had given
him. They told him it will change his life. And he’s told this story before in
the initial Instagram posts that he put up where he explained why I was doing
the project. He repeated a good chunk of that.

Alex:                 He did, I thought this was a
little weird to call out, but our fourth co-host, Alan Moore, he called them
out at the top of the presentation. He said, “I could reference one
person’s name. You know who I’m talking about, but I couldn’t do this without
him and this goes out to him and I hope we have honored you, even if your name
isn’t necessarily on this thing.”

Pete:                That’s a classy move men.

Alex:                 Yeah, it was very sweet. I just
wanted to-

Justin:              I read that report and when you
take your name off something, well how come you can’t even say his name? He
could say is name.

Pete:                No man, he was being respectful
about it.

Alex:                 His name just doesn’t exist
anymore. Like anybody who does it… could you imagine if somebody just used
his name to promote their product? They’d be [crosstalk 00:04:59 ]-

Justin:              Disgusting.

Pete:                Wait a second. Oh, come on guys.

Justin:              He’s our fourth co-host. We’re not
exploiting.

Pete:                Have you ever been hosting a
podcast and then you just realize you’re a part of a piece of shit podcast. Oh,
that sucks.

Alex:                 Jesus man, several times a week
I got to tell you.

Pete:                It’s a heck of a ride.

Alex:                 Well, anyway, that was …
Damon Lindelof introduced it. I thought that was very sweet, and then we
watched the whole first pilot episode. I got to tell you, I loved it. I thought
it was really good. I’m very curious to talk about it with you guys here on the
podcast because there’s a lot to talk about, but my general impression overall
was even though, and we’ve talked about this from the very beginning, you don’t
need to continue Watchman. You don’t need to riff off Watchman. You don’t need
to do before Watchman in the comics or anything like that.

Alex:                 We talked about that back when
it was coming out of D.C., but if you are going to do it, I’m glad that it’s
good, and that’s what I thought about this pilot. It was clear that if nothing
else, they have put so much thought into every single frame of it and to me it
matched my hopes of what I wanted out of the show.

Justin:              Wow. A greatness-

Alex:                 Being very vague about it. I
don’t want to spoil anybody’s experience, but I was very happy at the end with
the experience that I have. I’m very excited to watch it again because-

Pete:                Would you say the first half was
good, but the second half wasn’t or-

Alex:                 I know you like to make fun of
me for doing that. No, it was good throughout. Regina King is amazing. The cast
is amazing.

Pete:                She is a national treasure. That
woman is unbelievable.

Alex:                 It’s going to be a conversation
piece, that’s the other thing. People are going to talk about it quite a bit
because even when it honors, and echoes, and reverberates off of Watchman, the
comic that we’re about to talk about, it’s very much its own thing, and it’s
almost, in a certain way, in conversation with Watchman, the comic book. Again,
I know that’s being very vague, but it’ll m