I really had mixed feelings on the existence of a Watchmen sequel at all but that one scene was absolutely the one scene I thought absolutely needed to be in it if they made one and they did it perfectly
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"Laurie's become her dad! A callback to Pagliacci! An elliptical monologue that kind of explains the backstory but leaves more questions than answers!"
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Taking old clichéd corny jokes and turning them into deeply disturbing dramatic monologues is one of Alan Moore's tricks (the Joker's last words in The Killing Joke, Rorschach and Pagliacci) and they totally one-upped him with that one, credit to Lindelof
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The goof of the "Brick Joke" turned into something deadly serious and viciously resentful The forgotten nobody whose story was never finished, the unremarkable and abandoned side character, comes back to end the world Big Spinel energy
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If the show had more exposure that line deserves to be a meme "I'm the girl who threw the brick" (cc
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It annoys me that the Doomsday Clock Watchmen sequel completely ignores Nite Owl and Silk Spectre (two characters that are still alive) and instead bring back the Comedian and a version of Rorschach
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Replying to @Kthranos @Nymphomachy
Doomsday Clock is to HBO Watchmen as Highlander 2 is to Highlander the Series
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Kthranos
This metaphor is not nearly a deep cut but a hadopelagic one
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I dunno about that, it's an *old* cut but Highlander 2 is one of the all time most famous examples of a movie sequel so bad it got kicked out of continuity
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Well yes but nobody remembers the series, or its spinoff
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In its time the series was very popular, arguably more so than the original movie
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Kthranos
Yeah but idk, the movie has lingered on but the series didn't age well and was completely ejected from not only the common consciousness but also the nerd canon
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