{"id":124541,"date":"2019-12-23T14:46:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T13:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/23\/watchmen-is-by-far-the-best-adaptation-of-the-comic-but-should-fans-watch-it\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T14:46:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T13:46:56","slug":"watchmen-is-by-far-the-best-adaptation-of-the-comic-but-should-fans-watch-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=124541","title":{"rendered":"Watchmen is by far the best adaptation of the comic \u2013 but should fans watch it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HBO\u2019s take on the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons comic succeeds where all others have failed, but it is yet another DC project made without Moore\u2019s approvalIt\u2019s been profoundly depressing to watch Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons\u2019s Watchmen mutate into a cottage industry for DC Entertainment. The comic book\u2019s suspicion of power and its veneration of persistent kindness now seem an odd fit for DC, which appears to be hellbent on breaking down Watchmen into a sort of paste that it can smear on everything from prequels and sequels the creators never wanted, to a themed toaster (sold out years ago, sorry). The company\u2019s repeated failure to wring anything entertaining or clever from Watchmen might forgivably strike the book\u2019s author and artist, and their partisans, as somewhat gratifying.But as Damon Lindelof\u2019s HBO spinoff shows, a solid Watchmen adaptation is possible. The first series, which ended last week, still hasn\u2019t been renewed for a second, probably because of Lindelof\u2019s own reluctance to be part of it. But this adaptation succeeds by hitting many of the themes of the graphic novel while reproducing almost nothing of its plot \u2013 unlike Zack Snyder\u2019s straightforward 2009 film, which slavishly reproduced the plot and misunderstood all the themes. Lindelof\u2019s series features a prestige drama \u2013 a-show-within-a-show, in much the same way that the book contained a-comic-within-a-comic \u2013 that pays backhanded tribute to Snyder\u2019s movie, with sneery dialogue, ostentatiously cartoonish costumes, lots of slo-mo and gouts of nearly fluorescent blood. By comparison, Lindelof\u2019s world is muted, its emotional arcs elliptical, its careful and complex set-dressing deceptively drab. It manages to achieve something Moore and Gibbons did in the comic: thoroughly imagine a convincing science-fiction world in which daily life is very similar to our own, just slightly off centre. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/dec\/23\/watchmen-is-by-far-the-best-adaptation-of-the-comic-but-should-fans-watch-it\" target=\"_blank\">Watchmen is by far the best adaptation of the comic \u2013 but should fans watch it?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBO\u2019s take on the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons comic succeeds where all others have failed, but it is yet another DC project made without Moore\u2019s approvalIt\u2019s been profoundly depressing to watch Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons\u2019s Watchmen mutate into a cottage industry for DC Entertainment. The comic book\u2019s suspicion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}