That’s what I heard from my fellow comics nerds friends when news first broke of the HBO adaptation helmed by Damon Lindelof. Despite his wishes, that’s never stopped anybody, though Zack Snyder’s slavishly faithful film was savaged for being too wooden of an adaptation. The intricacy of the world building certainly offers that potential, although the story through six episodes is almost overstuffed. As with “Watchmen,” you probably couldn’t tell those stories if we hadn’t already lived through many nuts-and-bolts adaptations of more straightforward superhero tales. “And they’re ready for like the postmodern take on genres.”YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN...Lindelof, for his part, has reportedly said that “nostalgia is toxic” when discussing his version of “Watchmen.” Considering that was one of the themes tackled by the original comic series, that’s fitting.

Source: thestar October 18, 2019 21:45 UTC