Watchmen: Chapter I

I do not write many thing here anymore, mostly due to the imbecile politics and character limit.

But. But this thing is ... good. And I want people to know it.

I'm not a shill, I'm not a bot, nobody paid me to write it.

I read the comic in the last millenium. As in, in the 90's. Still Iron Curtain, that was one of my glimpses of "The West". And I was truly impressed.

Then, they made a movie. Unfortunately, with a wrong ending - but with Malin Akerman (here replaced by Katie Sackhoff from Battlestar Galactica, super nice touch).

And this, this is more than good. It just follows the comic book almost to the letter. Very, very impressed. I'd give it 8, but I'm bumping it to 9 because of fidelity.

"I am not locked here with you. You are locked here with me". I truly hope next two chapters are going to be a masterpiece. Please keep following the comic to the letter, not the simplified Snyder movie.

I know we're only one episode in and I know it's based on the comics but it's word for word, scene for scene an animated version of the Snyder film. They're obviously some artistic additions and perhaps more comic accurate scenes but I'm just curious as to why they blatantly copied Zack Snyder's version. Maybe it's a way to expand on what he had in mind? We all know what the executives at Warner bros are and aren't capable of. I like the animation and the voice actors, over all I don't have any complaints, I'm just sincerely confused as to why it's so similar to the live action theatrical version.

I read the novel back in the day. And after that I watched Zack Snyder's version. I loved the message of the novel and I always thought Zack did a great job with his vision ahead of time.

Now we have the animation. It is very faithful to the resource. Story, characters and even their costumes and such. The story goes how it is happening in the novel. I can say the animation is more faithful from Zack's version up until now. However, I found that Zack was able to give better emotion and message. With Jackie Earle Haley's Rorschach voice acting and Jeffrey Dean Morgan's Edward Blake voice acting the story was darker. In this adaptation it is more brutal. I am not saying one is better than the other but just different naturally.

Back in the day, because of the mindless MCU movies people treated Watchmen pretty hard. People created a hatewagon against Zack. Of course the ending of the Watchmen movie had to be different from the novel version because of the budget and technology limitations at that time, and some people had a reason to hate. But now with the different heroes versions such as The Boys and Invincible people can judge and watch with a wider perspective of an R rated adaptation.

I believe animation did a faithful adaptation for the 1st Chapter.

I love how we finally get to see Watchmen in its truest animated form. Snyder's adaptation was great, but this is as close as it gets to the comics coming to life.

The characters, the slow, lingering shots, the sound design, and the intricate details of the scenes are everything I hoped for. As a huge fan of the Watchmen comics, this feels like a real treat. I didn't expect it to be this good-I thought it would be on par with other solid DC animations, but this film has its own distinct flavor.

Rorschach's voice, inspired by Snyder's film, was possibly even more satisfying than Jackie Earle Haley's portrayal. I truly believe this will be a one-of-a-kind film and an honest depiction of the comics.

Huge thanks to the artists-it was a real treat. I can't wait for Chapter 2!

So, Watchmen is one of the most famous, one of the best and one of the highest valued graphic novels in the world.

So, why would we get another adaptation of it with a relatively cheap animation? It basically gets no advertising push and with little information about it (it doesn't even have a wikipedia page at time of writing this!).

Just seems like they are devaluing the IP by releasing it this way!

But that's the why, now we move on to the what - the actual product!

And dammit, I thought it was pretty darn good. Clearly a straight adaptation, but they did it well. It engaged me, I thought the animation style captured the feel of the book well, and the voice acting was pretty good.

So why I don't think this should exist, given it does - I have to admit it could have been way worse.