The first time Damon Lindelof realized that “Watchmen” — his adaptation/remix/continuation of the groundbreaking 1986 graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons — might actually be a …
for the year, despite the fact that the show’s finale, “See How They Fly,” won’t air until Sunday night.
“What I’ve learned over time is you need to know the answers to the mysteries,” says Lindelof. “If you don’t know those, you’re lost. Every time you come to an intersection, you won’t know whether to turn left or right.” There was one element to the finale that Lindelof says he did know about from very early on — so much so that he was willing to tease it before the episode airs.
At least Smart knew who she was playing. When Abdul-Mateen was cast as Cal in the pilot, he wasn’t told that he was really playing Dr. Manhattan. “We just really focused in on his personality,” says Kassell. “And, you know, behind the scenes, honing that character with Damon, we made sure that it would be true to the DNA of Dr. Manhattan.”
“His read on this character is borderline, you know, Python-esque,” says Lindelof. “It was a huge risk that Jeremy was taking, and we were following him there.” So when Lindelof finally agreed to consider HBO’s multiple entreaties to consider making a “Watchmen” TV series — an act he knew to be of enormous hubris, especially given Moore’s steadfast displeasure at any attempt to adapt his work — he thought, why not lean into that?
“I certainly did not anticipate nor expect that when I started on the show,” says Williams, who directed the episode that revealed Hooded Justice’s identity, “This Extraordinary Being.” “I remember sitting in [Damon’s] office, and he told me the entire story of the origin of Hooded Justice, and that he was in fact a black man. And I experienced the wonder and thrill of that epiphany. It just seemed like tumblers falling into place.
While Williams says he didn’t really seek out Lindelof or HBO’s blessing to pre-shoot the episode, Lindelof says he was aware of Williams’ decision to do it, and why it was necessary. It wasn’t just that the episode asked for a great deal of complicated filmmaking, either. “If ever there was an episode of television that I’ve been involved in where if anything went wrong it could have been not just a bad episode TV, but culturally harmful, it was that one,” he says.
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