While Watchmen’s first season on HBO is nowhere near done (only its first episode has aired so far), eyes are already pointed to the future. Would this show act like a more standard television series, or would it stay truer to the source material, where the story being told feels dense and complete in and of itself? 

As it turns out, showrunner Damon Lindelof thinks that standalone story aspect is something that is important to the brand of Watchmen, and that it should be retained in the series. Here’s what he told Paste Magazine.

“I felt that if these nine episodes end without feeling like we completed a story, in the same way that we feel that at the end of a season of Fargo or True Detective, you know, then it’s not really Watchmen. It’s just another continuing show where you have to come up with a cool cliffhanger for the finale.”

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So, if there was to be a second season…would he feel the need to continue on with his story?

“…it’s also not my story, right? I appropriated it. And so the idea that someone else could come along and do another season of Watchmen, that’s really exciting to me too. I would watch the fuck out of that. These nine episodes are sort of everything that I have to say at this point about Watchmen, and then we’ll kind of go from there.”

So, what do you think? Given what Lindelof has done with the first episode, can you see other filmmakers diving in and giving us their own vision of what a world like this would be like? Let us know your thoughts down below!

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SOURCE: Paste Magazine