Yeah, but The Incredibles took from Moore the idea of outlawing superheroics, an idea which (while certainly developed to its fullest within the pages) not exactly unheard of in comics prior to Watchmen. (I'm fairly sure the mutant registration act dates before Watchmen's publishing. Marvel deals with it differently -- or at least, did, up until Civil War, but it's the same basic seed.) Whereas taking Adrian's motive and major storyline is an element I think of as unique to Watchmen.
Well, for one thing, we'll the the long term aftermath of the plan - in two variations, if I'm right - , which we did not see with Moore, so that is a twist already.
I'm sort of not seeing how either one of them is that unique. Next week's flash-forward AU episode seems to be the universe where Lindermann's plan works -- which isn't all that different from what happens in Watchmen. Even though it appears to be two years on, I'm having a hard time seeing what could be developed here that monumentally blows past Moore's original thesis.
And of course, eventually Hiro will jump back into our current timeline, and the cast will change the timestream so the nuclear bomb/Peter/Syler/Radiation Guy doesn't blow the world up. In which case, the Adrian/Lindermann 'blow up New York to save humanity from itself' plan is just another foiled plan by another foiled villian.
Now, what would be neat to me, is if the show just owned Moore's story out-and-out and did justice to it, by having the end of season reveal be that our Heroes don't manage to stop the nuclear attack. As opposed as I am to updating Watchmen itself (looking right at you, Zak Penn) for the 9/11 era, it would still be interesting to see it updated. And then, since the other storyline it is kind of taking from is "Days of Future Past", they could just own it by doing that and getting bleaker and bleaker until Future Hiro of the Soulpatch does his Kitty Pryde and jumps back to start the storyline. Unfortunately, that's an idea that's probably too bleak for American network TV.
I also think it's funny that we're so contra on these two fandoms, when we tend to generally agree on other things.
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Well, for one thing, we'll the the long term aftermath of the plan - in two variations, if I'm right - , which we did not see with Moore, so that is a twist already.
I'm sort of not seeing how either one of them is that unique. Next week's flash-forward AU episode seems to be the universe where Lindermann's plan works -- which isn't all that different from what happens in Watchmen. Even though it appears to be two years on, I'm having a hard time seeing what could be developed here that monumentally blows past Moore's original thesis.
And of course, eventually Hiro will jump back into our current timeline, and the cast will change the timestream so the nuclear bomb/Peter/Syler/Radiation Guy doesn't blow the world up. In which case, the Adrian/Lindermann 'blow up New York to save humanity from itself' plan is just another foiled plan by another foiled villian.
Now, what would be neat to me, is if the show just owned Moore's story out-and-out and did justice to it, by having the end of season reveal be that our Heroes don't manage to stop the nuclear attack. As opposed as I am to updating Watchmen itself (looking right at you, Zak Penn) for the 9/11 era, it would still be interesting to see it updated. And then, since the other storyline it is kind of taking from is "Days of Future Past", they could just own it by doing that and getting bleaker and bleaker until Future Hiro of the Soulpatch does his Kitty Pryde and jumps back to start the storyline. Unfortunately, that's an idea that's probably too bleak for American network TV.
I also think it's funny that we're so contra on these two fandoms, when we tend to generally agree on other things.