Sam And Scott Are Watching Watchmen

Is this the end?  The told us NOTHING EVER ENDS!  Scott and Sam wrap up the season and talk about about what may be the series finale of Watchmen! Follow us on Twitter @watchmenpodcas1, leave us feedback at watchingwatchmen@nerdcyclopedia.com and join our facebook group Sam and Scott are Watching Watchmen and visit our website www.nerdcyclopedia.com!  We'd love for you to be a part of the discussion!

Sam and Scott react to episode 9 of Watchmen!  This what it all comes down to, Folks!  The season finale!  Follow us on Twitter @nerdcyclopedia, leave us feedback at watchingwatchmen@nerdcyclopedia.com and we'll try to get that read on the podcast!  Join our facebook group Sam and Scott are Watching Watchmen and visit our website www.nerdcyclopedia.com!  We'd love for you to be a part of the discussion!

Episode 9's title is “See How They Fly” is taken from a lyric in The Beatles classic "I Am The Walrus."  The episode not only uses the cover of the song by Spooky Tooth as ending credits, but many of the lyrics are incorporated as visual elements within the episode!   Make sure you again check out the (final?) Peteypedia Pages to get some extended story that wasn't present in the episode and, Boy, is this week's entry pretty hilarious!  Follow us on Twitter @nerdcyclopedia, leave us feedback at watchingwatchmen@nerdcyclopedia.com and we'll try to get that read on the podcast!  Join our facebook group Sam and Scott are Watching Watchmen and visit our website www.nerdcyclopedia.com! 

Episode 7's title is “A God Walks Into Abar” and came from a happenstance, according to director Nicole Kessell. They had given Angela the surname "Abar" early in development. Later, as they were storyboarding episodes, Kassell had saw one of the writers had put down "...walks into a bar..." as a concept for this episode, and on seeing that, realized the serendipitous nature of the Abar name.  Amazing!  Make sure you again check out the latest in the Peteypedia Pages of extended material that answer a lot of questions that weren't answered directly in the episode and expands on the VERY detailed world building this show is doing!  Follow us on Twitter @nerdcyclopedia, leave us feedback at watchingwatchmen@nerdcyclopedia.com and we'll try to get that read on the podcast!  Join our facebook group Sam and Scott are Watching Watchmen and visit our website www.nerdcyclopedia.com! 

Sam and Scott react to episode 8 of Watchmen!  We finally get Dr. Manhattan in all his Manhattaness!! Follow us on Twitter @nerdcyclopedia, leave us feedback at watchingwatchmen@nerdcyclopedia.com and we'll try to get that read on the podcast!  Join our facebook group Sam and Scott are Watching Watchmen and visit our website www.nerdcyclopedia.com!  We'd love for you to be a part of the discussion!

Episode 7's title is “An Almost Religious Awe,” refers to a line from the graphic novel where Manhattan narrates that many North Vietnamese wanted to surrender directly and personally to him, “their terror of me balanced by an almost religious awe.”  Make sure you again check out the latest in the Peteypedia Pages of extended material that answer a lot of questions that weren't answered directly in the episode and expands on the VERY detailed world building this show is doing!  Follow us on Twitter @nerdcyclopedia, leave us feedback at watchingwatchmen@nerdcyclopedia.com and we'll try to get that read on the podcast!  Join our facebook group Sam and Scott are Watching Watchmen and visit our website www.nerdcyclopedia.com! 

Sam and Scott react to episode 7 of Watchmen!  We get the origin of Sister Night! AND WHAT A CLIFFHANGER!  Follow us on Twitter @nerdcyclopedia, leave us feedback at watchingwatchmen@nerdcyclopedia.com and we'll try to get that read on the podcast!  Join our facebook group Sam and Scott are Watching Watchmen and visit our website www.nerdcyclopedia.com!  We'd love for you to be a part of the discussion!

Sam and Scott react to episode 6 of Watchmen!  We get the origin of Hooded Justice!  Whew!  Follow us on Twitter @nerdcyclopedia, leave us feedback at watchingwatchmen@nerdcyclopedia.com and we'll try to get that read on the podcast!  Join our facebook group Sam and Scott are Watching Watchmen and visit our website www.nerdcyclopedia.com!  We'd love for you to be a part of the discussion!

Sam and Scott react to episode 5 of Watchmen!  We got squids, people!  SQUIDS!!!  Follow us on Twitter @nerdcyclopedia, leave us feedback at watchingwatchmen@nerdcyclopedia.com and we'll try to get that read on the podcast!  Join our facebook group Sam and Scott are Watching Watchmen and visit our website www.nerdcyclopedia.com!  We'd love for you to be a part of the discussion!

Episode 4's title is “If You Don't Like My Story, Write Your Own,” and it's a nod to Nigerian author Chinua Achebe's 1958 novel Things Fall Apart, which also happens to be the book Cal (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), the husband of Angela Abar (Regina King), is seen reading in the episode.  It also serves as a double meaning for creator Damon Lindelof and co-creator of Lost who made a very divisive ending to that series where he probably wished at the time he could tell half the audience to write their own story since they didn't like how it ended.  Make sure you again check out the latest in the Peteypedia Pages of extended material that answer a lot of questions that weren't answered directly in the episode and expands on the VERY detailed world building this show is doing!  Follow us on Twitter @nerdcyclopedia, leave us feedback at watchingwatchmen@nerdcyclopedia.com and we'll try to get that read on the podcast!  Join our facebook group Sam and Scott are Watching Watchmen and visit our websit

Sam and Scott instantly react to tonight's episode of Watchmen!  We finally see Lady Tries and boy is she awesome!  Follow us on Twitter @nerdcyclopedia, leave us feedback at watchingwatchmen@nerdcyclopedia.com and we'll try to get that read on the podcast!  Join our facebook group Sam and Scott are Watching Watchmen and visit our website www.nerdcyclopedia.com! 

Sam and Scott take a deep dive into the third episode "She Was Killed By Space Junk" as we get our introduction to the legendary Laurie Blake! Also we have a NEW friend of the podcast!  Dr. Jeremy Larance, Assistant Provost for Academic Innovation and Strategic Planning Professor of English joins us in an analytical deep dive into the original Watchmen graphic novel!  Make sure you again check out the latest in the Peteypedia Pages of extended material that answer a lot of questions that weren't answered directly in the episode and expands on the VERY detailed world building this show is doing!  Follow us on Twitter @nerdcyclopedia, leave us feedback at watchingwatchmen@nerdcyclopedia.com and we'll try to get that read on the podcast!  Join our facebook group Sam and Scott are Watching Watchmen and visit our website www.nerdcyclopedia.com!  

Sam and Scott take a deep dive into the series premiere of HBO's Watchmen "It's Summer And We're Running Out Of Ice."  It been two years in the making and the show is finally here!  We talk extensively about the various parallels and easter eggs planted throughout the episode and tell you whether this is a worthy follow up to the vaunted graphic novel.  And we're here to say YES IT IS!  Make sure you check out the Peteypedia Pages of extended material that answer a lot of questions that we're answered directly in the episode and expands on the VERY detailed world building this show is doing!  Follow us on Twitter @nerdcyclopedia, leave us feedback at watchingwatchmen@nerdcyclopedia.com and we'll try to get that read on the podcast!  Join our facebook group Sam and Scott are Watching Watchmen and visit our website www.nerdcyclopedia.com!  We'd love for you to be a part of the discussion! #watchmen

Sam and Scott officially start watching Watchmen beginning with the Zack Snyder film!  In preparation for the premiere of the HBO TV show we dive into the difference between the graphic novel and the movie, the liberties it takes and the hits and misses it has in relation to it's source material.  Follow us on Twitter @nerdcyclopedia, leave us feedback at watchingwatchmen@nerdcyclopedia.com and join our facebook group Sam and Scott are Watching Watchmen and visit our website www.nerdcyclopedia.com!  We'd love for you to be a part of the discussion!

This penultimate chapter focuses on Adrian Veidt – Ozymandias.  Detached from humanity, his only kinship with a king, Alexander of Macedon, who died over 2300 years earlier, Veidt is a singular being.  His admiration for the lateral thinking of Alexander, with the ancient king’s solution of simply cutting the Gordian Knot, is second to none and has fueled aspirations to solve his own Gordian Knot – the policy of Mutually Assured Destruction was a “knot to try even Alexander’s ingenuity.” Rorschach and Nite Owl go to confront him about his unbelievable plan. Follow us on Twitter @watchmenpodcas1, leave us feedback at watchingwatchmen@nerdcyclopedia.com and join our facebook group Sam and Scott are Watching Watchmen and visit our website www.nerdcyclopedia.com!  We'd love for you to be a part of the discussion!

Chapter 10's title, "Two Riders Were Approaching," is a reference to Bob Dylan's 1967 song "All Along the Watchtower," made iconic by Jimi Hendrix's 1968 cover version. The song, which is also quoted at the end of the chapter, tells of a conversation between a "joker" and a "thief" about an unnamed, impending catastrophe. The joker is panicking, looking for "some way to get out of here," and the thief attempts to calm him. The song takes on symbolic meaning when applied to the characters and plot of Watchmen. The joker is the Comedian, who goes into a downward spiral when he realizes what the thief, Adrian Veidt, is planning. Follow us on Twitter @watchmenpodcas1 and @nerdcyclopedia, leave us feedback at watchingwatchmen@nerdcyclopedia.com and join our facebook group Sam and Scott are Watching Watchmen and visit our website www.nerdcyclopedia.com!  We'd love for you to be a part of the discussion!

Sam and Scott are back with Chapter 9 "The Darkness of Mere Being."  Dr. Manhattan transports Laurie with him to his crystal palace on Mars. In order for her to breathe, he creates a breathing cloud that surrounds her.  The major theme is this chapter is firstly the mundaneness of human culture and it then changes to the miraculousness of all humans being created. There is also a little bit of childhood frustration that may lead to Laurie's current ideals. And also the concept of the earth being insignificant is covered again.  Follow us on Twitter @watchmenpodcas1, leave us feedback at watchingwatchmen@nerdcyclopedia.com and join our facebook group Sam and Scott are Watching Watchmen and visit our website www.nerdcyclopedia.com!  We'd love for you to be a part of the discussion!

We are back!  After a bit of a hiatus Sam and Scott are back to talk about Watchmen chapter 8 "Old Ghosts."  Dan and Laurie decide to break Rorschach out of jail in the midst of a prison riot. While they are taking down the rioting prisoners in their way, Rorschach deals with his arch enemy named the Big Figure and his gang. They reconvine at Dans apartment talking about what they need to do next when all of a sudden Dr. Manhattan shows up and takes Laurie away to Mars with him.  Follow us on Twitter @watchmenpodcas1, leave us feedback at watchingwatchmen@nerdcyclopedia.com and join our facebook group Sam and Scott are Watching Watchmen and visit our website www.nerdcyclopedia.com!  We'd love for you to be a part of the discussion!

"Fearful Symmetry" is the chapter Sam and Scott talk about.  Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons fashion the chapter in it's panels to mirror each other meeting in the middle.   Follow us on Twitter @watchmenpodcas1, leave us feedback at watchingwatchmen@nerdcyclopedia.com and join our facebook group Sam and Scott are Watching Watchmen and visit our website www.nerdcyclopedia.com!  We'd love for you to be a part of the discussion!