Wasn't a big fan of the unmotivated editing during some of the fight scenes, but that doesn't take away from a very strong pilot. The world building, the re-introduction, the updating to a universe finally back in the limelight is very exciting. Watchmen is one of my favorite pieces of literature and Lindelof is one of my favorite showrunners. This feels tailor-made for me and I could not be more excited about it.

This is a significant improvement over the dumpster fire that is the Snyder adaptation.

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@hcolesmith95 Hmm.. Which fight scene in particular?

As, I gotta say, for example, in the farmyard shootout, I very memorably spent my thoughts thinking about how smart it was to be prepared with that setup (intense field lighting, machine gun turrets, and heavier-than-human, rough-hoofed animals surrounding any intruders) and was pseudo surprised that I hadn't seen that particular display of darkly horrific tacticality (where I expected half of the police to get randomly stomped into bloody smears before one of them could survive) used on screen yet .

@calex There's a hand-to-hand fight inside the trailer directly after that. The editing of that sequence had a ton of unmotivated cuts that felt jumpy as opposed to if Eisenberg has cut on action for a little more fluidity. There were also just a ton of shots used for that scene that made it feel pretty cutty to me. Not saying conceptually it's not very good (it is), purely critiquing the editing.

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