I actually think the movie’s adaptation of the attack plot was better.

>>Had a hard time explaining the Ozymandias/Dr. Manhattan
>>scenes to my wife and dude will only get more prominent.
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>The movie fucks it up and blames the attack on Dr. Manhattan.
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>This series is following the giant alien squid timeline.
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>And the plot was discovered - it didn't work as a long term
>solution.
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>So you can tell her this:
>1)Dr. Manhattan was/is the only known being with actual super
>powers, which were caused by being exposed to an "intrinsic"
>field. He turns blue, bald, bald, and has a huge blue cock.
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>2)There were masked heroes in the past with no super powers -
>ala Batman - some were good, some were bad, but all were
>outlawed by the Keane act.
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>3)Nixon won Vietnam and was reflected as president for more
>than 20 years - thanks to Dr Manhattan as our super-weapon.
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>4)The world is very very close to nuclear war.
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>5)Dr Manhattan is losing interest in humanity and
>maybe/probably isn't going to stop the war.
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>6)Dr. Oz is a masked hero and the world's smartest man. He has
>a plot to stop the nuclear war, but it involves getting
>rid/killing all the masked heroes AND he has to get rid of Dr.
>Manhattan or the plot will not work since the US. This is
>around 1986/1987.
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>7)Two masked heroes -- Nite Owl and Rorshack are investigating
>the death of masked heros.
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>8)They end up having Silk Spector help. Silk Spector is Laurie
>in episode 3, which is in 2019. Laurie dated Dr. Manhattan but
>he's going cold on her. She ends up dating Nite Owl in the
>1986/1987 timeline. (Dr. Manhattan's human part is still in
>love with her - but being a god it seems trivial to him now.)
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>9)Oz's plot is discovered by Nite Owl/Rorsahck/Laurie/Dr
>Manhattan - but they discovered it and confront Dr. Oz too
>late - it had already happened 20 minutes before.
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>10)Oz's plan to stop nuclear war actually happens and kills
>millions of people in New York. It involves simulating a giant
>alien squid teleporting into New York - which causes a giant
>explosion killing millions.
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>11)Rorschach (who wears the mask the 7th cavalry people wear)
>has written all he discovered into a diary and sent it to a
>right wing/fascist magazine/newspaper.
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>12)Rorschach is killed by Dr. Manhattan to stop him from
>telling the world about the plot - because he thinks the plot
>would work. He did not know of the diary.
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>13)Nuclear war is averted, but Rosahck is dead, and Dr
>Manhatatn leaves earth because nothing is holding him there.
>Nite Owl and Laurie appear to be together.
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>14)It appears now that the plan worked. The US flag seems to
>have a TON more stars. Robert Redfor has been president for 30
>years.
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>Probably all caught up.
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>And if she says it sounds like hot garbage, link her to this:
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>http://entertainment.time.com/2005/10/16/all-time-100-novels/slide/watchmen-1986-by-alan-moore-dave-gibbons/
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