To be honest, I binged this over last night and this afternoon, and as a nine hour movie or whatever Trieu never seemed like she had much evil in her - if anything, just incredibly uncomfortable around people - other than Jeremy Irons' reasons for why she could never harness that power responsibly and all the vague tech giant stuff you'd just have to bring to it from outside.


She came off pretty altruistic overall to me, and even not having read the books or seen the movie that flip felt like it needed to build for an episode first. The resolution to the Looking Glass and Ozymandias storylines seemed abrupt too.


But whatever, this season of TV was incredible overall, nitpicking it feels disingenuous and like you said, there's a reason the season finale is usually kind of a let down from the episode prior to it.

Actually, I let this post linger over night while I listened through The Watch podcast's recaps of the show. They were BIG fans of the original book and they also felt like the show took a little bit of a dip in the last three episodes, but were able to pinpoint why a little easier: unlike a lot of shows like this, Watchmen started completely subverting expectations and eventually became a straight up Watchmen/comic book show, whereas most shows would start as closely linked to their source material as possible and branch off from there. Which does kind of make you wonder if a 10th episode slotted in there somewhere would've just sent the show further down that road, or been the missing link I'm looking for to solve some minor quibbles.


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