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	:The problem is, the tie to the events of the comic is very much non-existent, outside of the fate of characters. The only major tie-in is the intro sequence of one episode, and the first para of the premise attempts to set the stage enough so that a full refresher of the comic series is not needed here.		:The problem is, the tie to the events of the comic is very much non-existent, outside of the fate of characters. The only major tie-in is the intro sequence of one episode, and the first para of the premise attempts to set the stage enough so that a full refresher of the comic series is not needed here.
	:There are probably dozens of small continuity nods of the type that TV Tropes would document (both major and minor details) but I don't think to a point requiring a whole section. Reading the premise and the cast/character descriptions in whole, you know who are the returning characters and their original roles. --] (]) 13:38, 27 October 2020 (UTC)		:There are probably dozens of small continuity nods of the type that TV Tropes would document (both major and minor details) but I don't think to a point requiring a whole section. Reading the premise and the cast/character descriptions in whole, you know who are the returning characters and their original roles. --] (]) 13:38, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
	::Hmph. I remain skeptical. Against my better judgement, I re-watched the film (which I had seen when it was new, but remembered very little of), read a synopsis of the comics, and also binge-watched the first season of the TV series. The comics and TV series appear to be entirely compatible, while the film and the TV series only have minor disjoints: the filmmakers' decision to complicate the engineered cataclysm that brings about peace between the superpowers, and Dr. Manhattan's statement that he's thinking of leaving for another galaxy. Of these, the only real continuity break is that in the comics and TV show, it's Veidt's giant squid-thing that kills millions in NYC, versus the film changing this to a series of new-energy devices jointly developed by Manhattan and Veidt killing millions in multiple world cities. Even the "where is Manhattan going?" issue isn't an actual continuity break. In the film, it was claimed that peace would hold only as long as the world thought Dr. Manhattan "was watching", and in all three versions of the story he can being in more than one place at a time, so he easily could have followed through with a plan to check out another galaxy while also leaving a visible copy behind doing weird stuff on Mars and more secretively doing stuff on Europa and (in human form) on Earth. Even the weird Klan/Cyclops–Rorschach connection isn't a continuity problem; in both film and comics it's clear that Rorschach's journal is going to get published, so it's entirely plausible that weirdo far-right conspiracy theorists would latch on to it and his image for their own purposes, especially since both comics and film make it clear that the original team were very much "of their time", products of privilege, and quite right-of-center (e.g. the Comedian being said to have been a borderline fascist, and even Manhattan having no problem, until {{lang\|la\|post hoc}} conscience got to him, of being used as a weapon of mass destruction against communists in North Vietnam).<p>Anyway, it's probably worth at least a few sentences that the major continuity break between the film and TV/comics story lines is simply the squid vs. exploding reactors point, with a secondary and weak discontinuity being Manhattan's very Earth-visible activities on Mars in the TV show. Well, that and Dreiberg ~~and Juspeczyk~~ being (so far) just ignored; the viewer of the TV series gets no impression of ~~their~~ having had any impact of any kind after the events of the comics/film. (That could, of course, change in later seasons.) Regardless, I think people tend to use our articles on fiction franchises to get continuity info pretty often (I know I do), so I found it weird that this article was totally devoid of any.<br /><span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — ] ] ] 😼 </span> 05:39, 1 November 2020 (UTC)</p>		::Hmph. I remain skeptical. Against my better judgement, I re-watched the film (which I had seen when it was new, but remembered very little of), read a synopsis of the comics, and also binge-watched the first season of the TV series. The comics and TV series appear to be entirely compatible, while the film and the TV series only have minor disjoints: the filmmakers' decision to complicate the engineered cataclysm that brings about peace between the superpowers, and Dr. Manhattan's statement that he's thinking of leaving for another galaxy. Of these, the only real continuity break is that in the comics and TV show, it's Veidt's giant squid-thing that kills millions in NYC, versus the film changing this to a series of new-energy devices jointly developed by Manhattan and Veidt killing millions in multiple world cities. Even the "where is Manhattan going?" issue isn't an actual continuity break. In the film, it was claimed that peace would hold only as long as the world thought Dr. Manhattan "was watching", and in all three versions of the story he can being in more than one place at a time, so he easily could have followed through with a plan to check out another galaxy while also leaving a visible copy behind doing weird stuff on Mars and more secretively doing stuff on Europa and (in human form) on Earth. Even the weird Klan/Cyclops–Rorschach connection isn't a continuity problem; in both film and comics it's clear that Rorschach's journal is going to get published, so it's entirely plausible that weirdo far-right conspiracy theorists would latch on to it and his image for their own purposes, especially since both comics and film make it clear that the original team were very much "of their time", products of privilege, and quite right-of-center (e.g. the Comedian being said to have been a borderline fascist, and even Manhattan having no problem, until {{lang\|la\|post hoc}} conscience got to him, of being used as a weapon of mass destruction against communists in North Vietnam).<p>Anyway, it's probably worth at least a few sentences that the major continuity break between the film and TV/comics story lines is simply the squid vs. exploding reactors point, with a secondary and weak discontinuity being Manhattan's very Earth-visible activities on Mars in the TV show. Well, that and Dreiberg being (so far) just being ignored; the viewer of the TV series gets no impression of his having had any impact of any kind after the events of the comics/film. (That could, of course, change in later seasons.) Regardless, I think people tend to use our articles on fiction franchises to get continuity info pretty often (I know I do), so I found it weird that this article was totally devoid of any.<br /><span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — ] ] ] 😼 </span> 05:39, 1 November 2020 (UTC)</p>

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Doyle or Abar

Angela's three kids are listed here as "Doyle", which is the surname of their deceased biological father. If they're just being fostered, then this is probably correct. However, HBO's site says "Topher Abar" is their adopted son: https://www.hbo.com/watchmen/cast-and-crew/topher-abar. I'm not sure if Emma and Rosie are adopted, though. IMDB lists "Emma Abar" but no last name for "Rosie": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7049682/fullcredits. Where would we be able to find an authoritative source here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.197.116.79 (talk) 05:01, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

IMDb is not a reliable source! I would say go by the official HBO website. — YoungForever 01:45, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

HBO is more reliable, but it's also incomplete. It confirms Topher is an Abar but is silent about the other two kids. But here's more proof that all three are Abars: https://www.instagram.com/adelynnspoon/?hl=en, https://www.instagram.com/itslilyrosesmith/?hl=en

That's enough to persuade me. 68.197.116.79 (talk)

The Instagrams of the two child actresses are not reliable sources because their accounts are not verified with a check mark. — YoungForever 03:51, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

The show credits don't mention their last name, but HBO's site confirms that their brother Topher's last name is Abar, not Doyle, and multiple sources refer to all three as adopted. There is no reason to think that he changed his last name but they didn't, and no source even suggests it.

Moreover, we have a variety of sources specifically confirming that one or both of the girls are named Abar. This includes their own Instagram accounts, which post exclusive pictures and have tens of thousands of followers, and sites like this:

This looks like an open and shut case to me. 68.197.116.79 (talk) 01:39, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

I would just list both. It's not clear what they go by now, since both names are used reliably, and we know why they have that name issue (their biological parents died at White Night, the Abars adopted them). --Masem (t) 01:42, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

I just noticed that YoungForever tried to remove Topher's last name, citing MOS:TVCAST, but then someone undid that. It turns out that the policy does not say what YF thinks it says. Specifically, "All names should be referred to as credited, or by common name supported by a reliable source." I'd say that HBO is a reliable source for the names of characters in HBO shows, as is Apple's TV site and those newspapers.

As for the fact that their surname used to be Doyle, I don't see anything wrong with mentioning it in parentheses, like "Topher (Doyle) Abar", but I'm not particularly inclined to do that, just because no source does and it's not really that important. 68.197.116.79 (talk) 01:50, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

FYI, I said we go by how they are credited which is All names should be referred to as credited, or by common name supported by a reliable source. on MOS:TVCAST. In addition, when I removed that there wasn't a reliable source to your claims. — YoungForever 23:26, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

Spoilers in Cast?

There are unnecessary spoilers in the Cast and Characters section. For example it states that Calvin Abar is a form of Dr. Manhattan and that Trieu's daughter is actually her clone. I am 4 episodes into the series and this has not yet been established. These are unnecessary spoilers and rather frustrating. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.8.120.201 (talk • contribs)

See WP:SPOILERS - we do not use spoiler warnings nor hide material that has been aired in wide broadcast yet. --Masem (t) 23:03, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages contains spoilers and they are inevitable. Removing spoilers is considered to be disruptive editing. — YoungForever 23:33, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

The issue is not that spoilers exist, but that they are in the Cast and Characters section. A user wishing to read about casting information will be exposed to spoilers. Spoilers should exist in Plot Sections or in Episode Summaries, not in the Cast and Characters section. I have had two major plot details spoiled simply because I wanted to see who plays a character. Information about major plot points should not exist in a section regarding casting as is the case on all other Misplaced Pages pages regarding TV Series/Films that I have encountered (read: thousands).[REDACTED] pages — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.8.120.201 (talk • contribs) —Preceding undated comment added 18:31, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

I agree, I think it's good practice not to WP:SURPRISE readers about major plot points in the 'Cast' section.--Pharos (talk) 18:40, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

The problem with have with this show is that we have a few actors playing parts that need to be documented in the cast list but which I would be aware of would be called a spoiler (namely, Cal's identity and who Will really is). There is some element of not revealing too much, but at the end of the day, the encyclopedic functionality of providing information is more important than hiding info away because it may be a spoiler (the whole point of WP:SPOILER. --Masem (t) 19:09, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

I feel like there should be a better way to represent this, maybe a subsection alongside 'Main', 'Recurring', 'Guest starring', something like 'Character revelations'.--Pharos (talk) 01:11, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

I think that sounds fair.Halbared (talk) 19:59, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

I'm surprised anyone wants to keep spoilers here. The contested wording only ruins the show for those who haven't seen it yet. Why is this controversial? Illdave (talk) 17:27, 27 December 2019 (UTC)illdave

See WP:SPOILER. Once something has aired we do not take steps to hide spoilers, particularly for highly relevant casting details, like Yahya playing both Cal and Dr M. --Masem (t) 22:11, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Ratings table

The table is looking a little empty and theres a reason for that. Some episodes couldn't be sourced with Live+7 and there's only one further one that could be. Would people be okay with a combined Live+7 and Live+3 to fill in the blanks? There are Live+3 numbers for every episode. Or should I just source the remaining Live+7 episode that can be and leave the rest of the fields as n/a? Esuka (talk) 00:33, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

Cord Jefferson

Just listened to a Fresh Air segment about one of the principal writers of the TV show - Cord Jefferson. Cord Jefferson has one tangential mention in the article. https://www.npr.org/2020/08/29/906214563/fresh-air-weekend-watchmen-writer-stephen-miller-and-the-white-nationalist-agend — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.225.10.29 (talk) 19:41, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

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I want to help provide relevant and important information for this page.

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Dylsss 13:01, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Continuity

This should have at least some basic info on continuity, beyond the bare statement that it takes place in the same fictional universe as the original comics. E.g., how does it relate to/depart from the film continuity? To other film/TV works by the same comics publisher? And so on. Keep in mind that many people only know of Watchmen from the film, and are not comics readers. (For my part, I'm not a superhero comics reader, and don't even watch most filmic adaptations of them, so I won't be of any help on this particular matter.) — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 13:13, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

The problem is, the tie to the *events* of the comic is very much non-existent, outside of the fate of characters. The only major tie-in is the intro sequence of one episode, and the first para of the premise attempts to set the stage enough so that a full refresher of the comic series is not needed here.

There are probably dozens of small continuity nods of the type that TV Tropes would document (both major and minor details) but I don't think to a point requiring a whole section. Reading the premise and the cast/character descriptions in whole, you know who are the returning characters and their original roles. --Masem (t) 13:38, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Hmph. I remain skeptical. Against my better judgement, I re-watched the film (which I had seen when it was new, but remembered very little of), read a synopsis of the comics, and also binge-watched the first season of the TV series. The comics and TV series appear to be entirely compatible, while the film and the TV series only have minor disjoints: the filmmakers' decision to complicate the engineered cataclysm that brings about peace between the superpowers, and Dr. Manhattan's statement that he's thinking of leaving for another galaxy. Of these, the only real continuity break is that in the comics and TV show, it's Veidt's giant squid-thing that kills millions in NYC, versus the film changing this to a series of new-energy devices jointly developed by Manhattan and Veidt killing millions in multiple world cities. Even the "where is Manhattan going?" issue isn't an actual continuity break. In the film, it was claimed that peace would hold only as long as the world thought Dr. Manhattan "was watching", and in all three versions of the story he can being in more than one place at a time, so he easily could have followed through with a plan to check out another galaxy while also leaving a visible copy behind doing weird stuff on Mars and more secretively doing stuff on Europa and (in human form) on Earth. Even the weird Klan/Cyclops–Rorschach connection isn't a continuity problem; in both film and comics it's clear that Rorschach's journal is going to get published, so it's entirely plausible that weirdo far-right conspiracy theorists would latch on to it and his image for their own purposes, especially since both comics and film make it clear that the original team were very much "of their time", products of privilege, and quite right-of-center (e.g. the Comedian being said to have been a borderline fascist, and even Manhattan having no problem, until post hoc conscience got to him, of being used as a weapon of mass destruction against communists in North Vietnam).

Anyway, it's probably worth at least a few sentences that the major continuity break between the film and TV/comics story lines is simply the squid vs. exploding reactors point, with a secondary and weak discontinuity being Manhattan's very Earth-visible activities on Mars in the TV show. Well, that and Dreiberg being (so far) just being ignored; the viewer of the TV series gets no impression of his having had any impact of any kind after the events of the comics/film. (That could, of course, change in later seasons.) Regardless, I think people tend to use our articles on fiction franchises to get continuity info pretty often (I know I do), so I found it weird that this article was totally devoid of any.
— SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 05:39, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

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	:The problem is, the tie to the events of the comic is very much non-existent, outside of the fate of characters. The only major tie-in is the intro sequence of one episode, and the first para of the premise attempts to set the stage enough so that a full refresher of the comic series is not needed here.		:The problem is, the tie to the events of the comic is very much non-existent, outside of the fate of characters. The only major tie-in is the intro sequence of one episode, and the first para of the premise attempts to set the stage enough so that a full refresher of the comic series is not needed here.
	:There are probably dozens of small continuity nods of the type that TV Tropes would document (both major and minor details) but I don't think to a point requiring a whole section. Reading the premise and the cast/character descriptions in whole, you know who are the returning characters and their original roles. --] (]) 13:38, 27 October 2020 (UTC)		:There are probably dozens of small continuity nods of the type that TV Tropes would document (both major and minor details) but I don't think to a point requiring a whole section. Reading the premise and the cast/character descriptions in whole, you know who are the returning characters and their original roles. --] (]) 13:38, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
	::Hmph. I remain skeptical. Against my better judgement, I re-watched the film (which I had seen when it was new, but remembered very little of), read a synopsis of the comics, and also binge-watched the first season of the TV series. The comics and TV series appear to be entirely compatible, while the film and the TV series only have minor disjoints: the filmmakers' decision to complicate the engineered cataclysm that brings about peace between the superpowers, and Dr. Manhattan's statement that he's thinking of leaving for another galaxy. Of these, the only real continuity break is that in the comics and TV show, it's Veidt's giant squid-thing that kills millions in NYC, versus the film changing this to a series of new-energy devices jointly developed by Manhattan and Veidt killing millions in multiple world cities. Even the "where is Manhattan going?" issue isn't an actual continuity break. In the film, it was claimed that peace would hold only as long as the world thought Dr. Manhattan "was watching", and in all three versions of the story he can being in more than one place at a time, so he easily could have followed through with a plan to check out another galaxy while also leaving a visible copy behind doing weird stuff on Mars and more secretively doing stuff on Europa and (in human form) on Earth. Even the weird Klan/Cyclops–Rorschach connection isn't a continuity problem; in both film and comics it's clear that Rorschach's journal is going to get published, so it's entirely plausible that weirdo far-right conspiracy theorists would latch on to it and his image for their own purposes, especially since both comics and film make it clear that the original team were very much "of their time", products of privilege, and quite right-of-center (e.g. the Comedian being said to have been a borderline fascist, and even Manhattan having no problem, until {{lang\|la\|post hoc}} conscience got to him, of being used as a weapon of mass destruction against communists in North Vietnam).<p>Anyway, it's probably worth at least a few sentences that the major continuity break between the film and TV/comics story lines is simply the squid vs. exploding reactors point, with a secondary and weak discontinuity being Manhattan's very Earth-visible activities on Mars in the TV show. Well, that and Dreiberg ~~and Juspeczyk~~ being (so far) just ignored; the viewer of the TV series gets no impression of ~~their~~ having had any impact of any kind after the events of the comics/film. (That could, of course, change in later seasons.) Regardless, I think people tend to use our articles on fiction franchises to get continuity info pretty often (I know I do), so I found it weird that this article was totally devoid of any.<br /><span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — ] ] ] 😼 </span> 05:39, 1 November 2020 (UTC)</p>		::Hmph. I remain skeptical. Against my better judgement, I re-watched the film (which I had seen when it was new, but remembered very little of), read a synopsis of the comics, and also binge-watched the first season of the TV series. The comics and TV series appear to be entirely compatible, while the film and the TV series only have minor disjoints: the filmmakers' decision to complicate the engineered cataclysm that brings about peace between the superpowers, and Dr. Manhattan's statement that he's thinking of leaving for another galaxy. Of these, the only real continuity break is that in the comics and TV show, it's Veidt's giant squid-thing that kills millions in NYC, versus the film changing this to a series of new-energy devices jointly developed by Manhattan and Veidt killing millions in multiple world cities. Even the "where is Manhattan going?" issue isn't an actual continuity break. In the film, it was claimed that peace would hold only as long as the world thought Dr. Manhattan "was watching", and in all three versions of the story he can being in more than one place at a time, so he easily could have followed through with a plan to check out another galaxy while also leaving a visible copy behind doing weird stuff on Mars and more secretively doing stuff on Europa and (in human form) on Earth. Even the weird Klan/Cyclops–Rorschach connection isn't a continuity problem; in both film and comics it's clear that Rorschach's journal is going to get published, so it's entirely plausible that weirdo far-right conspiracy theorists would latch on to it and his image for their own purposes, especially since both comics and film make it clear that the original team were very much "of their time", products of privilege, and quite right-of-center (e.g. the Comedian being said to have been a borderline fascist, and even Manhattan having no problem, until {{lang\|la\|post hoc}} conscience got to him, of being used as a weapon of mass destruction against communists in North Vietnam).<p>Anyway, it's probably worth at least a few sentences that the major continuity break between the film and TV/comics story lines is simply the squid vs. exploding reactors point, with a secondary and weak discontinuity being Manhattan's very Earth-visible activities on Mars in the TV show. Well, that and Dreiberg being (so far) just being ignored; the viewer of the TV series gets no impression of his having had any impact of any kind after the events of the comics/film. (That could, of course, change in later seasons.) Regardless, I think people tend to use our articles on fiction franchises to get continuity info pretty often (I know I do), so I found it weird that this article was totally devoid of any.<br /><span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — ] ] ] 😼 </span> 05:39, 1 November 2020 (UTC)</p>