I'm just going to say it: I don't really care if Alan Moore thinks his vision with Watchmen is betrayed by the HBO show. Partly, because the creators are acutely aware of it, but partly because they're using his canon to do something new and interesting

Like, don't get me wrong, I thought this was going to be a TRAINWRECK. The whole idea of a dystopian world where the liberals won sounded impossible to do in today's world, and yet they seem to be pulling it off so far (mostly by minimizing the dystopia)

I mean, it sucks if Moore believed he owned the rights to the characters and they were taken from him by some sort of shenanigans, but that damage is done, and in any case didn't he rip the characters partly from somewhere else?

But Watchmen the old comic was done, it is a complete work of art, it's fine the way it is, IMO the Snyder movie was a flawed but decent adaptation. But there's not much to say within its paradigm that hasn't already been said

I'm not sure HBO Watchmen needed to be a Watchmen show, except insofar as it attracts viewers that way and thus gets funded, and because it sort of updates the superhero critique stuff to the Trump/Marvel era

It's not really any different than George Lucas whining about how the Star Wars sequels aren't about Luke's midichlorian trip, except, I guess, that Alan Moore wasn't paid a literal billion dollars in cash, which does make things a bit fairer in Lucas's case