It's weird seeing people here defending The HBO Show. It genuinely feels like a spit in the face to those who enjoyed the book and honestly it's really fucking boring.
It truly feels like fan fiction, like another show was rewritten in the attempt to fit in The Watchmen universe. The writing in the show has the subtly of a baseball bat to the face, and all the themes in the show are literally spelled out for the audience in practically every scene.
The story is as car crash as it can get. It gets so formulaic that after episode 2 or 3, you already know that whatever they're setting up is just gonna end in some shocking twist type moment. "Hooded Justice is doing great with his family and his career. He's fucking Captain Metropolis. Regina is working with a white cop. He's a klan member. Looking Glass looks like your typical republican trucker and seems like he'd think a lot like Rorschach. He's closeted, is openly watching the gay sex scene in his house, and is trying to use religion to overcome it and the trauma put upon him as a child (some will argue that that's not what's being said, but it seems pretty black and white to me that he's at least bi, and his religious/mirror house trauma has him questioning his sexuality) Dr. Manhattan finds love, turns black.
I don't want people assuming I hate this because of my political bias; I lean more left than I do right, but I never let those thoughts cloud my opinions on media. I believe all of this could've been done way more effectively, but Jesus did they misunderstood everything 🤦♂️