Another Day, Another Watchmen Post
This is TV spot #2, which is slightly classier than the first commercial. But the real news is that it confirms that the superhero group will indeed call itself the Watchmen, as you can hear when Nite Owl tells Rorschach “the Watchmen are over.” Irritating, especially since the “Watchmen” basically had one meeting and that was it, but not the end of the world. I’m guessing that the powers that be thought mass audiences would be confused by the title unless the “team” actually called itself the Watchmen, as opposed to coasting on the fame of the original “Who watches the watchmen?” saying.
Although this brings up an interesting point, which is in 2009, movie studios trust mass audiences less than Alan Moore trusted trusted comic book readers in 1985. Huh.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.