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Watchmen Episode 8 Instant Review

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Watchmen Episode 8 Instant Review: “A God Walks into Abar”

The Shat Crew provide their immediate reactions to Watchmen Episode 8, “A God Walks into Abar.” Roger hails it as possibly the best episode yet, while Gene marvels at how the storytelling took him from rejection last week to absolute adoration this week. Plus, Adrian Veidt gracefully slips back into the story, and Roger announces the creation of the Shat on TV Store. Have a quick listen, write to us at hosts@shatontv.com, and listen on Tuesday for the Watchmen Deep Dive.

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Why Jon is making Waffles

Hey guys love the podcast. I’ll been a listener since The premier of Westworld. You mentioned in the insta cast that people think Dr Manhattan is going to pass on his powers to Sister Knight. It took me a little bit but it finally sunk in and the clues are...

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Weak Gimmicky Storytelling

Huge problems in what has been a fairly well written show. Show don’t tell, that’s a classic commandment in good story telling. When Angela found out that her Grandfather didn’t even know who Judd was her facial reaction should have been enough. We didn’t need her exposition for the slow...

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Dr Manhattan Bootstrap Paradox

Hi guys, I hope that you discuss the bootstrap paradoxes (retrocausality) that the show explored with Angela Abar and Dr Manhattan especially the Judd Crawford bootstrap involving Will Reeves. I would like to further propose that the entirety of Dr Manhattan life might be a bootstrap paradox in this show’s...

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Season Finale

Did anyone notice that at the end of this episode the trailer said that the next episode (9) was the season finale and not the series finale? (Silicone Valley is posting series finale) HUH

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Who is raining the squid??

Hey guys, Long time viewer of your podcasts for Game of Thrones, The Leftovers, Westworld and now Watchmen. Love your take on these great television shows. I often don’t agree with you, but you always make me think and often point out things that I would otherwise have missed. I...

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Radioactive Decay

What is the radioactive decay of a tachyon particle? I find Dr. Manhattan to be one of the least intriguing gods in sci fi. Q from Star Trek is better and I hate Q. Dr. Manhattan is an inconsistent understanding of a concept. He is both apart and a part...

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Dr. Manhattan

So the show is amazing but how do the 7th Calvary know cal is dr Manhattan the story link is great but confusing since he zapped the guy about killing Angela previously, did someone see him and why wait this long to kill him plus I know he wouldn’t die...