Just saw Watchmen!

[Col. Zombie]

Originally Posted by LynxFX

Major spoiler of 3rd act/ending.

[Show spoiler]It ends with a confrontation with Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias. Ozy creates a power similar to Manhattans and actually detonates it in NYC. It demolishes most of the city. That in turn gets the US and USSR governments to blame Dr. M and become united in fighting against him. No more Nuke threat and there is basically world peace. Dr. M actually agrees that Ozy is right in what he did and will take the blame. Kill a million to save a billion. Rorschach isn't happy and wants to expose the truth. He goes to leave, Dr. M. kills him. You end up with a New York that is being rebuilt and the streets are filled with hybrid/electric cars. There isn't any news to write because everyone is happy in their hippy style bliss. One of the newspaper editors then goes to a bin that has Rorschach's journal which contains pretty much all of the info that has happened.

There's a bit more but that is the gist.

Thank you so much for that...seriously!

[Show spoiler] It sounds like it has a similar gist to the novel's ending, but I was really hoping for the original genetically engineered super-beast/brain-melting alien ending. The comic leads up to some faux alien coming through a teleporter (originally built by Ozymandias in an attempt to thwart a war). This leads Russia and the U.S. to think there is an alien invasion on the horizon and set aside any desire for nuclear war. The comic has frames of pieces of the "Ozymandias-engineered alien" lying in the ruins of New York amidst New Yorkers covered in blood with their brains coming out of their heads. The ending you just described does kind of disappoint me. Bastards producers not wanting to keep things original and thinking they know what is best.