Except for Icicle and Hawkman spreading his wings there isnt anything really new. I will wait for the show to begin. I cant wait. :-)

Got my Tivo set up for this. Haven't watched Smallville since season 3 but this looks good to me.

Smallville has let me down b4...hopefully not this time Hawkman better be a savage and Dr. Fate better be in some action and not trying to teach Clark life lessons the whole (TV) movie...

Anyone else notice Manhunter's outfit?  Green shirt with some sort of red "X" vest or something!

Looking forward to Michael Shanks at Hawkman, aka archaeologist Carter Hall.  I'ts funny how Shanks always seems to play archaeologists...

redhairs, I caught the Manhunter outfit too.

Guys, I want to love this episode. I'm open, but I'm skeptical. Did enjoy the second clip though. I have a feeling it's gonna seem a little Watchmen-ish, but I'm one of the seemingly few on here that enjoyed the movie version.

Superville is just coming on now.so,I will see how the show will work the JL story.

Well, I saw it and I liked it.  I think someone not well versed on DC comics history might have been confused but for me that wasn't a problem.  Loved Shanks as Hawkman.  Hope he makes a return appearance.  And I'm sure we haven't seen the last of Stargirl.

Kara S

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I liked it too, Karas.  I still wanted more, but it was pretty good and open up a ton a new questions.  Were they saying "Apocolypse" or "Apokolips" near the end?  No way is Clark ready for Darkseid!

I probably geeked out the most when we got the glimpse of the green martian.

And Joe, I liked the Watchmen movie too.  I only read the comic version a month or so before the film, so I didn't have any long standing devotion to the book.  I actually liked the changes they made in the film near the end.  I might get bashed for this, but I mean, come on, a giant exploding squid?  That was the part of the comic that left me scratching my head.  If you haven't seen the extended cut with Black Freighter cut into the film, definitely check it out, Joe.  Looking forward to your Absolute Justice review!

The thing about the squid was that it was supposed to be a genetically engineered "alien" life form.  Veidt wanted to make it look like Earth was being attacked by space aliens and the squid was the alien that his people came up with.  It didn't have to be a squid.  It could have been anything alien looking, though personally I liked the Lovecraftian feel of the squid, particurlarly considering the background history of the "alien" that was supposed to be telepatically transmitted when the squid materialized.

Perhaps the squid wouldn't have translated well to the screen but I thought the expanding balls of light that were substituted were a cop out.  Instead of the vast imagination and machavellian plotting that went into the creation of the squid we got some generic looking explosions.  And instead of attacking aliens, an outside threat, we got Dr Manhattan, an earthling, throwing a temper tantrum.  And instead of the ruined city full of bodies and parts of bodies, we got empty sidewalks and craters.

With all the unnecessarily graphic violence in the rest of the film, they cheated us out of the pay off, the full price that Veidt paid for his chance at saving humanity from armegeddon.  Instead of a war zone full of slaughtered innocents, Dr Manhattan and Laurie just walked through what looked like a neighborhood in need of some urban renewal.

And we missed the grisly deaths of everybody in the novel that didn't wear long underwear.  Those characters mostly didn't appear in the film or appeared so briefly that we didn't get to know them or get attatched to them.  And that, for me, was the heart of the graphic novel.  That those characters, ordinary people who drove a cab or replaced locks or sold newspapers or hung out and read comic books were murdered by Veidt in his lofty quest to be the saviour of the world.

The Watchmen was a good try but I think it really was too long to be condenced into a movie.  A 12 part miniseries, one episode for each chapter, might have been able to do it the justice it deserved.

And someday I'd really like to see the expanded version with the Black Freighter stuff sewen back in where it's supposed to be.

Kara S