Watchmen question

[Hairy Hands Harry]

I started to watch the miniseries The Watchmen. Which takes place after the movie events. Then I went back and watched the movie version to refresh my memory.

The movie version ends with someone detonating a bomb in NYC to frame Dr Manhattan as having gone insane in order to stop WWIII.
The miniseries says that Dr Manhattan dropped a giant squid onto NYC to stop WWIII. And sometimes it rains small squids "from another dimension".

I assume one of these is following the comics and the other deviated from the "canon". Correct?

In the movie, it was planned to blow up a dozen cities. Were they all destroyed or was just NYC destroyed?

[tmwfte]

The squid is from the comics. Basically aliens. Not Dr. Manhattan. The idea was that it would galvanize the world against that as an existential threat instead of America and Russia going at it. Also, as basically representative of Starro.

[Hairy Hands Harry]

Originally posted by tmwfte:

The squid is from the comics. Basically aliens. Not Dr. Manhattan. The idea was that it would galvanize the world against that as an existential threat instead of America and Russia going at it. Also, as basically representative of Starro.

OK. Thanks. So Dr Manhattan was not responsible for the squid attack? Or did he still play a part?

[tmwfte]

Originally posted by Harry The Gamer:

OK. Thanks. So Dr Manhattan was not responsible for the squid attack? Or did he still play a part?

Nothing to do with it. It was all Ozymandias' plan. Create a new enemy to unite the world.

[Hairy Hands Harry]

Just finished the miniseries. About half way through they explained about the little squids that still fall on Earth. I thought they were deviating again but they did not.
Was a good watch.

[Daenoxiis]

Both?
The movie deviated, but the miniseries, kind of skewers the context.
The thing that both of them do kind of shoddy is that they don't, differentiate between Dr. Jon Osterman and Dr. Manhattan very well.
Dr. Manhattan is not Jon Osterman. Not by a standard of humanitarianism.
Because Dr. Manhattan is, for all intents and purposes, basically a God.
So Jon Osterman as a human identity did in fact die, and while he technically came back as Dr. Manhattan, that's not really the same Jon Osterman.
It's the subtle and silent subtext to his character arch. And yes, it's unnerving and creepy to some extent.

[vkobe]

Originally posted by Harry The Gamer:

I started to watch the miniseries The Watchmen. Which takes place after the movie events. Then I went back and watched the movie version to refresh my memory.

The movie version ends with someone detonating a bomb in NYC to frame Dr Manhattan as having gone insane in order to stop WWIII.
The miniseries says that Dr Manhattan dropped a giant squid onto NYC to stop WWIII. And sometimes it rains small squids "from another dimension".

I assume one of these is following the comics and the other deviated from the "canon". Correct?

In the movie, it was planned to blow up a dozen cities. Were they all destroyed or was just NYC destroyed?

movie

new york, moscow, paris, london, tokyo, beijing

[Hairy Hands Harry]

Originally posted by vkobe:

Originally posted by Harry The Gamer:

In the movie, it was planned to blow up a dozen cities. Were they all destroyed or was just NYC destroyed?

movie

new york, moscow, paris, london, tokyo, beijing

Thanks :)