Warning: This article contains spoilers about tonights episode ofWatchmen.

When writer-producerDamon Lindeloffirst started working on HBOsWatchmen, the formerLostshowrunner joked in an open letter to fans: Endings.

Im GREAT at them.

Yet the first season finale (and perhaps theseriesfinale as well) forWatchmendid indeed have a great ending.

In the case of Dr. Manhattan, once he sees the future, its already happening.

But this leads us to the second part of your question, which is the more interesting part.

And anybody who wants to take his power is probably not a good conduit for it.

And so he should probably pick someone who will take his power and use it responsibly.

So one could make the argument that is what happened when he picked Angela [Regina King].

In many ways, Will [Louis Gossett Jr.] is the other side of that coin.

Im assuming thats something you wouldnt want to be official.I mean, whats official?

The only thing thats official is the show itself.

If we wanted to put a definitive answer to that question on the screen, we would have.

We ended the show the way that we wanted to.

Were not trying to be cutesy about it.

It just felt the ending that we went with was meant to be more cinematic than ambiguous.

It was [Lady Trieus ship containing Adrian Veidt returning to Earth].

It was knocked off course.

It hit a meteor or something.

So it was landing in a different spot than it was supposed to.

Was that a deliberate shift?That was always kind of a part of the design.

As someone who doesnt really consider himself to be a romantic, I really like romance.

I have romantic entanglements with these kinds of stories.

Tom Mison and Sara Vickers, who played Ozymandias clones, were fantastic.

And Tom had to do the same thing and also play the Game Warden.

Those are not CG faces that we just programmed, they have to do all the performances.

So big props to Tom and Sara, they were truly incredible as was Jeremy.

Theres only one Jeremy Irons, but hundreds and hundreds of Phillips and Crookshanks.

We did not expect him to resonate in the way that he has and were thrilled that he did.

I will just direct the readers to the finalPeteypediaentry.

The Peteypedia will have its finale moments after the finale airs.

But there were many plates spending and so many balls in the air.

Also, Hong is such a fantastic actor.

That sounded like its the right idea.

Now how are we going to do it?

We wanted it to be authentic.

We wanted it to feel real.

Theres no avoiding controversy because its a controversial idea.

A lot of that comes through experimentation and talking about other what-ifs.

Like: What if Angela selected a white body for Dr. Manhattan to inhabit?

Everybody was okay with the show being bad although we wanted it to be good.

And we wanted to tell a story about the superhero.

And he had to hide his race as an issue of survival?

And then the culture basically took that idea and turned it into superhero-ing.

All that felt like an incredibly terrifying idea, but it also felt likeWatchman.

Thats where we began the journey and the story that we wanted to tell.

Because all the things that we were talking about in the writers room are now happening among the audience.

And thats what we were hoping for.

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