Watchmen had a secret tenth episode cut by show creator – who claims ‘move into endgame’ threw timeline off course
WATCHMEN had a secret tenth episode cut by its show creator – who claims a ‘move into endgame’ threw the timeline off course.
The hit HBO show's first season came to an end earlier this week after nine episodes.
But showrunner Damon Lindelof had originally planned for an extra episode, but cut it after deciding it was too much like filler content.
He told Collider: "The original plan was to do 10, and, then, I think around the time that we had written the scripts for four and five, and understanding what episode six was going to be—and six needed to happen exactly when it happened in the season, in our opinion—that we felt like once six ended, that we were closer to the ending than we were to the beginning.
"Six didn’t feel like a midpoint. It felt like, we now know everything that we need to know to move into the endgame."
The sixth episode saw Angela Abar - played by Regina King - learn about her grandfather Will Reeves and his experience of racism in the New York Police Department after taking a lethal dose of nostalgia.
Damon continued: "And, every way that we looked at it, it felt like if we were going to do seven, eight, nine and 10, one of those episodes was going to be filler.
"And I was like, 'We’re just not doing the filler episode. We know exactly what we need to do in our endgame. It’s time to start doing it. I don’t want to stall.'"
While the series finale was a big hit with fans, the show's second series is still up in the air.
Damon explained to : "I think there’s a fair amount of hubris in planning multiple seasons of a television show in this day and age.
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"Every single idea we had is represented in these nine episodes, there was no time where we were like, 'Let’s save that for later.'
"We wanted the audience to have a complete experience of a story with a beginning middle and end.
"I didn’t want to be frustrated by mysteries that went unresolved so we’ll see how this series is absorbed and digested.
"If people are like, “That was a pretty good meal, I’m good”, then there doesn’t necessarily need to be anymore."
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