The Swollen Goiter of God sends us this scoop about The Official Film Companion book for Watchmen and it (and our scooper) spill the details about the ending of the film. We've placed that part of Goiter's scoop behind our curtain of spoiler protection so if you don't want to know how it all goes down in the film you'll still be safe to read Goiter's scoop!
"I've thumbed through The Official Film Companion. Amazon claims it does not ship out until 10 February 2009, but about twenty copies of it were displayed pretty prominently at my local comic shop. You may want to go to your comic shop to see if your comic shop's situation doesn't differ all that much from my comic shop's situation. If it happens that your comic shop is mine, too, then I can almost guarantee that your comic store will have a copy or two left. It appears...
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We've hidden this text because it may contain spoilersShow Hidden Text...the ending will be what spy reports have indicated it will be. No squid in sight. They went so far as to have Gibbons draw up a new ending (it may have even been colored by Higgins, though I am unsure) consonant with the movie's scripted ending. The claim was that they wanted to make sure the atomic bomb ending remained as true to the "spirit" of Watchmen as possible, and they felt more comfortable aping an alternate Gibbons ending than creating one from scratch and assuming that it was as he would have imagined it, had he imagined it. There were also some shots of Rorschach's diary being discovered. I'd have scanned the images and posted some links to them, but that would have required purchasing * * * While I'm at it: There were images of Haley unmasked, and his hair was the appropriate hue of W. Kovacs. That's that, Fellows. Since early, The Swollen Goiter of God"
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Grr! Typos! Missing periods! And I said "comic store" when I meant "comic shop." This would be fine if I hadn't already said "comic shop," like, a dozen times.
I have to stop posting when I haven't slept in days.
Well, if I were to stop posting under those conditions, it would mean posting very, very little. (Everybody wins!)