Summarized in one sentence: full of cliché. The first few episodes were remarkable, and the last few episodes were a complete mess. There are a few points in particular that are unbearable:
1. Dr. Manhattan's ability is not to see the future or to see different times, but to be in different times at the same time, plus teleportation, this is omniscience and omnipotence. The contradiction brought about by omniscience and omnipotence is the core contradiction of this character, or even the only contradiction. The answer given by the previous work to this contradiction is "incompetence", which is indeed acceptable. The answer given by this play is destruction, which is a bit naive. Dr Manhattan's arc should be completely ended after being "incompetent", and any attempt to pull it out to continue writing it is a shot in the foot. Because he is not very interesting in the first place, in order to make his story interesting, you can only actively overturn the setting, or passively overturn the setting.
2. If you follow the answer of "incompetence" in the previous work, whether it is Jon or Lady Trieu, there is only one ending after obtaining this bug ability - whoever it is, it will become "Dr Manhattan". The end of almighty is incompetence, which has a large foreshadowing in the previous work, but this drama just wants to add to the story of a squid hail to prevent the "disaster" from happening. Is it still too hungry to stay up late to write the script?
3. Return to the ending of the show's destruction of Almighty. It's hard for me to think of any other comfortable explanation other than the possibility that Dr Manhattan decided to "destroy" Dr Manhattan himself. I tend to think that Dr Manhattan may have disappeared completely, or it may just be hidden again (in line with the "incompetent" setting of the previous work), these are all determined by Dr Manhattan. Omniscience and omnipotence is the ultimate pursuit of human beings. His existence breaks all the rules of this civilization, and he himself has no need to be exposed to any grasp of this civilization, so he chooses to "destroy" himself. But this is obviously not the screenwriter's intention, otherwise what happened to the egg at the end? What the hell is going on with this childish suspense?
The premise of the "paradox" of the chicken first and the egg is that only the chicken can make the egg, and only the egg can make the chicken. The show cites this "paradox", which coincidentally reflects my views on the show: fancy structure, hot topics, seemingly profound discussions, all wrapped in a meaningless self-painted beautiful in circles.
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