And if the onlyWatchmenyou know isZack Snyder’s 2009 film, you’ve got the wrong story.

We’re gonna' have to discuss the giant intergalactic squid monster.

Remember that, it’s importantbut they arrive too late.

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Veidt enacts his plan, millions of lives are lost, and it works.

Nuclear war is averted.

For one,Robert Redfordis now the president.

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Image via Warner Bros.

That’s just a fact.

It is, all things considered, a pretty tense time.

Ozymandias briefly stopped the war, but he sure as heck didn’t save the world.

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Image via DC Comics

For more on HBO’sWatchmen, here is ourfive-star reviewand our 35-minute deep-dive (but spoiler-free!

)interview with Damon Lindelof.