More importantly, there’s no emotional payoff to Angela being wrong about Cal’s intentions. In The Leftovers, the ambiguity was part central relationship of the show and to this day Lindelof says you can argue that ending any way you like: “The overall point was the truthiness of Nora speech was irrelevant to the fact that it's what she needed to tell herself and tell Kevin in order for them to be together.” But as for Angela and the egg and that pool? “I’m not saying that it’s an illegitimate argument that Angela just probably got salmonella and wet hair, but that would be the lamest—a really shitty ending.”

Okay so Angela is Dr. Manhattan now and Hooded Justice is sleeping in her spare room and Ozymandias is under arrest and Lube Man is probably working for Silk Spectre II, who was last seen in the company of Looking Glass. Sounds like a nice gallery of heroes to me. But from the start Lindelof has been consistent about where he stands on a second season: “These nine episodes were planned to stand alone and that doesn’t exclude the possibility that there will be more Watchmen.” Okay but the show’s a hit so there will probably be more more Watchmen. But will it be written by Damon Lindelof and company? There’s the rub.

“Whether or not I’ll be involved will be driven almost entirely by whether or not I come up with an idea that I feel is worthy of telling another story,” Lindelof says firmly. “I’m super protective of this material. I understand that that sounds like hypocrisy because its original creator was super protective of it and then I came along without his permission and did this anyway. I would not invoke that feeling onto anybody else who wanted to come and do Watchmen. It's not mine. It never was. I got to spend some time with it and raise it. But, it’s its own thing—it’s so much bigger than me.”

Lindelof only just wrapped post-production on Season 1 two weeks ago, and once his press duties around the finale are over he says he plans to take a nice long holiday break with his family: “I’m going to read a lot of books that have been piling up by my bedside and watch a lot of television shows and movies that I am desperate to see and then when I show back up in January, hopefully the antenna will be back up again. If it receives something that feels like it could be a another season of Watchmen, I would definitely be inclined to pursue it. There is no guarantee of if and when that’ll happen.”

Fair enough and I think I speak for a lot of Watchmen fans when I say that I would take no second season of Watchmen over a season with not enough there there. (A second season with not enough there there is too often the case these days.)

That being said, there are a few promising seeds, other than our curiosity about what Angela would do with those god-like powers, dropped in the finale that could be picked up for a second season if Lindelof decided that he wanted to return to these characters at all. First and foremost, of course, there’s everyone’s favorite slippery boy: Lube Man. The shiny, masked vigilante did not show up again in the season finale but it’s very possible that his alter-ego did. The most prevalent theory about Lube Man is that he’s actually Dale Petey, Laurie Blake’s helpful, hero-obsessed assistant. Petey’s appearance is brief but helpful and one can only imagine what Silk Spectre II and Lube Man could do if they teamed up in a more meaningful way.