For much of the past decade and then some, it seemed as if Zack Snyder's overtly faithful 2009 feature would be the only live-action Watchmen adaptation that ever made its way to fans' enlarged eyeballs. However, this past weekend saw the conclusion of HBO's Watchmen series created by Lost vet Damon Lindelof, which has already been hailed as one of the best TV shows of the 2019 and beyond. Many were suspicious that the small-screen vigilante tale was taking secret swipes at Snyder's film, but Lindelof says that's not the case at all.