8 Things Watchmen TV Show Must Do Differently To Zack Snyder's Film

4. Examine The Black Freighter

Tales of the Black Freighter is Watchmen's single greatest meta-narrative. A comic situated within a comic, the book revolves around a pirate as the eponymous (and suitably ghostly) ship nears into view. Moore himself has posited that the comic is as much an allegory for Veidt's ideological shift as it is a dialogue shared between the Watchmen themselves, and it needs to have a role in the upcoming show.

Instead of opting to include the comic intermittently throughout the film, Snyder chose to make The Tales of the Black Freighter an animated accompaniment to the main feature. Gerard Butler had a key role, and it's actually a very good animated feature. The fact that it's not included in the main film itself, however, is pretty frustrating, despite the logistical issues that would've undoubtedly prevented its inclusion in the first place.

Although this author isn't one to sing the praises of Arrow, well, at all, the show's earlier usage of flashback aided it a great deal. Replace flashback with Tales of the Freighter, and you have a fairly organic way of implementing the story in the show. It's certainly worth including, given how integral an aspect of the comic it is, and it'd be an interesting way to slow the series down in certain moments.