Prisoners of Gravity: Watchmen

You’ve all heard of Watchmen. I feel comfortable making that assertion, and given the audience of Ectoplasmosis I’m sure that most people reading this have read the book or seen the film. So I won’t give any description of the series, because there’s little point.

This episode of Prisoners of Gravity was broadcast in 1991 and it is a half hour documentary about Alan Moore and David Gibbons’ genre twisting series Watchmen. Contained within this video is the presenter, Command Rick, asking both David Gibbons and Alan Moore a series of questions about the structures they imposed on the series and the various thematic layers within the twelve issues.

This is a short, neat and entertaining insight into the classic comic.

There will be more episodes of the series Prisoners of Gravity posted here in the near future, probably selecting episodes in a semi-random fashion linked only by my immediate interest in the subject that the episode covers.