Veidt working with Manhattan to develop new technologies and obsessing over energy and energy alternatives. Not quite sure why this was thrown in, but hey, okay.
I think this was the pretext allowing Veidt to frame Dr. Manhattan. The obsession with energy alternatives was a front for the papers. He needed to replicate Manhattan energy so he could make the explosions look like Manhattan did it. It replaced the vanishing experts who created the monster in the comic.
BTW, one movie marquee actually had "WATCHMEN: BYO SQUID" on the sign. Hee.
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Date: 2009-03-12 05:50 pm (UTC)I think this was the pretext allowing Veidt to frame Dr. Manhattan. The obsession with energy alternatives was a front for the papers. He needed to replicate Manhattan energy so he could make the explosions look like Manhattan did it. It replaced the vanishing experts who created the monster in the comic.
BTW, one movie marquee actually had "WATCHMEN: BYO SQUID" on the sign. Hee.