The one thing people who hate the idea of prequelizing Watchmen and the open-hearted placers-of-trust-in-the-makers-of-things who’ve suggested it might not be a travesty seem to be able to agree on is that whatever happens, it can’t really “ruin” Watchmen, just like George Lucas hasn’t actually ruined all the childhoods he’s accused of having ruined, because ILM has yet to invent time travel.