Ignorance is bliss.

That's refreshing to hear. Listening to most people here, it's as if no one has the patience to let the story unfold or the intelligence to put the pieces together.

And I am a huge fan of the 2009 movie.

Watch the movie or read the graphic novel and you are going to hate the TV show, or don't and enjoy the show, if you like it.
They have nothing in comun, just some throwbacks here and there.

I'm glad that we as a society are coming together in order to celebrate ignorance. 9/11 really united people in a spectacular way. It's beautiful to watch. We are living in a utopia.

The series is set 34 years after the movie, which took place in 1985. One change: they're following the original comic which had a slightly different ending. Adrian Veidt (who's hanging out near Jupiter killing clones these days) decided to save humanity from an imminent US-USSR all out nuclear war by introducing a phony extraterrestrial threat. He dumped a giant genetically engineered squid on New York City with his teleportation device - a bigger version of the one the 7th Kavalry was using to drop basketballs around their HQ. The squid sent out a blast of psychic energy as it materialized within buildings and died. We saw that event take place in the last episode.

Veidt's plan killed half the city's population but it worked, the two superpowers set aside their differences to ready themselves for an alien invasion that never came. Those squid falls are being done to keep the low level threat in everyone's minds. Never know what could drop out of another dimension at any time. In the Watchmen movie he did something a little different, set up Dr. Manhattan as the cause of the disaster so he'd be perceived by the public as the real threat. Die hard fans of the comic didn't like that tweak. But like I said, they ignored it for this series.

If you don't know who Dr. Manhattan is, this is a pretty good summary: https://watchmen.fandom.com/wiki/Jon_Osterman

Most superheroes in this world have no actual super powers. Manhattan is one of the few exceptions; he became the next best thing to a god, and over time grew more and more detached from humanity. Eventually he left to live alone on Mars. The woman who's now a federal agent, who just arrested Angela, was his love interest at the time - which is why she stops in those booths to talk to him. We're pretty sure it was Dr. Manhattan who put Adrian Veidt on Europa for whatever reason. Don't know that for sure though.

Go ahead and watch the movie. I don't personally think it'll ruin anything for you. The series is a sequel and has a lot of references and easter eggs, but they're also definitely breaking new ground with it. So of course there will be purists who get angry. I just tune them out.