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Although I will admit that there are a LOT of questionable elements in this miniseries... a lot of them are actually present in the original story as well. Sally and Eddie did eventually end up on good terms despite his attacking her in the original book, for example, it's just that the miniseries goes through how they might have gone from Sally justly being scared of the guy to them having a kid together.

Overall the individual characters appear to have some more depth to them within this story, Silhouette specifically comes out well considering the entirety of her story within the original Watchmen was "was a lesbian, got murdered alongside her partner, was reduced to a punchline".

Though Sally Jupiter does fare better here than she does in Cooke's over BWM series about the Silk Spectre. In Minutemen her self-esteem issues are what lead her into getting manipulated into doing a lot of stuff by the men in her life, which again is a thread that carries back to the original story. Her relationship with Eddie isn't healthy, but Minutemen does at least try to demonstrate why she'd think that it would be a good idea to hook up with Eddie despite him being a thoroughly awful person.

Her considering him to be a "real man" despite his being a thuggish rapist, for example, isn't presented by Cooke as her making the right decision here. Same with Eddie deciding to get Laurie to go back to Sally in the second series, with his kidnapping and threatening to murder her boyfriend if he doesn't dump her and enlist in the army. He's a thug doing thuggish things, forcing her to go back to her hugely abusive mother.

It's Laurie's adopted uncle (the first Niteowl) that comes off better as he's willing to actually talk to Laurie and her new hippy friends like people to try and encourage her to go back to Sally. With Niteowl (forgotten his name) it's treated more as her decision, rather than Sally or Eddie's actively trying to remove Laurie's agency from the issue.