The results of "Before Watchmen" hang together like… well, any ongoing comic book series with different authors.    The characterizations don't match up and story elements seem out of place.  They aren't terrible, but they aren't going to be featured in any pieces on great comic book literature, except as a footnote…

Except that their motivation wasn't telling a story.  Their motivation was cashing in on the reputation of Watchmen.
 And yes, DC's classic screw-job was simply making sure that Watchmen is always in print to make sure the rights never revert back to Alan Moore.

Or, y'know, you might not agree with everything that someone you generally respect says.
 I still think O'Neal's a good writer.  I disagree with him on this. 

You understand the concept that something might've already been out of his control by the time he decided "No more selling rights to his works", right?

Sean, prior to the whole LXG movie debacle, Moore had an even-handed response - that he didn't see the point of trying to do a "faithful adaptation" of his work because it wasn't designed to be a movie/TV show or whatever… but that it was his hope that someone might be inspired to make it their own, specifically…

"Every word is flawless"?  Who is saying this, again?

Before Watchmen is definitely trying to be "actual story" of Watchmen, as if Alan Moore was just a hired hand who came in to do a few issues then moved on. 
 Tolkien had the right idea, which was to make sure (in more elegant words) that anyone who wanted to try to continue storytelling rather than adapting his…

He's the poster child of "shitty at his job, consistently gets work and praise". 

The lawsuit was actually that the movie company *had* stolen someone's script, and then did the time-honored Hollywood tradition of buying a property, changing a few details and pretending it was an "adaptation".
 Moore's participation was being accused of being in cahoots with the movie company, despite the fact that,…

Yeah, I'm gonna have to call shennanigans on this news post. Moore's experiences with the LXG movie lawsuit was enough to make anyone a bit cranky.

The issue was that in Billy's flashback episode, the Guild was thought to be gone - it was known as being from "that Rusty Venture show" - and Gathers and Samson were mocked in OSI for going after them.  Of course, we saw that Sergeant Hatred was acutally a ringer for the Guild inside the OSI and working against them…
A…

But does it trump the Tick's "Stalingrad"?

They didn't backtrack as much as they said it's one element, mocking Wikipedia for saying the show was "about failure".

Except that "Handsome Ransom" and "Every Which Way But Zeus" showed that Captain Sunshine's real problem is trying to relive his own glory days through his sidekicks.  He doesn't want to have sex with them.  He wants them to be just like him when he was Wonder Boy.

I have trouble reading the Man in the High Castle - it's a profoundly beautiful book, but the setting is so depressing, as a world where the Nazis won should be.  But it's worth it to get to the end.

Sweet merciful Hastur.  That's a strong detour into Crazy Town.

Gatsby is referenced in the Black Dossier.

Considering the primary source was someone's script unrelated to LoEG, yes it was.
 Moore's dislike stemmed from being forced to participate in a trial involving the studio shennanigans in stealing the script.

Prior to the whole League trial mess, Alan Moore said in an interview that he would prefer if an adaptation pulled a "Blade Runner" and put their own spin on his material in a different format.

Because it wasn't an adaptation of Moore's comic, really.