Watcher in the Water

Number six, we're in the subgenre of kaiju now.

with The Watcher in the Water.

So Nick, what is The Watcher in the Water, and what about it is so horrifying?

Similarly with The Fell Beast, The Watcher in the Water is like, we don't know what it is.

It's kind of, but also another element that makes The Watcher in the Water terrifying is that it's its own thing.

It's debated within nerds about who reads all of the sacred Tolkien texts online, about what exactly is the Watcher in the Water.

Is the Watcher in the Water a servant of Sauron? Is it influenced by Sauron? Most consensus is that it's just a horrible monster from the depths of the Earth that basically is so powerful and terrifying and untamable that it just exists as similar to the fel beast a sort of cosmic horror entity yeah

you keep bringing up cosmic horror and i think that's actually instead of kaiju we'll get to a kaiju instead of kaiju that almost makes me think more lovecraft how he describes the deep ones and the the the ancient unknowable monsters of the depths The fact that, you know, you who have done a good, healthy amount of, of research and writing in the sphere of Tolkien, it was like watching the water is the watcher in the water.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's, it's like a cross between the Sarlacc and the Watcher in the Water from Lord of the Rings.

So you know, obviously, the Sarlacc-

Yeah

Obviously it's got all the, the bit underneath the sand, like all the chambers and stuff that, you know, Boba Fett escapes from.

So, so you've got all that.

But then, um, so, you know, like you said, the tip of an iceberg, but then you've got the Watcher in the Water and the fact that, like, it just sits there watching.

It's got, like, a little periscope type thing, and then all of a sudden it just leaps out-