We must be getting close to the release of HBO's Watchmen series, created by Damon Lindelof, because the network just dropped its first official teaser trailer. If you were expecting a rehash of Alan Moore's critically acclaimed and commercially successful graphic novel, you should know that this is an original story that uses the world of Watchmen as a launching-off point. However, it appears to keep the continuity of the original story which was itself set in an alternate history in which the U.S. not only won the Vietnam War, it made the country the official …