There is some fucking significance to a character named for Bass Reeves and a character taking her name from Lady Trieu teaming up isn't there.
her daughter's dream vividly recalls the trauma of the war, and trieu's reaction to it - almost pleased that her 'feet still hurt' - suggests more than protection or safeguarding. i thought vengeance. which would fit in well considering will's father's backstory... i loved the way this episode dealt with the idea of legacy thematically.
i also loved lube man, and the malformed foetus crab-potting. also, i know the inferences like this have been a little loose, but it seems like veidt is on the moon?
lots to think about. love the superman idea. trieu's machine 'tells time,' and she very specifically needed the farm at the end of those three minutes. it must see the future in granular detail
I'm glad at least one other person commented on the
Industrialist buying up farm land from a childless couple literally just as a mysterious object fell out of the sky onto it. I was screaming.
I did not think of the clock being essentially an oracle, but that would make some serious sense.
Trieu's goal definitely reads like some form of revenge, or would it possibly fucking with the time stream to stop Vietnam from being won by america? We're almost to the halfway point and things remain trippy as hell, gonna have to start unraveling it soon.
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two enemies of America together to take revenge on what America did to their race.
Veidt wanting to escape from what seems like a hell dimension (made by Manhattan?)
Am I still on the right track on what's happening here?
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was that a moon of fucking Jupiter Veidt was on? Thought I saw the big red spot on the planet in the sky
As soon as he landed on ice I said "Ganymede?", then it showed the planet in the background and I said "Ganymede!"
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If this show threads the needle of what I think it’s going for I think this is gunna be my favorite season of tv second to Twin Peaks The Return
One thing I like about this show is how it reveals information
There are twists in the plot, and reveals that pull back the curtain and show us things we thought were true were not true, and they aren't played with any particular bombast. Looking Glass sits in that chair and asks if the Senator is even trying to hide his voice, and the mask comes off like nothing had happened. Ozymandias launches out of the sky and onto a moon, and he gets to work. The show doesn't revel in the idea that they've tricked us; it gives us the clues, and doles out the answers when the story needs them to appear, and moves on. It's really refreshing!
And it's doing all of this with small, relatively unimportant pieces of information, while the bigger picture is still...missing. We don't have the pieces yet, to know what Ozymandias's role in the story is, or what Will and Lady Trieu are doing, or what the Seventh Kavalry's ultimate goals are. Or maybe we do, and nobody's quite put them together yet.
I don't appreciate being conditioned to go, "oh noooooo" every time I hear a fucking clock start ticking, though
One thing I like about this show is how it reveals information
There are twists in the plot, and reveals that pull back the curtain and show us things we thought were true were not true, and they aren't played with any particular bombast. Looking Glass sits in that chair and asks if the Senator is even trying to hide his voice, and the mask comes off like nothing had happened. Ozymandias launches out of the sky and onto a moon, and he gets to work. The show doesn't revel in the idea that they've tricked us; it gives us the clues, and doles out the answers when the story needs them to appear, and moves on. It's really refreshing!
And it's doing all of this with small, relatively unimportant pieces of information, while the bigger picture is still...missing. We don't have the pieces yet, to know what Ozymandias's role in the story is, or what Will and Lady Trieu are doing, or what the Seventh Kavalry's ultimate goals are. Or maybe we do, and nobody's quite put them together yet.
I don't appreciate being conditioned to go, "oh noooooo" every time I hear a fucking clock start ticking, though
after this ep I turned to my girlfriend and went “how am I three steps ahead of this show so often and yet I still have NO IDEA WHAT IS HAPPENING”
so Vedit's servants are probably clones of Osterman and his girlfriend yeah?
I don't think there's anything to indicate that's what they are.
Its a guess obviously, but
if Manhatten built the prison and is the god the warden refers to they would be made in God's image, something I could see him pulling when he tries to make his own life as per the movie and it would fit with the general "the comedian was right" feel the show has so far.
It would also explain Veidt's perverse delight in making them fatally reinact Manhattan's creation.
Alright I just caught up and I am desperate for answers and could they please just air the rest of the episodes tonight, thanks
Spoilers up to and including Episode 5
While talking about this with @Grey Ghost as I try to process all the everything, he raised an important point
Which is if Will is actually Hooded Justice, and his parents were killed as they left a movie theatre leaving him an orphan, there's an....obvious Batman allegory here
Which uh
Makes Angela into Batman Beyond I guess!!!
Personally excited to see if Will has a cool dog and a mansion and a nice butler in the Animus trip next episode
info in the senator's veidt tape known to us (the audience if they were familiar with the graphic novel) already? I forgot what was already explicit about the incident
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judd as actually in cahoots with the kavalry is a little disappointing to me. i was hoping for the "racism is complicated / the klan robe was a family heirloom" line to play out... wade's suggestion about that in the previous episode now rings more as foreshadowing apologism
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info in the senator's veidt tape known to us (the audience if they were familiar with the graphic novel) already? I forgot what was already explicit about the incident
Yes. The ending of the comic series is explicitly explained that Veidt is doing this hoax to stop the Cold War
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i also loved lube man, and the malformed foetus crab-potting. also, i know the inferences like this have been a little loose, but it seems like veidt is on the moon?
lots to think about. love the superman idea. trieu's machine 'tells time,' and she very specifically needed the farm at the end of those three minutes. it must see the future in granular detail
Angela and the boss lady speaking Vietnamese to each other was also delightful.
And Veidt using a trebuchet to dispose of the old servants' corpses was delightful as well.
I did not think of the clock being essentially an oracle, but that would make some serious sense.
Trieu's goal definitely reads like some form of revenge, or would it possibly fucking with the time stream to stop Vietnam from being won by america? We're almost to the halfway point and things remain trippy as hell, gonna have to start unraveling it soon.
Veidt wanting to escape from what seems like a hell dimension (made by Manhattan?)
Am I still on the right track on what's happening here?
Shoot m to BITS (hold Y) [hard] C109-0000-014D-4E09
P-POWER Switch Palace 3838-0000-0122-9359
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I like to move it, move it FCE2-0000-00D7-9048
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This was an episode
Also; I'm semi-ashamed that I didn't anticipate the 7K getting sicced on Wade until the van pulled up to his house.
And it's doing all of this with small, relatively unimportant pieces of information, while the bigger picture is still...missing. We don't have the pieces yet, to know what Ozymandias's role in the story is, or what Will and Lady Trieu are doing, or what the Seventh Kavalry's ultimate goals are. Or maybe we do, and nobody's quite put them together yet.
I don't appreciate being conditioned to go, "oh noooooo" every time I hear a fucking clock start ticking, though
after this ep I turned to my girlfriend and went “how am I three steps ahead of this show so often and yet I still have NO IDEA WHAT IS HAPPENING”
Watchmen But The Clock Ticks Faster Every Time They Say Ticktock
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I don't think there's anything to indicate that's what they are.
But perhaps they're just priming the pump
Its a guess obviously, but
It would also explain Veidt's perverse delight in making them fatally reinact Manhattan's creation.
mention that again
Spoilers up to and including Episode 5
Which is if Will is actually Hooded Justice, and his parents were killed as they left a movie theatre leaving him an orphan, there's an....obvious Batman allegory here
Which uh
Makes Angela into Batman Beyond I guess!!!
Personally excited to see if Will has a cool dog and a mansion and a nice butler in the Animus trip next episode
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