![]() ![]() While we still don’t know who killed Judd, or what Will’s role in the chief’s death may be, the nature of the letter-as well as our knowledge of Will’s traumatic escape from racial violence in the premiere-strongly suggests that Will wouldn’t work with the white supremacist group, the Seventh Kavalry, who might not be responsible for the murder after all.īut back at the bakery, it’s clear that Angela doesn’t completely trust the other members of the police force. “Come over to the German line, and you will find friends who will help you along,” reads the final line of the German officer’s letter, as the setting returns to modern-day Tulsa, while Will awaits Angela’s arrival. It’s a letter of German wartime propaganda aimed at breaking black soldiers’ trust in the American democracy by convincing them that they’re second-class citizens in the eyes of American white people. The episode opens by revealing the contents of the piece of paper Will’s father had used to write “Watch over this boy” before sending his son out of the city on the day of the massacre. ![]() The man, Will Reeves, nearly a century older than he was when introduced during his escape from the 1921 Tulsa Massacre in the series’ cold open, is brought back to Angela’s bakery hideout for questioning, but he cryptically reveals only minor clues for her to follow. In Episode 2, “Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship,” detective Angela Abar (Regina King) starts investigating the death of police chief Judd Crawford, whom she found hanging from a tree with a 105-year-old man in a wheelchair waiting beside his feet at the end of the premiere. Like The Leftovers and Lost before it, Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen begins by explaining absolutely nothing. If I told you about it, your head would explode, so I have to give it to you in pieces.” -Will Reeves “There’s a vast and insidious conspiracy at play here in Tulsa. ![]() Repurposing everything from Moore’s political themes to metatextuality in and outside of the story, HBO’s Watchmen is clearly taking a winding path toward a larger conspiracy, just like Moore’s original story.Įvery week, we’ll break down what exactly is happening in Damon Lindelof’s (latest) confounding series and revisit Moore’s source material -the show’s so-called Old Testament -to see how it can help illuminate the strange happenings in this version of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Moore, the legendary comic scribe and perpetual curmudgeon, would’ve preferred for the plot to end in the final page of his graphic novel, and yet, there’s a fitting irony in the way showrunner Damon Lindelof has managed to turn Moore’s own words against him. “Nothing ever ends” now also serves as the tagline for HBO’s new Watchmen series, an appropriate choice for a TV show that’s trying its best to seamlessly pick up where Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons left off decades ago. Over 30 years later, Adrian -unsurprisingly -has not forgotten those last words, let alone the blue Jesus himself. Adrian had just asked Doctor Manhattan whether what he had done was right (referring to the catastrophic event he’d created that killed, uh, several million people in a twisted effort to create world peace), a rare moment of vulnerability for the “world’s smartest man.” DC Comics Nothing ever ends.” Those are the final words that Doctor Manhattan says to Adrian Veidt, the erstwhile Ozymandias, in November 1985 before leaving for a “less complicated” galaxy. ![]()
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