Laurie Blake, Looking Glass, and the ending of Watchmen season 1. Angela does what the costumed heroes before her could not: She refuses to let her alter ego define her. The Order of the Cyclops is presumably a nationwide network of racists, but now that Oklahoma branch seems to be all but decimated thanks to Senator Keene’s arrogance and Lady Trieu’s power. Yet the first season finale (and perhaps the series finale as well) for Watchmen did indeed have a great ending. Red Scare and Pirate Jenny somehow make it out alive as well. Theoretically Jon believed that he could transfer his powers to someone through an organic object. Unless he isn’t. Will tells Angela that she cannot heal behind a mask. HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ is based on the comic book series of the same name, but it is more of a canon than a direct adaptation. We break down what that ending means and could mean if … “I’m in every moment we were together all at once. He lived alone in a bunker, obsessing over extra dimensional incursions and alienating everyone around him. I love you, Angela.”. Masked heroism is inherently a selfish act. But Angela’s story, the focus of this season, has—and it’s refreshing to see such a story do so. The Entire Story Of Watchmen In The Comics Explained By Alex G. / March 4, 2020 3:26 pm EDT Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen changed comic books forever. More than anything else, it drives home Watchmen’s theme of generational trauma and how pain can be inherited from our ancestors. When Will met with Lady Trieu sometime before the events of episode 4, Trieu promised the elimination of the Cyclops in return for Doctor Manhattan’s whereabouts. Read and download the Den of Geek Lost In Space Special Edition Magazine right here! There is no blue glow cast over downtown Tulsa. With that in mind, Doctor Manhattan absolutely has the ability to transfer his powers to someone else. It’s better to, as Angela does in the final scene, see yourself for who you are. “You have to stay,” she told him just before he disintegrated. Rather than leaving the viewer hanging on a new conflict, the ending speaks to the show’s ultimate thesis: As much as Watchmen interrogated the illusion of racial equality through its main conflict, the underlying story was always about the dangers in the ways both heroes and villains use masks to hide their real faces. It also must be pretty cathartic for poor, traumatized Wade to clobber Veidt, the man who in addition to his other crimes ruined his life, with a wrench. The process of being blinked out of existence is painful and difficult for Doctor Manhattan to endure. In the end it appears as though Trieu succeeded where her father failed. for Every Budget. That’s why when Veidt tries to claim that the world will end if he is arrested and his crimes revealed, the argument no longer holds weight with Laurie. In Watchmen’s alternative history, where masks have become ingrained in everyday society, a projected identity can overwhelm the true self. If you're new, Subscribe! I appropriated it. She began the series resistant to confronting her past and her own identity by helping hide her husband’s true nature, using an unopened bakery as a front for her masked detective work and refusing to engage with her grandfather Will Reeves (Louis Gossett Jr.), the retired Hooded Justice. The white supremacists wore Rorschach’s “face”; law-enforcement officers wore yellow ones or invented their own. And tell a complete story they did! This method seemingly confirms what Lady Trieu told the 7th Kavalry: Doctor Manhattan’s energy must be filtered before it can be transfered into a human host. The question is: what will she do with them? Angela finds a single unbroken egg in the carton and recalls the egg that Jon created during their first night together. It’s up to the reader to decide whether the paper would publish it and what the implications would be. Alec Bojalad is TV Editor at Den of Geek and TCA member. He took off his mask, killed at least six Kavalry men, infiltrated their lair to save Laurie, and then helped Veidt save humanity. HBO’s official Watchmen companion documents heavily hint at the identity of the mysterious Lube Man after the show’s season finale — and he may have been hiding in plain sight. I can raise the temperature.”, In the end though, Jon gets his temporal perspective straight not to save himself but to re-experience the time important to him…the time he spent with Angela. He has kept the main components of the story, the things that define the world of ‘Watchmen’, but he has also flipped it over and presented his own version of vigilantes, heroes and villains. Watchmen's finale challenged the god complex (Image: SKY) Angela stepped out and tried to walk across the surface of the water - perhaps taking on Dr Manhattan’s powers. He needed to befriend her to make the plan work. Of course, HBO’s Watchmen removes a lot of the ambiguity of that original ending. But the finale has one more possible set-up lurking in the shadows. But the way it’s shot and staged—as a quiet moment alone for a widow—speaks to something less cosmic and more intimate. He had previously told her that he could imbue his genetic material into an egg, and that whoever consumed it could presumably obtain his powers. It’s a little unclear why frozen baby squids raining down would be immensely more destructive than mere hail but there are some potential reasons. first batch of episodes was designed to tell a complete story, Trieu turns out to be the ultimate supervillain of, Dan Dreiberg a.k.a. This story contains spoilers through Episode 9 of HBO’s Watchmen. However, we don't find out if she did in fact inherit them, as the finale ends on … It’s only fitting that he and Laurie be the ones to take Adrian in. Most important, Angela (Regina King) survives and leaves her mask behind, doing what the costumed heroes before her could not: She refuses to let her alter ego define her. Read more of his stuff here. Not only is Wade taking Adrian in to be tried, he has the proof of his misdeeds thanks to a copy of the “confession” tape that Veidt sent to President Robert Redford upon his inauguration in 1993. Either way, the theme remains the same. Even if the finale poses a fascinating question—could Angela somehow have gained Doctor Manhattan’s powers?—it doesn’t overshadow the rest of the story. Dan Dreiberg a.k.a. ... Ending Explained… Her own personal world seems to have ended half a dozen times. Based on the graphic display on Trieu’s device, Doctor Manhattan’s essence is basically being drained out of him. Lady Trieu (Hong Chau) kills Doctor Manhattan (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), but her own hubris and misplaced trust in her father, Adrian Veidt (Jeremy Irons), destroy her in turn. We know, we know: nothing ever ends. All extant cephalopods have beaks as well, which when frozen could be pretty devastating raining down from the sky. In the penultimate episode, he retrieved eggs to make waffles, and Angela, wondering if he had altered them somehow, eats one before the end of the finale. So Angela heads to the family pool, eats the raw egg, and places her foot on the water to see if she can walk on it. Veidt originally designed the squidfalls to be an intimidating yet ultimately harmless event that would remind humanity of extra-dimensional threats without ultimately hurting anyone. 'Watchmen's season-long meditation on the events of Tulsa and Doctor Manhattan's identity delivers in the finale without letting Will and Angela fade into the background. Nite Owl built the Archimedes (“Archie”) as a vehicle to assist in fighting crime. Stay tuned, those finales say. Trieu wanted to prove to her father, Adrian Veidt, that she could save the world better than he ever could. Zack Snyder's gritty depiction of the Watchmen world would've been irreparably harmed by the appearance of an otherworldly monster in the final act and caused a jarring shift in tone, especially for those not knowing what to expect. Though Angela Abar was … Even Will Reeves says of Doctor Manhattan “given what he could do, he should’ve done more.”. Both The Order of the Cyclops and Lady Trieu had big plans for those powers, plans bigger than taking off to Europa and playing with his Adam and Eve action figures. Veidt proves Jon right by coming up with the ingenious solution to weaponize his baby squids. He knew he was going to die. 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He knew Angela would reconnect with her grandfather. He brings Laurie and Wade to a basement where there’s a surprise waiting for them and Watchmen fans alike. But in the season’s final moments, she’s accepting the fact that she’ll have to go on without him—and realizing that she can. We finally know what Lady Trieu was planning, … Nothing may ever end but this Watchmen season does. It’s more so the kind of image that demonstrates how far she’s come as a character. When Angela and Cal were attacked on Christmas Eve by two Rorschach-masked assailants, Angela dispatched one of them but it was unclear what happened to the second, the one who was looming over her as she lost consciousness. Angela, Will, and all the other parties involved proceed as if he’s dead. Based in Cleveland, Ohio. HBO's Watchmen is over. Laurie has had two different stints as a masked vigilante and one as a masked vigilante catcher. What’s up? When Jon levitated those eggs out of the fridge, he even told Angela “watch the eggs,” perhaps as a simple courtesy to alert someone of a floating object in their midst, but more likely as a reminder for what to do later. “You can’t heal under a mask, Angela,” he observes. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! The season finale, “See How They Fly,” closes with a shot of Angela stepping into her pool, about to test whether she’s inherited Doctor Manhattan’s powers. Doctor Manhattan visited Will in 2009 to simply request that he look after Angela’s grandchildren during a very important day in 2019. Regardless, Veidt is pretty confident that the destruction wrought by the squids will be total in nature. They’re going to arrest Adrian Veidt for killing 3 million people on 11/2/85. It shows a minor character reaching to potentially publish a journal written by the masked antihero Rorschach, who documented the truth behind the attack that halted the nuclear arms race. As great as Watchmen's ending is in the comics, it simply wouldn't have worked on the big screen. Instead, it created something original in its own right. “Everyone and everything within five square blocks is about to be obliterated,” he says. By the end of the finale, however, she talks—and agrees—with Will. Well, Doctor Manhattan isn’t always right because HBO’s Watchmen really did just end with its thrilling finale, “See How They Fly.”. Hooded Justice had only one mission: eliminate The Order of the Cyclops and white supremacy and that mission brought him into contact with some unusual allies. “Golfball-sized hail”is often the go to comparison for enormous hail and each of these squids is bigger than a golfball. To that end, she made a deal with Will Reeves a.k.a. ... It’s a question that kept nagging me as Adrian explained his reasoning. And so, Watchmen ends not with a bang, but with a thought-provoking image unencumbered by any need for universe building or sequelizing. Now look at the enlightened Wade. Her worldview had changed both because of the horrors of Veidt’s plan and the knowledge that her true father was the pragmatic Edward Blake. The following contains spoilers for Watchmen episode 9. While in captivity, Jon repeats words from the 1980s: “All we ever see of stars are their old photographs,” “As far as I’m aware there’s no situation in Afghanistan requiring my attention,” and the 1950s “Janey. Spoilers ahead for Watchmen.. Last night’s finale of Watchmen ended with a cliffhanger of sorts. We have answers to all of those questions and more in this feature, which will entirely focus on the ending of Watchmen and work to explain why it is the way it is and what it is. Ultimately that plan fails as Keene’s machine doesn’t turn him into Doctor Manhattan but rather a pile of guts. While Lindelof promised no cliffhangers in the Watchmen finale, the episode’s final moments do come pretty close to the edge. We’re here to help you understand the first eight episodes ahead of the finale. Damon Lindelof called it his own fan-fiction, and we clearly see why. And so the idea that someone else could come along and do another season of Watchmen, that’s really exciting to me too,” he continued in Paste. They’re a symbol of procreation and inheritance. Are you cold? Trieu uses the containment facility that the Kavalry so helpfully built to begin extracting Manhattan’s essence into the spherical object that emerged from the Millennium Clock. → http://bit.ly/subscribe-screencrushThe #Watchmen #Finale might leave some fans scratching their heads. “It’s just another continuing show where you have to come up with a cool cliff-hanger for the finale.”, Read: “Watchmen” questions its heroes’ legacies. You have to filter Doctor Manhattan’s atomic energy, you see, you can’t just go around absorbing it. Fortunately, Lady Trieu knows what she’s doing…. Follow him at his creatively-named Twitter handle @alecbojalad. So much for “re-runs.”. Will told Angela that you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. And it seems as though Manhattan was well aware of Will’s need for revenge as Will tells Angela that meeting with Lady Trieu was in fact Doctor Manhattan’s idea. Keene’s monologue sheds light on many of the unanswered questions about the 7th Kavalry and the White Night. But then another opportunity presented itself…or himself. Will provided Trieu access to Doctor Manhattan (who made his presence known to Will back in 2009) and in turn Trieu promised to take out the Order of the Cyclops. The squid would've also needed to be a CGI creation and, even a decade later, superhero movies still struggle to find success with final … In the final two issues of the original Watchmen, Dreiberg and Walter Kovacs a.k.a. The nine-episode run of the series based on the iconic comic of the same name threw mystery after mystery at viewers. We inherit our ancestors’ pain, triumphs, and prejudices. “It’s also not my story, right? Keene was set on using control of both factions to “end” the racist terrorism in Tulsa and use the popular support to defeat President Robert Redford in the next election. The Crawfords’ mission explains why Judd was present at Angela’s bedside the moment she woke up after the attack. The human spirit is stronger that Veidt ever gave humanity credit for. There’s more to come. But Laurie has changed a lot in the last 30 years. Lady Trieu came enticingly close to gaining the powers of a god before her own father murdered her with some strategically deployed squid rain. That’s why Veidt trusts that Wade can fly Archie safely back home. “I would watch the fuck out of that.” As Doctor Manhattan put it in the comic, nothing ever ends. Indeed, decades later, DC Comics released a sequel titled Doomsday Clock, in which the revelations from Rorschach’s journal cause the fugitive Ozymandias to attempt to save the world. HBO’s Watchmen, however, wrapped up the conflict in Tulsa and let the final moment highlight a character’s emotional journey instead. Here's everything that happened and every question that was answered. Watchmen's finale was full of shocking moments and revelations. Trieu delivered on that and the Order of the Cyclops was defeated (or at least much of it was) on the same Tulsa soil where Will’s whole world ended. She recognized the evil of the act, obviously, but at the same time it seemed like there was nothing she could do to reverse it. The Watchmen season 1 ending explained, including what could have happened to Angela with the egg and Doctor Manhattan's powers, plus Veidt and Manhattan's fates By wrapping up the story with a scene in which she accepts not only her life without Doctor Manhattan but also her own legacy, Watchmen proves that telling a self-contained superhero story on-screen is possible. If it’s the latter, maybe there’s hope for a brighter future yet. He knew that Veidt, Laurie, and Wade would save the world. Apparently nowhere. I’m in Gila Flats” schtick. Jon had been rather scattered since he “came out of the tunnel” as Cal. But is Angela seeking the powers of a god by eating that egg or merely trying to reconnect with the love that she lost? Thanks to Joe Keene we now know that second man wasn’t vaporized by Cal but rather teleported off to Gila Flats, the birthplace of Doctor Manhattan. Here we break down all the various points of the thrilling Watchmen finale. Lady Trieu is ready to absorb Doctor Manhattan’s powers, becoming the most powerful being in the universe and killing Doctor Manhattan in the process. The show teased fans by ending the season on a pivotal moment, as the main character, Angela Abar (Regina King) eats an egg which she believes contains Dr. Manhattan's powers. Those instincts caused Cal to send an attacker to a place of significance to Doctor Manhattan. Maybe Angela can break that cycle by inheriting something else – something powerful, from someone she loves. Where does that essence of Manhattan go once its vessel is destroyed? Read: Why the latest twist in “Watchmen” is so important. But that’s the point; they’re minor. Over 30 years ago, Laurie witnessed Adrian’s horrific plan to kill millions to save billions firsthand. The Watchmen season (and likely series) finale answered almost all our lingering questions. It’s something that Jon told him to tell her and she’ll know what it means when the moment is right. Thankfully, as tonight’s Watchmen finale makes radioactively clear, white supremacists are… But all a mask really does is hide the pain. The only thing that a vigilante (or in the show’s case: a masked cop) is trying to fix by wearing a mask is themselves (something Laurie alluded to back in episode 4 during a conversation with Angela). Back in 1985, turning Adrian in after the fact would only undo the fragile peace brought about by his plan. A recap of the season 1 finale of HBO’s Watchmen, ‘See How They Fly,’ episode 9. Prior to “See How They Fly” premiered, Damon Lindelof revealed the nature of one of the scenes within it to Variety, saying: “There has to be a scene between Angela and Will, between granddaughter and grandfather. Veidt has Wade turn the temperature down to 22 degrees (presumably on the Fahrenheit scale as that’s below freezing) and then fires up the ol’ squid dropper. TV Editor at Den of Geek and Television Critics Association member. Watchmen Season One's finale ended with Angela Abar eating an egg that might give her Doctor Manhattan's powers. Should someone consume said object, they would gain Manhattan’s abilities. Television The Casual Viewer’s Guide to WTF Is Going On in Watchmen HBO’s superhero series is superconfusing. Now, however, the frozen squid are intended to be bullets raining down from heaven. Nothing may ever end but this Watchmen season does. There needs to be a scene where (Will) explains why he came back and why he did what he did and what the purpose behind it all was, and so we knew that’s going to be in the finale, and everything was going to be in service of giving that scene maximum emotional resonance.”. While the prospects of a Watchmen season 2 should seem quite likely given the show’s success, creator Damon Lindelof made clear that this first batch of episodes was designed to tell a complete story. Even if Watchmen doesn't return for Season 2, the finale answered enough questions that fans should be satisfied. There’s no new costume for the hero, no villain revealed to still be alive, not even a post-credits scene that gives viewers an Easter egg—or an answer to Angela’s question—to cheer on. Watchmen doesn’t need to show us what comes next for us to know that these kids will carry this wound with them forever. Angela is able to escape via the most resilient plastic lid in existence. Lindelof has long been not only one of television’s most audacious writers, but perhaps its most anxious. “People keep saying that but it never seems to happen,” Laurie says. Zack Snyder’s Justice League vs. the Whedon Cut: What are the Differences? The only question really is if the egg was a magic egg or merely a lucky egg that survived Angela’s smashing of the carton. The series built upon a recognizable, celebrated title without indulging in the maximalist nature of today’s franchises. Bian takes refuge in a Manhattan phone booth. Angela finally got to speak with her grandfather and share his pain. As we’ve seen throughout the finale and the series, Doctor Manhattan is very rarely wrong. Eggs are important to the Watchmen universe. As he previously told Laurie, Keene and The Order of the Cyclops controlled both the 7th Kavalry and the police. Of all the people in the original Watchmen universe, Laurie may have been through and seen the most. Hooded Justice. In the pages of comic books, their deaths rarely stick, they never run out of villains to face, and their backstories prove malleable. With HBO’s Watchmen having aired its season finale this past Sunday, a few days ago I … The ambiguous nature of Watchmen’s final scene is in keeping with the ending of the book, which concludes with Rorschach’s journal revealing the details of Veidt’s crimes ending up in the offices of The New Frontiersman. As the last of Jon is about to be sucked up by Trieu’s machine, Angela asks where he is. Doctor Manhattan promised Angela that their relationship would end in tragedy and so it does. The man standing alongside Laurie and Adrian is living proof of the resiliency of the human spirit. The show offers little evidence to the contrary. Jon, nigh omniscient being that he is, knew that Veidt either had a plan to save the day once again or would get around to developing one. Laurie (Jean Smart) and Wade (Tim Blake Nelson) arrest Adrian for his crimes from 1985, delivering much-delayed earthbound justice. Here we break down all the various points of the thrilling Watchmen finale. The squids prove destructive enough to Lady Trieu, who gains a hole in her hand and is ultimately crushed by the squid-riddled structure above her. He always experiences all time at once but is usually better at being present when the situation calls for it. They must have found a structure more sound than cop cars whose windshields the frozen squid rain easily tore through. And to accomplish that goal she would need to harness the powers of Doctor Manhattan to end war, hunger, and every other global issue that Doctor Manhattan refused to address. After the Kavalry fails, it becomes Lady Trieu’s turn to literally play God. Judd and Jane Crawford were given the task of befriending the Abar family while the 7th Kavalry harvested enough synthetic lithium batteries (which we witnessed them doing in the first episode) to build a chamber to contain Doctor Manhattan. As promised, Watchmen episode 9 solves almost every mystery that the show presented while adding some more questions to the pile as a going away gift. Angela lingering on the surface of the pool is not the kind of cliff-hanger that telegraphs a need for a second season. Watchmen Ending Explained; Features Watchmen Ending Explained. Pondering her late husband’s last hours, Angela is grieving him and taking a step forward at the same time. Damon Lindelof is done with Watchmen after tonight’s finale.. Veidt says his goodbyes anticipating that he’ll just stay behind in Karnak as Laurie and Wade leave but Laurie has different plans. She killed Doctor Manhattan…it only cost her her life. As she begins to clean up, she recalls words that Jon told her 10 years ago during their first meeting. Excerpts of the journal were indeed published and ultimately led to the creation of the 7th Kavalry. It’s an ending unlike those typically found in onscreen superhero stories today. Will and Angela’s conversion also clears up some other important pieces of narrative information. Behind the scenes, the series’ creator, Damon Lindelof, and his writers intended to tell a story that ended. But Adrian’s plan works. “Wounds need air.” And so, before she brings her family home, she allows her children to see the costume she’d been wearing in secret, implying that she’s moving on from her Sister Night days. Will fulfilled that end of the bargain. Moments after Jon told Angela to “watch the eggs,” he apparated over to walk on the family pool as it was “important” that Angela see him doing so. Angela likely has the powers of a god. The Watchmen Season Finale "See How They Fly" ends with Angela Abar (Regina King) attempting to take Doctor Manhattan's powers by eating an egg. Some weren’t literal masks: A racist swaggered around as a charming senator, while a narcissist with a god complex dressed herself up as an eccentric philanthropist. Veidt has restored Dan Dreiberg’s old owl ship, Archie. Superhero stories don’t tend to end. The Best PSUs for PC Gaming From be quiet! That moment comes as Angela goes to pick up some broken eggs on the floor once the Abar family arrives home. This is the ending of Watchmen season one, explained. HBO's TV continuation of the Watchmen comic book, that took Alan Moore's original characters in an unexpected and often surprising direction, was a triumph of storytelling. … Rorschach flew Archie to Karnak to confront Veidt but were ultimately unable to stop him. Look at Wade Tillman prior to learning the truth of the squid. Keene gathers his troops, Jane Crawford, a bunch of old white racists, and “special guest” Laurie Blake at their secret hideout in a rundown mall to begin the ceremony of turning himself into a god.
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