Watchmen (HBO) TV Show • Page 21

Yeah I’m hoping we start getting more concrete answers soon. There’s a point of diminishing returns to keeping the audience in the dark and rubbing it in our face

 

I mean, Will said it to Angela in ep. 2 (paraphrasing): "There's a vast and insidious conspiracy at play. If I told it to you all at once you wouldn't believe me, so I'm going to tell it to you slowly."

The mysteries are going to last a while.

 

6 of 9 episodes have screened for critics and without spoiling a thing I believe answers are coming soon

 

yeah, i would say the questions thing is only accurate to Lost, which i think is as much Carlton's fault as Damon's. Leftovers didn't have many questions and the ones it did were answered fairly early on.

 

i mean, the central question of leftovers is left ambiguous at the end of the series

 

Cal is so pure

 

wait there are only 9 episodes? :- (

 

It’s not that I even necessary *want* or need answers, it’s more that there have been so many scenes where it’s obvious the audience has little to no context to even begin to understand what’s happening and that always risks getting tiring after a certain point. Like the end of this ep’s opening scene had that thing crash down from the sky and I was just kinda like “eh yeah whatever” lol

 

It was clearly the car that was dropped at the end of last episode though? There was a lot of context for that.

 

That’s not what I took from it? Didn’t it land on the property that Lady Trieu wanted?

 

I just looked it up and yeah, that took place years prior. My bad @Marx&Recreation I am dumb

 

The car just kinda hit down with no fanfare or anything. The meteor clearly had a big explosion when it hit

 

Don’t ever question my judgment again, Mick

 

anyone have any theories on what that thing is? for what its worth I liked that little bit and the fact that they are called the clarks and it seems like a clear superman origin story reference

 

My initial reaction was that it was Dr Manhattan, but that reaction seems to fall apart under any scrutiny

 

isn’t it mentioned that someone is building the same machine that created Dr. Manhattan at some point?

 

I've seen a few people theorize it's Veidt, since his story seems to be happening on another planet and timeline but I dont buy that. im going to assume its something bad that we haven't found out about yet

 

Justin should be Manhattan !

 

i think the series "answered" that question pretty well that it ultimately doesn't matter where they went or why and the connection with those left behind is more important, which seems hammered home pretty clearly with the finale/last few episodes focusing solely on kevin and nora's relationship

 

Some other thoughts concerning Lady Trieu and related stuff possibly the clock that Lady Trieu has lets her see time in a non-linear way similar to Dr Manhattan (or that it's some kind of time machine) and that the serum she has clearly keeps you from aging, which would explain Will Reeves a bit, and possibly have something to do with that is going down with Veidt, how she knew that thing was going to drop, how she knows how he looks right now, etc. I've also heard it trotted out there that possibly Trieu and her kid have something to do with the Vietnamese woman the comedian kills in the comic that has his baby, which I dont buy

 

Regarding Leftovers "unanswered" questions I believe Nora's story

 

same, i don't see any reason not to

 

Leftovers left a lot of shit unaswered early I thought and then kinda used the 3rd season to 'answer' even the smaller mysteries (like the dogs)....they do leave a lot of stuff ambiguous, and/or they give answers that could be the answer but then add in a little something to make you question whether the answer actually is the answer or not.

But that was part of why I loved the show.

 

Isn’t the “point” that it doesn’t matter if her story was true?