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All season long,Watchmenhas been asking us to pay attention to eggs.
In last weeks penultimate episode, an extended meet-weird between Angela and Jon (a.k.a.
Doctor Manhattan), Angela asks him to prove hes really a superhero by creating life.
But before we get to that, lets talk about the significance of eggs more generally in the episode.
In essence, shes passing on a perceived superpower to the daughter shell eventually have.
The much more important egg is the one that figures into the closing moments of the finale.
by confirming that the egg comes first.
Angela needs it before she can become the new Doctor Manhattan.
The decision to use I Am the Walrus is loaded with meaning beyond its eggman reference.
Its historical significance, for starters, seems relevant toWatchmen.
Epstein, often referred to as the fifth Beatle, discovered the band.
In a way you could say he was married to them.
The moon … or a moon of Jupiter?
Unfortunately, that film was not preserved, and there are no other sound recordings of her.
The eggman is, as it turns out, a black woman.
Bono introduces the track by saying, This is a song Charles Manson stole from the Beatles.
Were stealing it back.
At the end ofWatchmen, Angela Abar isnt stealing anything.
