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Lady Trieu is Veidts daughter, and thats why shes so focused on assuming ultimate power.
Veidt knows this, and thats why hes been working to escape Europa all this time.
Trieus millennium clock was designed to transfer Doctor Manhattans power to her, power assumed by violence and pain.
Its a nice gesture toward ambiguity, but even that is pretty overdetermined.
Theres a distinct blue cast to the light on Angelas foot.
It could be just a reflection of the pool water?
But its precision is so overwhelming that the subtext feels overwhelming, too.
Its a show deeply, painfully, intensely anxious about its relationship with questions and answers.
Its an understandable position to be in.
Its that superhero texts abhor uncertainty.
The genre yearns for answers.
They may be more uncertain, but its because we the audience know even more about their lives.
Where was Doctor Manhattan?
What was Lady Trieu doing?
What exactly happened to history since Ozymandias dropped a giant squid on Manhattan?
Those same supplementary materials revealed thatLube Manis Dale Petey.
The problem with stories that answer everything is that theyre satisfying.
ForWatchmen, that satisfaction is itself the one troubling thing about the finale.
The real tension for the show was not in the reparations themselves, but in what came after.
Its hard to blame the show, though.
