Watchmen
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Such a life is intrinsically lonely and bruising.
How can you fully exist in the present when the past has never left you?
Angela emerges from Wills memories somewhat broken.
The episode opens on Angelas most foundational memory: her parents death.
People who wear masks are dangerous.
We should be scared of them, Marcus says with an echo of pain just beneath the surface.
When Angela asks why he replies, Theyre hiding something.
So what is Angela hiding in taking on the moniker of Sister Night?
Shes expertly hiding her pain with anger.
What is it about this moment that inspires Angela so much?
Is it the authority to mete out violence?
Is it the ability to find something like justice and order in a world so lacking in those attributes?
Is it some sense of power, which she lacks as a young black girl and orphan in Saigon?
It hurt too, she says to Bian, about the experience with Wills memories.
They also force Angela to reckon with the decisions shes made as a cop and what she considers justice.
For Angela as a child, justice is fleeting.
June reveals the distance that existed between her and her son, who never mentioned her to Angela.
I was also left wanting with the portrayal of Vietnam.
Perhaps thats because this episode is intent on providing answers of a different sort.
Shes mostly unflappable until Angela asks whose Nostalgia Bian is taking.
Bian, we learn, isnt her daughter.
Shes a clone of Lady Trieus mother, and the memories shes being given are technically her own.
(I wonder when Lady Trieus father will pop up?)
Laurie Blake also proves to be a good guy in the wrong place.
She goes to question Judds wife, Jane.
Lauries instincts prove to be exceedingly sharp.
She lays out how Hooded Justice killed Judd and why.
She suspects Senator Joe Keene of being a part of the Seventh Kavalry.
Might attempt to be a blue one.
As Lady Trieu says to Angela, can you imagine that power in the hands of white supremacists?
But nothing surprised me more than the reveal that Cal is Doctor Manhattan.
Since the beginning, Doctor Manhattans presence has been a steady hum in the background of the series.
So many prayers unanswered, Lady Trieu says.
But he isnt listening, she adds.
No, hes in Tulsa, pretending to be a regular human being.
The Seventh Kavalry watches as she charges inside.
Youre the best friend Ive ever had.
Under the Hood
Seems like Wade, a.k.a.
Agent Petey found the remnants of the Seventh Kavalry members, but no sign of Wade himself.
