Watchmen
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Learning this at the age of 30 remade my mother.
She ran from conflicts.
As an adult I have come to recognize the things Ive inherited from my mother.
(The ethical quagmire of this offer is enough to make your head spin.)
Legacy isnt in land, its in blood, Lady Trieu advises.
You two have no children, when you die your legacy dies with you.
We create legacies with a single touch, in how we consume, in whom we help or hurt.
The would-be vigilante escapes chase, but either way I imagine this moment will come back to bite Angela.
The tension between Laurie and Angela is sharp enough to draw blood.
Laurie clearly relishes prodding mask-wearing cops for what she sees as the ridiculousness and hypocrisy of their actions.
She takes over Judds office without a second thought.
People who wear masks are driven by trauma, Laurie notes.
Theyre obsessed with justice because of some injustice they suffered, usually when they were kids.
Ergo the mask to hide the pain.
That is not the only trauma Laurie has experienced, its merely the one shes willing to share.
Going into this episode, I wondered how Angela and Lauries storylines would be thematically bridged.
Here, it becomes evident that they are linked by the ways they are wrestling with their familial inheritances.
What has Angela inherited from Will?
Shes able to see an archival photograph of her great-grandparents, Obie and Ruth, with a young Will.
So wherever you are, leave me the fuck alone.
Shes inherited his vigor, his gumption, his history.
At Trieu Industries, the questions continue to mount.
Laurie and Angela join Lady Trieu in her vivarium full of the rich foliage of Vietnam.
On her deathbed my mother made me promise I would never leave Vietnam, so I found a loophole.
Now Vietnam never leaves me, Lady Trieu notes.
[Switching to Vietnamese.]
Your grandfather wants to know if you got the pills.
Angela: I remember one from when I was little too.
[In Vietnamese.]
Tell that old fucker he can ask me himself.
Lady Trieu, deadpan: I havent heard that one.
How has Will betrayed Angela?
What will it do to the shape of her family and life?
And ultimately, what is the weight of this legacy Angela has stepped into?
Under the Hood:
I love the scene between Looking Glass and Angela in his underground bunker.
Whenever these two play off each other, the show crackles with energy.
Petey is quite the source of humor in this episode.
I couldnt help but chuckle at his disgust towardAmerican Hero Story: Minutemenand its historical inaccuracies.
I still have absolutely no idea where Adrian Veidts storyline is going beyond his goal of escape.
But Ive got to note how creepy it is watching him fish for clone babies in a lake.
