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I can honestly say Damon Lindelof has made up for the lukewarm ending of Lost with Watchmen. The finale of Watchmen was another lesson in how to pay-off ideas and conclude a mystery.
We were given a lot of answers so let's dig in...
We were given answers to questions including: who was the real big bad of the series? How deep was the nefarious cyclops plot? What role does Dr Manhattan have to play?
One of the big reveals from the finale centred round Lady Trieu, who was revealed to be Adrian's daughter via artificial insemination.
Like her father, Lady Trieu is the actual big bad of the series, just like Veidt was the big bad guy of the original comic book story.
Like her old man, Lady Trieu has a god complex. She is a narcissist who is high on their own supply, to a point where she is willing to kill Dr Manhattan so she can become a god.
The production designer and camera department had fun with the set, creating all sorts of subtexts with the crosses alluding to Trieu's god complex.
It's quite ironic that Lady Trieu's plan is stopped by Veidt, who sees himself in her and knows that if Trieu ends up as a god she will be as cruel as he was to the clones in Andromeda because narcissists are never truly satisfied.
I dug the Star Wars shout-out with Veidt being stored in carbonite, ala Han Solo in The Empire Strikes Back, but it meant that Veidt has been on earth longer than we knew - as a statue in Trieu's garden, only to be thawed when Lady Trieu's big moment was ready.
As in all great tragedies, her great moment was what ended her.
Talking about great moments... the subplot of the white racist which opened the series was also paid-off when the senator and his inner circle of white racists who lead cyclops had captured Dr Manhattan and explained how they found out about Dr Manhattan and what they were doing with all those batteries.
They were poetically killed in the same street that we opened the series with, where black people were killed in Tusla. It was a poetic moment, that at the height of their achievement, they get killed in the same spot that birthed our Will Reese trauma.
It was very poignant to see Will in the same theatre we met him in the first episode, where he lost his family and to see him now walking out with a new family.
What Will says about masks: "They mask anger and pain," and "Wounds can only heal if revealed," - these were deep statements.
Now that Angela has definitely ingested Dr Manhattan's abilities via the egg, it's intriguing to think a grandaughter of a race attack sufferer is now the most powerful human in this galaxy.
Although I do think Dr Manhattan should be able to reconstitute himself since Trieu was not able to absorb him before she was killed.
Will we get a Season 2? It would be nice but I'm okay having just one season. The series challenged a lot of concepts around what a superhero should be.
It challenged latent racism, history and put a case against forgetting one's past. It even challenged the association of superheros and the white guy lead. It's been a great ride.
It did all this but still gave us a love story filled with pathos, heartbreak, joy and hope through the story of Angela and Dr Manhattan, who are black is powerful.
I'd hate for HBO to try to recapture the magic and put in another bottle unless they do the brave step of telling a different story ala anthalogy series set within the same universe. I guess time will tell.
It Felt like: a proper ending to a great mystery.
Rating
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