Essentially, they are prayer booths, transmitting the hopes and dreams and questions of a suffering humanity to an absent and indifferent god. I’m sure everyone thinks back to those really great experiences now and then.“Space Junk” was dominated by Laurie’s arrival. Some dedicate their time to him, worship him and believe he’ll come back to save them. The kind of dark humour that Laurie (and her father before her) would find hilarious—and Laurie really did. First up is Nite Owl. LG reveals that it is Judd’s funeral in just a few hours, so Laurie slinks off to dress in something darker.The funeral scene sets up how Laurie and Angela will exist in the other’s world, and also put a target on Senator Keene’s back. This is her life, and her job, and it is not—to her—a fucking joke.I'm not completely ready to let go of the idea that there is more misdirection at work here on Lindelof's part, but for now let us agree that, at the very least, I was right about the "I don't mind being the smartest man in the world," Veidt said, in the graphic novel, in an interview with the Nova Express. So what is Sister Night up to?
As breakups go, that's pretty definitive, but Laurie clearly hasn't forgotten her big blue beau. Was that a purposeful play by Petey to get a rise out of Laurie? "She Was Killed by Space Junk" seems destined to be a fan-favorite episode of Watchmen, and for good reason.Jean Smart is already killing it as Laurie Blake, and … Laurie and Angela’s relationship has started off prickly at best, so I am fascinated to see how this will play out.A Seventh Kavalry member digs his way into the cemetery and straps a bomb to his chest, which is linked to his heart rate. She then pushes Judd’s coffin (and therefore body) on top, which takes the brunt of the explosion.As Laurie alluded to herself, this apparent act of bravery and quick thinking by Angela did seem somewhat suspicious. Laurie’s shrewdness and vast knowledge of what’s really going on—who all vigilantes are underneath their masks, including Looking Glass and Sister Night—suggests that the brick she’s thrown up in the air that is going to come and knock God into hell. Perhaps Laurie’s choice of music represents her outlook of people. And what exactly is her plan?Laurie’s pure joy at the end when it becomes clear that Manhattan The god metaphors are plentiful, but he is an absent god. It seems like Manhattan is really learning how to human again.Now the only junk falling out of the sky that we’ve seen so far are Angela’s car and baby squid. I can’t believe that to be true, so there must be something much larger at stake here.Our episode analysis continues every week, plus we will have deep dive theories, polls and more all season long.Laura is the Assistant Editor-In-Chief, a Writer and Assistant to the Webmaster at 25YL. I mean really, who is going to question Silk Spectre as to why she has a Dr. Manhattan dick in her briefcase?…awkward.There are quite a few tongue-in-cheek jokes to be made about that magazine in the briefcase too. Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome to the stage…The Comedienne!Well wow. She makes fun of his fandom a little, but I think she was secretly impressed that he’d done his homework. Nite Owl was brilliant and kind, but he might have been too nice in a world so hard and brutal (echoes of her father’s nihilistic views). Or it may all be as simple as Laurie reminiscing about the sexual exploits of her youth, and there’s nowt wrong with that. For a guy who sees the future though, he must know what’s coming. We don't know how Laurie herself became a federal agent tasked with hunting down vigilantes, but we do know that Dan's reward for his efforts was apparently to be locked up in federal prison. Yes, we were very aware of the pun. Her other lover has been separated from her for years. I didn’t think Watchmen could get a more badass female lead than Angela Abar, a.k.a. She was never particularly enthusiastic about being a costumed adventurer—it was something her mother Sally, the first Silk Spectre, pressured her into doing—and the events of the novel, understandably, only made her more cynical about superheroes. These are the people sending thoughts and prayers in the blue booths placed in every town. Roll on snare drum. I don’t feel like Manhattan is involved here, because really, why would he care? “A live body and a dead body have the same number of particles.” This isn’t just Laurie describing her former boyfriend as cold and unloving; it’s something Dr. Manhattan actually said in 1985 as he was losing his final shred of humanity.