![]() ![]() I suppose the Warden took up his masked persona due to the same reason everyone else did in this story - past trauma. They all seem to suffer from abandonment issues, seeing as their god grew bored and left for Earth, none more so than the Game Warden, revealed to be the Adam of this Eden. Lastly, a post-credits scene provides our weekly dose of Veidt weirdness, the slave-clones smashing tomatoes in the man’s face, a ritualistic way to express their disappointment that he is leaving (despite Veidt being literally their only source of pain and unhappiness). Maybe we’ll see a battle between Senator Keene and Angela on the scale of Hindu mythology, a fight for the fate of humanity. But I have a feeling that Angela might absorb his powers too - there was more than a few hints that a mortal would inherit his abilities. ![]() Manhattan might well be killed, his powers absorbed by the white supremacists. This is a fun episode that fills in the gaps, leaving only one episode to deliver a meaningful conclusion to this complicated story. A better option might have been to demand that Manhattan teleport them out of danger and stop messing around, but then again, the blue demigod likes to stay within the confines of his destiny. When Manhattan awakes from his slumber, he is as fatalistic as always, matter-of-factly telling Angela that the Kavalry will succeed in kidnapping him.Īnd this is the moment Angela wins his love and admiration, when she decides to arm herself and take on the Kavalry alone. That’s the thing about Doctor Manhattan - the man moves rigidily through time, despite seeing it as illusionary. It seems that Manhattan’s “children” yearn to be enslaved, but even their devotion isn’t enough to satisfy Veidt, who eventually comes to the conclusion that Eden is a self-sustaining ecosystem that doesn’t need him, and never will the man has an extremely paternalistic view of humanity, as mass-murdering tyrants tend to do.īut before Manhattan erases his own memory, he needs to speak with Will and spark a good grandfather paradox in one of the most interesting moments in the series, Manhattan’s multiple timelines cross, and Angela has a brain-melting conversation with her grandfather, implanting the knowledge of Judd’s “closet” racism, and sparking this entire story. ![]() Veidt seeks the utopia that he failed to create, so Manhattan sends him off to Eden, where he can rule over the defenseless clones with an iron fist. He doesn’t quite recognise this brave new world, and it certainly didn’t turn out the way he envisioned. Nobody listens to him anymore, his scheduled squid droppings his only contribution to society.Īn amusing remark about Manhattan’s “problematic” new identity (I thought Twitter didn’t exist in this universe?) shows that Veidt and his old values are no longer in vogue. But in this era, Veidt is a has-been, his opulent palace crumbling along with his mental state. Thankfully, Veidt has a solution to Manhattan’s fourth-dimensional perspective, having previously planned to erase his memory, back in his heyday. And to be fair, he must be the most annoying person in the world to live with. But it’s not normal enough Manhattan’s omniscience is a comfort, until it’s not. He must be with Angela because he always was, I suppose, and the two build a weird little life together, Angela even choosing the sexiest corpse for her lover to emulate. ![]()
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