Hey guys, Pete here. Today HBO released what they titled The Watchmen official
trailer, so I feel compelled to break that down. it was somewhat unexpected
since we just had the featurette earlier in the week but more Watchmen is good
Watchmen at this point as far as I'm concerned. there's a lot of stuff we've
already laid eyes on in previous trailers but there's a ton of new stuff
with a lot of mystery along with some explanation of what's going on. sort of
anyway, I think each new bit of news we pick up interesting details more than we
get any actual answers about the story that they're trying to tell. I'll touch
on this as we go so let's jump in and break down what's new in this official
Watchmen trailer. things start out with agent Laurie Blake who we know is
playing Silk Spectre - she's talking to Regina king who plays Angela Abar. she
says, "people who wear masks are driven by trauma. they're obsessed with justice
because of some injustice they suffered. ergo the mask, it hides the pain. Angela
responds, "I wear the masks to protect myself." to which she says, "right, from the
pain." this bit of dialogue makes me wonder what the bigger conversation
they're having here is about because on the one hand this sounds like a
description of Rorschach, who is dead, obviously, but who is also an inspiration
for the Seventh Kavalry, which we learned is spelled with a k cavalry with a k, and
who we once again see are wreaking havoc for the Tulsa Police. we don't know
enough about Angela's backstory yet to know if what Laurie is saying applies to
her but it's a pretty good guess and we don't know how Laurie has gotten to be
in the position she's in with the FBI. thirty years have passed since the end
of the comic after all. we do know from Damon Lindelof that this shows going to
examine how we as a society feel about heroes, most notably people who wear
masks in fight crime. Angela is one of those people. Laurie used to be one of
those people, and since she was present when Ozymandias revealed his plan and
Rorschach met his end, it is a clear possibility that she knows things that
the general public does not. the cops are wearing masks to protect their
identities and their families, that's not really confusing
they made that pretty clear, but here's Laurie a person who was raised amongst
masked adventurers seeming to be against the idea. at the end of the comics she
was still with Dan, Nite Owl II, and they were in hiding more or less and it
seemed like they were probably going to continue to fight crime.
somehow in between then and now she became an FBI agent like I said who
knows for sure what happened when nuclear war was averted in the original
comic. as far as we know people in the Watchmen universe believe that the US
was attacked by aliens which was what Ozymandias plan was. we suspect that the
7th cavalry is inspired to wear Rorschach masks because they've read his
journal. we know from interviews from Damon
Lindelof that they're also white supremacists. so there's this weird
dynamic where they probably know the truth about the attack on New York City
where as the general public probably doesn't, but they're also bad people.
the featurette didn't have much Chief Judge Crawford in it really, it focused more on
Ozymandias, and this trailer flips the other way showing him interacting with
several of the characters. Angela tells him in his office about another Kavalry
attack and that she has a guy in her trunk. he tells her to put him in the pod
which he's referring to the Looking Glass interrogation chamber. in there we
hear the guy asked for a lawyer and we hear Looking Glass tell him that they
don't have to give him one because he's a terrorist. this is an interesting
tidbit because we know this is an alternate reality we know that they
don't have things like the internet and social media we know that Richard Nixon
was president for five and a half terms or something like that before Robert
Redford became president to the present day so we have like 50 years with two
different presidents and it doesn't sound like that situation has made
things all that much better. later we hear Judd talking directly Looking Glass
and he said, "why would they start this shit up again?" and Looking Glass answers,
"maybe there was something they didn't want found." one of the things that stands
out right away when you watch this trailer is this owl mug that
Angela's drinking out of in Judds office. there's some speculation that the chief
could be Dan Dreiberg the Nite Owl II - it's one of those things though like an
initial reaction when we saw Archie in the first comic-con trailer was like
yeah that's him. when you think about it though why would
he be in Oklahoma? why would he have the accent? it takes a long time to become a
police chief so he had to be embedded there for a long time and on the police
force for a long time to work his way up. this seems to hint at it and the other
thing that kind of does that is we see Regina later wearing the Nite Owl
looking glasses but these are like x-ray specs that are more powerful than
anything we know Dan had in the comic book. so it makes you wonder if he is
still tinkering and this is his technology along with Archie being a
police vehicle, but there's nothing here that confirms it either way just the owl
makes you think about it some more. we get a shot of the Kavalry coming through
a hole in the ground, we see them working with explosives. there was a suicide vest
looking thing in the previous trailers so these guys are definitely doing what
we hear in the voiceover - they're trying to start a war. we hear the song running
scared by Roy Orbison and we get a way better look at Looking Glass inside the
Kavalry compound. in my featurette video I mentioned this scene that has this
thing falling through the ceiling with blue light in the room. since there were
church pews and video cameras I wondered if this could be where the Rorschachs
were standing in front of the crucifix when they made those videos. in this
official trailer we learn that it is because we get a better look at this
whole compound. we hear him say, "what is this?" and the cavalry member responds,
"this is the only way to show you the truth." so they have him inside their
compound later we see him being restrained and beat up by them. we don't
know where in the season this falls. how it becomes Looking Glass that ends up
there, but it seems like they were reaching out to him in one way or the
other. there's this curious shot with Angela and this holographic tree. we see lady T
there I call her a lady T it's Trieu which is I believe cheow in
Vietnamese but T is a little bit easier to say. she's a trillionaire
according to the last press release they did about the characters so we saw this
area that with the futuristic looking hallway and the last trailer and it
looks like this stuff might be inside her compound or something related to her
we also see her in the scenes with the couple again they have a baby the
hourglass we see there can't exactly tell who she's interviewing but it's in
that same house it's not clear what she's all about or what she's doing why
she's reaching out to Angela but her character seems mysterious in a good way
not a bad way some other new clips we get here are this shot of what is
probably black Wall Street burning during the Tulsa race riots in 1921 we
know those are gonna be in there there's a car crash on the side of the road with
a baby being carried away on foot see an unidentified kid watching butterflies
which feels like a callback to Ozymandias' dome in Antarctica in
the book. we get a glimpse of this guy we've repeatedly seen in front of the
clown at the carnival this is before the incident went down we see him with his
girlfriend or something along those lines we have this shot of Laurie pulling
a gun out at the funeral scene like it looks like that funeral scene I can't
say for sure but it seems like it's connected to that there's a better shot
of Ozymandias riding the horse but I don't think it tells us any more about
what's happening here he's just riding by on his horse past the tales of the
black freighter flag see that Angela is running towards this house where we saw
this huge gun battle go down with the Kavalry this shot definitely stands out
we have Laurie sitting in a chair she's probably restrained it's probably a
Seventh Kavalry symbol behind her which we see a couple of times in this trailer
the outside looks like Dr. Manhattan's mark which is a hydrogen symbol and
there's something like an eyeball painted inside of it
see Angela using a hammer at home against somebody she's wearing the same
clothes that she had in the lady T scene this seems to just be that same
sequence where we see her defending herself when the Rorschachs attack
we see the Owl Ship crashing again that's been a repeated
image at this point Angela is in the crashed car Laurie speaks to her after
coming out of that Dr. Manhattan looking thing that we don't really know what it
is she compliments her on her costume which we can now piece together is a
take on a nun's habit there's a shot that shows that the beads she wears on
her belt do in fact have a crucifix attached which I guess would make them a
rosary and it's been out there that her name was Sister Night but you know it
wasn't apparent to me that the sister was a reference to the church until the
guy who Looking Glass is questioning refers to her as a nun so I missed that
maybe everybody else got it but I definitely did not so what do you think
that we learned a lot here the idea of the potential war between the cops in
the Seventh Kavalry seems pretty straightforward that part of the story I
think we do know kind of a lot about we know who Angela is we know her last
names Abar instead of Abraham which I got wrong I think everyone got wrong for
a period of time so there is that we know who a lot of the characters are but
how everything's connected I mean there is so much stuff jam-packed in these
different trailers that we've seen every time I see a new one it changes my
thinking of what we can expect to see throughout this season it's not in a bad
way I'm not saying that it is I'm just saying that there's a lot of potential
there's a lot of stuff going on theories are starting to pop up slowly but we
really won't know until we actually see how they weave this story together how
all these different characters I mean there's so many different characters and
there's several that we haven't even seen in any other trailers yet so we've
also got the Louis Gossett jr. character we did find out what his name was in the
closed captioning it says William Reeves as his name which doesn't strike any
connections to the source material necessarily I'm gonna cut it off there I
have some more stuff I want to do in the next couple weeks related to Watchmen so
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