she claims she's gonna fix the world how do you know she won't because she is
clearly a raging narcissist whose ambition knows no limits its hubris, literal
hubris. Anyone who seeks to attain the power of a god must be prevented at all
costs from attaining it. welcome back everyone it's Charlie this is going to be
my Watchmen episode 9 video for the finale so much stuff happened and
there's so much stuff coming up this week if you're new to the channel be
sure to subscribe to get everything will do top 10 and Easter eggs as we
go along careful for spoilers if you have not seen the episode yet starting
with number 10 to flashback to Lady trues origin story in the title of the
episode so the title was see how they fly which is obviously a reference to
the squid at the end of the episode the way the Ozymandias was able to save the
world once more and it's one of the verses from the Beatles cover song that
they played over the end of the episode see how they fly but we get Lady trues
origin story we find out who her mother was she was a person working for awesome
man Diaz inside his Karnak facility during the events of the original comic
book series she hates the servitude so she steals one of his vials inseminates
herself the big painting that she was staring at when she said fu Ozymandias
is actually a picture of Alexander the Great he referenced it later in the
episode lady true told him the truth about what happened because her mother
told her the truth the picture of Alexander behind which you have all of
your seed that you stored in that special fridge I don't know what I was
expecting from the father/daughter ness of it all but the apple doesn't fall far
from the tree like he references it takes one to know
one calling her an incredible narcissist in probably the worst person ever to
take Doctor Manhattan's power so when he admits that at the end of the episode is
sort of him admitting to his faults even though he's still an asshole to the end
but then number nine the flashback to 2008 before Doctor Manhattan had come back
to visit Ozymandias with her explaining her plan
revealing herself to him we get a little more context for his relationship with
Robert Redford he won't take my calls said he would have won the election even
without my help this is the version of Ozymandias that felt like he had fallen
on hard times nobody cared about him he couldn't tell them the truth I'm the
person that saved the world and nobody can know but if it wasn't clear
everything that lady true did after this was on her own like she says at the end
of the episode I wanted you to see that I could do this coming from nothing
because he literally left her nothing and she still wound up buying his
company later in life remember they said the Ozymandias disappeared in lady true
mysteriously just bought his company out from under him so presumably she left
his Karnak base then went to set out and make her fortune make all the money that
it took to make her special quantum device to take Doctor Manhattan's power but
along the way also accumulated the wealth necessary to buy his company out
of spite so she didn't really need his company
she was just buying it to prove that she could but we get the reveal of what
really happened with the satellite in him leaving the message with the dead
bodies she claims five years from now our
satellites going to be over Europa taking pictures of Doctor Manhattan presumably but
she didn't know eventually what would happen with Ozymandias being teleported
there by Doctor Manhattan so number 7 Ozymandias escapes from the moon so she
gets the message a couple years go by remember it takes a couple years for all
these things to happen so I think one of the better reveals is that he's actually
been that statue in her garden this whole season presumably for a year or
more so when the ship came back she just wheeled him in and stuck him there and
then only unthought him right before the finale so this whole season he's just
been sitting there chilling out I saw a lot of you have that theory in the
comments that Ozymandias was that person in the statue and that's where he's been
technically you're not wrong but he was also back on Jupiter it's just that he's
been frozen there for a little while love the scene with him in the
gamemaster was I worthy opponent no you definitely were not but you did put on a
hell of a show he straight-up catches the bullet just like he did during the
original comic series they also did that moment during the Watchmen movie we get
the full reveal that his message was saved me daughter which is paying off
that moment from their flashback when he said I will never ever call you daughter
and I offer you nothing he went full Ozymandias by the end of the episode
quoting the end times the end is nigh my friend talking to the newspaper man I
also love the funny moments that they had to where do people think that
Ozymandias has been this whole time oh they think he ran off to the jungle
which I also think is the writers winking at him being stuck in that
little garden in the golden statue but number 6 the 7th cavalry captures
Doctor Manhattan so this sort of a carryover from last week's episode the time
between last week's episode in this episode overlaps a little bit
there were several evil guys speechifying moments during the episode
from lady true and from senator akane same type of villain monologue just
coming from different people and in both instances someone tried to stop them
mid-sentence just a get on with it I don't care what you have to say just do
whatever it is that you're going to do Lory tries to make fun of Senator Keynes
Doctor Manhattan underwear you know you look ridiculous in that even though he's
just going on and on and on about how great he's going to be once he gets all
this power when lady true is villain monologuing it's the Chiefs Widow that
just tells her just get on with it if you're going to kill us go ahead and kill
us but number 5 they activate the device but it winds up liquefying senator keen
and it activates a teleport that lady Tru engineered to take them back to the
site of the original massacre in Tulsa lady Tru could have used her device
anywhere but she's trying to bake all this deep meaning and mythology into
what she's doing like she's literally trying to turn herself into a god they
actually reference it later because when she's sort of looking up getting ready
to take his power there's the image of Jesus Christ on the cross right next to
her in frame so Ozymandias as he says takes one to know one
she is a true narcissist in this moment also make note of some of the things
that Doctor Manhattan says when this is all going on so his mind is sort of racing
all over the place he says that it's really hard to be present because of the
way the cage works they revealed that the cage itself is made from all the
melted watch batteries that they were collecting at the beginning of the
season because that's the only thing that could contain and block his power
most of the lines of dialogue that he has are actually quotes from the
original events of the comic book way back in 1985 but he also implies at the
military at some point later in the timeline tried to get him to go to
Afghanistan presumably because of all the oil which seems like a very obvious
reference to the Bush administration in the actual war in Iraq just a little
while ago when he tells Angela not to touch the
light he's actually referring to the light that's coming off of him the
unfiltered quantum energy because it liquefied senator keen so don't touch it
because you will also to be liquefied number 4 lady true eviscerates the
leadership of Cyclops so this is obviously a big deal but it was part of
the bargain that will Angela's grandfather made with lady true he was
the justice that he was supposed to get so he made a deal with the devil as he
later implied but that deal itself was Doctor Manhattan's
original idea that's why they referenced the flashback because Doctor Manhattan
engineered this whole plan because he saw the future and knew how everything
was going to play out number three though Ozymandias new plan to save the
world I'll give her a rerun he makes fun of
her making fun of his reruns because when she comes in 2008 she's like you've
been playing the same old tune this entire time what if we came up with a
completely different plan for saving the world so when he says rerun he's just
doing the squid plant again like more squid a rerun of his previous plan only
this time he's freezing them and using them sort of like bullets just breaking
everything in their path typical Ozymandias love his quote when laurie is
like do you think we can save John he's like nope he's definitely already dead
by now back at Ground Zero you also noticed
Lady trues mother who now knows her true origin story oh I'm her mother actually
starts to help Angela and she's in a cop car at the end so she might be playing
things like she's completely innocent so there's potential there for her to
take up Lady trues legacy because now she's going to inherit everything that she
owns because unless someone tells the truth no one's going to find out that she's
actually secretly a clone but technically I think by next of kin she
would inherit everything of Lady trues number two lady true dies and then
Ozymandias gets arrested by Laurie is also implied that they'll eventually try
to arrest President Robert Redford because he knew the truth of what
happened in New York this is sort of a mirror for the ending of the original
comic book series the truth in Rorschach's journal about what
Ozymandias did what would happen if the truth got out love the moment in the
theatre - that sort of brings it back around to the first episode because
remember outside in the square is the site of the original massacre and inside
the theater where the Oklahoma play has been playing this is finale on the
sticker that just referenced to the season finale but they also play the
song from Oklahoma when they walk out of the theater but this is the theater in
the exact seat that he sat and watching bass Reeves the marshal of Oklahoma in
that very first flashback at the beginning of the season the reason why
the night owls ship is there I guess is because it's implied that he either left
it there when they originally came in the comic series to stop him or at some
point later night owl came back to Karnak to try and do something and then
left it there they have that funny moment where Ozymandias gets
really upset at the thought that he's going to be arrested it's the same basic
speech that he gave the clones when they tried to put him on trial only now the
twist is he'll be on trial again but it'll be real and the consequences will
be real lookin'-glass just whacks him over the back of the head that guy talks
too much obviously number one is angela eating Doctor Manhattan's egg though
presumably gaining his powers the reason why they didn't actually show you that
happening by her foot hovers over the water then they slammed accredits is
because that scene is meant to be a direct mirror for the last scene of the
comic book series with the hand hovering over war shacks journal leaving you
wondering if it's ever going to be published they did a really good job
editing this scene with the flashbacks that Angela had asking him back in
Saigon oh so you could put your powers into this little egg I could eat the egg
and then I could walk on water as far as them continuing this story in answering
that question Damon Lindelof said that this story was designed as a one season
one and done thing he did acknowledge that HBO could decide to continue the
story if they wanted into season two but for all intents and purposes this was
meant to be a beginning middle and end all contained in season 1 people asked
Damon Lindelof if he would ever reveal the identity of lube man he said no just
like hooded justice was never revealed in the original comic series we don't
intend on officially revealing who lube man was he kind of confirmed that it was
Agent Pete though when he said that there would be one final Petey pedia entry
overall I actually think that episode 8 is probably a better episode of the
television show than the actual finale but I am happy that they answered all
those questions and I feel like you know all the things you need to know to guess
what actually happens after this Ozymandias probably eventually wound up
going to jail Angela probably really did get some of Doctor Manhattan's powers as to
whether or not she's as powerful as Doctor Manhattan I think is open to speculation
though everyone post your theories in the comments below if you have any big
questions I'll try to answer them in the comments
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I'll see you guys tonight!