I just told you Doctor Manhattan is here and Tulsa walking amongst us as a human
being and you never asked me who he is
welcome back everyone it's Charlie this is gonna be my watchman episode 7 video
they just blew the doors wide open holy crap
Doctor Manhattan has been walking amongst us this whole time so we'll break it
down there's a whole bunch of Easter eggs and they've been seating along
Clues this whole time so some of you may have guessed the twist so if you're new
to the channel be sure to subscribe to get all the videos in careful for
spoilers from the episode obviously because we'll be talking about some very
big twists top 10 and Easter eggs starting with number 10 the episode
opens with a documentary about Doctor Manhattan's life his origin story both
sides of the aisle people that loved him and worshiped him as a God people that
hated him and thought that he made things worse
the title of the episode was an almost religious awe which i think is a
reference to the awe that people feel when they think about Doctor Manhattan
there's a whole bunch of Easter eggs for present day when they do that
documentary they explain why there's no gasoline cars anymore
Manhattan powered lithium engines all this technology derived from him
basically he becomes this big pop-culture icon is like a Marvel
superhero one of the Avengers like Robert Downey jr. is Iron Man or one of
the DC heroes but we see the very first footage of him in the actual series
itself when they show clips from Vietnam now they did that sequence during the
Watchmen movies so you kind of remembered that but the way they air
this footage it's as if it's a documentary that was filmed back during
Vietnam era and is being played back in present-day on a videotape because it's
all happening within the context of Angela's flashback to Vietnam when she
was a little girl about 10 years old number 9 they tell Angela's origin story
we get the origin of the sister night vigilante name that she took the sister
night blaxploitation movie that she was never allowed to watch they say it's too
scary I guess we could say that it's implied that she eventually watched it
like even her grandma's like oh that was a great one what do you mean you haven't
watched yet oh they say that I'm not allowed to watch it
they used the flashbacks to get across a whole bunch of exposition about what
happened to the world after Doctor Manhattan came to Vietnam and helped
them win that war they also use it to connect to Angela's flashbacks on the
nostalgia to her grandfather's memories because you see her father as an adult
here but you also flashback to him as a little kid learning that his father was
secretly hooded justice they explained her parents went out in a terrorist
bombing and she went to live in a group home
for a number of years until her grandmother came to try and bring her
home we'll talk about that in a second too because that little girl cannot
catch a break lady true starts to explain the
nostalgia trip she gives her this really funny tutorial Injection it's like a
chemical version of memories trying to talk her out of the trip that she's on
the interesting Easter egg during this that you probably spotted is the Cyclops
filed that her grandfather compiled when they're telling her to meditate and
think about something while this is doing its job I feel like they explained
most of what they needed to explain about Cyclops through the course of this
episode if you weren't clear on what was going on at last week's episode they
definitely explained it this week but you learned that Lauri is still on her
side she's the one that's centered a lady true because lady true was the
person that manufactured the de staël drug in the first place later in the
episode - when she's talking about the millenium clock on this broadcast that's
being played back she talks about how nostalgia was one of her greatest
failures I feel like nostalgia could have been this really great tool for
people to learn from the past and then use it to move forward but that's not
what happened the whole speech about nostalgia is the writers doing this meta
commentary about the dangers of nostalgia wanting things to go back to
the way they used to be preventing people from moving forward and evolving
so lady truths big millenium clock probably has something to do with that
I'll talk about that in a second - she refused to tell Angela exactly what the
Millennium Clock does but I think they gave us enough clues because of what's
going on with the nostalgia drugs but number 8 Laurie versus the Chiefs wife
so she goes to visit the Chiefs Widow they have this pleasant conversation she
tells her this mind blowing story about Cyclops and this grand conspiracy that
her husband may have been part of and they play it in the most hilarious way
possible where the wife just completely comes clean oh well you know that was
initially the plan but then we felt like making Senator Kean was small potatoes
and that gets into the larger plan about them becoming Doctor Manhattan after they
kill him, when she was saying small potatoes
I'll explain that in a second that's a whole other thing this big secret plot
of the 7th cavalry to take the powers of Doctor Manhattan I love the joke about the
trapdoor the fact that it's just so old that she has to mash the button a bunch
of times to get it to work number 7 we get the flashback where Angela decides
she wants to be a cop someday so she's asked to identify the person that got
her parents which she correctly does she says that she's not a
afraid she actually wants to listen to them execute the person the lady cop is
nice and like no you can't do that but when you ready come visit me you
would make a good cop someday gives her her badge they're using this to let you
know how hardcore she was as a little girl otherwise she wouldn't have been
able to survive on her own for that long but number six lady true drops the
bomb about her daughter oh she's not my daughter she's my mother I cloned her
and took her memories and I'm slowly reintegrating them into her I'm getting
ready to achieve my greatest accomplishment and I want my parents
there with me oh are you gonna bring your father back too oh he's not here
yet she kind of buried the lead on bringing
her father back so I'm wondering if awesome and iasts or one of the other
old Watchmen characters is gonna wind up being her father but number five
Ozymandias is trial as of this scene it's been going on for the last 365 days
we also got clarification on his timeline - he's been on a different
timeline than what's been happening in present day so the present-day stuff in
Oklahoma moves day to day week to week but every time we visited Ozymandias
it's actually been a year between episodes so it's just a year later when
we pick up with him in this episode they play it like it's gonna be really
serious but he's basically being judged by all these other clones they talk
about how he's made a mockery of the trial this whole time told everyone how
he's so far above them then the game warden also plays a bit of a joke on
Ozymandias sliding him by bringing in all the pigs a jury of your peers as
they all come squealing in he's guilty it's hard to tell where they're going
with this because it seems like Ozymandias is just waiting to be rescued
so he's just trying to wait these people out he is powerful enough to defeat them
in hand-to-hand combat so at least it looks like he just feels like he has to
wait this out like he doesn't think he's in any kind of danger from any of them
but number 4 lady Tru explains her plan to save the world without completely
explaining how the millenium clock works what is it going to set off is a giant
dome shape it's constructed in the most defensible safest place on earth that's
why it has to be Oklahoma also probably has something to do with Doctor Manhattan
being in Oklahoma but because of the scene right before this where she's on
that recording talking about the dangers of nostalgia and how people just
completely misused it and had trouble moving forward and evolving as a species
and it sounds like it has something to do with wiping everyone's minds and
creating a new dart point for the beginning of the next
era of human evolution like in an earlier episode they refer to the clock
as the 8th wonder of the world and she says no I like to think of it as the
first wonder of the new world so maybe the clock will wipe everyone's
minds creating the stage for this new world but number three laurie is
captured by the seventh Cavalry she wakes up at that same abandoned mall
base that Looking Glass was taken to where senator Keene showed him the truth
about what happened during the original Watchmen series in Ozymandias as plan I
love the back and forth the fact that she has been through a lot of this stuff
before in the original Watchmen series she just doesn't care like whatever your
plan is I just don't care about it but the big twist is is that they plan on
capturing Doctor Manhattan somehow and then destroying him and taking his power that's
what the cages for that they're constructing there was also talk in an
earlier episode about the Russians secret plan to create their own version
of Doctor Manhattan he would be called Doctor Moscow but through a couple different
characters they basically explained that the 7th cavalry want to take his powers
so that they can become gods and do whatever they want number two is the
reveal that lady true knows who Doctor Manhattan is and has been using this as
part of her millenium clock plan with Angela's grandfather this whole time
even though she sounds like she's getting really short with Angela because
she knows that Angela knows who Doctor Manhattan is and just isn't saying like
Angela in this moment here might seem like she doesn't know but very clearly
she knows because she goes home and then releases Doctor Manhattan so lady true was
just getting a little pissed off with Angela like are we gonna keep pretending
here are we gonna be honest with each other you're secretly hiding Doctor
Manhattan at your house I feel like the big elephant was meant to be a
reference to the elephant in the room saying the elephant in the room in a
meta way being that she's secretly been hiding Doctor Manhattan this whole time so
the fact that she busts in and sees this giant elephant is just the writers
winking at that idea but because she's been working with Angela's grandfather
it sounds like she wants to help protect Doctor Manhattan and he's also critical for
her plan in activating the millenium clock but number one the final
Doctor Manhattan reveal because of the way they edited the episode when they went from
lady true then directly to her husband reading for Whom the Bell Tolls by
Ernest Hemingway I feel like most people had made the connection oh it's clearly
going to be him he's Doctor Manhattan who
just changed the color of his skin and created this fake body for himself so
that he can walk around and pass as human most of you are probably more
confused about why he can look like this when Doctor Manhattan clearly looks like
this based on the original series like he was born a white man he was a
physicist how come he looks like Black Manta from the Aquaman movie her
grandfather actually gave us all the clues that we needed at the beginning of
the series he said Doctor Manhattan can change the color of his skin he can make
himself look like whatever he wants it's a critical piece of technology though
was that device that she pulled out of the hole in his skull that was
suppressing his powers most of you are asking why he would make himself look
like this though and that probably has something to do with camouflaging
himself from the world because everyone knows what Doctor Manhattan really looked
like when he was a human so if he just turned himself back into his normal
human form people would never leave him alone and clearly from the teaser in
next week's episode because of the way his mind works he just goes from one
woman to the next like you see him go from his original wife to Silk Spectre
to during the original Watchmen series very clearly the same thing happened in
Vietnam he fell in love with a new woman and that just happened to be Angela in
order for them to be able to be together he had to find a way to make people
think that he was not Doctor Manhattan thus the disguise the biggest question for me
right now is actually how the Ozymandias plot is going to connect to the
Doctor Manhattan plot and present-day because Doctor Manhattan is the person that
put him there that's happening in the past very quickly by the finale that
will catch up with present-day but if he's rescued and then brought
back to earth what is he going to do then there's the question of what
happens to the seventh cavalry because I don't think that any of us believe that
they will actually become gods and be successful in taking the powers of
Doctor Manhattan so everyone post your theories in the comments below if you have any
big questions I'll try to add it to my video next week there's only two more
episodes while you wait for everything click here for my brand-new baby Yoda
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much for watching everybody stay awesome I'll see you guys tonight!