Watchmen has always been about the way there are no real universal rules in nature; we are governed by rules in the various societies we grow up in, and individuals can also live by their own code while not recognizing a single authority. A flashback, by necessity, is usually filtered through one person’s point-of-view (and that’s especially true on Lindelof shows).
But it also captures the intense need to There’s also a particular resonance in this episode with the trans experience. It is fascinating that, as Emily mentioned, Angela experiences Will’s memories through her point of view, as a warning of sorts.
The memories Angela sees firsthand are a message in a bottle, tossed to a granddaughter he maybe just found out about.
They spray bullet after bullet, creating hamburger meat out of the cows that are peacefully grazing, trying to pick off Night and friends as they find the nearest downed cow to hide behind (note to self, when in a machine-gun fight, always find the nearest down domesticated breed of ox, because they stop bullets in their tracks). Later in the book, it’s implied that Hooded Justice gay. Sister Night doesn’t necessarily have to follow in her grandfather’s footsteps and start lynching racists, but now that her consciousness has become tangled with his, it would not surprise me to see her moral code tip in that direction.
Will’s life was particularly hard, from the disturbing lynching attempt by his white peers on the police force to how he’s treated by his white superhero colleagues in the Minutemen. And the series has now nodded to this multiple times, with police officers mocking Hooded Justice’s sexuality on But I think the most successful element of “The Extraordinary Being” is how it leaned into the circumstances of Hooded Justice’s disappearance. The show uncovers the history of one mysterious superhero in an episode that explores American racism.It darts and weaves through American history, real and imagined, to create a portrait of a country that never once lives up to its ideals, while cruelly displaying those ideals on the horizon, a beacon of what The episode is, in a word, terrific, and I (Vox critic-at-large Emily VanDerWerff) had a glorious time delving into its many secrets and hidden depths.
The ways in which it blends the past and present together feel vital and fresh to me in a way these sorts of “flashbacks filling in a big chunk of backstory” episodes rarely do, perhaps because it is so thoroughly tapped into But mostly, “This Extraordinary Being” is just a really dark and frustrated superhero tale.
But how did my colleagues feel?
As Night and the gang creep up on the trailer where the Cavalry is taking lithium batteries out of watches, throwing them into a bucket until an alarm goes off. For as much as I want to see more of Watchmen past this season, I almost hope episode nine provides such a definitive ending that the show can’t go … June is the realist counter to Will’s optimism. Meantime, Chief Crawford and Pirate Jenny are providing eyes in the sky, flying the Owlship, blowing up the plane the terrorists try to escape in with a stream of steady fire.
The reason for the yellow masks is so the police hide their identity, and it has been against the rules for years to tell anyone you are a police officer, like the man or woman who failed to take the Hippocratic oath out of nursing school to inject the poison in the inmate the state chooses to save on taxes this year.
In the comic, his disappearance is chalked up to McCarthyism in the 1950s; it’s assumed that, instead of dealing with the government witch hunt, Hooded Justice simply retires.
The group celebrates taking down this domestic terrorist organization by having dinner; Crawford does some cooking of his own, snorting a line of coke up to his nose, leaving a powdered residue for all to see (that most, surprisingly, are understanding he had a tough week).
Thus, “The Extraordinary Being” simultaneously does something completely new with the flashback format by blending the perspectives of two different people into the same experience. It came from the years of abuse he suffered at white hands, and his awareness that in Tulsa’s political underbelly, there are strong racist forces at play. But it’s also a truth that nobody else knew until Angela found it out, which calls into question everything else we might know about the past. He vows to get payback by picking them off.
And Alex, how do you feel about how this story dovetails with the original comic’s portrayal of Hooded Justice?The episode’s interest in deconstructing the reality of nostalgia to reveal it as a position of privilege was probably the only way such a plot device could work. What did you think of that? (I love how this tragic story concludes with a literal hypno ray, perhaps the most Alex, you mentioned before we started our official chat that you were taken with how this episode used the point of view of Will’s wife, to drill even further into this discussion. And if you’ve gotta depict a lynching, I think it’s best that you literally place your viewers inside the head of the person being lynched, to remove what dispassion might result from a more removed perspective.
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They all take an immediate defense position, running for the infamous truck, and pull a machine gun that would look too small on any American tank.
The night though, isn’t as successful, as she can’t prevent the prime suspect number one from committing suicide by swallowing a pill made of cyanide.The last 15 minutes or so are compact with happenings and leaving questions after the great cattle battle. Her reluctance is understandable. I wonder, in the context of knowing his memories, how much guilt and anger Angela felt on June’s behalf.I can’t even begin to think of the mind-scramble it would be to experience Will cheating on June and his kinky sexual relationship (with masks on) with Captain Metropolis, while dealing with her own relationship with Judd and uniforms and so on. Switch up the person telling the story, and you’ll see something entirely different.