Watchmen wildcards

Published December 3, 2019 · Updated July 6, 2022

Ok. Longtime listener, first time writer. This is not a show I would have watched without your podcast. I would have watched the first episode and without the backstory provided in the podcasts I would not have been able to follow the story and would have given up.

A couple of thoughts for the newsstand.

First, I’m not seeing this as setting up for a good versus evil finale. I think there are two competing forces here that appear to me to be equally reprehensible. There is the oppressed racist thugs led by Keane who want to turn oppressor and then the oppressive forces of the government/Ozmandyas including Lady Trieu and Hooded Justice. This group is cloning people and building a giant mind control machine for some unknown purpose. Maybe it’s so Veith can come back, kill people and launch dead bodies in a trebuchet for fun. I don’t sense anyone is good here. I’m still not clear on who imprisoned Veith, but my sense is that he and Lady Trieu are somehow connected unless there’s another plot twist coming.

What that leaves us with are some wild cards with traumatic pasts whose actions are unpredictable.

#1 Laurie Blake – I just keep going back to her in the Manhattan confessional and her joke. Maybe she is the one to knock them all down. How is she going to react when she finds out that Manhattan has been living inside Cal and having closet sex with Sister Night all these years with her left with nothing but a big blue dildo. That will be ugly. A scorned masked hero with an agenda and a bad attitude.

#2 Looking Glass – His whole existence of fear and anxiety was based on a fraud. He can’t be happy with anybody at this point knowing everything that he knows. He obviously has some skills that will be unleashed at some point.

# 3 Sister Night and Manhattan – I have no idea where they come out but it does not appear that Sister Night wants any part of either side. Manhattan’s history suggests he wants no part of anything either.

I don’t know how this plays out, but I don’t think there is a hero here. Two bad sides vying for power and three wild cards whose actions have been shaped by traumatic experience.

Jim Casper

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