Watchmen 1x07 "An Almost Religious Awe" reaction & review
Added 2020-08-21 11:51:42 +0000 UTCHey everyone! Here's my reaction and review of episode 7 of Watchmen! So, we get a lot of really interesting and also tragic info about Angela in this one. We've heard mention of her childhood a few times, but seeing how it all unfolded really drove home what she's been through! Also, we learn something about Lady Trieu's "daughter".....! A jury of piggies finds Adrian guilty, because that happened and that was a thing. The reasoning behind Cyclops/Cavalry/whatever is revealed and it's overwhelming to me lol. And last but not least, WHAT IN THE WORLD HAPPENED AT THE END HERE?!?!?!? Wooooowww, did not see that coming!!!!!!!! Were there little hints for it everywhere? Is Laurie aware that Angela is with her ex?!?! What is gonna happen next.....can't wait to see! Enjoy! ~ MH
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Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
Melissa Moore
2020-08-22 16:41:49 +0000 UTCYes she does!!!!!!! :D Very true about that scene with Cal, at the time I just assumed he was an atheist and didn't dig deeper into it, but the confidence with which he said it does make way more sense now. Angela did not look pleased, you're right!
Melissa Moore
2020-08-22 16:41:36 +0000 UTCOhhhhhhhhhh that's why it was an elephant!!!!!!!! :O Thank you so much, I'm glad I picked up a bit from this one! Interesting about the title, such an interesting, unusual reverence they had in their defeat. Wow, I didn't pick up on any of those hints!!!! That is so interesting about his name! Definitely would not have picked up on the wordplay with Laurie's....erm....."personal massager".....had you not pointed it out lol! The hints were really everywhere! Such an excellent point that Angela's life ended up parallel in so many ways to Will's - I hadn't even thought of that, that American presence in Vietnam was seen in a similar perspective to the KKK attack on Tulsa. Violence created them both, like you said. And in that regard, genetic trauma makes even more sense!!! Thank you as always for your amazing insights!!!!!!!! It truly makes the show more enjoyable for me to have your feedback and info!!
Melissa Moore
2020-08-22 16:38:05 +0000 UTCLoved your reaction. :-)
Malcolm Wolf
2020-08-22 06:15:18 +0000 UTCAs usual, Kelsey keeps nailing it. There is one little thing I wanted to comment on though. My favorite hint about Cal is something that is quite obvious on rewatch but at first it just seems like a character detail. After Judd dies the kids are talking to Cal about heaven. He tells them in a very Straightforward way that just like before he was alive, now he has gone back to nothing. So even though he didn’t know who he really was these philosophies and views would still slip out. Angela even gave him a pretty stern look after he said it too.
Brian Settles
2020-08-21 18:16:21 +0000 UTCAn elephant never forgets. ;) Really enjoyed how much you picked up this episode. Title for this episode: "An Almost Religious Awe" comes from Doctor Manhattan's recollections of his experience of the surrendering of the Viet Cong during the Vietnam war. Their surrender to him was almost...pious. Religious in their awe of the Being who destroyed their freedom. Now for some hints into Cal's true identity! He's almost always seen wearing blue, or black simple underwear. DM's signature colors. His car is blue, he has no religion, and he was seen reading highly intellectual novels like For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. His name, Cal Abar (nee Jehlani: he took Angela's last name when they married) is in reference to both Kal El, Superman, and Abar the Black Superman, a blacxploitation film of the 80s. Next, another cheeky hint. Laurie seems to have known that Cal was a catch. She comments continually to Angela about how hot Cal is. Seems she can't get over Doc Manhattan. Even her massive blue metallic dildo, which we saw her pull out in episode 3, is called the Excalibur. Ex-Cal-Abar. Har har, Lindeloff. This is how we arrive back at generational trauma. We sift through Angela's memories, and highlighted by comparisons to Will's, we see that without any knowledge of her grandfather, Angela has become him in so many ways. This is the definition of genetic trauma. Angela's father became a military officer, knowing full well what happened to his own father and the type of risks he would face. However, instead of the racism experienced on the homefront, it was colonization and war-horrors that killed him. The people of Vietnam view the American presence through the same lens as how Will viewed the KKK committing the genocide at Tulsa in 1921. That violence created Will, and that violence created Angela. It's cyclical.
Kelsey Roberts
2020-08-21 15:41:20 +0000 UTC
