Watchmen 1.03
Okay, it's official, I'm hooked.
Laurie! Jean Smart is just fabulous, and this more than makes up for one of my enduring grudges re: the Snyder film (where Jon gets one of Laurie's key lines). This is a very plausible version of an older Laurie, and at the same time a great take on the cynical noir detective with a past and somewhere inside some hidden old idealism.
I even appreciate they've put her somewhat at odds with Angela (for now), because it's very plausible in their given situations and with where each of them is coming from, and doesn't exclude a later team-up; Laurie already respects Angela's skills. Also, I'm now assured re: the narrative knowing that cops without accountability = never a good thing, no matter who the target is.
The framing narration of Laurie's phonecall to Jon on Mars, with the joke-within-a-joke that's at the same time exposition on three of the main original Watchmen main characters and a way to characterize Laurie's relationship with Jon: superbly written, wonderfully acted, and the pay off at the end was great (including the ambiguity of its meaning).
Now, Laurie's identity is made clear from the get go, but the show waited till the end of the episode to make Adrian Veidt's textual, not that I think it ever expected anyone knowing the slightest bit about Watchmen believing Jeremy Irons to be anyone else. Mind you, I'm ready for some more information as to what he's doing/plotting beyond killling clones with mysterious experiments. (Also, I've watched that Doctor Who episode and fully expect a later reveal that the young male clones are in fact clones of Adrian Veidt himself (with the intelligence and free will removed), because that would be so like him. Especially if in addition to killing them he's also sleeping with them.)
Now, between Senator Shady McShady's hint about "owls in cages" (not meaning the bird whom Laurie is still taking care of) and the fact that Jon and Adrian are both still alive, I do think Dan is, too, or at least Laurie thinks he is, since Shady McShady is basically promising her to free that owl in a cage if she helps him. At the same time, Shady McShady is so obviously shady that she has no reason to believe anything he says. And given the stunt good old Ozymandias pulled in the original Watchmen with faking an assassionation attempt on himself, and the fact that Laurie in her introduction scene in this episode is faking being a hostage taker and bank robber in order to flush a vigilante out, faking attacks is a thing in this narrative, and chances are the Shady McShady is behind the "Seventh Cavalry" and uses them to pose as a terrorist fighter in order to gain power. (Palpatine: Has become a major role model.) There's also the question tormenting Angela right now- was Judd a clan member, and did he fake the attack on himself in order to cover that up?
Lastly, given that the person who bought up Veidt Enterprises is according to next week's trailer a woman and another main character, I note with approval that we're three for three with female leads so far.
In other news, I got my Yuletide assignment and it's what I was hoping for. *twirls*
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Laurie! Jean Smart is just fabulous, and this more than makes up for one of my enduring grudges re: the Snyder film (where Jon gets one of Laurie's key lines). This is a very plausible version of an older Laurie, and at the same time a great take on the cynical noir detective with a past and somewhere inside some hidden old idealism.
I even appreciate they've put her somewhat at odds with Angela (for now), because it's very plausible in their given situations and with where each of them is coming from, and doesn't exclude a later team-up; Laurie already respects Angela's skills. Also, I'm now assured re: the narrative knowing that cops without accountability = never a good thing, no matter who the target is.
The framing narration of Laurie's phonecall to Jon on Mars, with the joke-within-a-joke that's at the same time exposition on three of the main original Watchmen main characters and a way to characterize Laurie's relationship with Jon: superbly written, wonderfully acted, and the pay off at the end was great (including the ambiguity of its meaning).
Now, Laurie's identity is made clear from the get go, but the show waited till the end of the episode to make Adrian Veidt's textual, not that I think it ever expected anyone knowing the slightest bit about Watchmen believing Jeremy Irons to be anyone else. Mind you, I'm ready for some more information as to what he's doing/plotting beyond killling clones with mysterious experiments. (Also, I've watched that Doctor Who episode and fully expect a later reveal that the young male clones are in fact clones of Adrian Veidt himself (with the intelligence and free will removed), because that would be so like him. Especially if in addition to killing them he's also sleeping with them.)
Now, between Senator Shady McShady's hint about "owls in cages" (not meaning the bird whom Laurie is still taking care of) and the fact that Jon and Adrian are both still alive, I do think Dan is, too, or at least Laurie thinks he is, since Shady McShady is basically promising her to free that owl in a cage if she helps him. At the same time, Shady McShady is so obviously shady that she has no reason to believe anything he says. And given the stunt good old Ozymandias pulled in the original Watchmen with faking an assassionation attempt on himself, and the fact that Laurie in her introduction scene in this episode is faking being a hostage taker and bank robber in order to flush a vigilante out, faking attacks is a thing in this narrative, and chances are the Shady McShady is behind the "Seventh Cavalry" and uses them to pose as a terrorist fighter in order to gain power. (Palpatine: Has become a major role model.) There's also the question tormenting Angela right now- was Judd a clan member, and did he fake the attack on himself in order to cover that up?
Lastly, given that the person who bought up Veidt Enterprises is according to next week's trailer a woman and another main character, I note with approval that we're three for three with female leads so far.
In other news, I got my Yuletide assignment and it's what I was hoping for. *twirls*
This entry was originally posted at https://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1370180.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.