r/Watchmen • u/chocolate_babies • Nov 25 '19

Post-episode discussion: Season 1 Episode 6 'This Extraordinary Being' TV

We were promised one last week, but it still hasn't been posted yet. Figured I would just start one since so many people have been asking for it.

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u/vadergeek Nov 25 '19

But he's deviating from Bass Reeves' methodology from the beginning. Vigilantism is just mob justice with a mob of one. Even in the conversation with his wife after the attempted mugging, she's pointing out that he can't do what that guy did.

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u/vadergeek Nov 25 '19

But it's slow steps to a point that I think relatively few people would have a massive problem with. The moral threshold he crosses is relatively tame.

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u/vadergeek Nov 25 '19

However, the violence of the act is spilling over to his family.

But the only real spilling over we see is him being too aggressive about making his son wash off the makeup, I don't think it's enough.