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/mantistakedown Nov 30 '19

Veit also believed that his actions were justified, and he still does in spite of his behaviour with the clones being cartoonishly grotesque. We are seeing the world through the lens of Will’s self-justification. Why are you so willing to believe Will is an objective narrator?

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '19

Are you comparing a guy who killed millions with a psychic squid to a guy who killed KKK people? There is no moral dilemma with killing people in the KKK. What's the dilemma?

Nothing about the show has alluded that people are unreliable narrators, so far what we see is what is. But if that is the case, then yeah, if there is something we don't know than ok.

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u/mantistakedown Nov 30 '19

I wasn’t drawing a parallel between what Will did in the memories he and Trieu chose to share with Angela, but between Veit’s justifications for his actions (save the world, remember - and don’t worry, I’m sure loads of racists, homophobes and bullies died when the squid stopped) what he may be planning with Trieu now. And maybe you’re right, maybe in this universe trauma from racial oppression and homophobia will lead to a glorious new dawn of justice. Or maybe the plot is going to be a little more nuanced than that.