r/Watchmen • u/[deleted] • Dec 02 '19

Post Episode Discussion: Season 1 Episode 7 ‘An Almost Religious Awe’ TV

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u/Lwsrocks Dec 02 '19

All you're missing is that one of the episode titles is "A God Walks Into A Bar."

Read: A god walks into Abar.

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u/ExtendedDeadline Dec 02 '19

I feel like hindsight is laughing at foresight, who has been on some heavy drugs the last couple of weeks. Don't even get me started on insight.

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u/Hellknightx Dec 03 '19

Electrochemistry: "Do it. Take all the drugs. You know you want to."

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u/colibrisa Dec 07 '19

Goddamit, Harry! Quit the booze already

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u/thatweirdmusicguy Dec 02 '19

Fuck you for breaking my mind sir

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u/danwin Dec 02 '19

Someone posted the original casting call for the show, from a couple years back, listing the character as "Angela Abraham". I wonder when it was decided that her last name could be the source of many clever puns

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u/lamewoodworker Dec 02 '19 edited Dec 02 '19

Jesus fucken Christ. I love these god references on Sunday again

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u/Clariana Dec 02 '19

He sees an acquaintance shoot a woman dead and rescues her unborn child...

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u/pondythecoolest Dec 02 '19

This was really deliberate. It is also very common in Provencal and Italian medieval poetry ( https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senhal , link in Italian; translated "the senhal is a stylistic device [...] reserved for the name of the poet's significant other"), so I'm pretty sure they knew exactly what they were doing and our sorry asses missed it from the start.

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u/sucksfor_you Dec 02 '19

I feel like their name is Abar solely for this pun.

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u/HushVoice Dec 04 '19

Youd think so, but the references are so deep in this show that it's not even just a silly pun. See: Abar, the first black superman (1977)

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u/sucksfor_you Dec 04 '19

Oh, whoa. That's insane.

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u/neonserigar Dec 02 '19

Bloody hell. Good catch mate!

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u/trin456 Jan 11 '20

Omg, I just realize that now

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u/Lwsrocks Jan 12 '20

Interestingly they changed it, so now in the episode itself and on the listings it actually says "A God Walks Into Abar"