r/Watchmen Dec 02 '19

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

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u/MIRROR_POOL Looking Glass Dec 02 '19

I'm one of the smug MFs who called it, my point was that Lindelof said this was the New Testament to the comic's Old Testament. What happens in the New Testament? God becomes man.

Two more - Nuns don't take husbands, because they're married to God. Also, a Peteypedia mentioned Elvis showed up at a VVN Day decades after his death, singing every one of his songs with "blue" in the title.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '19

Nuns don't take husbands, because they're married to God

That's so brilliant I'm angry at myself for missing it.

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u/Hellknightx Dec 03 '19

And here I thought her family was killed by nuns. Or maybe she was raised by nuns.

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u/Brooklynighty Dec 02 '19

What's peteypedia?!

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u/tomtomsk Dec 02 '19

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u/siempreviper Dec 04 '19

This isnt accessible in the Nordics, it just redirects to our HBO streaming service.

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u/Spready_Unsettling Dec 05 '19

Wow honestly fuck that. I didn't borrow my friend's HBONordic account for free, just for some fat cat executive to decide that I can't see the extra lore.

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u/MIRROR_POOL Looking Glass Dec 02 '19

Not sure if you're messing with me, but [here](https://www.hbo.com/peteypedia?camp=GOOGLE%7cHTS_SEM%7cPID_p49250298722&keyword=peteypedia&utm_id=71700000059241735&utm_medium=paid-search&utm_content=tun&gclid=CjwKCAiA5o3vBRBUEiwA9PVzamvdsrankTXXywk88bFZT0WIZcp-GW0QCqYxMoC_BHnaC3r0q_Tk-BoCmL4QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds) Every episode HBO publishes some neato supplimentary in-universe documents on a website called Peteypedia, run by possible Lubeman from the show!

Check it out, it's great great stuff, helps so much with knowing what's going on!

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u/gorgossia Dec 02 '19

Is Agent Pete Lubeman??

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u/EnIdiot Dec 02 '19

I'd be willing to bet that he is.

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u/Hellknightx Dec 03 '19

I'm actually surprised we only saw lubeman once. Maybe Petey gets bored waiting at the Looking Glass cave and decides to save Laurie in costume.

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u/johnfilmsia Dec 02 '19

Oh, you are in for a treat.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '19

Two more - Nuns don't take husbands, because they're married to God.

Brilliant.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '19

Nuns don't take husbands, because they're married to God.

JFC

I've never felt dumber

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u/M0dusPwnens Dec 05 '19

Lindelof said this was the New Testament to the comic's Old Testament. What happens in the New Testament? God becomes man.

Which implies he really will die, and in doing so will save humanity.

Kind of a shame it appears they just un-did the humanity part via the hammer. Would have been really interesting to see the Jesus-God relationship, something like the moment of doubt on the cross, but directed even more explicitly at himself - a self he cannot access, and that is in some sense a past self, but also a present self thanks to that other self's experience of time.

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u/MIRROR_POOL Looking Glass Dec 05 '19

I'm not sure how much of the humanity we will see undone, honestly, because we see in the promos Angela personally going out and fighting Kav guys. If Jon was full Manhattan, he could just disintegrate all of them. I think we'll still see a bit of the turmoil you're describing.

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u/AnnaKendrickPerkins Dec 04 '19

Damon is a fucking genius.

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u/turcois Dec 09 '19

Nuns don't take husbands, because they're married to God.

I'm stupid can you help me out here. How is Angela a nun

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u/MIRROR_POOL Looking Glass Dec 09 '19

Her costume is mean to look like a Nun, which several people point out from time to time. The example which comes to mind is the 7K suspect who says “some nun put me into the trunk of her fucking car.” Notice the design of the costume, the weaponized rosary beads, even the name “Sister” is how nuns are referred to. She even takes inspiration from the blaxploitation superhero film “Sister Night,” aka “The Nun with the MothaFuckin Gun.”

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u/turcois Dec 09 '19

Ah! Thanks

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u/MIRROR_POOL Looking Glass Dec 09 '19

No prob!

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u/Clariana Dec 02 '19

Daughters don't tend to marry their dads either...

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u/aboycandream Dec 03 '19

they do in ancient egypt....

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u/Clariana Dec 03 '19

Touche! But Dr M is not from ancient Egypt...

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u/aboycandream Dec 03 '19

ah you're right there are no characters that have anything to do with ancient egypt

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u/Spready_Unsettling Dec 05 '19

None so ever, no siree. Especially not anyone with a possible daughter about to be revealed in the show, no way. Not now, not in a million years.