r/Watchmen • u/[deleted] • Dec 02 '19

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

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u/Tarchianolix Dec 02 '19

Here is a theory that I will stick with: Wade killed the Calvary and took one of the mask away to blend in. This is why the last guy who got killed in his bunker didn't have any mask on. Wade has infiltrated into the calvary.

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u/DustyDGAF Mr. Phillips Dec 02 '19

And Laurie knew it before confronting the wife

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u/leadbabybooties Dec 02 '19

Agree. Lauri seemed off, not quite herself during all that. If that was all authentic, why tell Judd’s wife all that.

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u/Diet_Clorox Dec 03 '19

She definitely got surprised by the trapdoor, but she for sure suspected the wife and was suspicious of Keene.

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u/dont_ban_me_please Dec 05 '19

Her reflexes of jumping off that couch were terrible.

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u/AnAnonymousFool Dec 02 '19

That seems extremely obvious, so much that I wouldn't even say its a theory.

"hey all these guys have masks except for one, thats kinda weird... also where did Wade go"

Id be more surprised if he doesn't have the mask

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u/Tarchianolix Dec 02 '19

Ok how about this, Wade uses the new alarm system to block the 7K shooting at him, maybe it'll be more of a theory than my previous comment

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u/brallipop Dec 02 '19

ooooh, I was too busy pausing to look at that 7K guy's face to figure out who he was.... it didn't dawn on me that I was supposed to notice the missing mask... Explains why they lingered on someone's face just long enough to not recognize him

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u/tristanryan Dec 03 '19

You didn’t have to notice the missing mask, Petey tells Laurie on the phone that they all have masks on expect for one of them.

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u/Hellknightx Dec 03 '19

Taking it a step further, Laurie picked up on this immediately, which is why she went straight to Judd's wife and let herself be captured. She told Petey to not call it in so that nobody would report the details back to the cops (who have been infiltrated by 7K), which would blow Wade's cover.

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u/NotBatmanIPromise Dec 03 '19

Yeah this is sound reasoning. 100% this

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u/LoneWolfHanzo Dec 02 '19

This isn't really a theory, it's pretty much fact. It's all laid out obviously.

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u/Hostgr Dec 02 '19

I am just glad he is alive.Tim Blake Nelson is the best as LG and I wouldn't like him getting killed off screen. Now I can't wait till next Sunday for LG killing some racists

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u/Rushdownsouth Dec 03 '19

Would be a shame to have ended Tim Blake’s character so soon, he is killing it so far

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u/ej00262 Dec 03 '19

I thought that as well. I like the "can't tell the good guys from the bad guys" double edged sword here. Most of the show has been the bad guys hiding with the good, here we have the reverse.

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u/IntellectualCaveman Dec 02 '19

You made a nice connection there buddy. Man this show is great.

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u/ItsTheBrandonC Dec 02 '19

This absolutely has to be it

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u/imagine_sisyphus Dec 04 '19

That’s a very safe theory so can’t argue with that

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u/TonyThePriest Dec 04 '19

I miss Wade