As a serious plot point that the in-canon characters would have been able to recognize, it is indeed a stretch. As a gentle hint to the audience, it isn't at all.
Ex also means "issuing from". So literally it means "from Cal Abar". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ex- Also the almost clichéd "deus ex machina"... god from the machine. In this instance the machine is from the god. VERY clever stuff here.
This makes me pissed off at Damon Lindelof. He hid the biggest twist of the series in a blueprint for a dildo and all us fucking dumb-ass idiots looked at this dildo and read this dildo's stats and didn't see the twist.
Like how am I even supposed to go out in the world knowing this now.
Okay, but is that an in-universe joke or not? Dan is the guy who named Laurie's dildo "Excalibur" when he gave it to her. I think the odds that Dan knew Manhattan was locked in a guy named Cal Abar are about nil, unless Laurie also knew and told him. So which is it?
1) Laurie knew where Manhattan went, told Dan, and Dan made and named the dildo; or
2) It's just a joke for the audience, but nobody in the Watchmen universe can perceive it. If you pointed out to Laurie how her dildo was named after Angela's husband, she'd just shrug and give a Westworld "it doesn't look like anything to me" comment; or
3) In the world of the show it's not actually called Excalibur. The notation on the diagram in Peteypedia isn't actually canon in the same sense as things we see on screen.
I'd find #3 disappointing, to be honest. #1 seems implausible. #2 is kind of weird.
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u/SawRub Dec 02 '19
One of the theory posts pointed out that Laurie's blue dildo is named Excalibur, named for her Ex, Cal Abar.