This week's Watchmen episode revolved around Looking Glass aka Wade Tillman's backstory and we were instantly taken back to 1985 to see what Wade did to make ends meet back in the mid-80s. The actor who played the young Wade looked awfully a lot like Tom Holland i.e. Peter Parker/Spiderman in the MCU. The day young Wade went through his rite of passage was also the day the giant squid was dropped on New York and killed millions of people in the original Watchmen graphic novel. We now understand why Wade is so obsessed with constantly keeping his head wrapped with foil because he has constant fear of such similar 'alien' incident happening again. And yeah, that George Michael song is haunting him too, explaining just why we got to hear many iterations of the song through out the episode.
I find it funny when Laurie kept on referring to Wade as the 'Mirror Guy' when she clearly knows that Looking Glass is Wade's moniker in this twisted alternate reality. I dig it that yet another ode is made to Rorshach when Wade opened that can of baked beans and began eating from it with his mask still half rolled up.
Even when that revelation was made by the Oklahama Senator, Wade was rather unfazed by the lies he'd been fed all those years after the 1985 fiasco. Like so many others at this point, I would say that I can't see the real reason why Wade would frame Angela at the end of the episode other than him trying to be in the Senator's good books.
Seems that Veidt has unleashed his power to turn the tide of things by not only orchestrating the so-called New York alien incident but also as the person responsible to put Robert Redford as President of the USA as he duly predicted 8 years earlier. I like how Lindelof seemed to build on the evils of Adrian Veidt. It makes him even more bad-a** and he's more than just a conspirator who brought world peace albeit a hoax more than 30 years ago.
Which brings me to Adrian Veidt himself. We can now safely say that he's truly in space, although not exactly on Mars, but rather on a moon orbiting Mars (?). Veidt's finally broken through to the other side in a manner that'll make even the likes of Jim Morrison proud. Once he reached the other side, he made a large sign that says 'Save Me D' using the dead bodies of the servants he disposed off in previous episodes. Cute. A satellite can then be seen to capture this image and assumingly Veidt hoped somebody on earth would eventually see the message and attempt to bring him back.
'Save Me D' could implicitly referring to Doc Manhattan himself or someother yet to be revealed character. What's more interesting is that the 'Groundskeeper' who pulled Veidt back into his 'cell' kept saying that they do not believe in their god anymore. I bet that's a direct reference to Dr Manhattan himself. Oh imagine the horror if Adrian Veidt does indeed gets taken back to earth...more 'extraterrestrial' plans in the work!
This series gets more and more interesting with every episode. After Game of Thrones and Chernobyl this is exactly what I need from HBO. Bring on the next episode!
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