"I wrote a randomizing algorithm, to deter amateur sleuths looking for any kind of pattern..." - Adrian Veidt, a.k.a. Ozymandias
The above quote is one of many "self aware" comments made in HBO's 2019 Watchmen series. Indeed, the storytelling style can often feel driven by "a randomizing algorithm," jumping around in time and space, from fiction to non-fiction, from one shocking racial/conspiratorial topic to the next, leaving the viewer confused as to where anything begins and ends. All the while, applying a steady stream of emotional "hot buttons," to keep viewers engaged. By the time we think all of the loose ends are finally tied up, we've been subjected to such a kaleidoscopic torrent of information, it's just a lot easier to let our "Watchmen freak friend" or the New York times interpret what we just saw. And it's safer, especially where racial matters are concerned, because if someone accuses us of being "racist" in our interpretation, we can always blame the person who's point of view we are parroting! So at the risk of being consolidated into any number of negative stereotypical categories myself by offering my own unbiased point of view, here are a few things that I saw in the series which I felt were worth pointing out.
"The color purple has been associated with royalty, power and wealth for centuries. In fact, Queen Elizabeth I forbad anyone except close members of the royal family to wear it." - livescience.com
The above image of Adrian Veidt shows him wearing a crude version of the all seeing eye within a pyramid, a symbol widely associated with the Illuminati. If you've read some of my blogs on the recent Star Wars film posters, we cover how the pyramids embedded covertly within them have the capstone removed, in the position of the head usually. Here, Veidt's head is ABOVE the capstone - which has NOT been removed. This reflects his narcissistic God complex. He's even got a golden halo around his head! This corresponds with the belief that the Illuminati worship Lucifer, that is, the secular intelligence within man. Veidt worships his own intellect. The color gold represents divinity and the light of the sun. [Lucifer = Light] Purple, as stated above, has traditionally been associated with royalty [think of Prince, and his "Purple Reign."] Veidt is played by the great British actor Jeremy Irons, who portrays an American in the series. Although Irons is perfectly capable of using a convincing modern American accent, his stuffy British elitist personality blasts right through his intentionally flimsy American accent. In this way, he embodies a sort of "Monty Python caricature" of the comic book mad scientist bad guy. A mockery of the "power mad conquering European" stereotype, with no regard for human lives or their suffering.
"The Moscow Signal was a reported microwave transmission, varying between 2.5–4 gigahertz, directed at the Embassy of the United States, Moscow from 1953–1976, resulting in an international incident. The US government eventually determined it was probably an attempt at espionage, and that the concerning health effects on embassy staff were incidental, though biological effects on humans from microwave transmission are apparent." - Wiki
The character Wade Tillman [aka Looking Glass] wears a tinfoil hat. He does this because of a trauma he suffered during "11/2" [an obvious reference to 9/11] Weird Al mocks the "tinfoil hat" wearing conspiracy theorists in the image above. This was more of an 80s thing, reflecting the Watchman's heavy nostalgic references. This stereotype of the "tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist" seems to date at least as far back as the Moscow Signal story, briefly summarized above. The fact is, certain frequencies are known to affect the human brain and body in various ways, and can be lethal - which is why we are told not to stand right in front of a microwave while it is on. This is the same reason we limit ourselves to X Ray exposure, or the ultra violet rays of the sun. Now, a tinfoil hat may not protect us from any such types of threats, but "Tinfoil Hat Guy" is still a fairly effective stereotype to consolidate people into, who's character we want to categorically assassinate. You see, once you are "tinfoil hat guy," nothing you say will be taken seriously anymore by the suggestible masses, even if the information you have is verifiable! This is why Agent Laurie Blake keeps calling Tillman "mirror guy" with a mocking tone. She's reminding the audience that he is a "tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorist," so nothing he says is to be taken seriously. The purpose here is to ENFORCE NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES.
During one of many flashback scenes, we see a young Wade Tillman on 11/2/1985, as a young Jehovah's Witness. The Jehovah's Witness' are a sort of cult offshoot of Christianity, known for knocking on doors to hand out their Watchtower magazine, and for going out and attempting to lure youth away from negative mainstream pop culture. According to a New York times article published in 11/29/1984,
"Fundamentalist preachers of all faiths have long warned about the evils of contemporary culture. But for the Jehovah's Witnesses, the message is more difficult to get across these days because of the popularity of the most famous Witness of all - Michael Jackson, whose rock music and videos have made him one of contemporary culture's biggest stars."
While Wade Tillman is attempting to convert some debaucherous teens, he is lured into a "funhouse" and a woman attempts to give him a blowjob. But just before she does, she gets him to strip down to his underwear and then runs off with his clothes. While the song "Careless Whisper" plays in the background, the 11/2 frequency incident happens, and all the mirrors in the funhouse shatter, leaving Tillman on the floor, bleeding, and shocked. This is the reason he begins to wear a tinfoil hat. The song "Careless Whisper" continues to play in the background of many scenes of the Watchmen series, subtly carrying with it the trauma felt by Wade Tillman on that terrible night. But there is another level of trauma at work here.
The Watchmen series came out just before Christmas, 2019. The "present day" sequences also take place just before Christmas, 2019. A film called "Last Christmas" came out around this same time, and was critically panned. The music of George Michael is of course, all over it. George Michael died on Christmas, 2016. I spoke about how the latest Star Wars trilogy films were being released around Christmas, and I suggested this was done for occult reasons. Christmas has pagan roots, and is probably the most emotional time of the year for most Americans. The combination of Christmas and George Michael brings deep emotional feelings of loss to many people, as Michael was loved by almost anyone who grew up hearing his songs in the 80s. His sister Melanie Panayiotou then died on December 25th, 2019.
Now, mix together Tillman's traumatic experience - the shock of being stripped naked/shamed in public as a virgin, just before the 9/11 type disaster occurs, the shattered mirrors/ego, the piles of bodies at the carnival, the giant one eyed squid emitting its sonic blasts, The Jehovah's Witnesses and their often questionable public reputation, the themes of Judgement Day, the threat of Nuclear War, Michael Jackson's questionable reputation, Michael Jackson's horrible death, George Michael's music/Death on Christmas, Christmas itself and all of the emotions associated with it, Melanie Panayiotou's death on Christmas...what we have here is a profound mixture of traumatic events - both fictional and historical, rolled all into this one character.
Consider all of the above in context with the themes of mesmerism and mind control portrayed in the series for a moment. Consider the collage of images used in Tillman's "pod" interrogation room. I think we have some very serious questions we need to ask, regarding where this series is REALLY coming from here.
The Watchmen TV series isn't really a story about superheroes. In fact, the only character who actually has "magical powers" in it is Dr Manhattan, who was portrayed in the original film adaptation by Billy Crudup [pictured above]. The HBO series is more of a science fiction story, with a very strong racial theme. One of the many aspects to this racial theme, involves the switching of Dr Manhattan's racial appearance from that of a white man to black. According to the plot, he does this in order to be more appealing to a black woman he has decided to fall in love with [Angela Abar/Sister Night.] But the writers of this series obviously had a larger reason for making Dr Manhattan black, which culminates in the series finale. I will explain this in greater detail later in the blog.
While the racial themes in this series dwarf many of the others, there are also strong references to Christianity made throughout, both symbolically and within the dialogue. From Sister Night's "evil nun" costume, to the Jesus/walk on water allegory associated with Dr Manhattan within the dialogue of several scenes. In fact, the series ends with Angela Abar/Sister Night attempting to walk on water, after swallowing a chicken egg containing the life essence of Dr Manhattan! The association between god/Jesus and the powers of Dr Manhattan are pretty crudely forced in this series on several levels.
[If you are on a smartphone, you must tap on the above image first, in order to enlarge it at the correct resolution]
[Astrological symbol for the Sun.]
Upon Dr Manhattan's head is a symbol representing the hydrogen atom. The larger circle represents an orbiting electron around the proton/nucleus, which is the larger circle in the center. This is almost identical to an ancient symbol for the Sun - which is simply a circle with a dot in the middle. Jesus was "the SON" of god, the SON of man. Researchers such as Jordan Maxwell have noted the correlations between ancient Sun worship and Christianity.
“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” - John 8:12
The idea that Jesus represented "the sun" and that the 12 apostles represent "the 12 houses of the zodiac" is a fascinating study worthy of pursuit. From this perspective, the seemingly dramatic, frequently caricatured miracle of Jesus "walking on water" becomes a much less campy, increasingly poetic allegory. Does not the sun "walk" through our sky for 12 hours, in theory? Does not the sun leave a shimmering trail of light upon the coastal oceans as it sets in the west? Could not this shimmering light then be said to allegorically "walk" upon the water, as it descends downward into the underworld?
THE PENIS ISSUE
"I'm gonna squeeze your man like a grape, and drink him all up" - Senator Keene, just before attempting to suck the life essence out of Dr Manhattan
"Moore recalled that he was unsure if DC would allow the creators to depict the character as fully nude, which partially influenced how they portrayed the character. Gibbons wanted to tastefully depict Manhattan's nudity, selecting carefully when full frontal shots would occur and giving him "UNDERSTATED" genitals—like a classical sculpture—so the reader would not initially notice it." - Wiki
When Dave Gibbons refers to Dr Manhattan's "understated" genitals, in the tradition of "classical sculpture," I assume this refers to Ancient Greek sculptures such as the one pictured above. So let's be perfectly clear, that one of the creators of Dr Manhattan specifically depicted the character as WHITE and with UNDERSTATED genitals.
"Stereotype: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing." - dictionary.com
To say that all white men have "understated genitals" like the ones depicted in the classical sculpture above would be a stereotype, just like saying that "ALL black men have large penises" is a stereotype. I know a woman who only dates black men and she has told me that the idea that all black men have huge penises is a myth. This is not to say that plenty of black men DON'T have large penises! It may be true that black men have larger penises than most other races, I don't know. But as fans of Watchmen know very well, Dr Manhattan's penis is part of his "costume." Therefore, he has not just been made black in the series, he has been given a larger penis, something which is shown clearly in several scenes. Most notably, just before a white supremacist states loudly to Angela Abar/Sister Night "I'm gonna squeeze your man like a grape, and drink him all up." What he is saying there allegorically is, "I am going to take that black penis and all of the superior strength that comes with it, and transfer it into my white body. Then I will be superior to the black man in EVERY way and will have "god like" powers!
While this dialogue is going on, Dr Manhattan kneels within a WHITE cage and his penis is shown several times, so we are reminded that it is LARGE. Why do people kneel? Usually, this is done to worship one's god or to show subservience to a figure of authority. Again, the religious aspects combined with social stereotypes of racial inferiority/superiority are being amplified all over the place here. This is another exercise in stereotype enforcement, there is no "higher moral message" here.
[Senator Keene, wearing the same "underwear" worn by Dr Manhattan as he was depicted in the comic]
Consider again Senator Keene's crude reference to a grape, Dr Manhattan's penis/essence, and drinking it all up. Dr Manhattan's genitals being "the grape," which is squeezed revealing the essence [wine] which Senator Keene then intends to drink up. Not long after this, Senator Keene is reduced to a thick liquid pool of a, "wine-colored" substance when the transfer fails, which Dr Manhattan touches, resulting in his final "miracle" that helps fold lady Trieu's plan, via her white father! [as I hinted earlier, this all gets too involved to cover completely in one blog, but watch the series again with all of this in mind and it should all become obvious]
The purpose of this scene, and probably the entire series itself, is to encourage the audience on multiple sides of the racial coin to relate as strongly as possible to their most negative racial insecurities. While the show uses plenty of legitimate history to illustrate these points, it uses an equal amount of fiction to blow them up to ridiculous proportions. At that point, it's not a history lesson anymore, it's exploitation and sensationalism! So you see, the purpose of making Dr Manhattan assume the form of a black man was to set this final scene up, because obviously the racial aspect would have had a lot less impact had Billy Crudup been kneeling naked in that white prison cell - although technically it is the same white character. It is the SYMBOLIC IMAGE of a black man kneeling in a white cage, awaiting his essence to be sucked out into a white supremacist politician that is crucial here to the writers of this show.
[I did not create the above meme, it is being included here merely to demonstrate the manner in which many view the Trump administration, and the heated racial environment which has been created around it. Whether this is a legitimate or artificial media manufactured environment is not the question here, but that it exists, and Watchmen is expanding upon it]
The fact Dr Manhattan appears blue merely abstracts the imagery, giving journalists an excuse to overlook what can easily be regarded as blacksploitation, and probably whitesploitation as well! I have read quite a few articles on this show, and the media has definitely taken on an extremely lopsided "benefit of the doubt" perspective on this series. Why has the media so unanimously translated all the ambiguous racial symbolism in this show as "positive?"
[Stigmata symbology, just before Lady Trieu is killed in the final episode of the Watchmen series]
"Blaxploitation or blacksploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s. The films, while popular, suffered backlash for disproportionate numbers of stereotypical film characters showing bad or questionable motives, including criminals, etc. However, the genre does rank among the first in which black characters and communities are the heroes and subjects of film and television, rather than sidekicks or villains or victims of brutality. The genre's inception coincides with the rethinking of race relations in the 1970s." - wiki
Regina King plays Angela Abar, the main character in the first Watchmen series. In this alternate reality, a law was passed requiring cops to wear masks, "for their own protection." Abar's masked police identity is "Sister Night." She took this name from what appears to be a Blackploitation film, which she saw as a child living in Vietnam. This is not a real film, it is a fictional one based in the alternate universe of the Watchmen series. In this alternate universe Roger Ebert, according to watchmen.fandom.com, calls this type of movie a "Black Mask" film. Sounds like a thinly veiled term for "Blackploitation" to me.
The word "Sister," in her alias, is a double entendre, where in one sense she's a "sista," in another - a caricature of some type of religious figure. This is similar to a poster advertising the 1992 film "Sister Act," starring Whoopi Goldberg.
A caricature is generally a mockery, something we might expect in a comedy. Although the Watchmen series does contain some dry humor, it deals with very serious, often violent, historical American racial subject matter. Seems like a precarious approach to telling a story during this heated racial era of the Trump administration, but perhaps that is the point of this series - to push people's racial insecurity buttons. It's easy to see why, if you assume for a moment, that all mainstream entertainment is a form of social conditioning, designed to help create the exact divisive political climate we see today. But as long as we buy the lie that we are truly "free," such a perspective can only be translated as a direct affront to our existing worldview, before it can even be considered rationally. In this way, we become "the Watchmen," guarding the walls of our own ignorant society.
Nun: a woman member of a religious order, especially one bound by vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. - dictionary.com
Modern films such as "the Nun" play off of the widely held negative American belief that nuns are creepy, repressed, delusional woman who live miserable, solitary lifestyles. In fact, when I googled the word "nun" while researching this blog, the above image was the first result. Looks more like Marilyn Manson than a nun to me! Clearly the nun aspect of Sister Night's character is designed to make her appear more demonic, or threatening - rather than saintly. The OPPOSITE of what a nun is supposed to be, by definition!
I Googled Angela Abar's last name, Abar, and some interesting results came up. The very second one on the very first page was a 70s Blacksploitation film called Abar. Here is how one reviewer on IMDb.com described it:
"The movie is actually racist in that it makes every single white person racist against blacks, even when (not to give anything away) really bad things happen to the black family. There's not a single white person in the whole movie that pretty much wouldn't fit right at home with KKK."
I have not seen this Abar film, but obviously it contains similar white supremacist type themes found in the Watchmen series. There is even reference in the above advertisement to "the first black superman," which mirrors the "first masked/hooded vigilante" in the Watchmen series - a character who also happens to be Angela Abar's grandfather, Hooded Justice.
Abar, according to Wikipedia was "a Nubian queen of the Kingdom of Kush dated to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt." Nubia "is a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between Aswan in southern Egypt and Khartoum in central Sudan. It was the seat of one of the earliest civilizations of ancient Africa, as the Kerma culture lasted from around 2500 BCE until its conquest by the New Kingdom of Egypt under pharaoh Thutmose I around 1500 BCE." The above image acknowledges the heated racial debates surrounding the racial history of ancient Egypt, suggesting it has been "stolen" or appropriated by non black races. I am not here to argue whether it was or not, it's just another racial hot button the show is pushing!
Apparently, this name "Abar" has a very strong historical association with black heritage. I even found a website for an "anti racist" organization, using this name "Abar." It seems the writers of Angela Abar's character wanted to emphasize her racial identity from as many angles as possible. I realize this show is derived from a comic book, but at what point do these racial references become redundant and enter into questionable territory? We know Angela Abar is a black woman. How does it benefit the story to constantly remind the viewer of her racial identity? We've got eyes! If anything, it takes emphasis away from other aspects of the story, and forces us to steer our focus disproportionately upon the VISUAL, over the intellectual.
Is this show trying to impart some sort of higher moral lesson to the viewer by encouraging them to metaphorically don their own "black mask," so that we can see what the American black person sees and sympathize with their daily struggles? Or is this being done in order to ENCOURAGE the audience to mentally RE-INTEGRATE these negative racial stereotypes that the American civil rights movements have fought so hard to overcome? This is NOT my attempt to lessen the historical atrocities suffered by black Americans, but come on! When does a graphic "history lesson" become a "snuff film?" The atrocities of WWII were horrible, and should not be forgotten. But how many times must we watch footage of bodies being bulldozed into a pit until we've got the point? Should we all wear little bulldozer models around our necks to commemorate the atrocities of WWII?
Although Sister Night's face is mostly covered by a hood/robe, her "mask" is actually painted directly on her face, using a dark black color. Supposedly the police in this alternate universe are trying to mask their identity, so that criminals do not figure out who they are and where they live. By painting her face a darker color than her skin, she is not only suggesting that she is a "black person" to everyone, but she is going the extra step to enforce that fact.
Angela Abar's grandfather, Hooded Justice, also painted a mask onto his face, but he chose white in order to HIDE his racial ethnicity. This is because he lived in an older, more outwardly racist America. Therefore, he was hiding his racial identity so that the public would think he is white, and would welcome his heroic efforts, rather than branding him a "violent negro vigilante."
The writers of this show have taken the idea of a "black superhero," and reduced it to a clown. A caricature. A living mockery of the righteous black person. How else can one interpret the meaning behind a character who paints his face white in order to be accepted by, and even RISK HIS LIFE for, the very people who are the source of his oppression? On top of that, he has a homosexual relationship with a white superhero, who fetishizes and objectifies him. This indicates he hates himself, and is a masochist. A black hooded vigilante who walks around with a noose around his neck is like a Jewish vigilante walking around with a big swastika pendent around his neck. He carries this symbol openly on his person, reducing himself to a walking advertisement for the oppression leading to his condition. Juxtapose this against Sister Night's decision to paint her "face mask" dark black, and you've got a kaleidoscope of racial symbols so murky that the best word one could use would be ambiguous.
"Blackface isn't just about painting one's skin darker or putting on a costume. It invokes a racist and painful history." - CNN.com
One of the main symbols associated with Islam in relatively recent times is the star and the crescent moon, with a red background. Part of Angela Abar's false identity as a civilian, is that she owns a bakery, who's symbol is a star and CROISSANT against a red background.
"The Nation of Islam (NOI) is an African American political and religious movement, founded in Detroit, Michigan, United States, by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad on July 4, 1930. Its stated goals are to improve the spiritual, mental, social, and economic condition of African Americans in the United States. Critics have described the theology of the organization as promoting black superiority over whites, antisemitism and anti-LGBT rhetoric. The Southern Poverty Law Center tracks the NOI as a hate group." - Wiki
The connection here to Black Muslim extremism is heavily enforced symbolically by the fact that this is a bakery. Some of you may have never heard of this before, but I remember seeing these bakeries around, and even walked into one as recent as the 90s.
"Your Black Muslim Bakery (YBMB) was a chain of bakeries opened by Yusuf Bey in 1968 in Santa Barbara, California, United States, and relocated to Oakland in 1971. A power broker at the center of a local community, it was held out as a model of African American economic self-sufficiency. However, it was later linked to widespread physical and sexual abuse, intimidation, welfare fraud, and murder...The group was not affiliated with Louis Farrakhan's movement, the Nation of Islam, though early connections and similarities were evident." - Wiki
As you can see, there are very heavy historical references to black Muslim extremism here being made, which is more or less non verbalized in the series and more or less ignored within the critical reviews I've read. That seems strange considering how blatant the symbolism is within the show's main character, and especially considering the strong white supremacist aspect of the plot. Sure, it makes sense that Sister Night and her grandfather [Hooded Justice] would wanna take out the white supremacists, but would we be as amused if her character was overtly presented as a blatant militant political activist? And yet, it is being symbolically associated with her character on multiple levels. Why didn't they just make it part of her character, instead of slipping it in slyly like this, with tacky suggestive symbolism?
"Sister" references the affectionate black "sista" title one one level. "Night" indicates darkness. Her skin is dark. So the name "Sister Night" is referencing her skin tone from 2 different angles. Her name is a constant reminder of her racial identification.
One of the more popular promotional ads has her standing in front of a clock, striking 12. Midnight = Middle of the night = Darkest part of the night = another dark skin reference.
Sister Night is a cop. There is a stereotype in America which more or less states that black people in general get hassled by police disproportionately, often due to "racial profiling." If you've ever heard the song "Fuck the Police" by NWA, that is more or less what it is about. This racist cop stereotype is directly referenced within the dialogue during a flashback scene when Angela's grandfather, Will Reeves, becomes a cop, demonstrating that the writers of the show want this racist cop stereotype to be fresh in the minds of the viewers. This subtly suggests that Angela Bar, as a cop, is a traitor to her own race in title.
Upon conclusion of the last episode, I went out on the internet and started reading what was being said about it. This was something I purposely avoided while watching the series, because I wanted my own opinions and ideas regarding it to be fully formed before viewing the opinions of others. I suspected there would be a campaign in the media to influence HOW people watched it and interpret it. This turned out to be true.
Notice how the "critic ratings" is nearly 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, while the audience rating is about half of that. This means about HALF the people [you and I] watching the show did not like something about it. Are we just not smart enough to understand what the show is all about? Does one need an academic title to have the ability to judge the entertainment shoved into their faces fairly?
Notice how the "critics consensus" above references this "kaleidoscope effect" I was speaking about earlier, but instead they refer to it as "layers of cultural context." They state the show is "not always easy viewing," without explaining why - but immediately go on to use this as a compliment, focusing on the complexity and originality of it. How does the achievement of "originality" justify the inclusion of ubiquitous, ambiguous/negative racial themes/stereotypes in the eyes of these "critics?"
First page Google results for the search term "Watchmen tv series" tries to instruct you on what you "need to know" about it. This suggests that there are things you DON'T need to know. Recalls the famous New York Times quote: "All the news that's FIT to print." Just what news ISN'T fit to print, and why Mr news journalist?
The above images were taken from first page Google results, clearly demonstrating an aggressive effort by the media to control people's perception of the Watchmen series, and maintain damage control upon those negatively reviewing it. Going so far as to create negative stereotypes around those on the left AND the right criticizing it.
Why has the news media been so disproportionately biased in defending the ambiguous/covert racial themes placed in the Watchmen series? Racial ambiguity is quickly condemned in many other contexts. Why is it so unquestionably embraced here? What is this apparent campaign to aggressively consolidate "detractors" of the series into categories designed to render their opinions invalid? It seems discussions along these lines ruins the "magic" of the show, and the media is apparently invested in keeping that magical spell going - by policing, and attempting to control the dialogue/thoughts of those watching it.
This brings us to an interesting topic: mind control. Funny enough, mind control is an important part of the plot in the Watchmen series.
During a flashback scene, a book on "mesmerism for the masses" is found by Hooded Justice when he takes out a gang of Cyclops members [white supremacists], who produce films in their secret compound encoded with subliminal messages. These films are then shown in black movie theaters, driving audience members to attack and commit violence upon one another, via mind control.
What is this series trying to say about the film/entertainment industry here? If such techniques were/are in fact being used, why would individuals so devoid of morality and humanity stop at just one racial group? If these types of individuals exist, they would want to control every type of person, not just blacks. So on one hand, the series seems to be "blowing the whistle" a bit here, but at the same time, using it to stir up the worst racial insecurities in viewers - by making it a RACIAL white/vs black issue, rather than what it probably is in real life today - technology designed to oppress "the masses," as indicated by the book pictured earlier.
The Masses: the ordinary or common people. - Merriam Webster
Hooded Justice/Will Reeves depicted in 2019, using the same mind control/mesmerism techniques to encourage Judd Crawford [white supremacist leader] to Lynch himself from a tree. This episode began with a warning to viewers, that some of the flickering lights may cause seizures in certain people. Is this a hint that there is a level of reality to what is being depicted as fiction here?
"he masterminded a plan to incite black people to commit violent acts to worsen race relation between black people and white people." - https://watchmen.fandom.com
Judd Crawford [played by Don Johnson] hanging himself under mind control from Will Reeves. In the beginning of the Watchmen series, this man is depicted as a close family friend of Angela Abar, and is also a fellow police officer. He turns out to be a 2 faced white supremacist of the highest degree, suggesting that even the nicest, most seemingly NON-RACIST white American men are secretly plotting against the black race.
Jean Smart plays the unlikeable, uptight, sexually frustrated white lady [FBI agent Laurie Blake] who's trying to sniff out Angela Abar's connection to the murder of Judd Crawford. Although it is never explicitly stated, there are hints that Abar and Crawford had an affair before he died. This creates unspoken tension between Abar and Crawford's white supremacist wife. There is also subtle racial tension between Abar and Laurie Blake, who is plainly still in love, or at least in "lust" with Dr Manhattan - illustrated crudely in the scene where she lays down with an absurdly large blue dildo. Again, highlighting the fact that Dr Manhattan was originally depicted with "understated genitals." Does that dildo look "understated" to you?
In this final section, I'm going to focus on a cryptic joke Laurie Blake tells Dr Manhattan when she calls him from the "Blue Booth," which we later find out is going to Lady Trieu, and not Dr Manhattan at all. To be clear, no attempt will be made here to decode this "joke" in reference to the plot of previous Watchmen comics or the film. The focus here will be on the symbolic references in and of themselves, and what they point to in our world today in general.
"There's this guy, he's a bricklayer...he's a real master of his craft."
A bricklayer is a form of mason. Bricklayers perform MASONRY. "The Craft" is another term for "Freemason." "Fellow Craft" is the title of the 2nd degree in Freemasonry. A "Master Mason" is the title of the 3rd degree in the BLUE lodges. I think it is safe to say that this joke is making a reference to a Freemason.
"...this guy has a daughter and he's going to teach her to be a bricklayer because after all, all a man has is his legacy..."
Although Freemasons are typically encouraged to join by a father or relative, females traditionally have much more limited roles in the largely fraternal order. Merriam Webster gives one meaning to the word Legacy as: "a candidate for membership in an organization (such as a school or fraternal order) who is given special status because of a familial relationship to a member." So again, the Freemasonic reference is being enforced repeatedly by this language. This is no surprise given the references to the Illuminati and the New World Order conspiracies mentioned earlier.
"...when he finishes, it’s a beauty. It’s a perfect barbecue. Just the way he drew it in BLUEprints. Only one problem. There’s a brick left over. One single brick. The guy freaks out. He must have done something wrong. He’s gonna have to start all over again. So he picks up his sledgehammer to knock the thing to pieces and his daughter suddenly says ‘daddy wait! I have an idea.’ She picks up the orphan brick and throws it up into the air as high as she can."
The allegory of Christ as the stone which was rejected by the "builders" [Masons] seems to be heavily hinted at here. If this extra brick represents "Christ" then clearly, this mason is not Christian - because he sees the extra "stone" as a mistake, rather than the "capstone" or "cornerstone." Apparently this is a hotly disputed topic, but what if Christ was supposed to represent the "cornerstone" or "capstone" of a pyramid?
The use of the word "orphan" made me wonder if this brick was supposed to represent a character in the series. Angela Abar is an orphan, and it is her car which falls from the sky immediately after Laurie Blake leaves the phone booth. There is then a twinkle in the sky, so as to suggest that whoever she was speaking to, heard her joke and threw the car down to represent the brick which was just thrown in the air by the "daughter" in the joke. [Let's not even get into the part about how Angela Abar's grandfather got into the car before it was picked up and carried into the sky, and how he left his "memories" in it, via Lady Trieu's Nostalgia pills]
"And the woman looks at God and she quietly says ‘I’m the little girl who threw the brick in the air.” And a sound from above, something falling: the brick. God looks up but it’s too late. He never saw it coming. It hits him so hard, his brains shoot out his nose. Game over. He’s dead. And where does God go when he dies? He goes to hell."
This part makes no sense in the literal way because "god" is not flesh and blood, and therefore, cannot be killed with a simple brick, much less go to hell! However, one posing as god in human form could. Perhaps this is a reference to a Freemason, falsely assuming the role of God at the top of the pyramid, where our missing brick/stone may have gone. The one rejected. Following the logic of the Bible, if one rejects the stone representing Christ, one's structure does not stabilize in Christ, and instead stabilizes upon the secular intellect of man. A Luciferian.
Dr Manhattan more or less represents "god in human form" in this series, which basically makes him black/blue Jesus. Everyone either wants a piece of him, or wants to suck out his essence. He is the "false god," and ultimately Angela Abar is the one who eats the egg containing his essence. We don't know if those powers were transferred into her because the show ends before we can see her walk on water, but there seems to be continuity here again in the allegory, although I do not pretend to fully understand it. But then again, this might just be "a randomizing algorithm, to deter amateur sleuths looking for any kind of pattern."
CONSIDERATIONS
This blog was completed just as the Covid-19 outbreak began to dominate the news. I think it is important to note that the Watchmen series seems to echo many aspects of the Covid-19 climate a good month BEFORE it actually broke out. Here is a small list of coincidences to consider:
1: Senator Joe Keene's covert "race war" operation, and anticipated 2020 presidential campaign mirrors the aggressive efforts by the news media to falsely portray Donald Trump (who is running for a 2nd term in 2020) and the "Q-Anon" movement, as a hard right Neo-Fascist organization. The symbolism of a black man (painted blue) kneeling in a white cage before a white supremacist politician seems to predict the "kneeling trend" initiated by the George Floyd murder, and subsequent race riots. Again, what the show appears to be doing is creating negative racial stereotypes designed to enforce a false media narrative which has not yet occurred!
2: Consider the fact that this show is largely centered around the 1921 Tulsa, OK race massacre, and that Donald Trump's first campaign rally of 2020 has been scheduled to occur in Tulsa, OK during the height of racial tensions relating to the George Floyd murder. Again, an example that the creators of this series seemed to have knowledge of political events which had not yet occurred. Was the focus upon the Tulsa massacre within the plot of the series an attempt to shine a light upon an important, lesser known era of American history - or is it being used here to stir up negative racial feelings in preparation of a planned race riot during Trump's 2020 presidential campaign?
3: Themes of distrust and racial leanings by unethical police officers is central to the plot of the Watchmen series. These stereotypes may be enforced in many cases, but to say "all cops are bad" is simply not accurate. Is this another negative stereotype emphasized by the series in order to again, play into a planned series of "race riots" which would be in response to the killing of a black man by a white cop only a few months after the series aired?
4: The use of masks in the series, and the idea that cops must hide their identity in order to prevent criminals from hunting them down is being reflected in current news stories on multiple levels. Although police officer's names are being removed from their uniforms to prevent rioters from tracking them down at their homes [think White Night], their uniforms all have badges that say "POLICE" or other identifying labels. Despite that, news media is publishing stories that enforcement officers with NO identifying badges are committing random acts of violence against protesters [who are ironically, committing all sorts of random violence!]. Is it a coincidence that just a couple months after this series concluded, we would ALL be wearing masks and racial tension/violence would be thick in the air? Don Johnson's character seems particularly designed to enforce the negative stereotype of a 2-faced racist white cop.
[click on image to enlarge at the correct resolution]
5: In the Watchmen series, black Americans who's family trees can be traced back to the Tulsa massacre are offered financial "reparations." This is a cause of racial tension between blacks and whites in the series. Now we see this unfolding in the real world, just months after the series aired.
[Bubba Wallace, pictured with his father, Darrell Wallace Sr]
6: "On June 21, 2020, a member of Wallace's team reported to NASCAR that a noose had been placed in Wallace's garage stall at Talladega Superspeedway...A day after the race, an investigation by the FBI concluded that Wallace was not the victim of a hate crime: the alleged noose was a pull-down rope with a loop that was located on an overhead door, and had been in the garage since the fall Talladega race in 2019." Bubba Wallace is a RACE car driver. [we're talking about RACE here] Note the prominence of the NOOSE in the Watchmen series. The character "Hooded Justice" is lynched (almost to death) in a flashback scene. He then wears a noose around his neck, as part of his costume. As an old man, he uses mind control to get a 2-faced racist cop (played by Don Johnson) to lynch himself. The noose plays a very prominent symbolic role in the series. Was this done partly in anticipation of the false Bubba Wallace media stunt?
7: The fictional "11/2" frequency event, emanating from a giant squid with 1 eye that appears in New York, deployed by Veidt [the illuminati] is extremely loaded. We already mentioned the 11/2 - 9/11 connection - but this idea of a deadly frequency is reflected in the current paranoia over 5G networks. Wade Tillman's character represents that paranoia, and so he is depicted as a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorist. The giant squid has 1 eye, reflecting the "Cyclops" symbol used by the fictional Neo Nazi group in the series, symbolically associating the group with the catastrophe. Since the "present day" followers of Cyclops are lead by the crooked "2020 president elect to be" [Senator Keene], this again leads all of the negative connotations within the series directly to this political figure, who is obviously supposed to represent Trump symbolically. 11/2 [November 2nd] just happens to be a few days before the November elections are typically held. Is this show suggesting that around election day 2020 we will see a major catastrophe on the level of 9/11?
It seems to me that the Watchmen series is a perfect example of political propaganda MASKED as entertainment, and that the mainstream news media is invested in making sure that audiences react a particular way to it - to ensure it's effectiveness. When are we going to stop and realize that mental warfare is being utilized by way of "entertainment" upon the public for political purposes? Rarely does the real dangers of deceptive "entertainment" reveal itself so immediately, violently, and perceptively. We'd be wise to pause and 2nd guess our knee jerk reactions to the Covid-19 outbreak and the George Floyd incident - as these incidents are likely "real life" propaganda campaigns designed to provoke those very knee jerk reactions in order to ultimately oppress ALL of us collectively, once we are done warring with one another.
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