"Ultraman", "Lubrication Man", "Slippery Man", "Silver Slippery" (?!)... This mysterious masked character has been offline since his debut in S01E04, and he has been offline until the end of S01 Did not appear again. In fact, the official has given enough straightforward clues and settings for this role.
"Ultraman", "Lubrication Man", "Slippery Man", "Silver Slippery" (?!), "Paddleman"... This mysterious masked character debuted and retired from the Watchmen TV series S01E04 After that, he... went offline, he didn't even leave a formal title in the TV series, and he didn't appear again until S01 finally came back. Enthusiastic fans also talked a lot, and many of them have actually guessed the true identity of this character.
In fact, the official has given enough straightforward clues and settings for this role, and even explained the final whereabouts, but there is not much positive development in the TV series. It is estimated that it is due to the limited capacity of the episodes, and it may also be related to the personal style of the main creator and main screenwriter DL. After all, this person's script has a tendency to "see the beginning but not the end". For example, the origin of the polar bear and the airdrop in "Lost" was completed with a "talk about the future" style short film after the TV series ended. So, what about "Ultraman" in this Watchman drama version? The setting of the character and the final whereabouts of the first season can be found in the relevant entry on the special website "Pete Wiki" of the HBO Watchmen TV series. It's very DL.
From the beginning, first of all, the nickname of this character should be: Lube Man. And this Lubrication Man's styling is a reference to the "Fogdancer", a secret special force that does dirty work for the United States - to be precise, a reference to one of the "Fogdancer" members (The origins of "Mist Dancer" and Luo Heide are described in the text, so I won't repeat them here).
There are as many as three entries in Pitt's Encyclopedia that directly refer to fog dancers. They are:
Folder: Never Ending
Memo: Fog Dance
"Memo: Pete Dyer"
This time the translation is "Folder: Never Ending", a story about the origin story of "Mist Dancer".
The story of this origin story is presented in the form of an excerpt from the December 2005 issue of the annual magazine Nothing Ever Ends. This excerpt is an overview article on the original work of "Fog Dance", and the author of the article is Pete Dyer, who is familiar with the know-it-all, panacea, Laurie Black's little follower, and the editor of Pitt's Encyclopedia. At that time, Pete was a young man with a strong vigor and vitality, and he should not have joined the FBI.
According to the setting of the TV series, "Fog Dance" is a best-selling novel written in 1972. Well-known readers include the major giants of the Watchmen universe: Manhattan, Pharaoh, Rorschach, etc. It is even included in the compulsory courses of the university. The author of the novel is Max Shea, who is the main script writer for the comic book "The Legend of the Black Cargo Ship" in the original Watchmen.
The novel "Fog Dance" is mentioned only once in the original Watchmen manga (in the appendix). The creative background and outline of "Fog Dance", and the origin setting of "Fog Dancer" are all original TV dramas.
Closer to home, in 2005, Pitt, who was still a hot-blooded stunner, wrote the article "Fog Dance: A Personal Overview" in order to participate in the "2005 Annual Review Contest" of "Never Ending" magazine, and the purpose of this contest, The purpose is to make a standard overview of the stream-of-consciousness novel "Dance of the Fog".
As for the impact of this contribution on him, it will be explained in "Memo: Fog Dance" , and the whereabouts of Pitt himself will be profiled in "Memo: Pete Dyer".
In order to maintain the magazine-style typesetting style of the original article, I use pictures to post, please forgive me if it is not friendly to mobile phone reading.
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