I've been waiting for this show for a long time, so long after the first season ended, I watched it all in one sitting on a sunny afternoon.
It doesn't disappoint at all, full of details, people of all kinds, multiple threads, the interweaving of past and present. Every episode has new clues that keep coming in. The excavation of the history of militia organizations allows people to see the cycle of history. Seeing the forces and ideas that continue to drive people to act in a changing world. People change and grow, but not every change is satisfactory.
There are countless things that can be explored and discussed in this drama, especially the great changes corresponding to reality, which are even more thought-provoking. But for me, the love story between the heroine and the god, and the killing god plan that connects the whole story at the end are the parts I like.
One person cannot change the world, which has been shown countless times in history and on the screen. Under the so-called peace maintained by Pharaoh and Dr. Manhattan in Watchmen, oppression and exploitation still exist, and various contradictions seem to be intensifying. Even if you figure out the cause, you may not be able to deal with the consequences, because the "cause" is after all the "cause" of the past, but the "effect" is the "effect" of the present. Times have changed, and many things have changed. But anyway, they made a choice and did what they thought was the right thing to do. In the series, each person moves forward or hovers in place according to what they have, whether it is a personal choice or a choice for others.
But Dr. Manhattan is completely different. He exists in both cause and effect. His every move can change everything. He is a pure alien in this world, but he has the heart of an ordinary human being. And this heart, I think, eventually became the premise for all plans to kill God to be established. Because of this heart, Dr. Manhattan has been in love with the heroine for ten years among hundreds of millions of human beings. The scene in the tavern I would say is too romantic, maybe some people say there are logical loopholes in it. But for me, now that I understand the ending, I have made the choice to accompany and fight. Isn't this kind of tenacity not giving up the driving force behind people's continuous growth under various crises? Just like the love moment mentioned in the bar in the play, ten years of joy, sorrow and sadness waited until the choice and struggle of the love moment, and finally ushered in the death of Dr. Manhattan.
The whole play is like a huge puzzle. Both forces want to kill Dr. Manhattan who is disguised as an ordinary person and gain the powerful power of Dr. Manhattan, and they both think they can manipulate this power. And is Dr. Manhattan, who can exhaust everything, really designed by them? After watching the last episode, I feel that as a force that does not belong to this world. Perhaps Dr. Manhattan chose to die entirely by himself. He has almost divine power, and he has tried to achieve world peace through some methods. But in the end, he gave up. He had the ability to create the world but chose to become an ordinary person, and after a good life for ten years, he ushered in his own designed death. Because he has a human heart, just like Pharaoh once said that superpowers that he can't think of will not work, how can the power of God be controlled by relying on a human heart? The forces that should not be present in the world may themselves be a factor in the instability of the world. There were so many problems that could be solved, but he didn't do it. From man to know God, after many events and constant exploration, perhaps Dr. Manhattan realized his own limitations and the contradiction between the so-called question and the answer itself. One person can't change the world, just like the granddaughter said in the play, let the granddaughter find out by herself. People who are trapped by problems do not understand the problem themselves, so how can they solve the problem. Find the problem and face the problem to do the next thing.
There are countless missions in the episodes, heroes, ordinary people, and so on. They all have their own problems, maybe the hero will not die, but will gradually disappear. I feel that it may be quite good that the ability will disappear in the end and not be passed on, but life always has to be passed on, and that egg may be the answer that Dr. Manhattan left to the world.
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