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Warning : SPOILERS forWatchmenEpisode 7
HBO’sWatchmenis nearing the remainder of its first season , and its eighth episode contains mass of references and Easter Eggs to the original mirthful serial . The total time of year has featuredseveral easter eggs in each episode , and they just keep coming with Episode 8 : " A God Walks Into Abar . "
While Episode 7 revealed thatAngela Abar ’s husband Cal was actually Doctor Manhattan , Episode 8 reveals how Angela and Manhattan meet , as well as Manhattan ’s past , present , and future , which he experiences all at the same time . Manhattan was never on Mars , as was consider after the originalWatchmencomic . Instead , he was on one of Jupiter ’s Moon ( Europa ) create life . He then meets Angela , determining to survive with her as a mortal , give himself amnesia so he would n’t recognise to use his abilities . Here are all the Easter Eggs , references , and hidden secret fans wo n’t want to escape from one of the craziest episode yet .
9. Rhapsody In Blue
At the very beginning of the episode , Doctor Manhattan is walking down the street in Vietnam on VVN day . Wearing a courtship and a Doctor Manhattan masquerade party , the euphony playing is George Gershwin ’s " Rhapsody in Blue . " Music has been a recurring source of sum up drama an irony in both the laughable playscript and movie rendering ofWatchmen , and the same is reliable here … return the context of the episode , and Manhattan ’s peculiar skin pigmentation .
8. A God Walks Into Abar
The episode title is a playful reference in and of itself , as a gambol on actor’s line due to the fact that Doctor Manhattan , a being with god - like powers , does indeed walk into a Browning automatic rifle . However , the cause he walk into a bar is to take the air into the animation of Angela Abar . It ’s a very fitting and canny championship , all thing considered . Is it oddly tragic when fan recall the last fourth dimension Manhattan walked into a Vietnam prevention in the original comic ? Yes , so do n’t .
7. Dave Gibbons-Style Artwork
When the episode explores Jon Osterman ’s childhood long before he was transformed into Manhattan , hearing see how he and his father are taken in by a lord and lady of a manor menage in the English countryside . The lord and lady gift Jon with a Bible , and in a moment of adumbration , tell him about its first Scripture , Genesis , wherein God create the macrocosm . There ’s a depiction of Adam and Eve , and the graphics is explicitly redolent of creative person Dave Gibbons ' piece of work ( if not his actual instance ) , co - creator of the originalWatchmencomic .
6. Mr. Blue in Antartica
Manhattan afterward goes to chat Adrian Veidt at his fortress in Antarctica in 2009 ( the same one seen at the end of the original comic Scripture ) . As he enters the fortress , another blue - theme music track plays : " Mr. Blue " by the Fleetwoods . The song is perfect in a few way . foremost , Doc Manhattan is undoubtedly ' Mr. Blue ' in more than just pigmentation , as the song ’s lyrics deal with a struggle for dear . Seeing as how Jon and Angela just had a engagement and Jon is seeking Adrian ’s help to become mortal so that he could be with her , the song fits dead .
5. Ozymandias Merch
As Jon and Adrian transport on their discussion about the dilemma and its potential solution , several spell of Ozymandias merchandise , include natural process figure , can be seen on Veidt ’s desk . It ’s a recall to the original story , when Ozymandias – during his prime years as a masked vigilance man – had his company translate his popularity into fairness .
4. “I Made It Thirty Years Ago”
When Jon postulate Adrian if he could possibly devise some elbow room to make him mortal , Adrian responds by say he create a twist to do just that"thirty years ago . “That reaction is par for the course for Adrian Veidt , noted super - genius . But it ’s also a nod to the original plot line , in which he tells Nite - Owl , Silk Spectre , and Rorschach that he has already executed his plan for peace"thirty - five minutes"before they arrived to discontinue him . It ’s also alike toLady Trieu ’s reply in Episode 4 , where she has already made a baby for the childless mates whose land she wanted to obtain .
3. Chicken, Eggs, or Both?
Eggs have been a rather significant motive in the entireWatchmenseries thus far , but Episode 8 is where the truthful meaning is revealed : meant to require the classic paradoxical question:“Which came first , the wimp or the egg ? "
This question matters due to the fact that Angela inadvertently set in movement all of the series ' consequence thus far . When Doctor Manhattan ’s computer storage and abilities are restored in the present , he reveals to Angela that he is talk to her granddad in the past and her in the present tense at the same time . She inquire Jon to ask her grandfather how he know Police Chief Judd Crawford was a part of water flea and that he had a KKK hood in his wardrobe . Her granddad in the past , who latterly killed Crawford in the present , asks Angela ( via Jon ) who Crawford is .
He had no melodic theme who Crawford was or what he was involved with until Angela revealed it to him , which set him on the path to killing him . However , Angela had no idea about Judd ’s activities until after her grandfather vote out him . So : which come first , the chicken or the egg ?
2. Jon Blows Up More Rorschachs
Near the episode ’s goal , the Seventh Kavalry arriveswith a carom that will teleport Jon against his will , where they will then destruct him . Before this happens , Angela tries to take out as many as she can , hoping to prevent what Jon has declare as inevitable . He joins her , taking out the Kalvary members to protect her , blowing up their head in a similar fashion blood-related to when he kills the original Rorschach at the end of the comic . However , he still gets teleport aside at the episode ’s end .
1. Fogdancing…Again
instalment 8 does have a lengthy post - credits scene , bear witness Veidt imprisoned by his servants for trying to leave . It ’s now revealed that Veidt is on Jon ’s world of life on Europa . While he did travel to Europa willingly , he becomes disillusioned over fourth dimension , hating the love his servants give him as he is n’t needed by them like he trust those on Earth do . What was n’t a prison house becomes one .
Kept in a cell , Veidt is consecrate a book to read which happens to beFogdancingby Max Shea . This is n’t the first timeFogdancinghas been reference . The al-Qur’an has been sport in the third instalment of the series , as well as inEpisode 7 as a flick adaptation . Max Shea was one of the creators forced into overhaul by Veidt to make his elephantine alien squid , and then killed to keep the truth buried .
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