HBO’sWatchmenwas a fantastic follow - up to Alan Moore ’s original comic book serial . We honestly do n’t get tired of peach the show ’s praise . It ’s that good . However , certain scene of the show remain sunless from our discernment . Even reader of the original comical al-Qur’an can get a shade confused about the direction the world work in HBO’sWatchmen .

But part of the major draw ofWatchmen , funnily enough , is how things go unexplained . The mystery is just part of the fun . study on if you want to know about ten things that do n’t make sense in HBO’sWatchmeneven if you ’re an avid fan of the risible Bible .

Looking Glass And The Interrogation Pod

Looking Glass became a fan - favored characterin HBO’sWatchmen , and a orotund reason for that was because of his calm , albeit faceless , deportment while in the interrogation seedcase . In this room , look Glass was able to suss out with his bare eyes whether or not a defendant was consist . While anybody with keen observational skills could belike tell a liar from a truth - sayer , viewers are still sceptical . How could he so instantly tell when a person was rest to him ? Plus , would n’t his visual modality behind his mask be obscured ? How on Earth could he see pupils dilating underneath that ?

Family Tree Technology

In both Alan Moore ’s amusing and in the HBO show , applied science is incredibly modern thanks to the creation of Dr. Manhattan . He gave a hike to the way of life things exploit , and even though the tv show is coiffe even further in the future , the effects of Manhattan ’s influence is still seeming . Still , the cognitive operation from point A to point B-complex vitamin is confusing . Take , for example , the technology used to determine Angela ’s mob Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . We have no clue how that was invented . Something like that never appeared in the comic book . All we know for sure is that it worked in tracing back Angela ’s transmissible origins .

The Millennium Clock’s Appearance

As soon as we heard that Lady Trieu was building something called a Millennium Clock , the hairs on the backs of our necks stood up . We know a possible doomsday equipment when we see one . However , what does n’t make common sense is why she would make it in such an obvious and eye - trance way .

It ’s revealed that the edifice entertain the winder to change Manhattan ’s powers to Lady Trieu . This is fundamentally her secret villain plot . So could n’t she have built it more unobtrusively ? We guess she inherited some arrogance from her father .

Elephant Transfusions

After Angela closely overdose on her grandfather ’s Nostalgia pills , viewers were treated to a shocking coup d’oeil at her " intervention . " As it turns out , so as to reduce the effects of the mind - falsify pill , Angela had to be hook up , vein to vein , with an elephant . Yeah , we get the symbolization behind it all . An elephant ’s memory is not referenced for no reason when it comes to mouth about remembering events . But we are still utterly clueless about the process of transfusing elephantine bodily fluids into a individual . Angela ’s repugnance and confusion match our own .

Creating Life On Europa

Dr. Manhattan ’s abilities are clear of godlike proportions . We do not doubt that he could make life on the distant moon of Jupiter , Europa . Alan Moore ’s comic book even suggest that he intended to create aliveness at the very remainder of it . However , when we see how that animation is birthed during Ozymandias ' tenure on Europa , we are left fray our head . Do the clone Manhattan build not procreate on their own ? Are they farm in the pool , as it appears when Ozymandias pluck out foetus from beneath the control surface ? And if that is the case , holy moly , Dr. Manhattan craft one insane life cycle per second .

Adrian Veidt’s Not-So-Secret Safe

Lady Trieu reveals toward the end of the season that she is the girl of Adrian Veidt , also known as Ozymandias . Her mother slip a sampling of sperm from Ozymandias ' secure without him have a go at it . The cognition that Lady Trieu is the biologic inheritor of Adrian Veidt was n’t too surprising . ( There were raft of similarities in their personalities . ) However , so many thing about this spot do n’t make sense as a reviewer of the laughable record . Why did Adrian seal away sperm cell in a safe ? Why would he not monitor the room where it was kept ? How and why did he lease people to come to Karnak after his master programme was enact ?

Cryo Paint

Perhaps one of the honest reveals of HBO’sWatchmenwas   the fact that Ozymandias was on Earth for the legal age of the show . It was a major surprise . Trieu picked him up from Europa after his unwilling stint there , block him with gold / bronze paint , and then placed his statue in her garden .

This is all very amazing ( and an epic show of karma for Ozymandias ) , but we ’re still incertain on how the paint job Trieu gave Ozymandias put him into a variety of cryo - sleep that she only woke him out of at the goal of the show .

Hypnosis Technology Used By Cyclops

Hypnosis is not what it normally looks like in motion-picture show and TV shows . It ’s nigh impossible to hypnotise an unwilling person . That does n’t stop pop polish from popularizing hypnosis technology . Even HBO’sWatchmenis not exempt from this movement . Cyclops , the hugger-mugger society of livid supremacist discovered by Hooded Justice , uses this technology against people of colour in the show . It ’s horrific , but nonsensical . There should be no way that this happens , but for the sake of the story - telling , we ’ll allow it .

Manhattan’s Powers In An Egg

Watchmen , fromAlan Moore ’s originalto the new show , is all about symbols . Items make appearances frequently , like smiley face and clocks , to hammer home the point the story is endeavor to make . In HBO’sWatchmen , eggs are the item to see out for . In the season last , Dr. Manhattan transfer his powers into an bollock that Angela can consume , thus absorbing his abilities . It was a stupefy and thrilling decision , but puzzle . We ca n’t figure out how Manhattan was capable to do that . The original comedian never gave an reading that he could do this .

Lube Man’s Existence

The biggest mystery of the show that the comic playscript could not train us for was the comprehension of Lube Man . This strange costume person spy on Angela Abar near an overpass , and when she stimulate to nab him , he take flight . His use of oil to slew - and - slide into a cloaca gave him the nickname of " Lube Man . " At no decimal point in the show is his existence explained . ( Though on-line sources did reveal his possible identity . ) People might have wondered if Lube Man was some reference to the original funny book . As reader of said comic book , we can reassure you that he is not . We ’re just as confused as you are .

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