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Warning : Contains SPOILERS forWatchmenseason 1 , episode 6 .
HBO’sWatchmenbrought back a classic idea from the funny - Nostalgia - but with a twist that turns it into something lethal . The series , make by Damon Lindelof , expand the complex mythology of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons ' seminal graphic novel by pushing the story 34 long time later into present - day Tulsa , Oklahoma . However , the sins of the past stay to haunt the superheroes of today , and that ’s just what happened to Detective Angela Abar AKA Sister Night ( Regina King ) when she literally confronted the memories of her grandfatherWill Reeves AKA hood Justice(Louis Gossett , Jr. ) thanks to ingesting Nostalgia , which is now not just a drug but a banned substance .
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HBO’sWatchmenhas reinvented Nostalgia as something more dangerous than a pleasing perfume . introduce as mysterious red pills that Will Reeves left behind for his granddaughter Angela , she end up ingesting an full ampule of the drug at the conclusion ofWatchmenepisode 5 , " Little Fear of Lightning " . In this week ’s episode , " This Extraordinary Being " , Angela ’s life was in danger because of the lethal amount of Nostalgia she accept ; the drug led her to experience Will ’s adulthood in the later 1930s and forties when he became a New York Police Officer and the racist hatred crimes he survived that led him to becomeHooded Justice , the first costumed superhero inWatchmen ’s universe . as luck would have it , Angela survived her overdose after Lady Trieu ( Hong Chau ) , the trillionaire whose fellowship created and sell Nostalgia , saved her spirit and pumped the Nostalgia out of Angela ’s organisation .
TheWatchmentie - in websitePeteypediaoffers much more information on Trieu Industries ' version of Nostalgia , which was a popular product before it was taken off the market . After Lady Trieu purchased Adrian Veidt ’s pot in 2012 , her spherical empire reinvented Nostalgia just as it didVeidt ’s pet cloningtechnology , which has become a democratic industry - and the ability to never say a permanent goodbye to your pet ties into the conception of " nostalgia " in a dissimilar manner . Lady Trieu continued to expand her vast fortune by take old Ozymandias idea and making them new - at least for a while , in Nostalgia ’s guinea pig , before it was banned .
Peteypediacontains a tract forTrieu Industries ' Nostalgia , what it does , what it ’s be of , and how it could be purchased , and it ’s well-fixed to see how the mathematical product was pervert . According to Trieu ’s Cartesian product information , Nostalgia was intend to help people with anxiousness , dementedness , and psychic trauma - so it was also for those hurt from post-11/2giant squidPTSD . Nostalgia is a " customize psychiatrical chemical compound " harvested from and tailor for a person ’s specific brain chemical science and each pill can contain 1 - 5 computer storage . It ’s not severe to see how such a seductive elbow room to live in the yesteryear and know your memories over and over again was ill-use . Further , taking too much Nostalgia can be deadly and so can take in someone else ’s Nostalgia .
Since it ’s a cast out substance , it ’s readable Will Reeves acquired his supply ofNostalgiafrom Lady Trieu herself since they ’re cultivate together . It ’s also potential Will ’s batch of Nostalgia was designed to be safe for Angela to stomach since that ’s what he intended her to do - but Angela engage the whole feeding bottle at once and it nearly pop her . But now that Angela survive and sleep together the truth about Will Reeves , the question is what will she do about it next inWatchmen ’s final episodes ?
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Watchmenairs Sundays @ 9 postmortem on HBO .
