{"id":1005421,"date":"2019-11-23T08:47:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T13:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1005421"},"modified":"2019-11-26T08:58:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T13:58:40","slug":"watchmen-post-episode-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/pop-culture\/sci-fi\/2019\/11\/23\/watchmen-post-episode-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchmen Post Episode 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veidt&#8217;s in space. I had pretty much figured that out already, but now it&#8217;s confirmed. I didn&#8217;t recognize exactly where, perhaps one of the moons of Jupiter? I assume Dr. Manhattan put him there. I can&#8217;t imagine anyone else could have done it, but why?<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Also we&#8217;ve established that Veidt&#8217;s creepy servants aren&#8217;t exactly human. Perhaps they&#8217;re the &#8220;life&#8221; Dr. Manhattan was thinking about creating at the end of the first series? This revelation doesn&#8217;t exactly redeem Veidt&#8217;s actions, but perhaps he&#8217;s not a complete sadistic psychopath. He&#8217;s still not exactly all there, though. Solitary confinement has sent him around the bend, even assuming he wasn&#8217;t there already. <\/p>\n<p>In other developments, I enjoyed Looking Glass&#8217;s backstory. He&#8217;s still not a hero or a good man, but I&#8217;m willing to upgrade him to a somewhat broken but understandable human being. He&#8217;s at least somewhat sympathetic now in a way he wasn&#8217;t in Episodes 1-4. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veidt&#8217;s in space. I had pretty much figured that out already, but now it&#8217;s confirmed. I didn&#8217;t recognize exactly where, perhaps one of the moons of Jupiter? I assume Dr. Manhattan put him there. I can&#8217;t imagine anyone else could have done it, but why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,8,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-books","category-sci-fi","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005422,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005421\/revisions\/1005422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}