<em>Watchmen</em> Questions Its Heroes’ Legacies
In last night’s standout episode, the HBO drama closely examined themes and characters from the original graphic novel.
This story contains spoilers through Episode 3 of HBO’s Watchmen.
“Absent Friends,” the second chapter of the graphic novel , gathered several “heroes” at the funeral of their murdered colleague, Eddie Blake (a.k.a. the Comedian), to honor him—and, more importantly, to contemplate his heroism. Adrian Veidt (a.k.a. Ozymandias), the world’s smartest man, remembered Eddie mocking the earnest attempt at forming a crime-fighting team in the 1960s. Doctor Manhattan, the blue godlike product of a physics-lab accident, thought of the time he witnessed Eddie murdering a pregnant woman after the Vietnam War. And Dan Dreiberg (a.k.a. Nite Owl), a regular
