[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Watchmen” Episode 9, “See How They Fly” — the season finale.]Setting aside for a moment the collective power of “Watchmen’s” unmasked story, the symmetry of its ending is absolutely beautiful.
A series that begins in Tulsa’s Dreamland Theater ends there.
Devastating attacks are happening outside both times Will Reeves sits in his cushioned seat, staring above the stage.
Over 100 years ago, his mother is nearby, and a century later his granddaughter (Regina King) sits by his side.
When he leaves the theater as a boy, his family is about to be destroyed.
When he walks out an old man, his family has been united, minus one sacrificial figure.The question invoked by Will’s parallel beginning and ending is simple: What’s changed? And the answer is as fitting as it is painful: not enough.
For Will, his lifetime of suffering and loss culminates in a reunion; in being
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