He’s gonna have to start all over again. She lives with the impossible burden of what Ozymandias did. He figures out exactly what he needs and he shows the daughter how to do everything. Jean Smart as Blake on Watchmen… God says to him “I gifted you the ability to make fantastic inventions. Laurie and Dan both ran in the same circles as powerful men and gods like Adrian Veidt and Doctor Manhattan. Can I tell you another one? She keeps an owl to remind her of the man she can no longer be with. “Three million, give or take. OK. We’re down to the nitty gritty now. The Comedian. Almost nothing is known about Blake's early life. The great Jean Smart descends on the world of Watchmen like a brick to the head, playing FBI Special Agent Laurie Blake, ne é ... My guess is that the full meaning of Laurie's joke won't be understood until Watchmen is complete, just like Adrien Veidt's plan—in the original comic—didn't become clear until 35 minutes after he had fulfilled it. While Laurie and Dan Dreiberg took a more case-by-case approach to vigilantism, Veidt saw the long view. Dan didn’t do enough. —Laurie Blake to Jane Crawford Special Agent Laurel Jane "Laurie" Blake, born Laurel Jane Juspeczyk, is a former masked vigilante formerly known as Silk Spectre, taking up the mantle from the original Silk Spectre, her mother. For other versions of Laurie, see Silk Spectre. Blue God sounds very sad when he softly says “Because I’m already there.” And so, a mere piston in the inevitable of time and space God does what he did and will do. And while it might not have had the funniest punchline, it did reference the comic book and give us an insight into the woman the former Ms. Juspeczyk has become. In the words of Rorschach which Laurie referenced, did Dr. Manhattan think it was a “good joke?”. He was also the “superhero” The Comedian; it was poetic the episode focused on his daughter telling a joke. Veidt’s is monstrous. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! If you are not a current Alpha, Watch GAME OF THRONES’ Iain Glen as WATCHMEN’S Nite-Owl, WATCHMEN Cast Reminds Fans to Watch Their Hands in PSA, HBO Teases True Identity of WATCHMEN’s Lube Man, HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Casts Fabien Frankel in Major Role, 9 Still Unanswered Questions from GAME OF THRONES Season 1, How the Year 1986 Changed Comic Books Forever, New GAME OF THRONES Line of Beers Coming to Stores, THE NEVERS' Newest Trailer Hints at an Even Bigger Story, Everything We Know About THE LAST OF US TV Series, HBO Developing 3 More Possible GAME OF THRONES Spinoffs, Two New George R.R. Where was I? The first part of Laurie’s joke doesn’t seem to contain many original Watchmen details at first. God never saw the brick coming, and it smashed him in the head and kills him. But then God notices someone he didn’t even know was there, a woman “standing behind those other guys the whole time.” God gave her no talents to speak of, and he’s embarrassed he doesn’t know who she is. But you can’t make an omelet without breaking a couple of eggs. OK. Read more of his stuff here. Laurie’s bricklayer bit itself might have been a multi-layered reference to the comic book. “How many people did you kill?” Smarty Pants smiles. And here we go. For other versions of the Comedian, see Comedian. Good joke. And a hell of a joke-teller. I’ve got a joke. Watchmen “She Was Killed By Space Junk” November 3, 2019. He goes to hell. She seems lonely, leaving messages for an old boyfriend she doesn’t even think he listens to or cares about. She was using an old trope designed to leave the listener hanging and frustrated, only for the payoff to come later when they aren’t expecting it during a seemingly unrelated joke. But the blue god doesn’t need someone to judge him; he already knows he’s going to Hell because he’s already there. Also, just like the bricklayer wanted his daughter to follow in his footsteps to maintain his legacy, Laurie only became a masked vigilante because her mother pushed her into it. Keep up with all our Watchmen news and reviews here. Stop me if you’ve heard this one. “Christ,” God says. Only one problem. He snaps his fingers and the hero goes to hell. read more – Watchmen: Hooded Justice and American Hero Story Explained. Senator Joe Keene’s comments to Laurie about “getting an owl out of his cage” suggest that Dan is in prison for violating the ban against vigilante crime-fighting. But it’s not a hero, it’s just a woman. Alec Bojalad is TV Editor at Den of Geek and TCA member. “Owl Guy” is Dan Dreiberg a.k.a. Ozymandias a.k.a. Ok, so this one is obvious if you were paying attention at all, but just in case, … God snaps his fingers and our hero goes to hell. Here is the first part: Hey, it’s me again. Dan’s neighborhood efforts were certainly appreciated by those he saved but not impactful enough on the human race for God to ever care. “Oh I was just standing behind those other guys the whole time, you just didn’t see me.” “Did I give you a talent,” God asks. And ultimately they are all wrong in their choices anyway, as they’re all still playing God’s game whatever they do. But it’s the punchline that might be most telling, because it could tell us about what awaits her. The joke is delivered by Laurie Blake, a figure from the Watchmen graphic novel. Game over. Will she finally reveal the truth of what Ozymandias did? The third episode of HBO’s Watchmen … Now we’re getting into the meat of the joke. the smartest man in the world here…who this episode finally confirms is the character being played by Jeremy Irons. The three “heroes” who arrive for Judgement at the Pearly Gates are Nite Owl II, Ozymandias, and Dr. Manhattan. Obviously not. The conclusion of Watchmen features a variety of heroes, both super and mundane, reacting to the idea of the end of the world from their own philosophical perspectives. This isn’t just Laurie describing her other former boyfriend as cold and unloving, it’s something Dr. Manhattan actually said in 1985 when he was losing his final shred of humanity. “So what did you do with that big brain I gave you?” asks God. Based in Cleveland, Ohio. The Meaning of Laurie Blake’s Joke on WATCHMEN, Alpha will be closing on March 31. Nite Owl. Sun Nov 03, 2019 at 8:56pm ET By Shawn S. Lealos. https://screenrant.com/watchmen-joke-explained-laurie-god-brick I won the Vietnam War. Martin Projects Are in the Works, WATCHMEN Director Takes on New WIZARD OF OZ Reimagining, Mutants Come to Victorian England in HBO's THE NEVERS. In Watchmen episode 3 “She Was Killed By Space Junk,” the HBO’s series finally introduces a character from the original graphic novel (two if you count the identification of Adrian Vedit). And where does god go when he dies, Laurie asks? With The Comedian and Doctor Manhattan’s help (granted Doc did the vast majority of the heavy lifting), the United States decisively won the Vietnam War, changing the world in extreme, fundamental ways. Laurie’s participation as a “character” in the beginning of this joke, suggests that her perception of her father has evolved throughout her life to the point where she can jokingly imagine a world in which they shared time together. Three heroes die and they all show up at the pearly gates. Zack Snyder's 'Watchmen' movie and the HBO series don't necessarily share a continuity, but Agent Blake is Silk Spectre in the present day. So Nite Owl was too harsh and Ozymandias was too soft. He’s got actual superpowers. It hits him so hard, his brains shoot out his nose. And what an introduction it is! Very upset about various sporting events. During his career, he had a Bruce Wayne-like ability to make gadgets and gizmos to aid in crime-fighting. But then the final part of the joke comes in. Seriously, this almost never happens but I don’t know who you are.” And the woman looks at God and she quietly says ‘I’m the little girl who threw the brick in the air.” And a sound from above, something falling: the brick. She wasn’t a hero as much as she was just Dr. Manhattan’s girlfriend, starting at the age of 16. ‘Watchmen’: What a joke. Laurie entered into a romantic relationship with Dan after Doctor Manhattan abandoned Earth for good. The first to stand before God is Nite Owl. It’s a hell of a joke, the kind Eddie Blake might have told. Messed it up. Regular God asks Blue God what have you done with these gifts?” Blue God says “I fell in love with a woman, I walked across the sun, and then I fell in love with another woman. He’s dead. Laurie didn’t actually mess up the bit about the bricklayer’s daughter who throws a single leftover brick into the sky, it was an intentional misdirect. After the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, Jon’s father threw all the pieces of the watch his son was repairing off their fire escape, taking a proverbial sledgehammer to Jon’s own budding career as a watchmaker. Laurie Blake, explained. In casting herself as the hero to take down God in this joke, Laurie is acknowledging that she knows what other people used to think of her. Neither is the episode. Jean Smart (Agent Laurie Blake) discusses the return of the former Silk Spectre and how the character has changed -- and hasn’t -- since the original Watchmen. When we first meet Laurie Blake (nee Juspeczyk) (but we’ll get to that later) she’s in some sort of space phone booth where one can leave messages for Doctor Manhattan. With this second-to-last bit of Laurie’s joke, she condenses the “point” of Watchmen into something pithy and simple. A twist! Watchmen is a 2019 HBO miniseries created by Damon Lindelof and inspired by the eponymous comic books by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. In Episode 3 of HBO’s ‘Watchmen’, Agent Blake, played by Jean Smart, makes a call to Mars. “As a matter of fact, I saved humanity, ”says Smarty Pants. At that’s fitting given how much of an afterthought Laurie sometimes feels like in the original Watchmen. FBI Special Agent Laurie Blake heads to Tulsa to investigate Crawford's murder, mock some masked cops, and tell a few jokes. Then she’s the old antihero’s daughter. She’s the Superman analogue’s girlfriend, then she’s the Batman analogue’s girlfriend. Warning: This post contains major spoilers for Watchmen‘s third episode, specifically about Laurie Blake’s long joke. Dan’s reaction is simple and uninspired. Laurie Blake’s life doesn’t seem especially happy. It ends with the reveal that Laurie’s got a blue dildo (fun fact: it was designed for her by Dan out of jealousy). He can see the past, present, and future. “I’m the little girl who threw the brick in the air,” she says. Back in the phone booth, Blake tells a new joke, this time about three dead heroes who get to the Pearly Gates to meet God. Adrian Veidt a.k.a. And her joke reveals what she thinks of each of those three men, of who they are, what they’ve done, and what awaits them all. https://nerdist.com/article/watchmen-laurie-blake-joke-dr-manhattan But fans of the original Watchmen book will already be familiar with Agent Blake, formerly known as Laurie Juspeczyk, and better known as the masked adventurer known as the Silk Spectre. Our first hero is dressed up like a big owl. Her story from the … For as excellent as the original text is, Laurie doesn’t always get much to do in it. His work done, God’s packing up to go home and then he notices someone waiting. Ozymandias says he used God’s gift of genius to “save” mankind by dropping a giant alien squid on New York City, killing “three million, give or take.” Arrogantly assuming he could beat this “game,” Veidt seems shocked when God says, ‘Christ, you’re a f***ing monster,” right before snapping Ozymandias to Hell too. I didn’t take a single life.” God frowns. Just the way he drew it in blueprints. Through other characters’ flashbacks, the Comedian is revealed to be an amoral, violent man but also a firm patriot. Jean Smart just took Watchmen to another level It's almost cheating to give actress Jean Smart, introduced in Sunday night's episode of Watchmen as FBI Agent Laurie Blake, all the good lines. “Well how’d you do that,” asks God.” “Well I dropped a giant alien squid on New York and everybody was so afraid of it they stopped being afraid of each other.” “OK,” says God. The line “a live body and a dead body have the same number of particles” is straight from the comic. She’s relaying a joke that, while providing a narrative device that allows several touchpoints to be framed around agent Blake, makes mention of several characters that Watchmen fans will immediately recognize. And what “god” will it kill when it lands? According to him (and his caseworker) he experienced traumatic events during his childhood, resulting to moments of uncontrolled rage. “Do I even need to ask how many people you’ve killed?” Blue guy shrugs.” A live body and a dead body have the same number of particles so it doesn’t matter. One hero left. And her father would be Edward Blake a.k.a. Every brick has its place. And she’s also acknowledging that’s what makes her so dangerous. Jean Smart joined HBO’s Watchmen, playing FBI Agent Laurie Blake.Fans of the Watchmen comics know Laurie Blake by a few other names, one of which is Silk Spectre II. The pearly gates await our next hero in line for Almighty judgment. As she looked to the sky after Angela’s car dropped from space almost killing her, Laurie saw a red flare from Mars, as though Jon Osterman on did hear her message. The following contains spoilers for Watchmen episode 3. The failed original joke Laurie tried to tell was part of the entire joke all along. Dan really does possess those talents. TV Editor at Den of Geek and Television Critics Association member. He can teleport, he can see into the future, he blows shit up. The VO that was used at the beginning of the episode to deliver Blake’s “joke” returns because the joke isn’t over. He knows that he, and everyone else has already been damned. “You’re a fucking monster.”  “Am not,” says Smarty Pants. Forget that joke. November 13, 2019 November 13, 2019 by Therese Odell, posted in watchmen. The girl with the brick’s gambit works to kill God because nobody, not even the almighty, himself, expected it. Just go with it. But rather than send Nite Owl to Heaven for not killing anyone, God damned him for “being too soft.”. And so it’s been a long day at the pearly gates. The little girl in the story is Laurie, herself. Special Agent Laurie Blake has a long history of kicking ass. FBI Agent Laurie Blake, who novel readers once knew as Laurie Juspeczyk, or under her crime-fighting name Silk Spectre, enters the story to head to Tulsa and investigate this potentially volatile situation between the Tulsa PD and the Seventh Kavalry. Blake attempted to rape her mother before years later fathering Laurie during a consensual sexual tryst. read more: Watchmen Episode 3 Easter Eggs Explained. So let’s examine that joke (told in five parts) and analyze just what Laurie is trying to say in them. Mark Hill/HBO HBO's Watchmen raises a lot of questions with each week's episode. The phone booth, created by Trieu Industries (hold on to that name in your memory bank for next week), establishes a connection Mars so citizens can share their thoughts with Doctor Manhattan. New joke. God gives her a good long look. Adrian did too much. That joke is not only a wonderfully structured (actually kind of funny) parable, it’s also absolutely dripping with details from the Watchmen universe. Anyway this guy has a daughter and he’s gonna teach her to be a bricklayer because after all, all a man has is his legacy. Before she does that, however, she enters a blue phone booth to make a VERY long distance call to an old friend. God’s there and he’s going to decide what their eternal fate shall be: heaven or hell. Doctor Manhattan’s sin is basic disinterest. When he was 16 he was Manhattan’s reaction is utter indifference. Agent Laurie Blake on Watchmen: Jean Smart plays Silk Spectre from the original comics. And just like the God of her joke did, it was easy for others to overlook her. The guy freaks out. He does the math. The details of Laurie’s joke are completely accurate in this regard. “I’m so sorry. Or will this brick actually kill a god, a blue one? And where does God go when he dies? Laurie, of course, has a romantic history with the God-like superhero, so she opens with a joke. Dr. Manhattan can not only see through time, he experiences it all at once. He’s a real master of his craft. He never saw it coming. Maybe if Dan wasn’t so “soft” he’d be a free man and they’d still be together now. I’m embarrassed. Blake’s joke involves … Laurie never even knew that The Comedian was her father until he was already dead, murdered at the hands of Adrian Veidt to prevent the details of his vast conspiracy getting out. And it doesn’t matter how I answer your question because I know you’re sending me to hell.” “How do you know that?” asks God. read more: How HBO’s Watchmen Was Brought to Life. Manhattan didn’t do anything. Watchmen‘s “She Was Killed By Space Junk” reintroduced the world to the former masked vigilante Silk Spectre II, who now goes by Laurie Blake, having adopted the name of her late father Edward Blake. This Lauire is formiddable. Smart, as FBI Agent Laurie Blake, asks. He must have done something wrong. Step by step. “Sorry owl guy, your heart’s in the right place but you’re just too soft.” God snaps his fingers and the hero goes to hell. Ozymandias a.k.a. There’s this guy, he’s a bricklayer. “No, none to speak of,” says the woman. So for the sake of telling them apart, he’s blue and he likes to stroll around with his dick hanging out. The episode begins with federal agent Laurie Blake (Jean Smart) in a large, blue “phonebooth” structure transmitting a message to Doctor Manhattan. The joke provides essential character context. And when he finishes, it’s a beauty. Will he still think so if it proves to be a distraction from the brick that is about to hit him and mankind? https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/hbo-watchmen-laurie-blake-joke-explained What did you do with this amazing talent?” Owl guy says “I made this really awesome flying ship and lots of cool outfits and weapons so I could bring peace to the city.” God asks ‘so how many people did you kill?’ Owl guy seems offended. So he picks up his sledgehammer to knock the thing to pieces and his daughter suddenly says ‘daddy wait! Agent Blake, you see, was once Silk Spectre. the smartest man in the world, via giant, genetically-engineered, psychic squid monster, Doctor Manhattan, the man whose powers are basically equal to God, himself, Watchmen Episode 3 Review: She Was Killed By Space Junk, Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan Dildo Backstory Revealed, Watchmen Episode 7 Review: An Almost Religious Awe, Why Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War Is Still Amazing Four Years Later, Bridesmaids Ten Years on: “It Should Not Have Been Subversive”, How Star Trek: Next Generation's "The Chase" Changed Canon Forever, Jupiter's Legacy: Choreographing Superheroic Stunts. Follow him at his creatively-named Twitter handle @alecbojalad. Watchmen introduced its newest character, Laurie Blake. The U.S. and U.S.S.R. were going to extinguish all life on the planet due to their conflict unless he did something…so he did. So dad decides to build a barbecue in the backyard. It’s only in hindsight, after the joke is finished, that we understand a little more. What “brick” has Laurie thrown in the air no one will see falling until it is too late? ‘Watchmen’ Recap: She’s Got Their Number In the series’ strongest nod yet to the original comic, Laurie Blake places a call to Dr. Manhattan — and puts Sister Night on notice The third and final hero to learn his fate is Dr. Manhattan, a man gifted with actual superpowers. The Comedian was born in 1924 as Edward Morgan Blake. Some of them we just don't talk about." Damon Lindelof likes his jokes. Laurie’s comments on each of the three men, and her own Judgement on why they are all doomed, reveals what she thinks about them, how they used their incredible gifts, and the lives they led. In the joke, Doctor Manhattan also understands that the die has already been cast. Long before Jon Osterman became Dr. Manhattan, the god-like person she was calling, he was the son of a watchmaker. The story is an original present-day sequel to the original comic book storyline, and it is not connected to the 2009 film or any following material. Forget the brick. It's … Now Hero #3 is pretty much a god himself. Laurie Blake's lengthy joke on Watchmen episode 3 "She Was Killed By Space Junk" relies on some knowledge of the comic. Fans of the graphic novel will remember her as Laurie Juspeczyk, or Silk Spectre II. He’s really good at it. More importantly, though it might have foreshadowed the major role she still has to play. [Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Watchmen” Episode 3, “She Was Killed by Space Junk.”]. “He goes to Hell.”. The second hero to stand before God was Adrian Veidt, the smartest man in the world. The story begins with Blake’s mysterious murder, which is later revealed to have been carried out by Adrian Veidt because Blake learned of his secret plot. Laurie is referring to Adrian Veidt a.k.a. Laurie Blake, Doctor Manhattan, and Rorschach in the Watchmen novel. Veidt didn’t just kill Laurie’s father, he killed three million more innocent New Yorkers all in the name of peace (via giant, genetically-engineered, psychic squid monster). OK. Gibbons/DC Through this, the reader discovers a bombshell secret: Eddie Blake once tried to rape Laurie’s mother. The little girl with the brick from the first joke is Laurie herself, who unlike her male superhero counterparts had no special ability. And then…shit. There’s a brick left over. There’s no question the second part of her joke was a direct reference to past events though. Yet while Nite Owl sits in a jail cell, Adrian Veidt has been declared dead, and Dr. Manhattan lives alone on Mars, she is working as an FBI agent, still serving the public. Since the real Nite Owl, Dan Dreiberg, is currently sitting in a jail cell, it seems like this is her own judgement of her former lover’s personal failing. She tells a joke both to and about Doctor Manhattan in which the … More from IndieWire 'Watchmen': Regina King Shares the Big Gesture That Convinced Her to Join HBO's Ambitious Adaptation God looks up but it’s too late. "We all have family. All the heroes have gone to hell. Our hero number two is confident he can game this out because that’s his God-given talent: smarts. He says “Zero. Some might even say he’s the smartest man in the world. Much of what “Watchmen” is about — and Damon Lindelof’s substantial adaptation of Alan Moore’s sprawling graphic novel is about quite a lot — can be summed up in a joke. Will Doctor Manhattan, the man whose powers are basically equal to God, himself, be able to strike the right balance? However, it ultimately turned out to be one elaborate gag. Curtains. Nite Owl was brilliant and kind, but he might have been too kind in a world so hard and brutal (echoes of her father’s own nihilistic views). Because he’s precise. He’s watching his father throw his watch pieces over the fire escape in 1945 at the exact same moment he’s sitting on Mars in 2019. What thought she was telling two separate jokes. God asks how many people he killed, and Manhattan says it doesn’t matter. It’s a perfect barbecue. One single brick. Laurie clearly still has some feelings for Dan of some sort but it’s also clear from her joke that she recognizes the limits to Dan’s approach to saving the world. God cracks his knuckles ready to administer the final reckoning. “Where did you come from?” asks God. Blake was indeed a real master of his craft. Gibbons serves as an artistic consultant on the series. But mostly I just don’t give a shit about humanity.” God sighs. Laurie said God gave him the ability to create amazing things. Will it doom mankind to Hell, the same fate as everyone else in her joke? I have an idea.’ She picks up the orphan brick and throws it up into the air as high as she can. 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