Because I worked with him on The Leftovers, I by that point had a pretty clear sense of what kind of jokes were going to land." "I think I pitched that as a joke!" Byock says, "and Damon called my bluff, and then it was like, oh, we’re definitely doing that. Manhattan dong that looks like some kind of bangable Jeff Koons dog was the standout moment of an episode loaded with them-and now, thanks to a new Vulture interview with Watchmen scribe Lila Byock, all our blue dick-themed questions have been answered! According to Byock, who co-wrote the episode alongside Damon Lindelof, she wasn't particularly serious when she first introduced the idea of Laurie (Jean Smart) carting around a Dr. Manhattan phone booths that beam messages straight to Mars and, uh, she carts around a gargantuan blue dildo in a Halliburton case like it's the nuclear launch codes!
The last we see of Doctor Manhattan in Watchmen, he tells Ozymandias that he plans to leave the entire galaxy for “one less complicated.” And he’s got a fun plan for when he gets there.For starters, she's taken her father's last name, Blake makes frequent use of the Dr. We have no idea, because it directly contradicts the ending of the Watchmen comic. Venus is nearby, but the planet’s super-dense atmosphere would interfere with one of the activities that Doctor Manhattan seems to enjoy doing while on the light atmosphere of Mars: Looking at the stars. The Moon is obviously closer, but also has a bunch of NASA stuff on it (so, people). Mars is also one of the closest planetary bodies to Earth. As he muses ( memetically), he’s tired of the world, of people, and of “being caught in the tangle of their lives.” There are no people on Mars - it’s a planet entirely devoid of the presence of life, shaped only by the utterly predictable and awesome majesty of inert particles. Well, first he goes to Arizona - which can look a lot like Mars - to visit the location in which he got his powers and retrieves a photograph of himself and Janey Slater, the woman he was seeing at the time.Īfter a study of the Watchmen graphic novel, we’re going to say. Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons/DC Comics So he yeet himself to Mars Laurie had left him, and trying to get her back seemed like it would only bring her harm. A few hours before that, his current partner, Laurie Juspeczyk, stormed out of their shared government quarters, furious with him for keeping her at a distance.
In a rare television appearance on a talk show, a reporter grilled Manhattan over evidence that several of his prior acquaintances, including an old girlfriend, have terminal cancer - implying that he has been accidentally irradiating the innocent people around him for years. Just before he left for Mars, the last flimsy chain tethering him to mankind snapped. After the accident that made him functionally precognitive, and gave him the ability to alter any matter at the atomic level, Manhattan unsurprisingly found himself growing further and further detached from his own humanity. The physical removal mirrors his emotional state. Jon Osterman/Manhattan’s connection to Mars goes back to the original 1986 graphic novel, in which he spends much of the book wandering alone on the red planet in self-imposed exile. Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons/DC Comics Doctor Manhattan just likes Mars, OK?ĭr.
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