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Random image of "Krystalnacht" informs the "White Night"?

posted 4 years ago by NorrinRad (5008)
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Did I remember this wrongly?

Somewhere on one of the pages of the Watchmen comic there is a billboard advertising a band called Krystalnacht that was to appear at some theater. I don't think there was any context implied or to be applied to the story but it felt strange that particular name was used for a performing group. I think Rorschach is walking down the street in Manhattan and it is overhead.

I still believe that the whole rise of the 7th Kalvary and the White Night attack are false narratives orchestrated through a larger conspiracy. It is just too simple to be of much meaning to the series. I can accept that the Klan garb belongs to Judd's father and that he might have been the Klan member (the only member of the Klan's whose face was shown) that Angela's great grandmother saw but did not kill the day of the Tulsa Riot.

Judd could have served in Vietnam which is where he might have met Angela as a child?

There is also a vigilante who is a detective and calls himself "Red Scare" who is a communist and NOT a Nazi but who just happens to be actually committing acts of violence on a put upon community? In this world being openly a Communist isn't a bad thing?

[–] NorrinRad (5008) 4 years ago

It took a bit of digging but it is nothing more than a random and arbitrary association.

http://www.littlestuffedbull.com/images/2012/todayincomicshistory/1102-watchmen12a.jpg

There is a poster advertising a concert to be held at Madison Square Garden on November 02, at 8:00 pm. The bands to appear are Pale Horse and Krystalnacht. The fact that Jeremy Irons character rides a pale (white) horse was again the randomness of these Easter Eggs, hints or homages to the comic is frustrating for me.

The day of the Giant Squid attack staged by Veidt was the night of November 2nd, 1985 after the concert happened and while the concert was letting but the fact that episode 3 will air November 3rd is again one of those random associations that was unintentional but interesting for me.

Pale Horse is a music band. The band's lead singer is named Red D'Eath. Red wears his hair in a topknot and the band is followed by many Knot Tops

They held a concert in Madison Square Garden on 2 November 1985, in which they were supported by another band named Krystalnacht. It was sold out, and attended by many Knot Tops. However, this was the same night that Adrian Veidt's "alien monster" was teleported into New York City. At midnight, when the monster arrived, the band and every other person in the audience was killed by the psychic backlash.

Or is it??

The day of the White Night attack was Dec. 24th (2016)? apparently 3 years ago according to Angela. So the events don't share any time connection with the exception of the way Dr. Manhattan views and sees all things as happening simultaneously.