And why does she want her daughter to experience what she (I presume) suffered?
No mother or parent should ever want that & I was confused by her refusal to take her daughter back to bed, "No love, I wont walk you back" Something tells me that her daughter is a clone, most likely of herself & that she was made like she made that couples son.
shareVeidt's comment about clones was interesting and for me explained why he treated them so callously as if they weren't alive, "...because to be alive you have to have Purpose", "and you have none except, to serve". And as such they are all disposable as they are the flaw of their creator and the prison in which he has agreed to be kept.
I also presume that Bian is Lady Trieu's clone, I also believe that quite possibly Lady Trieu is the daughter of the Comedian. A bit out there for sure.
The Comedian connection is a good thought.
shareSo far these episodes seem to be set-ups intended to address accountability/retribution for actions against the one and the many and however one defines "Humanity".
Maybe it is too simplistic that I interpret what is going on as someone trying to hold so-called gods and the law accountable for actions done by these gods who are men; and laws created by these flawed men. I think Will became Hooded Justice as a police officer in New York and has been seeking retribution against the very mob violence that killed his parents in Tulsa.
I think Lady Trieu is using the technology and wealth that she appropriated from Veidt Industries to seek revenge against those that decimated her parents, visited untold deaths/horrors onto the Vietnamese over a war that they were mere pawns in, and for a country that became part of a western country that never wanted them.
The series appears to be about Revenge/Retribution for which there was no atonement?
We certainly have enough of that in our society it seems, so it's not a unfamiliar concept. What I'm wondering about is how does Lady Trieu have an idea of what Adrian Veidt looks like now? As in her aged statue of him. He'd be gone long enough to really have no one speculate on his current appearance but she seems to have nailed it.
shareFrom the PeteyPedia files www.hbo.com/PeteyPedia Lady Trieu appears to have been in contact with Veidt within the last 7 years and may have been the instigator in helping him to disappear. From Veidt's conversation, really a monologue, with his clones Veidt has only been there for 4 years and what we are watching is him in the past being dated by 4 of the 7 years up to the present.
That statue of him is only 7 years older since his disappearance.
As soon as I saw her, I thought of the pregnant Vietnamese woman the Comedian killed, while Jon looked on, blandly.
Definitely a "hmmmm" moment. . .
Someone (Veidt) saved the baby and Trieu is her daughter or a clone?
shareIn a weird bit of truth being stranger than fan fiction, here is part of the bio of the actress that plays Lady Trieu (Hong Chau, born 1979):
Chau was born to Vietnamese parents who lived in a refugee camp in Thailand after fleeing Vietnam in the late 1970s. A Vietnamese Catholic church in New Orleans, Louisiana arranged for a family to sponsor Chau and her family. After growing up in New Orleans, Chau majored in film studies at Boston University and pursued an acting career.Lady Trieu is the Vietnamese version of Joan of Arc and of course Lady Trieu has surrounded herself with everything that is Vietnam and what may represent her Vietnamese culture and experiences. She may see Veidt as her savior (but not her hero), Dr. Manhattan as her villain (but not the ultimate evil) and America as her prison (but not her salvation).
Chau's parents were among the Vietnamese boat people who fled Vietnam in 1979. Chau's mother was six months pregnant with her: Chau was born in a refugee camp in Thailand later in the year. A Vietnamese Catholic church in New Orleans, Louisiana organized for a local Vietnamese family to sponsor her family. Chau grew up speaking Vietnamese as her first language, and later learned English in school. She was one of three children, and her parents worked in menial labor to ensure that the children could attend college. She said that her family needed public assistance, that she went to public school, and needed lunch assistance. For college tuition, she depended on Pell Grants. Chau said her parents, who speak in heavy Vietnamese accents, were shunned as Asian migrants.
Wow.
Thx for the info. . .that's amazing. (Cue Twilight Zone music. . .)
Why? Seems like a pretty standard immigrant story to me.
Maybe I'm easily amazed. . .
Yeah. . .Nah. It's pretty crazy that the actress has the same backstory as the character. By just about any metric.
Our family also fled the old country, with the difference being that we didn't get a cent of government aid in the US. And I still have student loans because Pell Grants weren't an option.
Really, this is the story of many thousands, if not millions, of immigrants, nothing special about it.
Sorry you don't think there's anything special about your story.
All that to the side, you're blissfully missing the point: neither YOU (nor the "millions of other immigrants") subsequently became a principal actor in a mega-production, playing a character whose background closely mirrors your own.
Don't bother flogging this particular horse, FWIW: I'm not particularly interested in any further rhetorical flaying. Thx anyway.
I fail to see how her own story even remotely resembles that of her character. It's literally like you have zero comprehension of what you are reading.
But whatever, I am not interested either.
All that to the side, you're blissfully missing the point: neither YOU (nor the "millions of other immigrants") subsequently became a principal actor in a mega-production, playing a character whose background closely mirrors your own.Of the million of immigrants this one makes their way into a show that in some ways mirrors her past.
But then she mentioned that her mother made her promise on her deathbed that she wouldn't leave Vietnam, and I see no reason why she would lie about something like that - I mean, it wasn't like anybody asked.