Watchmen: Every Ozymandias Scene is a Year Apart

One of the more mysterious aspects of the Watchmen series is Adrian Veidt and his imprisonment in Europa. What's interesting is, though Veidt's stories play simultaneously with the new characters in Tulsa, they don't take place in the same timeline.

Talking to Collider, showrunner Damon Lindelof has revealed that the scenes with Ozymandias all occur between a one-year jump. Lindelof explains:

"What we're learning about Adrian Veidt is that every installment that we get of the nine episodes, there's only one episode where you don't get a Veidt installment — the storytelling, he didn't fit in there — but every other one you get [one]. And a year lapses in between each episode. It's a story told on a very, very large canvas, each installment taking place on another anniversary of another year that he has spent wherever the hell he's spending [it]."

If you've been paying attention, the time jumps have actually been in front of our faces the whole time. Veidt has been getting cakes regularly in every episode, and they have candle added to them to signify a year passing. I guess it's the bizarre nature of each scene that kind of distracts us from the cakes, and just keeps us focused on whatever Ozymandias is up to.

For now, Ozymandias has been arrested, and it's likely we're going to see him in his prison cell that's been teased in previous promos. I'm very interested to see where this all goes, seeing that Ozy has been one of the most interesting parts of the series.

Catch Watchmen Sunday nights on HBO.

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