But I can see how that would be very appealing to have something like that.” Smart says that Laurie “never kind of got over” Doctor Manhattan, but she also understands why the character might fixate on figures from her past. I think even she would have to admit that that's kind of unhealthy and bizarre, especially when she admits that she doesn't even know if he's ever going to hear it. But we see that she's drawn to these booths so that she can talk to this man she's been in love with but who she hasn't seen in 30 years. And here she is, she's this person we see who's very independent and seems to be in control all the time. “And she's giving him a hard time kind of, and she's also trying to make him laugh. “It's such a bizarre joke that she's telling,” Smart says of the message. Whether or not the Doc will actually hear it, or cares, is up for debate, but certainly in the case of Laurie one would think she at least has a better shot at being heard than most, having been in a relationship with Manhattan (a.k.a. Towards the end of the first season, we find out why specifically she ended up with the FBI.” Doctor Manhattan, Nite Owl and a JokeThis week’s episode is framed with a scene where Laurie is in a Doctor Manhattan phone booth - because that’s a thing now - recording a message which will be beamed to Mars for the super-man. And her route to the FBI is a journey that hasn't really been completely explored yet in the show. And so I think she kind of misses a lot of it. And the men in her life, now they're gone. She kind of liked being a minor celebrity, and misses some of that and the excitement and everything. “I don't know if she regrets because I think she kind of enjoyed it for a while,” says the actress. It was the only life she knew when we first meet her in the Watchmen comic. And I think she thinks that she's very much in control, and she's not maybe as much as she would like to think she is.” Laurie was essentially brought up by her mom to be a superhero like her parents before her. I think people who have those kind of painful early years, they don't ever get over it completely. “But I think the whole relationship with her father and her mother, she finds incredibly bizarre and unhealthy. “It's funny because she almost blames her mother more than for certain things,” she says. And indeed, materials released by HBO on their in-universe “Peteypedia” website reveal that at some point between the comic and the show Laurie actual returned to life as a vigilante, calling herself the Comedienne, after her dad. Classic psychiatrist's couch stuff!” Of course, Laurie’s parents were the Comedian and the original Silk Spectre, vigilantes from the first era of costumed adventures who also happened to be periodically caught up in an abusive and toxic relationship. But she obviously has serious issues with her mother. So anything that they encouraged her to do she now thinks is sort of abhorrent. “I don't know whether she has negative feelings about being a vigilante because of her parents or whether she has just negative feelings about her parents. “It's very complicated, which is one of the things that makes her kind of interesting to play,” says Smart. She is now hunting that which she used to be. And not only is she working for the bureau, but she’s part of the anti-vigilante taskforce. But in the years since, Laurie has somehow become an FBI agent while Dan has wound up in prison - as symbolized by the owl Laurie now keeps in a cage. From Masked Adventurer to FBI AgentWhen we last saw Laurie in the graphic novel, she and Dan Dreiberg (Nite Owl) had assumed false identities in an attempt to live under the radar.
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