reliablepat's review
3.0
This issue is when Dr. Manhattan realizes that he became a quantum observer of his own life in 1966 at an early meeting of the Crimebusters. His wife is with him and she catches him staring at Silk Spectre and gets very upset as you can imagine. By thinking that he was paired with Silk Spectre, as the quantum observer he changed the outcome of reality. And then reality split off into multiple timelines.
Dr. Manhattan learns that even though he is limitless, he has to make himself limited to keep the timeline intact. By eliminating his ability to choose, he keeps one timeline intact the way it is supposed to be instead of fractured into many pieces.
In the end, Dr. Manhattan is able to eliminate all possible choices across multiple timelines to converge everything into one and we get to see it as it's happening throughout the comic book. And then it ends, so we have to read the final issue to find out the ending of the story.
Dr. Manhattan learns that even though he is limitless, he has to make himself limited to keep the timeline intact. By eliminating his ability to choose, he keeps one timeline intact the way it is supposed to be instead of fractured into many pieces.
In the end, Dr. Manhattan is able to eliminate all possible choices across multiple timelines to converge everything into one and we get to see it as it's happening throughout the comic book. And then it ends, so we have to read the final issue to find out the ending of the story.
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