Speaking of sad, delusional Liberals, I just got blocked over on gay ass Den of Geek and can no longer comment. They hated that I was disrupting their low IQ echo chamber. 🤣🤣
The ending of Watchmen was a contrived mess. The author tried so hard to be clever and subversive but failed to justify the premise. Indeed, the "world peace through genocidal murder" was farcical at face value.
Human nature can't be denied, nor can it be rewritten through a large scale act of violence. If Moore's ideas were possible, WWI truly would have been "the war to end all wars."
We also saw, on a smaller scale, how a catastrophic attack on New York managed to unite a significant part of the world (but, importantly, not all!) for 48, maybe 72 hours. A bigger tragedy may have had a longer shelf life, but the end result in either case would hage been powerful elites manipulating the world with a shiny new toy until exhaustion set in. 9/11 fatigue started for me in about a month, now it's practically a world-wide joke considering how overused it was to justify anything and everything.
So we have both past and (at the time) future examples showing that the writer was high on his own farts and shat all over the ending of a promising work (I for one, read it once, and put it down in disgust forever after that conclusion).
One thing I did like, and that was the villain monologue taking place AFTER he'd already done his evil scheme. The tired "One last monologue before I pull this lever" trope was ripe for and deserving of that subversion.
Moore is a genius writer but unlike other similar writers like CS Lewis or JRR Tolkien, More's not grounded in God but in earthly delights and so he's also twisted. perverse and thus why we see this change with Dr Manhattan in the end.
According to Manhattan's POV, he doesn't have a choice in the matter. Everything is preordained. He's an automaton, like every other character in the story; the only difference is that he's been granted the perspective to see that he's a gear in the clockwork.
This block universe concept, this denial of consciousness and agency, is what I find most repugnant about Watchmen and Alan Moore's work.
The world would be very peaceful if there were no people at all. If that's where "logic" leads, we are better off without it.
ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
Thanks for that. I learned a new ancient proverb/quote today.
"Where they make a desert, they call it peace."
Speaking of sad, delusional Liberals, I just got blocked over on gay ass Den of Geek and can no longer comment. They hated that I was disrupting their low IQ echo chamber. 🤣🤣
The ending of Watchmen was a contrived mess. The author tried so hard to be clever and subversive but failed to justify the premise. Indeed, the "world peace through genocidal murder" was farcical at face value.
Human nature can't be denied, nor can it be rewritten through a large scale act of violence. If Moore's ideas were possible, WWI truly would have been "the war to end all wars."
We also saw, on a smaller scale, how a catastrophic attack on New York managed to unite a significant part of the world (but, importantly, not all!) for 48, maybe 72 hours. A bigger tragedy may have had a longer shelf life, but the end result in either case would hage been powerful elites manipulating the world with a shiny new toy until exhaustion set in. 9/11 fatigue started for me in about a month, now it's practically a world-wide joke considering how overused it was to justify anything and everything.
So we have both past and (at the time) future examples showing that the writer was high on his own farts and shat all over the ending of a promising work (I for one, read it once, and put it down in disgust forever after that conclusion).
One thing I did like, and that was the villain monologue taking place AFTER he'd already done his evil scheme. The tired "One last monologue before I pull this lever" trope was ripe for and deserving of that subversion.
Rorschach was always the hero of "Watchmen," much to the dismay and puzzlement of Alan Moore.
Moore is a genius writer but unlike other similar writers like CS Lewis or JRR Tolkien, More's not grounded in God but in earthly delights and so he's also twisted. perverse and thus why we see this change with Dr Manhattan in the end.
According to Manhattan's POV, he doesn't have a choice in the matter. Everything is preordained. He's an automaton, like every other character in the story; the only difference is that he's been granted the perspective to see that he's a gear in the clockwork.
This block universe concept, this denial of consciousness and agency, is what I find most repugnant about Watchmen and Alan Moore's work.
Nothing like killing a dude in cold blood because he might squeal on you to prove that you’re the good guy.
Wait until Alan Moore passes away and we find out he's been a serial pedophile all along.