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My feelings on Watchmen, followed by my timeline. |
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Loved it. After reading it, I only loved Rorschach more. XD
I think one of my favorite scenes with him without his mask is when he startles the news vendor. XD It was adorable. XD It starts off with him asking the vendor to reserve a copy of a newspaper for him. Vendor swears he'll do it. Walter walks away.
Vendor pours himself a coffee and puts it to his lips and sips.
Walter pokes him in the back, startling the hell out of him so he does a spit take and asks "Are you sure you'll remember!? D=" XD
I thought it was incredibly cute. XD
Also derived after reading the story that Walter K is tentatively blatantly heterosexual if Rorschach is completely asexual. XD
(I think I discerned it from one of the papers he wrote as a young boy/man. Women definitely make him feel severely uncomfortable-that can most likely be attributed to a combination of the fear instilled in him by his dishonorable mother and his own true sexual desires. This guy's a bit of a crack up to study, but I guess you'd have to be a little bit twisted to see the humor in any aspect concerning his personality and way of thinking. @_@ ... Well. So I am. XD )
The whole thing with the alien was clever, but I can see why they tweaked the story now in the movie to make it about Jon. (I figured out what happened to those artists when they showed the first shot showing Hira Manish and Max Shea 'on an island' while she was drawing some kind of alien. XD "Island? The Comedian said something abotu artists on an island when he was drunk and talking to Moloch... This must be that island! So THAT'S where those missing artists and writers and other creative figures are!" )
You know, up until reading the book, I'd figured that Ed was a part of Adrian's plan... like he'd been on the payroll... and that was what had made him feel so guilty.... but since reading the book, I've gained a different perspective.
Seems to me like it was more the fear of obsolescence instead.
If Peace were to exist in the world, there would be no need for a trained fighter like himself-a born man o' war. He would become useless. His way of thinking would be outcast, and nothing would make sense for him anymore.
I hadn't known he was completely separate from Adrian's plans and that he just happened to stumble across what was happening. @_@;
Anyway, back to the whole 'Aliens and the missing masters of creativity" sub plot in the story...
The whole thing was entirely separate, and while it makes for an interesting complication to think about in addition to other details, like the importance of the events in Black Freighter in conjunction with the events in the present timeline concerning the Watchmen, it would have been superfluous for a movie of the comic, and the movie was long enough as it stood.
... Although after reading the comic, I now agree with the many people who complained that they should have kept in scenes with the News Vendor. XD
I suppose it might have been too much of a giveaway as to who Rorschach was, though, plus the audience might not have been able to separate that relatively sweet, shy, strange character from the brutal split personality that murders in the name of justice.
Incidentally, the reason I started writing up a time line was because the sheer amount of important years mentioned in the story. I wanted to be able to keep everything straight: what happened when, what happened first, and most importantly, how old was everybody-especially Rorschach. XD (Of course I have that interest in his character.... XD Also, I think Sally Jupiter was two years older than Ed... or was supposed to be, anyway. >_> I'd love to ask Alan Moore about the discrepancies and what his intentions were so as to clear those questions up... )
At some point while making sense of the years, I realized some very odd things about some of the years, and the biggest one concerned The Comedian's age.
In PRINT, how many said Ed was sixteen when he joined the Minutemen? Sally: Sixteen. Hollis: Sixteen.
At least two different sources say 'sixteen.'
Equally, at least two different sources within the book say he was born in 1924.
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The Minutemen joined in 1939.
Do you see where that's not possible?
Sixteen plus twenty four.
24
16
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40
What that means is that from that year, the year he would have turned sixteen would fall within the year 1940.
However, the Minutemen joined "when he was only sixteen-the youngest of the group."
Was he actually fifteen when he joined, or was it intended that he, indeed, be sixteen when he joined, but they messed up on his age? Because if so, that messes up the ages of every single one of the Minutemen who were older than him-Sally Jupiter, who was about eighteen when she joined the Minutemen, for example, would be two years older than Edward Morgan Blake, right?
This would put her birthday in the year 1922 if you go with the given birth year for Eddie, but if you consider the fact that there's a huge problem with the numbers, well...
@_@;
(I wonder if it should be considered scary that I care so much about the continuity of what has been called the Greatest Graphic Novel of All time)
 Sakura Moonflower · Thu Mar 19, 2009 @ 05:24am · 0 Comments |
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