Watchmen

[serafina20]

I guess, in the end, my main problem with Watchmen is that I don't quite understand what I'm supposed to thing at the end. My gut is that Rorschach was ultimately right: the world needed to be told what had been done to them. Because, I'm sorry, there is no way that peace was ever going to hold. Maybe for awhile, maybe a few years, but not very long. Pretty soon, the new super government or alliance would become predictably corrupt, people would be people and turn on each other, and everything would go to hell again. So, no, maybe rushing out to reveal the truth right away would have been bad, too, but the truth needed to be told.

But the "heroes" kept it hidden, seemingly forever. Even killed Rorschach.

No one I know has read it, so I can't discuss it yet, so I don't know if a) the "heroes" who kept it secret were supposed to be "right"; b) they're in the wrong, but "won"; c) No one was right or wrong (because no one was completely right or wrong, in the end); d) the reader was supposed to draw their own conclusion based on what they believed.

I'm fine if it's any of those, but 1) I feel really alone with no one to talk it over with and it is a book that needs to be discussed and 2) there's a part of me that's still going "eh. It was okay". Although, maybe I'd agree with the one of the 100 best novels thing if I got to talk about it more or something.

I don't even know. The new trailer isn't as good as the old, but it's good. And JDM is gorgeous. He can come over and do me.

Comments

[moonprincessnat.livejournal.com]

I remember reading The Watchmen in junior high... and I really didn't care for it. Mostly for the things you mentioned. Besides, Rorschach was my favorite character and he was killed off. That always makes me cranky.

[serafina20.livejournal.com]

I think where it really started losing me was when Rorschach "broke" the amiable psychologist. Because, dude, if a few stories of bad things breaks up your life (including your marriage), then everything in your life was a lie to begin with. Which may have been the point (everybody lies), but it didn't read that way. I may read it again, just to get that second wave on me.