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Watching the Watchers of Watchmen
Mar. 9th, 2009 10:11 amThings learned over the weekend:
1) FFN is bursting with Rorschach-Sues. As![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wee_warrior said, it's hard to decide who would be more horrified about this, the character or Alan Moore. So when do we get the Watchmen "they're all in high school" AU?
2) Judging by the sheer number of reviews who mention Dr. Manhattan's genitals, male frontal nudity is still far more shocking to Americans than anything else. See, that's what you get from being brainwashed by countless scenes in which characters who are naked in bed immediately wrap themselves in sheets when they get up, and visit the sauna covered in towels and/or bathing suits.
3) Laurie Juspeczyk (book)/Jupiter (film) has joined the ranks of characters who aren't my favourites in their respective fandoms but whom I nonetheless feel ridiculously protective about, not least due to them being everyone else's most hated character. I like Laurie. ( Spoilery talk about Laurie ensues. )Remove Laurie, and Watchmen would be the unrelenting nihilistic vision without humanity some people seem to think it is, and it would be the poorer for it.
On a lighter note, do you remember the hilarious "I'm a Marvel, I'm a DC" vids starring Batman and Iron Man that were made last year? Now there's one featuring Rorschach and Wolverine:
1) FFN is bursting with Rorschach-Sues. As
wee_warrior said, it's hard to decide who would be more horrified about this, the character or Alan Moore. So when do we get the Watchmen "they're all in high school" AU? 2) Judging by the sheer number of reviews who mention Dr. Manhattan's genitals, male frontal nudity is still far more shocking to Americans than anything else. See, that's what you get from being brainwashed by countless scenes in which characters who are naked in bed immediately wrap themselves in sheets when they get up, and visit the sauna covered in towels and/or bathing suits.
3) Laurie Juspeczyk (book)/Jupiter (film) has joined the ranks of characters who aren't my favourites in their respective fandoms but whom I nonetheless feel ridiculously protective about, not least due to them being everyone else's most hated character. I like Laurie. ( Spoilery talk about Laurie ensues. )Remove Laurie, and Watchmen would be the unrelenting nihilistic vision without humanity some people seem to think it is, and it would be the poorer for it.
On a lighter note, do you remember the hilarious "I'm a Marvel, I'm a DC" vids starring Batman and Iron Man that were made last year? Now there's one featuring Rorschach and Wolverine:
