Comments on: Who Watches the Watchmen? http://www.frenzieddaddy.com/static/archives/2009/01/27/who-watches-the-watchmen/ It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. --- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:39:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3-beta2-19067 By: Stu http://www.frenzieddaddy.com/static/archives/2009/01/27/who-watches-the-watchmen/comment-page-1/#comment-7288 Stu Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:33:20 +0000 http://www.frenzieddaddy.com/?p=1167#comment-7288 Note the date: it's OUT! I've seen it! As far as whether or not a "common enemy" would help the world unite, I have my cynical doubts. I can easily see it being a successful ploy, but I can AS easily see all the various powers and factions vying to be THE ones who manage to defeat the "common enemy" and subsequently be the ones ultimately in charge of the planet. Boy, I used to be SO much more optimistic.... BTW, the change in the ending, in my oh-so-humble opinion, is really negligible so far as the overall story and message are concerned. It bugged me a bit, just because I was anticipating what I was familiar with, but I think it was changed to add one more blow to the nature of Ozymandias's character. I think it was to enforce the idea of how willing he was to sacrifice innocents and/or those he cared about for what he considered the "greater good". Since so much of the original Watchmen had to be edited and trimmed to fit in the timespan of a single movie, I think that that aspect of Veight's character needed that push to appropriately bring home the very point of the central message of the story: "Who Watches the Watchmen?" -Reverend Spith Note the date: it’s OUT! I’ve seen it! As far as whether or not a “common enemy” would help the world unite, I have my cynical doubts. I can easily see it being a successful ploy, but I can AS easily see all the various powers and factions vying to be THE ones who manage to defeat the “common enemy” and subsequently be the ones ultimately in charge of the planet.

Boy, I used to be SO much more optimistic….

BTW, the change in the ending, in my oh-so-humble opinion, is really negligible so far as the overall story and message are concerned. It bugged me a bit, just because I was anticipating what I was familiar with, but I think it was changed to add one more blow to the nature of Ozymandias’s character. I think it was to enforce the idea of how willing he was to sacrifice innocents and/or those he cared about for what he considered the “greater good”. Since so much of the original Watchmen had to be edited and trimmed to fit in the timespan of a single movie, I think that that aspect of Veight’s character needed that push to appropriately bring home the very point of the central message of the story: “Who Watches the Watchmen?”

-Reverend Spith

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