Just so we can avoid painful misunderstandings in the light of the coming media blitz...

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...I was there when Watchmen first came out. I regard it as one of the biggest disappointments of my entire life and probably the worst thing Alan Moore ever did. Yes, so in real life people who went out in funny costumes with the idea of fighting crime would probably turn out to be brutes, rapists or inadequates. So what? Thirty years after we all agreed that superheroes were modern mythology, we really have to be so surprised by the fact that they are not realistic? Why, Stan Lee was smarter than this!

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[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

You are entitled to your opinion. I love Watchmen, not so much for what it says (I agree with you that we need the mythology, not the deconstruction of it; and anyway, we get both in heroes like the Batman) but for how it's done: with a great deal of human truth, and with stark artistic talent.

(For what it's worth: I'm not an Alan Moore fan. Except in this instance.)

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In that case, we have a difference in taste. I love and admire most Alan Moore; Watchmen is one of the main exceptions. I am also extremely unhappy about Moore's politics, which revealed themselves in this period: http://fpb.livejournal.com/216352.html