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A small reminder that someone who is still an anarchist, communist lover Alan Moore, not only trashed HBO watchmen. He called the show embarrassing and the worst adaption of his work. Even Alan Moore thought HBO compared racism to Nuclear Armageddon. The go to defense for HBO watchmen by Bread tubers was watchmen was always woke. OG communists hate woke writers' guts.

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How can the Watchman graphic novel be Woke when the main hero in it is a Right Wing homophobic vigilante who despises women for their promiscuity?
 
Overly Serious said:
How can the Watchman graphic novel be Woke when the main hero in it is a Right Wing homophobic vigilante who despises women for their promiscuity?
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I'm fairly certain Moore has complained about people thinking that guy is a hero.
Your Starter for 10 said:
Was HBO's Watchmen really a hit? I don't think anyone ever saw it. I guess the IP and production were so cheap that it could've been, but I somehow still doubt it.
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A few people I knew tried to rave about it once or twice to me then went quiet as it went on and I suspect are wishing they had their time back.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
I'm fairly certain Moore has complained about people thinking that guy is a hero.
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>Alan Moore hates Steve Ditko's heroes like the Question and Mr A
>Makes Rorschcuck in an attempt to lampoon Ditko's characters and world-view as ridiculous
>Balloons to a swelling rage when everyone roots for and identifies with the world-view of the character he made to made to jab at Ditko
>Gets permanently screwed over the rights to Watchmen for all time by DC
>Spends remaidner of irrelevant life sperging about capeshit being for babies and seething about how people missed the point of his comic
>Destined to die mad

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Who knew that the most entertaining story Alan Moore produced was the ongoing comedy that was his life.
 
when it came out I had friends who were trying to get me to watch it and I ended up embarrassing myself. after watching the first two (or three)? Episodes in a row so I'd be caught up with them to watch it and I ended up drunkenly sending the group chat the longest sperg chimpout of my life about how irrationally angry it made me and how it missed the point and was just faggot nigger shit (something stated in said text) and was like a play by play of how fucking retarded every scene from those first few episodes were lmfao my friend was like damn bro you could have just said you didn't want to come over and watch the next episode. I've since seen the whole thing on my own time to give it a fair two shakes to judge it on it's own terms and it still sucks.
 
Mississippi Motorboater said:
Who knew that the most entertaining story Alan Moore produced was the ongoing comedy that was his life.
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It's not even uncommon, it's just that a lot of the time it's not as well known. I think the last time I saw it was the Miraculous Ladybug creator explaining that no, the bully character they gave episodes which showed others side to her and gave context was not nuanced but in fact pure evil and would never be a good person.

Honestly I'd usually say it reflects well as an author that people can see things in their characters from another angle that they did not intend.
 
Your Starter for 10 said:
Was HBO's Watchmen really a hit? I don't think anyone ever saw it. I guess the IP and production were so cheap that it could've been, but I somehow still doubt it.
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No, which is why it retroactively became a single-season miniseries after the initial ratings came in so that they didn't have to announce that they'd cancelled it.
 
Moore's a loon the type of guy that if you were stuck in a inn with him due to bad weather you'd pray the bar was full. But he was a great writer and I get his unhappiness with Hollywood and their adaptations of his work.

Rorschach isn't a hero no one is that's the fucking point. If you're a normal person with no special powers and you want to get dressed up like a superhero and go out and fight crime than you're probably fucked in the head and thus none of the characters in Watchmen are heroes. I said this in another thread recently what Ozymandias did was wrong but Rorschach was willing to let those deaths Ozymandias caused become meaningless and put the world at risk again just to appease his own sense of right and wrong.

Even Snyder's adaptation got the story wrong. Now I actually don't mind the ending in his film honestly in the age DNA it's more believable than faking aliens. & while from a visual stand point most of his film is a copy of the book he missed the point of the characters being human. In his drive to make it "Look Cool" he gave the characters almost superhuman strength. In the book Comedian's death is a beat down while in the movie Comedian a 60 plus man punches his fist threw a fucking stone/marble fireplace without flinching. Nite-Owl in the comic is a middle aged out of shape man a guy that casting someone like Philip Seymour Hoffman would have suited and not Patrick Wilson who had a Hollywood Dad Bod and still looked more in shape than most men. Jackie Earl Haley was pretty good casting except with his mask off Rorschach is meant to be meek and unassuming while Haley's Rorschach with his mask off still looked like trouble and someone you'd probably avoid. But the one character without a doubt Snyder got right was Dr. Manhattan he got the detached god like being who was tired of humanity and their petty squabbles when compared to the larger scale of the universe that he nailed.

Unlike the TV series which turned Dr. Manhattan into a suburban dad. Seriously like how the hell do you get that from Dr. Manhattan? While Rorschach himself wasn't a White Supremacist them latching onto him given his far right views isn't shocking and the least of this shows sins to the original story. The true issue is if it was a true Moore story or at least trying to be the show would show that the "heroes" who are masked government officers are violating civil liberties to capture them and it makes them also awful people. The series wants the "heroes" to be heroes which goes against the very theme Moore was trying to tell.
 
Hembruh said:
I ended up drunkenly sending the group chat the longest sperg chimpout of my life about how irrationally angry it made me and how it missed the point and was just faggot nigger shit (something stated in said text) and was like a play by play of how fucking retarded every scene from those first few episodes were lmfao my friend was like damn bro you could have just said you didn't want to come over and watch the next episode. I've since seen the whole thing on my own time
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Are you fucking retarded or what?
 
Seeing Alan Moore hate on the HBO Watchmen show is funny.

But I don't think he's ever grown out of his 13 year old edgelord phase, so I suspect if everyone hated the show he'd then be sperging about how it's actually genius and the most accurate representation of his story.
 
xXx: State of the Union said:
Are you fucking retarded or what?
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yeah that was the point of my story. I don't even really like watchmen very much. it's good and important, but not something I really care about. the show was just the first time any extremely pozzed shit ever really got under my skin for whatever reason. I watched it again later because I was drunk and irrationally angry the first time, so instead of drinking an entire case of beer in like 3 hours I just watched the rest of it while working on the computer to see if I was just wasted and overreacting
 
Mississippi Motorboater said:
>Alan Moore hates Steve Ditko's heroes like the Question and Mr A
>Makes Rorschcuck in an attempt to lampoon Ditko's characters and world-view as ridiculous
>Balloons to a swelling rage when everyone roots for and identifies with the world-view of the character he made to made to jab at Ditko
>Gets permanently screwed over the rights to Watchmen for all time by DC
>Spends remaidner of irrelevant life sperging about capeshit being for babies and seething about how people missed the point of his comic
>Destined to die mad

Who knew that the most entertaining story Alan Moore produced was the ongoing comedy that was his life.
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As someone who happens to enjoy the work of Steve Ditko I've always taken offense to how Moore bashes his work.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
I'm fairly certain Moore has complained about people thinking that guy is a hero.
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Like Milton writing Paradise Lost, he is so certain in his own morality that he could not see that he had made his villain admirable.

FuckMeGentlyWithAChainsaw said:
It's a neat time capsule for post Matrix low budget superhero TV. And yes, that's supposed to be Harley Quinn.
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I mean it was the era of shows like Charmed etc. Only it didn't have the budget. One thing I do remember of Harley Quinn in that was that the heroines didn't know she was Harley Quinn for most of the arc. She was posing as a psychiatrist whom the main character went to. Was a nice touch. I don't really remember the show beyond that, though.
 
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