Watchmen Ending?

[JBX06]

Obvious Spoilers

I Just Finished Reading It And The Ending Was A Bit Confusing And I Just Want To Check With You Guys To Make Sure I Understand.

Veidt Cloned An "Alien" And When It Breathed The Air It Exploded Killing Millions Of People In New York And Veidt Did This To Stop A Nucluer War.

And Jon (The Blue Dude) Killed Rorscarch To Stop Him Going Public About Veidt's Plan And This Was The Same Reason Blake (The Comiedian) Was Murdered. But Rorscarch's Journal Which Everything Was Written In Was Posted To The Newspaper And It Will Eventually Go Public Which The Last Pannel Is Implying.

Do I Have It Right?

 

[implodingMan]

This Doesn't Belong In The Gaming Section, Also Why The Hell Do You Capitalize The First Letter In Every Word Like This? It Is Very Annoying.

You've Basically Got It Though.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

I recently re-read this, bought as I remember reading it when I was at school, and impressed with how much more I've enjoyed it as an adult, I think I was too young to appreciate it back then.

If you do read it, and I implore you to do so, hell get it from the library, once you've read it, start again!

I was surprised, I'll just say that. Rare to see something put in seemingly just for people on a second read thru.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Basically, Ozymandias creates an extra-terrestrial 'threat' in order to unite humanity, and to avoid the impending nuclear apocalypse. If he hadn't, Russia and the US would have blown each other to smithereens. Because the Earth is seemingly under attack by aliens, Russia and America reluctantly unite together. However, due to Ozzy's actions, millions are left dead. It was an act of destruction greater than the Hiroshima bombings. So it's left to the reader to decide whether he was right or wrong.

Nite Owl and Silk Spectre reluctantly agree to keep quiet, as if Ozymandias' hoax was exposed, it would plunge the world back into war. Rorschach, however, is an objectivist absolutist. He believes in never compromising, even in the face of armageddon. While his death at the hands of Dr Manhatten is a bit of a downer when you first read it, you have to remember that, in the words of Alan Moore, Rorschach is a character with a king-sized death wish. He hates the world and all its pettiness, and wants out of it in the most honourable way possible. The way I read into it, he is well aware that Dr Manhatten will kill him if he tries to go public, and sees this as the best possible way to end his life with dignity. That's just my reading of it though.

That is the best summation of the best graphic novel I have ever read.

I agree with what you have said about Rorschach; he loathes being stuck in this world but won't take himself out of it. In a way it's his antipathy toward life that makes him utterly fearless. He knew Jon would obliterate him rather than let him expose the truth and in a way it's probably better that he was taken out by a "friend".

This thread should probably be move though.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

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