BUMP
I just finished reading Watchmen and I have to say it was so much more than I expected. Everything was so deep and well written.
I only have one kinda qualm with it
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So adrian's master plan to stop conflict on earth is to fake an alien attack. I mean, even in one of the news report things they said that the alien accidentally breached the dimension and died. I understand how the fear of continuous invasion can unite humans but It really just seemed like there was only going to be one "drop" and everyone would hold hands and sing kumbaya. I don't think that living in fear of alien attack is any better then living in fear of a human attack. I don't know if that was the overall message of the book, but I kinda felt like it lampooned this as a really narrow ultra focused solution that really doesn't take humanity into perspective...
I think that the idea that humans would unite to defend against aliens seems pretty sound to me, but I can't see it as the long term solution that it's made out to be. I mean when would this feeling of unity wear off? I think the concession that was being made was that living in fear is better than not living. That's kinda why I think that the book is kinda poking at this soulless quantification of life.
I'm not sure. It might just be that I'm pissed about Rorschach getting shafted at the end
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