Watchmen (2019) S1 E1
SgtPancake -2 points 4 years ago.

Given Watchmen’s ending with how Rorschach was willing to die rather than accept Ozymandias’ decision to kill millions of people for some greater good I highly doubt he’s anything like Hitler. The writers clearly must have gone purely based on what Dave Gibbons told them (even though he didn’t create the character; it was Alan Moore).

Btw, despite this interview Alan Moore despises the new Watchmen series and wants nothing to do with it so lets not say it’s all sunshine and rainbows.

Euringer -3 points 4 years ago.

Saying Alan Moore despises this series is ignoring context, or perhaps being ignorant of context. Alan Moore wants nothing to do with Watchmen, in comic, movie or tv form - it has nothing to do with the content.

It’s also clear that regardless of what subjective things we can disagree on, you maybe don’t understand the material facts of the matter at the end of Watchmen. Rorschach had already mailed his journal with his suspicions to newspapers, Veidt had already enacted his plan. Rorschach had no decision to make on “killing millions of people” - his decision was to attempt to live in Veidt’s new world order, actively helping make it better, to live in it as he was living (as a toxic avenger, as Moore has stated multiple times - a parody of The Question and Mr A, read up on it) OR to be a coward and commit suicide. He choose the cowardly route, not the heroic route, and he never had a say in those millions of deaths.