I think what threw me out of the story* was the fact that, after spending all that time pointing out that superheroes are subject to all the same flaws and failings as normal human beings, Moore conveniently forgets that so are normal human beings, which means that Ozymandias is going to have to keep murdering people by the millions in order to keep his little world plan on course.
What's worse, he allows Rorshach to forget this, which leads to Rorshach being sufficiently convinced by the plan to prefer death to compromising his principle.
The final nail in the coffin is the presumed printing of Rorshach's journal by the _New Frontiersman_. In a world where Russian and American cultures have merged enough to enable the "Burgers and Borscht" chain to come into existence, the claims of a borderline Nazi paper are going to carry no weight whatsoever. Instead of presenting an opportunity for Rorshach to be vindicated, and Ozymandias punished, this represents the final joke on Rorshach, on the world, and on the reader.
*Other than the complete joke of Dr. Manhattan's crisis of identity and subsequent about-face just in time to return to Earth for the denouement. Don't get me started on Dr. Manhattan and feeble, Philosophy 101 strawman discussions around free will and predestination.
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Date: 2009-09-21 04:40 pm (UTC)What's worse, he allows Rorshach to forget this, which leads to Rorshach being sufficiently convinced by the plan to prefer death to compromising his principle.
The final nail in the coffin is the presumed printing of Rorshach's journal by the _New Frontiersman_. In a world where Russian and American cultures have merged enough to enable the "Burgers and Borscht" chain to come into existence, the claims of a borderline Nazi paper are going to carry no weight whatsoever. Instead of presenting an opportunity for Rorshach to be vindicated, and Ozymandias punished, this represents the final joke on Rorshach, on the world, and on the reader.
*Other than the complete joke of Dr. Manhattan's crisis of identity and subsequent about-face just in time to return to Earth for the denouement. Don't get me started on Dr. Manhattan and feeble, Philosophy 101 strawman discussions around free will and predestination.