Tags: watchmen
Published : 8 months, 2 weeks ago (Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:20:29 PDT) Searched: watchmen http://rian000.livejournal.com/5112.html 0 links Related posts
So, two days later, I'm still very much stuck on Watchmen. It had been a very long time since a work of fiction shook me up so hard.
Of course if you haven't read it yet, DO IT DO IT DO IT. It's supremely clever, enthralling and, well, disturbing. Usually I can read books very fast, and never pause because I need to finish it. This one took me three days, because at times I had to put it down as i felt I couldn't handle it, or that I was too tired to properly grasp everything. What really disturbed me is that I have a huge tendency to read characters in black and white : either I hate them or love them (it's my sanguine temperament, what can I say? All that log throwing upon the English...), and I just couldn't do it there. There was no character I ended up hating, and, apart from the first Silk Spectre, there was no character I truly ended up loving either... I felt like I was supposed to empathise with Dan and Laurie, but couldn't really...
I read there were a lot of Dan/Roschach shippers... urgh. I mean, to me, Rorschach is the absolute definition of asexual, and their friendship screamed of bromance between a gentle man and a antisocial discovering gingerly trust..
Actually, and I need time to get used to the idea because it's been disturbing me a lot, the couple I was the most interested in was The Comedian and the first Silk Spectre.
And I'd never read a comic in my entire life. I just bought it on a spur of the moment thing because I saw it on Amazon, and..well, there you go. :D I don't know if any of you have read it? I really neeeeed to talk about it... *goes off in search of comms*
Oh, yeah, one last thing. Countdown to the hordes of Rorschach!he's-so-cute-he's-just-a-misunderstood-fluffy-bunny-!fangirls 3....2...1.. How many Mary Sues are going to want to teach him twu wuv?
Oh, something else : I found my cat. I'll be getting him (it's a boyyy) in about two months, which leaves me time to get my flat (and myself) ready!
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