#Proxy Alan Snyder

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Have you guys seen watchmen?Sonnybunch on twitter talked about AOC and he said that Rorschach is the moral center of the movie and that the Comedian has good qualities. i thought the point of the movie was that there is no such thing as heroes but i trust and value your opinion more because most likely i don't know what im talking about.

I have watch it, watched the director’s cut, read the book.  There is a lot to unpack here and one should probably view all three as slightly different entities.    

“Sonnybunch on twitter talked about AOC “ Don’t know who the first is, and the second is just someone who should be ignored.  A freshman Congressman who has made it their goal to alienate their party will have no power and will find themselves of the target of the DNC next primary for removal.   We don’t have much power on this tumblr page to affect actual policy...but in final examination, we’ll probably have had more of an impact that the idiot from New York.  Just ignore her.  

“he said that Rorschach is the moral center of the movie and that the Comedian has good qualities.“  Let’s start with the fact that Alan Moore, the writer of the graphic novel, has a fairly nihilistic view of reality.  He certainly doesn’t believe in things such as good and evil in a traditional sense, and he certainly doesn’t see a teleology for the universe.   As such his graphic novel is very much about how there are no heroes and those who try to be heroes in true Nietzschean fashion become monsters when they seek to fight monsters (it’s the entire point of the Tale of the Black Freighter within the graphic novel, that trying to do what is right turns someone into the thing they hate).  And all the characters are emblematic of a deformed form of ethics, thus if you’re a Kantian and believe that rules are rules and there are no exceptions you can see Rorsarch as the closest to a moral center, if you’re utilitarian Ozymandias and Dr. Manhattan can be seen as the moral center, and if you’re into virtue ethics it would be NightOwl and Silk Spectre II, and if you’re a nihilist certainly the Comedian holds his virtues....but all of them are perverted forms of those visions of ethics.     Thus who you see as the moral center is a bit of a--all pun intended--Rorsarch test.  You’re correct that Moore is trying to show that there are not heroes. But if someone is arguing to for a person who is uncompromising at all costs, even if those costs are their sanity, it should tell you what kind of person is making that argument.

Now the movie is a little different as it’s still Moore’s story, but it’s told by Zack Snyder, and while he’s very good conveying most of Moore’s intent, he still some of his own more Thomist/Aristotlean views in (though not as much as in, say, Man of Steel and Dawn of Justice where he had more creative control...I understand that purists think Snyder had too many changes from the book, but honestly, that fake alien creature would have looked silly on the big screen, and chaning Ozymandias from one silly costume to another at least led to some commentary on the previous decade of stupid comic book movies).  And this is even more true of the movies.  In the director’s cut I think Nightowl and Silk Spectre come out best as proxies “moral center” but it is still a world without a moral center, but only because they seem to understand their own flaws better than the other characters (unlike Rorshark or Ozymandias) but also don’t let those flaws utterly destroy them (unlike Dr. Manhattan’s indifference or Comedian’s breakdown when he learns the truth) .  But again I would say you are correct this is a world without any real heroes, only approximations.  

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Maybe our Hosts will actually defend this place.

Parting Shots: Proxy Alan Snyder “What Goes Around”

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Before the Arrival

So this is how the Invasion looked like.  There were people working for the Hosts before anything happened. They were recruiting people like Snyder. And those people who disappeared - was that Hosts too because they found out who the crucial people are? Or did American government know what was coming and were preparing for resistance?

We saw the life of Bowman family before the Arrival. We met Will’s old partner who conveniently has a place in Santa Monica where his son is lost. We saw why Broussard got to LA and that Arrival killed his mother. And that he knew Katie before.

But possibly the most interesting thing was that the Hosts like it cold. Not really fans of LA climate.

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