Watchmen Explained (original comic)

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  • Опубликовано: 9 янв 2025

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  • @AltShiftX
    @AltShiftX  5 лет назад +2658

    Which series should we make videos about - His Dark Materials, Dune, Lord of the Rings, The Expanse?
    Get a free audiobook with an Audible trial: www.audible.com/asx

    • @easternmcg
      @easternmcg 5 лет назад +227

      LoTR no doubt

    • @god47398
      @god47398 5 лет назад +159

      you seem into Dune, so definitely that but if I had to pick only one from those, it'd be dark materials lore

    • @angryscott4739
      @angryscott4739 5 лет назад +76

      the expanse please love your vids and thats my new fav show cant wait to see where it goes im saving reading the books till after but you can tell me about them for days

    • @SpirusOfH
      @SpirusOfH 5 лет назад +59

      LOTR!

    • @finnulas7690
      @finnulas7690 5 лет назад +93

      Dune for sure, you could make the videos leading up to the movie...

  • @nickmontalbano9573
    @nickmontalbano9573 4 года назад +13838

    “So Manhattan fucks off to Mars to build a sandcastle.”
    That’s golden.

    • @kevincarroll120
      @kevincarroll120 3 года назад +149

      Actually it’s not golden it’s silver

    • @WildWave555
      @WildWave555 3 года назад +28

      Not wrong tho

    • @amargabela7018
      @amargabela7018 3 года назад +198

      Guy can go to Mars and do what ever he wants, but he is still bad in sex.

    • @wedoaliltrollin2978
      @wedoaliltrollin2978 3 года назад +65

      @@amargabela7018 truer words has never been spoken 😔

    • @niropaxum958
      @niropaxum958 2 года назад

      He fucked off to a different galexy after killing best boii

  • @PooleyX
    @PooleyX 5 лет назад +19575

    I have to say, that's the clearest, most concise and carefully structured explanation of Watchmen I've ever seen, heard or read. Bravo.

    • @IAmJustR
      @IAmJustR 5 лет назад +117

      Yes! This was PERFECT for me to understand the new series!

    • @moonmaan
      @moonmaan 5 лет назад +40

      our boi is gooood

    • @aestheticbeatz5700
      @aestheticbeatz5700 5 лет назад +58

      The man who made this is kind of brilliant himself, and watchmen is clearly brilliant.

    • @edkwon
      @edkwon 5 лет назад +3

      Agreed

    • @RobRVG
      @RobRVG 5 лет назад

      I agree. It was recommended to me to Alt Shift X. I missed it like the person above.

  • @chimericalical
    @chimericalical 4 года назад +23451

    I like Rorschach and all, but I wish he didn’t have an image of my parents fighting on his face.

    • @theultraatomicgamer
      @theultraatomicgamer 4 года назад +301

      Yeah

    • @guysky3873
      @guysky3873 4 года назад +963

      I see a butterfly. A beautiful, homicidal butterfly with green socks smoking a cigar. This means I am sane, right doc?😬

    • @chimericalical
      @chimericalical 4 года назад +222

      @Ddhfacetyy Jesus Christ dude... it’s a joke. About ror... nvm...

    • @akiraeatsguitarpicks491
      @akiraeatsguitarpicks491 3 года назад +214

      Huh? Are you sure it’s not a dog their with head busted open?

    • @bit-te
      @bit-te 3 года назад +78

      @Ddhfacetyy Rorschach just doesn't want a peace made out of lie

  • @gameygeemer4142
    @gameygeemer4142 2 года назад +5866

    One thing that you didn't mention.
    Ozymandius actually created TWO giant psychic squids and sent the other one into Moscow so that neither side could lay blame at the foot of the other.

    • @robber233
      @robber233 2 года назад +774

      Alt ending:
      Ozzy: they cant blame each other for this!
      Ussr: IT WAS CANADA!
      Usa: IT WAS CHINA!
      Ozzy: Wait? WHAT! Why would they think that!? Thats an incredibly dumb rationale.
      It makes no sense what idiot would do that!?
      Dr. Manhattan: Its human goverments Ozzy, what did you expect?
      Ozzy: ...(sigh) touchè.

    • @zephyr6927
      @zephyr6927 2 года назад +76

      when was that mentioned?

    • @monkeeseemonkeedoo3745
      @monkeeseemonkeedoo3745 2 года назад +8

      Smort

    • @headoverheels899
      @headoverheels899 2 года назад +171

      @@robber233 Sends the squiddy to every goddamn country

    • @robber233
      @robber233 2 года назад +93

      @@headoverheels899
      (Humanity dies)
      Ozzy: that'll teach the- aw f***...

  • @Xspy70
    @Xspy70 5 лет назад +3157

    "Manhattan gets falsely accused of giving people cancer, and his girlfriend Laurie leaves him for an Owl man. So Manhattan fucks off to Mars and builds a sand castle."
    This sentence is amazing. The flow and expression of it. So much going on xD

    • @Polymerata
      @Polymerata 2 года назад +16

      Manhattan get falsely accused of giving cancer and start fucking off on Mars whilst also building sand castle.
      Now that's some good shit

    • @MrHemFun
      @MrHemFun 2 года назад +14

      Feels like the future of Elon musk

    • @fannypack7705
      @fannypack7705 Год назад

      Great public speaking skills and story telling too

    • @stefanroche3052
      @stefanroche3052 11 месяцев назад

      Even scientific god himself has a midlife crisis

  • @sunriseparrabellum5505
    @sunriseparrabellum5505 5 лет назад +8013

    I can excuse most things but a man who eats another mans beans is no man at all

    • @mbedj1974
      @mbedj1974 4 года назад +173

      In doomsday clock the madman went and ate Batman's pancake

    • @sunriseparrabellum5505
      @sunriseparrabellum5505 4 года назад +26

      Mahmoud Bedja Boana he must be stopped

    • @vokasimid5330
      @vokasimid5330 4 года назад +10

      Gus fring quote?

    • @josephcontreras8930
      @josephcontreras8930 4 года назад +33

      Yeah you can break in to someone's flat jack their shit but never I mean never touch another man's beans. That's just wrong.

    • @joescardino8976
      @joescardino8976 4 года назад +4

      Mahmoud Bedja Boana no matter who wears the mask, he will find you. And he will eat your food

  • @bobparr1908
    @bobparr1908 5 лет назад +4653

    My favorite line - "And he breaks into people's houses and eats all their beans". :)

    • @DragonTigerBoss
      @DragonTigerBoss 5 лет назад +83

      "Fine like this."

    • @saeedvazirian
      @saeedvazirian 5 лет назад +127

      I was ok with everything else, but it's truly disturbing that Rorschach likes beans. I draw the line of lunacy there. Utter freak.

    • @CoratMcRed
      @CoratMcRed 5 лет назад +105

      This vigilante eating beans

    • @izayakariya2063
      @izayakariya2063 5 лет назад +18

      And steals sugar

    • @CapitanRastrero
      @CapitanRastrero 5 лет назад +69

      THIS NIGGA EATIN BEANS!

  • @BatmanHQYT
    @BatmanHQYT 2 года назад +2014

    Dan's essay about owls is one of the most beautifully written segments of the comic. The interludes really made it something special.

    • @josepharcher3620
      @josepharcher3620 Год назад +13

      Would hate to be a pain but do you know where I could find that essay? Sounds interesting but dont want to buy the comic.

    • @thatnikkakris2339
      @thatnikkakris2339 Год назад +3

      @@josepharcher3620 !!

    • @Kalzzz_1273
      @Kalzzz_1273 Год назад

      I mean America invent not perserve the European have thousand of tear to develop and they see the collapse of an super power like the roman first hand, the European perserve stuff like king and peasant untill like the 20th Century just look at Victorian London,while the American fought it they try to not be held by titles and royalty so they need optimism to fight. While many European back then either work everyday with limited pay while the royalty are free and happy so many because pessimistic, the British Saw child labor, 2 world wars' and a collapsing empire while the American gain more land and an economic boom, also the founding of the USA is based around the optimism that you could have a better live there than Europe
      TL;DR: America is founded and need optimism while the European have many thing to be pessimistic about

    • @ilikebugs69
      @ilikebugs69 Год назад +16

      @@josepharcher3620 get a library card

    • @AMAli-ct5df
      @AMAli-ct5df Год назад +3

      I would like to read it too but we do not have comics here too

  • @smitty7988
    @smitty7988 5 лет назад +4304

    When Ozymandias is in the 'Christ pose' cheering, I think the background shows Alexander and the Gordian knot. Apparently the knot was uber complex and whoever could bring the two ends together would conquer Asia. Alexander doesn't bother untying the knot but just cuts it with his sword. I think Moore is probably trying to draw the comparison between Alexander and the Gordian knot and Ozymandias' plan with the squid. Both are violent solutions to nuanced problems.

    • @bazookajoe2889
      @bazookajoe2889 5 лет назад +100

      smitty voller
      Great observation

    • @arbabk
      @arbabk 5 лет назад +31

      Very interesting idea!!!

    • @spaceclown7650
      @spaceclown7650 5 лет назад +131

      Both are violent solutions to nuanced problems … true. But both are also effective solutions. Alexander is credited as "solving" the Gordian Knot when no one else could. Ozymandias clearly prevents nuclear Armageddon and saves the world … at least for the time being (depending on which random crank file article the goofy newsboy decides to publish). Like you I also noticed the Gordian Knot motif behind Ozymandias during his moment of triumph. I agree it seems like a pretty clear analogy for Ozy's master plan. Interestingly, it brought back the idea that he was a modern Alexander the Great … he had originally started his career by "walking in the footsteps of Alexander" but if you remember he discovered Rameses II at some point and decided Rameses II was a far greater leader than Alexander and modelled himself after that guy. Hence the Egyptian temple style of his Antarctic base, rather than a Macedonian temple of the sort that Alexander the Great would have built.

    • @sjiekdefriemal5345
      @sjiekdefriemal5345 5 лет назад +21

      @darth g0ldaR if this is satire, it's badly done.

    • @edward657
      @edward657 5 лет назад +43

      darth g0ldaR He’s talking about you, dickhead. Stop spamming the comment section because you’re not fond of the creator

  • @iambiggus
    @iambiggus 3 года назад +9581

    Imagine starting to like a girl, only to know exactly when and how you'll break up before you even start dating. That's truly a tragic character.

    • @oshwaflz
      @oshwaflz 3 года назад +221

      hey that's how the relationship with my father went and I turned out ok

    • @dontcare5998
      @dontcare5998 3 года назад +79

      Well just don’t bother dating that person 🤷‍♂️

    • @dontcare5998
      @dontcare5998 3 года назад +26

      @Mediocre Guitar Guy no shit Sherlock

    • @BakaryD
      @BakaryD 3 года назад +21

      It's like in Dark, there's nothing he can do about ut

    • @silloweet
      @silloweet 3 года назад +9

      He's not tragic at all

  • @finnulas7690
    @finnulas7690 5 лет назад +5424

    We really missed ya Alt Shift X. Just wanted you guys to know that.

    • @OllyWood688
      @OllyWood688 5 лет назад +74

      I'm glad they found something after the dumpster fire that GoT S08 was.

    • @Stonesorrow
      @Stonesorrow 5 лет назад +19

      Absolutely, and an excellent breakdown of a comic book that's really hard to summarise.

    • @RUDEMusicUS
      @RUDEMusicUS 5 лет назад +18

      @@OllyWood688 let's just not talk about it anymore

    • @OllyWood688
      @OllyWood688 5 лет назад +9

      @@RUDEMusicUS that which has not to be mentioned, done by those who deserver eternal shame

    • @davisjames8484
      @davisjames8484 5 лет назад +1

      Hear hear

  • @connorstromboe2777
    @connorstromboe2777 2 года назад +1536

    I like the idea that even if Rorschach’s journal isn’t published, the “utopia” would eventually collapse anyway. At the end of the story it’s revealed that writing negative stories about Russia has been outlawed by the U.S. in order to keep the peace after having seen the horrible outcome of potential nuclear war in New York. But some citizens still harbor the same disdain for what Russia stands for, and without addressing the actual ideological differences and conflicts that led to them to nuclear war in the first place, they’re destined to head there again.

    • @connorstromboe2777
      @connorstromboe2777 2 года назад +1

      @yomomma5086 That is seriously not what I said. I said that you can't take control of the media and force everyone to be favorable of a country with which the U.S. has had decades of conflict and disagreement, and with which the U.S. very recently came to the brink of nuclear annihilation. Forcefully removing the outlet to criticize that country is only going to cause tensions to grow in secret and eventually boil over. As well, I'm not a cold war historian, but its clear in the Watchmen universe that dislike for Russia's actions and communism is a sentiment held by every day citizens, not just politicians and 'pockets of distrust'. That sentiment doesn't just disappear, and while no population openly wants nuclear war, the U.S. and Russia conflict already did build up to nuclear war once, to say it could escalate to that point again is not unreasonable.

    • @commenteroftruth9790
      @commenteroftruth9790 Год назад +25

      If the "utopia" is formed in an actual sense, then there wouldnt be a russia, america, etc. But I dont know what the story does with this.

    • @islandboy9381
      @islandboy9381 Год назад +156

      Adrian asks Manhattan "In the end, I did the right thing?"
      Manhattan responds "in the end? nothing ends Adrian nothing ever ends"
      This should tell you that Veidt's morals and empire of peace will not last long, it will crumble to time same as the empire of the great pharaoh Ozymandias buried in sand, Manhattan has seen it all.

    • @МаксБурый-р2ю
      @МаксБурый-р2ю Год назад

      Rusia indeed must be obliterated

    • @eyjay1508
      @eyjay1508 Год назад +1

      when is that thing about negative stories revealed? I don't remember it

  • @GoblinSack
    @GoblinSack 5 лет назад +1997

    I wasn't sure how this channel would transition after the ending of Game of Thrones. However I'm confident that you can make literally any subject interesting. Thank you, keep up the content.

    • @edgardomartin8299
      @edgardomartin8299 5 лет назад +24

      It doesn't matter if he is reading that POV chapter of Hodor, as long is in that voice.

    • @jordyrodriguez7203
      @jordyrodriguez7203 5 лет назад +1

      Plus he can still make got videos after the sixth book is out(if it's ever out)

    • @yungtigergod9380
      @yungtigergod9380 5 лет назад +1

      Lol one could extend your comment to include HBO as well.

    • @laburnibyboone3435
      @laburnibyboone3435 4 года назад

      100%

  • @duggeeo4147
    @duggeeo4147 4 года назад +5360

    "it's so sad that Steve Jobs died of ligma" - Dr Manhattan

  • @Alsyoutubeaccount
    @Alsyoutubeaccount 4 года назад +2633

    What makes the graphic novel “impossible to adapt” is that the medium is so integrated into the storytelling. With a comic panel structure, you can see the past, present, and future at the same time like Dr Manhattan. And the structure is utilized to communicate pacing in ways a sequential film cannot.

    • @base21
      @base21 3 года назад +127

      Unless you watch the movie a second time

    • @ledetbrothers9210
      @ledetbrothers9210 2 года назад +63

      Excellent analysis!
      It is like how Undertale can’t be adapted either.
      That game is so integrated in its medium through its themes and story that something always fades in adaptation.

    • @hydrocritical2268
      @hydrocritical2268 2 года назад +188

      @@ledetbrothers9210 No one is trying to adapt Undertale lol

    • @ledetbrothers9210
      @ledetbrothers9210 2 года назад +32

      @@hydrocritical2268
      Yeah but you see my point right?

    • @oilyboy7243
      @oilyboy7243 2 года назад +73

      @@ledetbrothers9210 no

  • @lengmoua22
    @lengmoua22 2 года назад +664

    "In the end, Watchmen is a Rorschach test." - brilliant. well said.

    • @KoolKeithProductions
      @KoolKeithProductions 5 месяцев назад +6

      Time out. I've seen the 2009 movie, but never read the comics, but this vid basically says they are pretty much identical. So why were comic fans so pissed off at the movie? 😮

    • @mainsmain
      @mainsmain 5 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@KoolKeithProductions Cause no giant CGI squid lol

    • @KoolKeithProductions
      @KoolKeithProductions 5 месяцев назад

      @@mainsmain lol l never got the whole giant squid part. Some ppl have said the squid works because it was a "random" attack, so that would unite the world, but a Dr Manhattan attack doesn't work, because he's a US creation, so the world would blame America. I don't buy it.

    • @julda8080
      @julda8080 5 месяцев назад +4

      ​​​@@KoolKeithProductions because half of the said in the video is not portrayed on the film, the tiny details are the most important to it and Snyder only took what was thrown in the face like he didn't even understood the comic. It was a good movie tho, just not as deep

    • @KoolKeithProductions
      @KoolKeithProductions 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@julda8080 ok, but what important details from the comic were removed from the movie? Because l never read the comic, but when the HBO show came out that was a sequel to the comic, l still understood everything because of the movie. The only thing l had to get used to was the raining squids lol

  • @chuck6290
    @chuck6290 4 года назад +819

    "Manhattan gets falsely accused of giving people cancer and his girlfriend, Laurie, leaves him for an owl man. So Manhattan fucks off to Mars and builds a sandcastle." 10/10

  • @snark4611
    @snark4611 5 лет назад +2041

    He wasn't exaggerating when he said Alan Moore was a wizard. Man legit thinks he's a wizard. Lives in a castle too.

    • @spaceclown7650
      @spaceclown7650 5 лет назад +51

      That might have been the funniest one-liner in the whole thing. XD

    • @superdragonz1
      @superdragonz1 4 года назад +41

      I mean your interpretation of wizard is different from Moore’s.

    • @Somespideronline
      @Somespideronline 4 года назад +8

      @@superdragonz1 and what is Moore's interpretation of a wizard then?

    • @inigobantok1579
      @inigobantok1579 3 года назад +19

      Also he believes in a fricking snake God the man's a master on the comic genre but a bit of a nutcase

    • @fruitygarlic3601
      @fruitygarlic3601 3 года назад +67

      @@inigobantok1579 The snake god thing isn't the weird part. Alan Moore doesn't believe that the god he worships is real; it's well known that Glycon was a snake puppet used to con Ancient Romans into giving their money and sex to priests. Moore just says he worships an obvious hoax snake because he finds it just as likely as someone creating the universe.

  • @pershing5286
    @pershing5286 5 лет назад +3082

    Watchmen: I leave it entirely in your hands.
    HBO: Oh, Ok.

    • @matthew1882
      @matthew1882 5 лет назад +302

      HBO: .......... now bout that.
      (Proceeds to write one of the most bizarre seasons of television in recent memory, slap a Watchmen coat of paint on it and shove it out the door.)

    • @spaceclown7650
      @spaceclown7650 5 лет назад +149

      Modern reviewer : But the HBO Watchmen is so "woke" … derp derp :-)

    • @nachovichoZX
      @nachovichoZX 4 года назад +54

      Alan Moore: ... 🤮

    • @Death_Korps_Officer
      @Death_Korps_Officer 4 года назад +252

      @@spaceclown7650 It is woke, but at the same time it isn't. Just like the original comic that talked about 80's problems, the series does the same, referencing every single problem in America, in both sides without ever showing who is right and who is wrong. Everyone is an asshole at the end and all are hypocrites.

    • @zinkheroofyoutube8004
      @zinkheroofyoutube8004 4 года назад +70

      Bingo Bango I like how they have a cult of racist Rorsach’s

  • @ganiibrahim2482
    @ganiibrahim2482 2 года назад +349

    I died laughing & came back as a ghost to write this “ Doctor Manhattan was given all the powers except pants 🩲 “ that line killed me

    • @treycarter6736
      @treycarter6736 Год назад

      It was “Being an owl gets Dan’s dick hard.” for me.

    • @barelythefirst
      @barelythefirst 11 месяцев назад

      Dry joke, go back to being dead

  • @제규형
    @제규형 3 года назад +1399

    I remember having this in my middle school's library. I don't know why but Korean educators probably didn't know how bloody this series was but it was there. So I had the opportunity to read it. And what a blast it was. It's only in recent years I've come to realize that it was a really deep book.

    • @catzor4795
      @catzor4795 3 года назад +38

      If you know the tropes and clichés (specifically DC) of western comics this would be even more better.

    • @figjam9530
      @figjam9530 2 года назад +42

      my high school's library had a copy of Mein Kampf. i moved it to the section with the "choose your own adventure" books.

    • @foxfairchild2458
      @foxfairchild2458 2 года назад +3

      @@figjam9530 that IS CRAZY BRO!!! Hahaha wow I’m shocked lolz out of curiosity what country hahah

    • @theloz3r
      @theloz3r 2 года назад +1

      I live in America and this too happened. I even remembered they had a copy of Catcher in the Rye too, so I guess my school didn’t hold back at all.

    • @itzelramirez4801
      @itzelramirez4801 2 года назад

      Haha little funny life stories like this makes three internet worth visiting:”)

  • @jellyjeffrey7350
    @jellyjeffrey7350 5 лет назад +6368

    I always find it funny (and a little concerning) whenever people say that Rorschach is their favorite character in Watchmen because he's "a badass" and "a true hero," when he is very clearly depicted as an unhinged psychopath.

    • @carljosephfriedrich8919
      @carljosephfriedrich8919 5 лет назад +639

      True. But he is no more a psychopath than Ozymandias, whose evil is sadly often sugar coated and de-emphasized because he did it for such and such reasons. Or Dr. Manhattan, who - if we are to judge him by "real life" standards like we to with Rorschach - is an unstable monster, constantly degenerating into something less and less human. And no one can tell when he is so far gone, that his priorities are completely separate, or even opposite from, humans.
      A bigot who breaks the fingers of thieves and murderers is, by comparison, nothing to get riled up over.

    • @jellyjeffrey7350
      @jellyjeffrey7350 5 лет назад +719

      @@carljosephfriedrich8919 Certainly. But my point is not to say that Rorschach is more or less a bad person in comparison to Ozymandias, a man who killed 3 million people and traumatized millions more. My point is that Rorschach is not the kind of person I would deem worthy of idolizing. Yes, he has a strict moral code, which I suppose is admirable and he kicks the shit out of people, which looks cool, but calling him the "true hero" of the story rubs me the wrong way. In fact, I don't really see any characters in here who I would say should be idolized. The end of the story even tries to cast doubt on whether Ozy did "what was necessary." Ultimately, nobody really has the moral high ground in this situation.

    • @carljosephfriedrich8919
      @carljosephfriedrich8919 5 лет назад +331

      @@jellyjeffrey7350 I think your position is the right one. I agree that Rorschach can not be seen as someone to be idolized. Concerning those who call him their favorite character; I think they unwittingly ignore some of his terrible traits, while "honing in" on his vigilante traits - traits and actions which are often somewhat admired by "the common man", such as vengeance against criminals, moral certitude, willingness to sacrifice oneself, etc. I certainly recognize these as traits I can respect, although Batman is the better incarnation of them.
      I'm also suspecting that the Watchmen movie has affected some of the perception of Rorschach. Its portrayal of the character was quite a bit less of an misanthrope, with a stronger focus on his actions as "cool".
      To me, Rorschach is a more adept version of a Charles Bronson character. All his characters are basically middle-aged/old men, using extreme violence to get vengeance on a person or group which has wronged him.
      Vigilantes like these will always appeal to our desire to see evil-doers treated harsher than what they get. But of course, Rorschach is a quite twisted version of this;)

    • @burner1303
      @burner1303 5 лет назад +253

      Shows how right-wing our society is that a character like him can be seen as heroic. A literal communist can write a satire of objectivism and people will take it as praise.

    • @carljosephfriedrich8919
      @carljosephfriedrich8919 5 лет назад +227

      @@burner1303 I think someone viewing the character as heroic is separate from the political tendencies of our time. The traits in the him that are most often seen as positive, are traits which people on both sides of the spectrum may value. Arguing that it's simply a right-wing misinterpretation (lack of knowledge, etc.), paints a picture of a monolithic left and right where no opinions differ between in-group members. Such a perspective would fit Rorschach more than real life;)
      If a certain human desire for vengeance against criminals is completely absent from the left, then we have turned into a brain dead mush.
      If the right are the only ones who value focus and single minded determination, then they are correct when they call us spineless.
      If a clear moral compass, and the strength to endure pain for those morals, are not on the left - then the left will die.
      And in the end, it's completely irrelevant what political "bent" Alan Moore has. If you portray a character with traits and values, they are going to be liked or disliked by different people. For legitimate reasons.
      I dislike Ayn Rand, and I dislike the characters in her books. I think many comic book creators are naive, overly flamboyant and annoying - and yet I like the characters they create - when there's something to them.
      My appreciation of such characters can not be limited to what inner political message said creators had at the time. That would be against human nature.
      Sorry for the wall of text. Have a nice night!

  • @nothisispatrick6528
    @nothisispatrick6528 5 лет назад +3733

    He breaks peoples fingers to get information.
    “Eh”
    And eats other people’s beans
    “The mad man”

    • @russianmegabot5272
      @russianmegabot5272 5 лет назад +18

      a BEAN

    • @BasiliskArt
      @BasiliskArt 5 лет назад +20

      THEY'RE GOOD BEANS, BRONT.

    • @davisjames8484
      @davisjames8484 5 лет назад +3

      Ah don wan ett!

    • @russianmegabot5272
      @russianmegabot5272 5 лет назад +3

      @@davisjames8484 cheesemaqueen

    • @dragonslayerornstein387
      @dragonslayerornstein387 5 лет назад +21

      One time he ate a slice of my pizza, RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME, I felt powerless, he didn't even asked, I felt broken as each crum pushed my tearing up anxiety, in the end, he just wanted where the bathroom was, he tortured me to know where the bathroom was, why!? 😢🤧

  • @pink_earthworm
    @pink_earthworm 2 года назад +261

    Rorschach reminds me greatly of the character featured in ‘Taxi Driver.’ An incredible movie, that might as well be his origin story

    • @collectingfilms
      @collectingfilms Год назад

      How

    • @pink_earthworm
      @pink_earthworm Год назад +46

      @@collectingfilms he’s a man, psychologically disturbed by sex, having delusions about their mothers that have psychologically affected them and their interpretation of the world that they’ve become jaded to in similar ways. Both of them think that the world is a disgusting filthy place and would do something about it if they could

    • @jacobharrr
      @jacobharrr Год назад +16

      ⁠@@pink_earthwormtravis bickles relationship with his mother was never explored in taxi driver besides the letter he wrote to his parents.

    • @hunhhmm
      @hunhhmm 6 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@pink_earthworm so what was Rorschach's "delusion" about his mother? Was all the abuse just in his head?

  • @abdielmoreno-cruz354
    @abdielmoreno-cruz354 4 года назад +336

    I never understood Watchmen... but now that I’ve seen the story I’m just shocked on how much creativity went into these comics. It’s so abstract but beautiful, something really different from the typical superheroes/heroes

    • @vioblanket
      @vioblanket 7 месяцев назад +1

      This context and direction of the comic is very well, conflict and mature for time to come.

  • @nomedeuusuario
    @nomedeuusuario 5 лет назад +2402

    It is 2009, a watchmen movie is being made. It is 1986 I'm opening the book, 33 years have passed, HBO is making a show. It is 2003 a watchmen movie has been declared "unfilmable." It is 1987 I'm finishing the last chapter.

  • @godlypotat0237
    @godlypotat0237 4 года назад +906

    Rorschach: *breaks others fingers*
    Me: That's nice
    Rorschach: *eats another man's beans*
    Me: You monster!

  • @hubertrozalski7070
    @hubertrozalski7070 2 года назад +3296

    I just love how purely american comic books are so optimistic and colourful and european authors like Alan Moore and Garth Ennis create things like "Watchmen", "Judge Dredd" and "The Boys".

    • @sethleoric2598
      @sethleoric2598 2 года назад +310

      To be fair, they are from the British Isles.

    • @bananapeelsandwich
      @bananapeelsandwich 2 года назад +121

      @@sethleoric2598 you wot mate?
      (i'm allowed to make fun of british people i'm also british)

    • @constantk8780
      @constantk8780 2 года назад +33

      Thats a strange thing to love.

    • @thebathroom6327
      @thebathroom6327 2 года назад +132

      Didn't an American create Invincible?

    • @Mad_Intellect
      @Mad_Intellect 2 года назад +35

      Some of Frank Miller's stuff is pretty dark.

  • @PaulColclough47
    @PaulColclough47 5 лет назад +200

    Great video, but I was surprised that you didn't expand more on the Comedian. I know he wasn't a major character, but he influenced a lot of the other characters in a profound way. You already covered his relationship with Laurie, but his relationship with Rorschach and Dr. Manhattan is also worth exploring. The Comedian's take on the world being a joke was an important theme of the story.

    • @TheGoodMorty95
      @TheGoodMorty95 3 года назад +45

      He also completely fucked up Adrian's worldview, which drove him to do what he did. The Comedian is amazing and is more central to this story than you realize when you first finish the comic.

    • @ImWithTeamTrinity
      @ImWithTeamTrinity 3 года назад +4

      A puppet show.

  • @greggorymorris7543
    @greggorymorris7543 4 года назад +400

    "In the end, Adrian? Nothing ever ends."

    • @spiderjerusalem4009
      @spiderjerusalem4009 4 года назад +15

      also him in doomsday clock : everything ends

    • @kitchenaidwhiskeyjones
      @kitchenaidwhiskeyjones 4 года назад +7

      Bingo. Was a tad disappointed he left that out, but still an awesome video anyway.

    • @clickbait3753
      @clickbait3753 4 месяца назад +1

      no line has aged better than that...

  • @dabl9034
    @dabl9034 5 лет назад +862

    “And really bad at sex”
    Ah so I’m a god too

    • @aglucas
      @aglucas 5 лет назад +22

      I think the creator of this vid was projecting.

    • @GyroZeppeli95
      @GyroZeppeli95 5 лет назад +20

      Me after hearing that:
      "You know, I'm something of a god myself."

    • @jackcoltrane5532
      @jackcoltrane5532 5 лет назад

      I'm not 😭😭

    • @Faegersten
      @Faegersten 5 лет назад +6

      @darth g0ldaR Explain please.

  • @johngardner4096
    @johngardner4096 6 месяцев назад +46

    Ozymandias reminded me of the statement: "Anyone who is willing to give his own life for his cause is even more likely to give someone else's life for that cause."

    • @iyziejane
      @iyziejane 4 месяца назад +3

      That sounds wise, but think about the first responders on a day like 9/11. Or any firefighter who runs into a burning building to save someone. Maybe those aren't "causes" in the sense the quote meant, but the point is that selfless courage does exist.

    • @johngardner4096
      @johngardner4096 4 месяца назад +1

      @@iyziejane True, true.

  • @alfiesteventon674
    @alfiesteventon674 4 года назад +177

    I like how the symbolism of the bloodied smiley face is show both at the start of the comic and at its end. It makes it feel as if the sory has gone full circle. You start with murder, you end with murder and nothing ever changes no matter what you do

  • @freakinflax
    @freakinflax 5 лет назад +618

    “He’s cold and distant and really bad at sex.”😂

    • @serlancerlot315
      @serlancerlot315 5 лет назад +2

      If he prolong it and warm it up, will that help?

    • @Alsyoutubeaccount
      @Alsyoutubeaccount 4 года назад +31

      It is 15 seconds from now. I have orgasmed.

  • @jbot91
    @jbot91 4 года назад +381

    The way Alan moore uses the book too put us in dr Manhattans shoes was genius. He can turn the pages but he can't change the ink. Alan moore and Steven king are both creative geniuses

    • @annabellelin7730
      @annabellelin7730 3 года назад +4

      I've only read Pet Sematary - Got any Stephen King recommendations/favorites?

    • @Zedzilliot
      @Zedzilliot 2 года назад +2

      @@annabellelin7730 green line is awesome and the shining is a classic

    • @spaceclown7650
      @spaceclown7650 2 года назад +7

      And these days, both King and Moore are batshit crazy.

  • @ow7365
    @ow7365 Год назад +59

    not even finished the video yet but these edits on the comics and sliding from relevant panels to the next is very smooth and easy to follow love this format

  • @phenrilwolf
    @phenrilwolf 4 года назад +1538

    Another meaning is that time is cyclical.
    Everything in the comic refers to a clock.
    The word Watchmen can be related to the word watchmaker.
    Jon Osterman was a watchmaker, and the hydrogen symbol can also refer to a clock at twelve.
    The order of the panels also refers to a clock, and the comic has 12 episodes.
    The entire comic has no splash pages, except the first 6 pages in the last episode, that symbolizes the chimes of a bell at twelve o'clock.
    What happens after twelve o'clock?
    The cycle begins again.
    Kovac's sign of "the end is nigh" is at the beginning of the comic, because it's already past twelve o'clock, and it also means that Adrian's entire master plan will be in vain, and maybe another disaster will happen in the future.
    Since de first page we are reading Rorschach's notes, because everything is done and he is already dead.
    Just saying.
    Nice video.👍

    • @HoOmBrEdEaCciOoN
      @HoOmBrEdEaCciOoN 4 года назад +69

      Also, world's end occurs on November 1st (11/1, 11+1). Then, a new cycle starts over.

    • @phenrilwolf
      @phenrilwolf 4 года назад +16

      @@HoOmBrEdEaCciOoN Hey, that's a great detail!

    • @phenrilwolf
      @phenrilwolf 4 года назад +72

      @@HoOmBrEdEaCciOoN
      By the way, I forgot to mention another detail related to a watch.
      The former group were the Minutemen.

    • @marinadeboeck2003
      @marinadeboeck2003 3 года назад +7

      that's an amazing analysis

    • @elfsieben1450
      @elfsieben1450 3 года назад +27

      Same goes for the comic within the comic: All about time running out; intersecting the main narrative like a full hour bell chime. Also: Foreshadowing the violent "solution" to the doomsday clock, as doom to the town people is to be prohibited literally over a heap of dead bodies (the raft made out of corpses).

  • @robdon3472
    @robdon3472 5 лет назад +401

    "I used to think my life was a tragedy, then I learned it was a giant telepathic squid"

    • @spaceclown7650
      @spaceclown7650 5 лет назад +3

      ^ ^ ^ This is great and should be carved in stone on a monument somewhere. Not necessarily a giant telepathic squid monument. Any monument will work.

    • @abramsullivan7764
      @abramsullivan7764 3 года назад

      I used to think that my life is a tragedy but now I realize it's a freaking comedy.

    • @kaleblundberg7479
      @kaleblundberg7479 3 года назад

      Joaquin Phoenix IS SQUID!

  • @loserscorner6746
    @loserscorner6746 5 лет назад +2190

    This comic is a masterpiece of human literature

    • @EFHmusic
      @EFHmusic 4 года назад +17

      Truth

    • @ynog0978
      @ynog0978 4 года назад +56

      Should be kept in a capsule for the next 500 years to come

    • @loserscorner6746
      @loserscorner6746 4 года назад +5

      @@ynog0978 for sure

    • @thehatrat6682
      @thehatrat6682 4 года назад +13

      @@ynog0978 there won't be a "next 500 hundred years"

    • @ynog0978
      @ynog0978 4 года назад +6

      @@thehatrat6682 um...

  • @thepoleontheroad
    @thepoleontheroad Год назад +59

    What I love about Dr. Manhattan's origin story is that Moore acknowledges it's not gonna sound like anything new or groundbreaking in the comic medium, but still tells it and focuses on the hopelessness of Jon's entrapment in the machine to tell it well. Imagine you come back to a room to get your coat, but the doors close behind you. At first, you treat it as a joke, though the horrified reactions of your friends say otherwise before you yourself utterly panic when you find you're going to die now in this tiny space and there's nothing to be done about it. After a few minutes of dreading, every atom in the room disintegrates, including the ones that make you. The most hopeless situation.

  • @westonmarx1583
    @westonmarx1583 4 года назад +120

    I gotta say, this has got to be the best explanation of a comic I have ever seen

  • @LetsReadPodcast
    @LetsReadPodcast 3 года назад +239

    Great summary!

    • @jango20124
      @jango20124 11 месяцев назад +1

      What a place to find a comment from my favorite sleep podcast

  • @purplehaze2358
    @purplehaze2358 2 года назад +467

    An important thing to note about Watchmen’s approach to realism is that, contrary to what its name suggests, it’s not an accurate representation of reality. It’s an accurate representation of what reality would be like with superheroes. Yet a good chunk of the dark edgelord shit inspired by it fundamentally misses that point.

    • @1v966
      @1v966 2 года назад +39

      The Boys were good for a while precisely until they kept going in line with the "realistic dark edgelord shit". As soon as they decided to go full on Supernatural mode, we got the ending of S3

    • @albertwesker6153
      @albertwesker6153 Год назад +42

      ⁠@@1v966better then the comics where there is a rape every issue

    • @bossman0116
      @bossman0116 Год назад +36

      @@albertwesker6153 yep, its the reason why I ran away from the show, because of the comic. It's not "Superheroes as complex humans with their own goals, desires, ideals etc."
      It's just a guy who hates superheroes and decided to make them the most edgiest, pieces of crap, scum, who do the most vilest and inhuman things and just uses shock value every time.
      It was just plainly superheroes bad in the worst most and most gory way possible to the point it doesn't make sense (did vought pick all their heroes from Prisons and asylums!?!?).
      It pains me that it gets the attention it has cause it is horrible but eh.

    • @albertwesker6153
      @albertwesker6153 Год назад +16

      @@bossman0116 well one reason the show gets some much attention is because they made it a satire of superheroes and society. Another reason is because of those terrible sigma male memes, people see homelander as a sigma male even though he’s a deranged psychopath. While I do like the show I get what you mean, I think I and other people liked it was because it was different from the other superhero stuff at the moment. But yeah the watchmen is the best for a “realistic” look on superheroes.

    • @nobody.of.importance
      @nobody.of.importance Год назад +7

      What's ironic is those calling others edgelords are often themselves just as fucking cringey.

  • @YungM.D.
    @YungM.D. 5 лет назад +160

    3:13 this panel of Rorschach choosing to spare the landlady because of her kids being there is one of those little moments I wish they’d included in the adaptation. It shows Roschach, as awful as he can be, IS complex and capable of making genuinely moral and somewhat heartfelt decisions.
    Edit: more Watchmen please

    • @carolfromhr9900
      @carolfromhr9900 4 года назад +47

      I think it was because he lost his innocence as a child and the event that drove him mad was the death of a child. Children are the only people he feels empathy towards.

    • @toolatetothestory
      @toolatetothestory 4 года назад +37

      @@carolfromhr9900 Which is something that makes him pretty quickly a lot more compelling.

    • @starstudiosRPG
      @starstudiosRPG 2 года назад +3

      I thought that he came just to call her a [you know what] and expose her lie in front of her kids 💀

    • @simoneidson21
      @simoneidson21 4 месяца назад +1

      Rorschach isn’t awful, he’s broken

  • @eXJonSnow
    @eXJonSnow 5 лет назад +701

    Interesting fact: the murder of Kitty Genovese, which motivated Rorshach, was also one of the events that motivated the MacManus brothers (from The Boondock Saints) to kill criminals.

    • @52ljog
      @52ljog 5 лет назад +64

      It was also debunked (the idea that no one intervened). There weren't many people in the vicinity, and most of them either didn't hear a thing or thought it was a drunk quarrel or something like that and dismissed it. Some called the police, unsure about what they had witnessed, some called some friends and decided to call the police on their advice. When the attacker came back after grabbing something to mask his face, she had a punctured lung and apparently couldn't have been able to shout, she was also out of view from anyone. When people realized what truly happened it was too late

    • @kylemendoza8860
      @kylemendoza8860 5 лет назад +5

      @Thunder Spartan
      Are any of them really heroes?

    • @kylemendoza8860
      @kylemendoza8860 5 лет назад +6

      @Thunder Spartan
      Or was he playing a fantasy?

    • @ezion6032
      @ezion6032 5 лет назад +11

      @@kylemendoza8860 depends on your point of view. You WATCH from your viewpoint. Moore answers the question of who watches the Watchmen. We do.

    • @austincde
      @austincde 5 лет назад +1

      Lordt, revenge "porn" is the worst motivator. I saw the Kitty Genovese documentary as well! So Boondock Saints seemed a tad excessive lol

  • @renegadedjinn5325
    @renegadedjinn5325 5 лет назад +235

    "You decide what the ending means."
    Batman pulls Bloody Smiley pin from the cave wall "We're being watched."

    • @emperorbartu2414
      @emperorbartu2414 5 лет назад

      @Joe Mama you don't get it because you are small brain. ( and that rorschach isn't the real one )

    • @2d_899
      @2d_899 5 лет назад +4

      Rorshach is dead in doomsday clock, the new one is a man named Reggie.
      In issue 4 it's revealed that he is the son of the prison therapist Rorshach talked to in the original watchmen graphic novel.

    • @renegadedjinn5325
      @renegadedjinn5325 5 лет назад +3

      @@2d_899 Right you are. I remember when Doomsday Clock started and we saw a Rorshach I was thinking "That better not be Walter. They better not retcon his death." Cause you know DC and there retcons.

    • @2d_899
      @2d_899 5 лет назад

      @@renegadedjinn5325 Doomsday clock is my favorite comic series ever, (besides watchmen) . I was very happy to see how well written the series was with the new Rorshach, and also Ozsymandis getting more (screen time?).

  • @marcofonte7246
    @marcofonte7246 10 месяцев назад +15

    "Dr Manhattan has all the powers....except pants" golden

  • @cardboardfox6728
    @cardboardfox6728 5 лет назад +184

    “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings. Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!” “The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

  • @Warriorsoul101
    @Warriorsoul101 5 лет назад +2690

    “You decide what the ending means.”
    DC: No, I don’t think so.

    • @kingblue71
      @kingblue71 5 лет назад +46

      The new watchmen comic is so good

    • @belisarius6949
      @belisarius6949 5 лет назад +42

      RIP Watchmen :(

    • @noirerequiemii101
      @noirerequiemii101 5 лет назад +196

      @@PorungaSan even when Disney is not involved, the internet makes sure disney is the villain. Essentially DC started a new line called doomsday clock set after watchmen

    • @MrBazBake
      @MrBazBake 5 лет назад +133

      Doomsday Clock, aka, Geoff Johns shouts, "Look what you made me do" at a Alan Moore who rolls his eyes and says, "I was telling you not to do it, champ."

    • @Auron1Roxas2
      @Auron1Roxas2 5 лет назад +77

      Doomsday Clock is an incredible and significantly better story. Ozy's plan was never going to work, it was always a temporary false peace. Doomsday Clock just showed what was always going to happen.

  • @JakVox
    @JakVox 5 лет назад +703

    Why did the thumbnail remind me of the “Me and the Boys” meme
    Seriously though, an amazingly structured video. Well done matey.

    • @DoppSkates
      @DoppSkates 5 лет назад +14

      Lmfaooo right?! I thought that too

    • @carolfromhr9900
      @carolfromhr9900 4 года назад +26

      To be fair, Rorschach was looking for beans.

    • @akiraeatsguitarpicks491
      @akiraeatsguitarpicks491 3 года назад +9

      Me and the boys when half of New York is killed

    • @aceman0000099
      @aceman0000099 3 года назад

      Because it's an 80s superhero comic?

    • @DULE-vw9of
      @DULE-vw9of 3 года назад +2

      @@akiraeatsguitarpicks491 lmfaooooooo

  • @megamage245
    @megamage245 2 года назад +42

    Watching videos like this really make me grateful for the direction that the RUclips algorthim is seemingly taking. Video essays about comics, events, shows, and various miscellaneous topics with multi hour long runtimes make me happy to see that people's passions are being highlighted, and the results speak for themselves. This video was truly a beautiful and concise explanation of a very popular comic (and the 2019 watchmen explanation made my jaw drop to say the least). Looking forward to more of this quality content. +1 subscriber

  • @sethleoric2598
    @sethleoric2598 2 года назад +89

    1:41 i really like that detail honestly, the idea that superheroes being real boosted the popularity of other comic genres.

  • @superheroedits1315
    @superheroedits1315 5 лет назад +47

    I just finished reading the graphic novel and immediately went to watch this and wow. This is one of the best analysis videos I’ve ever seen. I would love more Watchmen content from your channel.

  • @renovasquez5589
    @renovasquez5589 5 лет назад +91

    Man I missed this quality breakdowns/analyst. Love this channel

  • @cpt33studios59
    @cpt33studios59 2 года назад +19

    Thank you so much for this content. I've wondered for years about this story, and you have made things so much more understandable. Thank you!

  • @jedisentinel4879
    @jedisentinel4879 5 лет назад +107

    Watchmen has so many messages that it is really difficult to sum it all up in a 17 minute video. But you did a great job at describing the ones that talk about morality.

    • @wareq
      @wareq 5 лет назад +2

      For real; that's the most impressive thing about the video

    • @acidbath3226
      @acidbath3226 5 лет назад

      the movie is certainly an impressive piece of propaghanda

  • @sammosaurusrex
    @sammosaurusrex 3 года назад +289

    One of the things you skipped over was how much character the Comedian is given, even, as you say, being the most evil character (although I’d argue Veidt is less human). Like one of the things that always fucked with me when I read that book is how he cries when he discovers Veidt’s plan - after all the horrible things he’s done, the war crimes he’s laughed at while committing them, Veidt’s calculated coldness breaks through to his humanity, and the dam of comedy he’s built and maintained around his emotions for decades comes crashing down. I think he even cries and says something like “that’s too fucked up, that’s not funny,” which gets exactly to the core of his callous “sense of humor” as a way to dull the pain a life of horrors inflicts on him.
    And yet he doesn’t report it, and instead waits patiently to be murdered, like all he really wants at that point is for his personal suffering to end. Fugged up.

    • @purplelibraryguy8729
      @purplelibraryguy8729 Год назад +20

      I think it's also worth pointing out that for all Veidt's intelligence, the person who realized and pointed out the problem in the first place was not Veidt, it was the Comedian, whose brutal sort-of-comedic delivery jolted Veidt out of his complacency ("you'll be the smartest man on the cinder"). His irreverent approach to the world let him cut through to the guts of issues.

    • @christiaanbruin4989
      @christiaanbruin4989 Год назад +2

      ​@@purplelibraryguy8729 in the comic he said that to Captain Metropolis, not Ozzy.

    • @purplelibraryguy8729
      @purplelibraryguy8729 Год назад +4

      @@christiaanbruin4989 No he didn't. He was talking to both of them, but Ozymandias was already going with the whole "smartest man in the world" schtick; that particular line was spoken to him. Ozymandias was left looking thoughtfully at the burned map, and I'm pretty sure it was explicitly stated that that was what got him thinking about the issue.

    • @Svevsky
      @Svevsky 4 месяца назад

      dark humor is a way to cope, and the comedian used his dark humor to ignore his iwn evil. but there was no humor in ozymandias' plan, it was just banal evil. that got to him, because he couldnt run from it through jokes.

  • @jobin140
    @jobin140 5 лет назад +202

    It was a good brief analysis, but there are deeper elements. Like, how The Comedian is essentially the blueprint for The Joker in the Killing Joke. I say this because The Comedian's nihilistic p.o.v. is very similar to Alan Moore's version of the joker. Or the significance of time. The vigilantes evolved from the Minutemen, to the Watchmen. Dr. Manhattan's father was a watchmaker, and he was on the path to following his father's footsteps until his fathered learned that time is relative. His understanding of the machinery of a clock, allowing him to rebuild his body. The whole of Dr. Manhattans existential crisis relates to his inability to control time. He's really just going through the motions, but isn't exactly a God. He's even skeptical that there is one, but the nature of his existence implies there is a god, or watchmaker. The fact that even someone like him with God-like powers, has no agency, or free will over his life shows that he and the other characters exist within a clockwork universe. Rorschach's mask does represent morality, but I feel like duality is an even better way to describe it, as duality is a major theme of the comics. Arguably the most depressing character is called the Comedian. There's a lot more, like Hollis Mason's story about his father's boss, one of his funniest memories also being one of his saddest but I'll stop here. I feel like the best way to describe the comic is that it is a character study of different heroes trying to cope with their own existential crisis. Each one's relationship with God, or their lack of a belief in God, greatly shaping who they are.

    • @bravobear1844
      @bravobear1844 5 лет назад +2

      P W, some of his points kinda didn’t feel right with me, I read the book only once and I got different vibes. I’m gonna read it again and see where I leave off 👍

    • @johnnydkota5709
      @johnnydkota5709 5 лет назад +11

      Art is subjective. I appreciated his take on it myself

    • @mankytoes
      @mankytoes 5 лет назад +11

      Reading Dr Manhatten's background chapter in particular blows me away every time. I can't believe how clever, but understandable, but fun, but philosophical, it all is. It's one of the best things I've ever read. Totally stacks up against great novels.
      If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

    • @jobin140
      @jobin140 5 лет назад +10

      @@johnnydkota5709 It definitely is, and I'm not hating on the video. Just saying its such a great comic that there are layers that go even deeper. When you put your heart into something like Alan Moore clearly has, you definitely have themese in mind, and youre trying to figure how best to convey those themes. So i half agree with what you said. A big part of it is subjective, and the other is the writer's intention. Some of what i said I feel confident saying that was what he intended. Still gave your post a thumbs up though, so to be clear this isn't intended to be an attack on you comment :)

    • @jobin140
      @jobin140 5 лет назад +2

      @@bravobear1844 if you wanna get back into the comics, besides reading them, I suggest you also check out the motion comics on youtube. It's done really well, and covers more than the film did, as it's set up like the comics meaning each video is like reading one watchmen comic. You miss out on a lot of the text, like hollis mason's book intro, the black freighter, some stuff of night owl, Ozzymandius's p.o.v. on choice and his intelligence, but all in all a fun way to revisit the story. The voice acting is meh, but doesnt take away from it IMO and animation is actually really impressive.

  • @sug3228
    @sug3228 Год назад +12

    “So comics about pirates are popular instead”
    THE ONE PIECE IS REAL

  • @ComboSmooth
    @ComboSmooth 4 года назад +54

    Someone once suggested to me that the reason Dr Manhattan gave into Lori wasn't because she convinced him of miracles, it was because of his feelings for her. Suggesting the Manhattan wasn't as separate from human emotions as he thought.

    • @aimforlifenow
      @aimforlifenow 2 года назад +3

      Even he couldn't resist the temptation of fantasy.

  • @richardv.7826
    @richardv.7826 5 лет назад +298

    Me: not so interested in watchmen.
    Alt Shift X: uploads.
    Me: Watchmen is the BEST!

    • @gussi123
      @gussi123 5 лет назад +4

      THIS!!!

    • @Guguie22
      @Guguie22 5 лет назад +1

      You should See the movie before the series start if not, try to read the comic

    • @AR-io8fv
      @AR-io8fv 5 лет назад

      G is the movie pretty good? And in line with alt x’s explanation of the comic?

    • @Guguie22
      @Guguie22 5 лет назад

      A R yes it is, Is really long and if You see the version which included the Freighter comic is longer 😂

    • @kostajovanovic3711
      @kostajovanovic3711 5 лет назад +4

      @@AR-io8fv stick to the comic

  • @aldhizak
    @aldhizak 5 лет назад +756

    Manhattan be like: "I don't want to live on this planet anymore..."

    • @SkywalkerSamadhi
      @SkywalkerSamadhi 5 лет назад +25

      Same here Doc
      Same here. If I was Manhattan I would be everywhere but here. Andromeda.. Jupiter.. float through Saturn's Rings.. explore whatever the hell the Great Attractor is..

    • @amandapanda7416
      @amandapanda7416 5 лет назад +4

      Good one, my dude. Relevant meme

    • @jmfredricks
      @jmfredricks 5 лет назад +22

      "Aight, Imma head out"

    • @themaharishi8160
      @themaharishi8160 5 лет назад +4

      Anyone with a brain can relate to that.

    • @trescohen8232
      @trescohen8232 5 лет назад +17

      Ozymandius: "im gonna drop a psychic squid on manhattan that will kill millions."
      Dr Manhattan: "ight, ima head out."

  • @florious80
    @florious80 12 дней назад

    I’ve read the graphic novels, watched the movie, watched part of the show (didn’t finish it), and this video BY FAR was the best video about watchmen I’ve ever seen. This material is so concise, yet perfectly to the point, that it made the material/source so much more meaningful. I went from a “not bad story” to “holy this material is amazing”. Changed my whole perception of the story. Absolutely bravo and thank you for putting this together.👏👏

  • @freekodakblack6473
    @freekodakblack6473 5 лет назад +315

    You think you can ignore me for months and I’ll come crawling back to you?

    • @DAS_k1ishEe
      @DAS_k1ishEe 5 лет назад +66

      Sry, what did you say? I was licking his feet.

    • @o.Struggler
      @o.Struggler 5 лет назад +6

      I Mean if You do You won't Have to do His Laundry Anymore..

    • @ziros22
      @ziros22 5 лет назад +4

      Send me that funny forward again, Dwight!

    • @edgardomartin8299
      @edgardomartin8299 5 лет назад

      You are Goddamn right.

  • @MrTaLover
    @MrTaLover 5 лет назад +293

    Please do one for Alan Moore “V for vendetta”

  • @claytonandres1194
    @claytonandres1194 5 лет назад +492

    Alt-Shift-X: Watchmen, Dune, LOTR, or His Dark Materials?
    Me: yes

    • @edgardomartin8299
      @edgardomartin8299 5 лет назад +1

      Looking at the noose: we will have to postpone for a couple of months.

    • @OscarOliverah
      @OscarOliverah 5 лет назад +2

      *In Gary Oldman scream in Leon: The Profesional=> "... EVERYONE!"

    • @DzinkyDzink
      @DzinkyDzink 5 лет назад +1

      Who needs them if they are not narrated by Alt Shift X?

    • @lyrimetacurl0
      @lyrimetacurl0 5 лет назад

      We've moved on to The Boys now though. Unless something better comes along.

    • @viksaggu9085
      @viksaggu9085 5 лет назад

      DC was dark before it was cool 😎

  • @nzpork1
    @nzpork1 Год назад +7

    What a great explanation. I can finally appreciate and understand this story. Thank you.

  • @zbynekurbanek3345
    @zbynekurbanek3345 5 лет назад +1648

    Ozymandias is practically the original Thanos.

    • @herbertscott9575
      @herbertscott9575 5 лет назад +88

      Thanos is the original Thanos

    • @theblackflame4002
      @theblackflame4002 5 лет назад +24

      I always hated that character especially seeing he had no powers but somehow was faster than a bullet and take on Rorshach and owl easily at the same time. I wonder if Moore made him the worst character on purpose to add to the fact he was behind everything

    • @JosecCuervo
      @JosecCuervo 5 лет назад +79

      @Herbett, Darkseid is the original Thanos

    • @SpaceGhostFan
      @SpaceGhostFan 5 лет назад +17

      Mikey Estee
      The concept and philosophy for the film Thanos was done with Ozymandias first.

    • @fulldisclosureiamamonster2786
      @fulldisclosureiamamonster2786 5 лет назад +8

      @@theblackflame4002 He had a bionic arm after "catching a bullet" the first time remember.

  • @TheBronzeSage
    @TheBronzeSage 5 лет назад +51

    Props to the script writer of this master piece. Beautifully done.

  • @WizardOfCause
    @WizardOfCause 5 лет назад +25

    You brilliant bastard. I'm so glad you're still going after thrones. This was great

  • @kittydeadzombiegirl
    @kittydeadzombiegirl Месяц назад +2

    1:02 "Except for Dr. Manhattan, who has like, all the powers... except pants," is the most beautiful quote I've heard about him XD

  • @NeonLeonNoel
    @NeonLeonNoel 5 лет назад +586

    The blood on the smiley face also looks like the hand on a watch as if it’s the doomsday clock.

    • @paulboyd691
      @paulboyd691 5 лет назад +38

      I ventured this far down in the comments looking for someone to say just this... because the omission of that detail is the one thing that really bothered me about this synopsis. Maybe because it was too obvious?

    • @bdelaney101
      @bdelaney101 5 лет назад +8

      Didn't see it before. Can't be unseen now. Awesome!

    • @reddeadmetalhead83subscrib30
      @reddeadmetalhead83subscrib30 5 лет назад +19

      Yes,Manhattan's father was a watch maker.the whole dang story is about watches/time/past/present/future.

    • @jamesschick5408
      @jamesschick5408 5 лет назад +2

      I will leave this comment at 360 likes to represent 360 degrees like a watch

    • @ara1156
      @ara1156 5 лет назад +3

      Paul Boyd It also kinda bothered me he didn’t mention Rorschach’s mask, where he got the material from (Kitty Genovese dropped it off at the cleaners, made from an experimental Veidt material) or that it is constantly changing, but symmetrical like a Rorschach blot

  • @savagewraith
    @savagewraith 5 лет назад +552

    Watchmen?
    More like I'll-watch-whatever-you-post-man. Glad you're posting.

    • @planyrescape
      @planyrescape 5 лет назад +4

      Serious. His breakdowns are through and thoughtfu without being condescending.

    • @MeanMrMustard1
      @MeanMrMustard1 5 лет назад +1

      What if he told you to hide in some bushes naked and watch men?

  • @mrpurple11
    @mrpurple11 5 лет назад +47

    As someone who hasn't read the comics this was clear and very well done. Thanks

    • @LukeWayne1939
      @LukeWayne1939 5 лет назад +6

      Read it, man. My favorite graphic novel of all time

    • @akbar_khalid
      @akbar_khalid 5 лет назад +1

      Same. I've not read the comics so this was a pretty good intro before watching the show.

    • @hazri8758
      @hazri8758 5 лет назад +4

      I only watched the movie adaptation. Didn't know that it was a giant psychic squid that destroys NY, not a nuclear bomb.

  • @kevinsd99
    @kevinsd99 Год назад +13

    Excellent video & concise argument. I've been teaching Watchmen in a college critical thinking class for almost 15 years. Each time, I find some other lovely Easter Egg or new perspective that changes or shifts one or more of the arguments about the characters. Your video is an excellent entry into deconstructing these characters and how we tend to think about superheroes.
    Also, the comments here are possibly the best and most carefully considered I've seen on the internet in ages!

  • @Higginz1991
    @Higginz1991 5 лет назад +119

    Roughs up a sick, old man - "meh...."
    Eats all of everyone's beans - "You fiend!"

    • @jbot91
      @jbot91 5 лет назад +13

      He doesn't even heat them up, the bastard.

    • @DragonTigerBoss
      @DragonTigerBoss 5 лет назад +1

      @@jbot91 Fine like this.

  • @paperandpavement
    @paperandpavement 5 лет назад +53

    My uncle gave me Watchmen years ago and it was the first comic book I ever. Hes passed now but it's one of the best gifts I've ever received. I was seriously blown away at the ending. Amazing book

    • @edgardomartin8299
      @edgardomartin8299 5 лет назад

      Better that than your uncle giving you repressed memories and not being able to sit down for a week.

    • @kalmah456
      @kalmah456 5 лет назад

      Are you okay?

    • @edgardomartin8299
      @edgardomartin8299 5 лет назад

      @@kalmah456 now that the stitches healed, yeah. Nah, just fucking with you.

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen 5 лет назад

      nice.

  • @AQGOAT24
    @AQGOAT24 5 лет назад +511

    This is what Alan Moore said about people that unironically like Rorschach:
    "I wanted to kind of make this like, ‘Yeah, this is what Batman would be in the real world.’ But I had forgotten that actually to a lot of comic fans that smelling, not having a girlfriend-these are actually kind of heroic. So actually, sort of, Rorschach became the most popular character in Watchmen. I meant him to be a bad example, but I have people come up to me in the street saying, ‘I am Rorschach! That is my story!’ And I’ll be thinking, ‘Yeah, great, can you just keep away from me and never come anywhere near me again for as long as I live?’”

    • @supermonkey321
      @supermonkey321 5 лет назад +98

      Rorschach is one of my favorite characters in all of comics, but I don't actually identify with him aside from his complete devotion to the truth, "even in the face of armageddon." While he does have some badass totally Punisher-esque moments that I do enjoy, I mostly like him because he's a very interesting character, much more complex than most superheroes are written.

    • @matt6223
      @matt6223 5 лет назад +37

      Alan Moore sounds like an asshole. Rorschach is a great character, the world would be better if more people had Rorschach's morality.

    • @jesusstaccato8448
      @jesusstaccato8448 5 лет назад +88

      @@matt6223 Alan Moore is definitely an asshole, just as much as he is a brilliant writer. He's smug beyond compare and has previously picked fights with other authors over all sorts of tedious shit, including accusing Grant Morrison of ripping him off when Grant's story in question actually came out before his own.
      Of-course Rorschach is the most likeable character in the comic, he's the only one who still does the principled work of a hero: he intervenes in crimes and saves innocent people. When Nite Owl prevents a mugging later he does it for cheap sexual thrills, but Rorschach is doing it because it's the right thing to do. That basic morality is missing from the rest of the cast. He's a victim of abuse and neglect, he's lonely, he's isolated... and Alan Moore thinks we're NOT going to identify with him? Plus, the fucking guy gets all the best scenes. The fight in the prison canteen, the interviews with the psychologist, the Kitty Genevese back story... all the best monologues gets assigned to him. Of-course he's the best part of the story. It's hysterical that Alan Moore doesn't understand that.

    • @08mlascelles
      @08mlascelles 5 лет назад +113

      Matt it categorically would not be better. If people shared his morality, you would have lynchings in the streets for minor, petty crimes. Or punishments for open sexuality, with people being branded as degenerates. Maybe you want to live in such a world, but personally, I believe in fair trials, freedom of expression and the fact that morality has many grey areas, very few things are truly black and white.

    • @matt6223
      @matt6223 5 лет назад +20

      @@08mlascelles Everyone Rorschach kills is guilty and he never killed anyone for petty crimes. Modern sexuality is getting out of hand.

  • @ericlondon2663
    @ericlondon2663 2 года назад +328

    Loved the ending.
    Imagined after his journal was published the entire human race finally annihilated itself.
    Finally, peace.

    • @tomman2257
      @tomman2257 6 месяцев назад

      R u ok?

    • @ericlondon2663
      @ericlondon2663 6 месяцев назад

      @@tomman2257 I am excellent.
      You ok?

    • @frank8917
      @frank8917 6 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@ericlondon2663 nah bro, you nuts

    • @Rexer083
      @Rexer083 5 месяцев назад

      That did happen in the Watchmen x DC crossover

  • @royaltunez19
    @royaltunez19 5 лет назад +6

    This is one of the best videos I’ve ever seen on this platform. The editing the narrative the visuals. 10/10

  • @jameshenry2457
    @jameshenry2457 5 лет назад +75

    " I'm not in here with you...your in here with ME !!".

  • @g0d5m15t4k3
    @g0d5m15t4k3 4 года назад +16

    This was a good overview of the plotline and characters in the graphic novel. It touches lightly on interpretation of the work and focuses mostly on what literally happens in the novel. Thanks!

  • @napalmbhoji
    @napalmbhoji 9 месяцев назад +1

    This video is so good.
    Your videos have such a high quality and depth, amazing work man.

  • @FilthyVA
    @FilthyVA 5 лет назад +166

    Watchmen TL;DR version: I wanna read a comic but I also wanna feel sad.

  • @barellevy6030
    @barellevy6030 5 лет назад +27

    Alt-X upload?! What an unexpected and great surprise!

    • @Fruzhin5483
      @Fruzhin5483 5 лет назад +2

      You can say "a suprise to be sure but a welcomed one"

    • @barellevy6030
      @barellevy6030 5 лет назад

      @@Fruzhin5483 this is a place of culture, we do not quote those movies :-p

    • @Fruzhin5483
      @Fruzhin5483 5 лет назад +1

      @@barellevy6030 Imma keep it real with you chief - No

  • @JosephMelia
    @JosephMelia 4 года назад +21

    Amazing breakdown of the book....I found new things here even though I must have read Watchmen 5 times...truly....such a clear understanding of the book's themes....and so well explained..Subbed.

  • @biedronkagirl
    @biedronkagirl Год назад +86

    it’s very silly but as a Polish-american i love Laurie because she’s the first portrayal of a Polish woman as badass and pretty and proud of her heritage (i.e. not anglicizing her name)

    • @Viridian02
      @Viridian02 Год назад +6

      uhhh... they did at one point call her ms. jupiter instead of juspeczyk lol

    • @biedronkagirl
      @biedronkagirl Год назад +1

      @@Viridian02 yeah I know about that, that was one of my least favorite aspects of the movie

    • @Viridian02
      @Viridian02 Год назад

      @@biedronkagirl lol fair enough

    • @biedronkagirl
      @biedronkagirl Год назад +3

      @@ghoul5371 if my memory serves me correctly, Laurie’s mom directly denied being Polish but Laurie doesn’t, in direct response to her mother

    • @clickbait3753
      @clickbait3753 4 месяца назад

      ​@biedronkagirl her going by Jupiter is part of the storyline though, it's not portrayed as a good thing. Sally did it to purposely hide her Polish heritage in order to further her own career, and Sally is shown to be a fairly selfish character. So her throwing away her heritage for potential personal gain is in character for her.

  • @gustavogu6974
    @gustavogu6974 3 года назад +13

    Genius analysis, carefully structure, clear and relevant information. Best video about Watchman for me so far.

  • @chrismne92
    @chrismne92 5 лет назад +558

    Last time I was so early, Game of Thrones was still a great series.

    • @Fragst3rDota
      @Fragst3rDota 5 лет назад +34

      its still hurts thinking of it...

    • @Hevvvyyy
      @Hevvvyyy 5 лет назад +8

      Shots fired, but at least the Lord of the rings still exist

    • @r3d0c
      @r3d0c 5 лет назад +5

      beating the autistic circlejerking horse dead

    • @slayerchick303
      @slayerchick303 5 лет назад +6

      Read the books. They at least still have potential.

    • @Aurora07
      @Aurora07 5 лет назад +2

      I watched Chernobyl straight after so at least I didnt feel like I wasted my NOWTV subscription.

  • @higginswalsan
    @higginswalsan 4 года назад +9

    Great explanation of Watchmen. You do a really good job of taking that raw emotion and thinking that comes from reading it and turn it into a clear and specific breakdown of the comic. Loved it!

  • @timstalam
    @timstalam 10 месяцев назад +1

    always in awe at how well this channel explains big concepts

  • @Automotivated97
    @Automotivated97 5 лет назад +71

    This was a fantastic summary of one of the most influential comics of all time, great vid. I am a little confused as to why you didn't delve more into the thematics of time and the recurring motifs of clocks and clockwork within the comic, such as Manhattan's upbringing and the watch that costs him his humanity

    • @adamseidel9780
      @adamseidel9780 5 лет назад +6

      Automotivated_97 to be fair, Watchmen is such a great piece of literature that entire projects could be devoted to analyzing little elements of it like the clocks, the songs, each character, etc. But this was a pretty great overview, made me want to re read it again.

    • @jobin140
      @jobin140 5 лет назад +5

      @@adamseidel9780 Yea it was a good brief analysis, but there are deeper elements. Like, how The Comedian is essentially the blueprint for The Joker in the Killing Joke. I say this because The Comedian's nihilistic p.o.v. is very similar to Alan Moore's version of the joker. Or the significance of time. The vigilantes evolved from the Minutemen, to the Watchmen. Dr. Manhattan's father was a watchmaker, and he was on the path to following his father's footsteps until his fathered learned that time is relative. His understanding of the machinery of a clock, allowing him to rebuild his body. The whole of Dr. Manhattans existential crisis relates to his inability to control time. He's really just going through the motions, but isn't exactly a God. He's even skeptical that there is one, but the nature of his existence implies there is a god, or watchmaker. The fact that even someone like him with God-like powers, has no agency, or free will over his life shows that he and the other characters exist within a clockwork universe. Rorschach's mask does represent morality, but I feel like duality is an even better way to describe it, as duality is a major theme of the comics. Arguably the most depressing character is called the Comedian. There's a lot more examples, like Hollis Mason's story about his father's boss, one of his funniest memories also being one of his saddest but I'll stop here. I feel like the best way to describe the comic is that it is a character study of different heroes trying to cope with their own existential crisis. Each one's relationship with God, or their lack of a belief in God, greatly shaping who they are.

    • @MelficeN7
      @MelficeN7 5 лет назад

      @@jobin140
      I don't think "God" is that big of a topic in the book as you think it is. Certainly not a main one. Also, I don't know how Manhattans existence proves there is a God.

    • @jobin140
      @jobin140 5 лет назад +5

      @@MelficeN7Wow you missed a lot. God is a huge theme as it ties into morality. The comedian is a nihilist, that is a fact. A nihilist believes in nothing, as in no god. He doesnt believe in good or evil, other than them being social constructs. Thats the sick joke he's referring to. All the people putting up fronts, including them, that they are a good moral people, but when it comes down to it evey one is self interested, and their morals fall into the grey not black and white. The joke is how serious everyone takes their life, when as a nihilist, he believes our lives mean nothing. Ozzymandias clearly has a god complex. He literally takes it upon himself to kill millions in order to save the world. Whether he is right or wrong, which can be debated as his story is parallel to the black freighter, it'd take a major narcissist to take an action as bold as that. Look how easy it is for Rorshach to play judge, jury, and executioner. Like he's moral hand of god. The whole of Dr. Manhattan's dilema is that he is considered to be a god, they even reference him being a god in the comics so idk how that part doesnt add up for you, but he doubts this himself as he is aware of his own strings. Btw I never explicitly said there was a god... I said the comic is essentially each characters relationship with the idea of god, or lack of one. Dr. Manhattans existence proves that even he has strings, as in there may very well be a puppet master, or clock maker. Look up clock work universe to underdtand what I mean. You could argue that since he is in a comic, it proves he's in a clockwork universe. He doesn't change the future he can see because he cannot. Its been determined for him as he can see his timeline. He can clearly see that some one or something else created it. So doesn't have to mean god, but there is a creator, and tbh this is an argument you wouldnt win as it leads into semantics, and how god is defined very subjecttively, and it's a lost cause trying to define it becuase the idea of a god, by it's nature, would exist beyond anything we understand. So it'd be foolish to think we could label such a thing so easily.

  • @sergeantpete6295
    @sergeantpete6295 5 лет назад +434

    “None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.”

    • @MalXcontent
      @MalXcontent 5 лет назад +11

      Sergeant Pete my favourite part of the story.😂😂

    • @london_james
      @london_james 5 лет назад +2

      Yes!

    • @sergeantpete6295
      @sergeantpete6295 5 лет назад +8

      I read the Watchmen back when they released it as a graphic novel. Rorschach was always my favorite character. In small part because I used to be the sort who would get into fights on weekends, so the violence aspect didn't phase me. But mainly, I think, because of the black/white "justice" part of his character. Trust me, I don't think things should be BLACK or WHITE. You have to have some shades of grey. But even back then more and more of our justice system, and society in general was becoming more and more monotone grey. People getting off for horrific crimes on technicalities etc. It has only deteriorated since then. The themes of this story have not gone away. They are still swirling around through society, just mixed with a lot more technology.

    • @ArawnOfAnnwn
      @ArawnOfAnnwn 5 лет назад +42

      @@sergeantpete6295 Borrowing from another persons' comment above - "This is what Alan Moore said about people that unironically like Rorschach:
      "I wanted to kind of make this like, ‘Yeah, this is what Batman would be in the real world.’ But I had forgotten that actually to a lot of comic fans that smelling, not having a girlfriend-these are actually kind of heroic. So actually, sort of, Rorschach became the most popular character in Watchmen. I meant him to be a bad example, but I have people come up to me in the street saying, ‘I am Rorschach! That is my story!’ And I’ll be thinking, ‘Yeah, great, can you just keep away from me and never come anywhere near me again for as long as I live?’”

    • @sergeantpete6295
      @sergeantpete6295 5 лет назад +12

      @@ArawnOfAnnwn Well, saying that he is my favorite character in the story doesn't mean I stopped bathing, left my wife, and wander around breaking people's fingers for information. There is a big difference between getting in some fights in my teens and early twenties, and finding criminals and killing them. I am not Rorschach, nor am I anything like him. That doesn't mean I can't believe our justice system should be a little more focused on punishing criminals instead of making excuses for them, giving them a slap on the wrist and telling them not to be a bad boy anymore. To be clear, I'm not talking about sending a teenager with a couple of bags of pot to prison. But I do hear about convicted rapists and murderers, people who committed violent robberies etc., who are out on the streets a few years later doing the same or worse all the time. Anyway, I wasn't putting Rorschach on a pedestal. The themes he represents just resonate with me more strongly than the other characters.

  • @carlkligerman1981
    @carlkligerman1981 3 года назад +44

    Brilliant analysis of a complex masterpiece. A meta fiction before these things became de riguer. Well done mate!

  • @DarkGott15
    @DarkGott15 2 года назад +28

    Excelent video, very informative and well edited.

  • @fortheloveofgodlaugh2981
    @fortheloveofgodlaugh2981 3 года назад +8

    The visual editing was absolutely amazing

  • @dannyleader7837
    @dannyleader7837 3 года назад +22

    I also think there’s a strong parallel that when the marooned sailor got home, he’d lost all hope and assumed the pirates had already destroyed his home. Ozymandius created this plan for years because he believed that humanity was destined to destroy itself. In his mind he saved the world, but he only saved it from a fate he only ASSUMED would happen. They both killed innocents because they were afraid, for the sailor it was the black freighter and for Ozymandias it was Holocaust.

  • @KTChamberlain
    @KTChamberlain 5 лет назад +225

    Watchmen: the Citizen Kane of graphic novels, broken snow globes and all.

    • @christopherbell4543
      @christopherbell4543 5 лет назад +3

      KTChamberlain I agree, Alan doesn't shy away from cherry picking ideas from previously established works, although I believe he does so out of respect for the material and a desire to share it with a wider audience while adding his own unique take to it.

    • @arthuroliveirasouza4714
      @arthuroliveirasouza4714 5 лет назад

      Watchmen is excelent,but for me Sandman is the greatest graphic novel ever created.It´s a much big bigger universe,characters and it´s most difficult to adapt than Watchmen.

    • @ericm1839
      @ericm1839 5 лет назад +2

      @@christopherbell4543 >literally names main villian Ozymandias
      "Doesnt mind cherrypicking ideas from previously established works" is the understatement of the century. the real beauty is how he weaves the ideas of each into a gritty world where the extremes of various philosophies war against eachother.

    • @KTChamberlain
      @KTChamberlain 5 лет назад

      @@arthuroliveirasouza4714 True, although I should note that there have been movies before and since Citizen Kane that have achieved those goals too in terms of movies, so the same would also apply to graphic novels.

    • @wilekrowan3610
      @wilekrowan3610 5 лет назад +1

      I'd like the Alt Shift X treatment for classic films, like Citizen Kane.

  • @Ash-xx5zd
    @Ash-xx5zd Год назад +1

    One of the only videos on Watchmen that totally makes sense. Thank you.