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Posted on February 16, 2009 11:38 PM about Miscellaneous | |

Seriously. Why do people like this story?

This year we will get the big budget Hollywood treatment of the Watchmen as well as a video game. Before I had heard about the movie, I had heard about the comic. People kept raving about it so last year I bought the graphic novel.

I read half of it before putting it down, as in a horse with a broken leg down.

As far as I can tell it’s a very slow paced Orwellian story about how miserable people are. Well I already knew that and its not much fun to be reminded, slowly. When I read a comic I want a little fantasy, a little fun, and even a little “I wish I could be…” None of which was in the Watchmen.

Maybe it is unfair to criticize a book you didn’t actually finish. Maybe the ending is smashing. But I also think it says something if you don’t like a story enough to actually finish it.

As I have noted before, our entertainment is becoming increasingly bleak. (Just watch the 4th Season of Battlestar Galactica for recent example.) The Watchmen, although it is from the 1980’s, fits in perfectly with that bleak tone. I wonder if it will sell.

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