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Surgoshan:
I just realized something. In volume five, when (click to show/hide)Veidt calls in the tip to the cops that Rorschach will be at Jacobi's, the cop that answers the phone has trouble understanding him and says, "Raw shark?" a few times. It's in that volume that sharks attack the mariner's raft in The Black Freighter and he kills one, though not until the next that the mariner actually eat's the dead shark's raw flesh.
In other words; Rorschach isn't someone to be admired, he's barely human. He's a killing machine, devoid of emotion, reason, or sentiment. His actions are driven by a hunger, and his death is as pointless as the shark... and it serves only to feed Veidt's mad plan.
TheViscount:
--- Quote from: Surgoshan on 22 Feb 2009, 17:08 ---I just realized something. In volume five, when (click to show/hide)Veidt calls in the tip to the cops that Rorschach will be at Jacobi's, the cop that answers the phone has trouble understanding him and says, "Raw shark?" a few times. It's in that volume that sharks attack the mariner's raft in The Black Freighter and he kills one, though not until the next that the mariner actually eat's the dead shark's raw flesh.
In other words; Rorschach isn't someone to be admired, he's barely human. He's a killing machine, devoid of emotion, reason, or sentiment. His actions are driven by a hunger, and his death is as pointless as the shark... and it serves only to feed Veidt's mad plan.
--- End quote ---
I didn't see the Black Freighter as that kind of tool for the comic, I always saw it as a foreshadower, or a parallel. He was eating Raw shark. Rorschach is caught.
Surgoshan:
It's Alan Moore, dude. He's the epitome of pretentious bastard. You can't overthink it.
TheViscount:
I didn't though... To be completely honest, when I read the Black Freighter boxes, I was just kind of half-paying attention and trying to get to the next strip. After my second time reading it, I kind of saw the parallel and what seemed like foreshadowing. Now on the other hand, comparing Rorschach's mentality to that of a shark's is kind of overthinking it.
Rez:
I had a class yesterday about Malory's Morte D'Arthur and as I decided to re-read the Watchmen instead of preparing for the discussion I ended up comparing Merlin to Dr Manhattan (the whole world being populated by supposed "heroes", yet only one character is capable of breaking the "rules" of that world). Managed to escape intact, and the professor didn't shoot me down, which was nice. Thanks, Alan Moore!
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