That was one of my problems with the ending, too. Another thing I can't quite take as a given is that the two "smartest" characters agree that despite the cost being high, Adrian's plan "worked." I don't think it worked at all. In my mind, the post-disaster hippie commune cannot possibly last more than a generation, and even that is pushing it. Probably just a year or two until some other squabble arises or, like you said, everybody remembers that Manhattan was American, and then stuff is worse than it ever was, right? And what about smaller autonomous nations who didn't get blortched and have the same agendas they did before?
Manhattan sort of alludes to it with "nothing ever ends" but iirc that was stated in a different context. For all of his claims that he can't change human nature it's strange to me that he accepts this as a working, at least kind of, solution. I guess after the fact, ones options are limited - but still, it boggles me that anybody with half a brain thought this was ever a good idea in the first place. If they're just trying to delay the apocalypse by a decade or two, it's never presented that way. (Granted, Rorschach knows that that's just human nature, but surely it can't JUST be him in a crowd of geniuses, some of whom can see through time?)
I might have also missed a bunch of details and maybe it'd make more sense on a second viewing. I just expected a little more than the tired 'super smart villain has a completely nonsensical plan that we are supposed to believe is logical (super-evilness aside) because the characters act like it is' thing.
1am, can't talk good. I did enjoy the movie, in total.
Manhattan sort of alludes to it with "nothing ever ends" but iirc that was stated in a different context. For all of his claims that he can't change human nature it's strange to me that he accepts this as a working, at least kind of, solution. I guess after the fact, ones options are limited - but still, it boggles me that anybody with half a brain thought this was ever a good idea in the first place. If they're just trying to delay the apocalypse by a decade or two, it's never presented that way. (Granted, Rorschach knows that that's just human nature, but surely it can't JUST be him in a crowd of geniuses, some of whom can see through time?)
I might have also missed a bunch of details and maybe it'd make more sense on a second viewing. I just expected a little more than the tired 'super smart villain has a completely nonsensical plan that we are supposed to believe is logical (super-evilness aside) because the characters act like it is' thing.
1am, can't talk good. I did enjoy the movie, in total.
Also, your icon made me lol.
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Also, what was his accent supposed to be? (It bugged me throughout the film.)
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