NOT the point.
The wild girl Anko did lie, just not the way I assumed she was lying. It is true that neither of these names are from superheros. They are in fact villains. Fine. I am not a moral exemplar, just in case any of you have fucking failed to notice this.
The naked part was also completely beside the point. Dr. Manhattan no longer saw the point of anything, including clothes. While I support the continued wearing of clothes 100%, I understand what it is to feel that nothing matters anymore. I may not have been torn apart by a nuclear accident, but I still understand.
I am displeased that my collaborator didn't inform me about the naked part, but he said- and I agree- that it's not important. It's a symbol of apathy and disconnection. In the story Dr. Manhattan is someone that Ozymandias attempts to use as a pawn, but can't quite control. My collaborator thinks it's funny to think of what he does as an evil supervillain's plot to , as he puts it- 'blow up the world'. He then sees my part in this as a both a pawn and a person who cannot be controlled because they are so beyond normality. I'm not insulted by this. I think it's quite appropriate. I know how incapable I am of being normal.
That said, yes I think Dr. Manhattan should have worn clothes in public. He did so when required to by his employers. I also think that someone is going to paint a warning sign on my door in red paint someday. I can't seem to avoid hurting other people. Others are not comfortable with me because of how the incident affected me. I also can imagine taking a girl to Mars, trying to impress her- and forgetting that she has to breathe.
So I'm all right with it. This sort of name and pretensions of 'evil' or diabolical personas strikes me as part of show business, rock music in particular. The lights and equipment that he and I would use in a concert performance would render us both masked anyway. No one can see our expressions on stage, we're lost in the lightshow. I did not get into the devil music, as the classical music critics put it, so I could remain entirely myself. Rock music has always allowed me to lose myself. So I have accepted my collaborator's stage name.
The naked part was also completely beside the point. Dr. Manhattan no longer saw the point of anything, including clothes. While I support the continued wearing of clothes 100%, I understand what it is to feel that nothing matters anymore. I may not have been torn apart by a nuclear accident, but I still understand.
I am displeased that my collaborator didn't inform me about the naked part, but he said- and I agree- that it's not important. It's a symbol of apathy and disconnection. In the story Dr. Manhattan is someone that Ozymandias attempts to use as a pawn, but can't quite control. My collaborator thinks it's funny to think of what he does as an evil supervillain's plot to , as he puts it- 'blow up the world'. He then sees my part in this as a both a pawn and a person who cannot be controlled because they are so beyond normality. I'm not insulted by this. I think it's quite appropriate. I know how incapable I am of being normal.
That said, yes I think Dr. Manhattan should have worn clothes in public. He did so when required to by his employers. I also think that someone is going to paint a warning sign on my door in red paint someday. I can't seem to avoid hurting other people. Others are not comfortable with me because of how the incident affected me. I also can imagine taking a girl to Mars, trying to impress her- and forgetting that she has to breathe.
So I'm all right with it. This sort of name and pretensions of 'evil' or diabolical personas strikes me as part of show business, rock music in particular. The lights and equipment that he and I would use in a concert performance would render us both masked anyway. No one can see our expressions on stage, we're lost in the lightshow. I did not get into the devil music, as the classical music critics put it, so I could remain entirely myself. Rock music has always allowed me to lose myself. So I have accepted my collaborator's stage name.