# Just saw Watchmen - questions for fans of the Graphic Novel **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 15, 2009, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-watchmen-questions-for-fans-of-the-graphic-novel/503164 "2009-07-15T23:08:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-watchmen-questions-for-fans-of-the-graphic-novel/503164/101 "2009-07-21T20:54:34Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > Yeah, Laurie is not very sympathetic. One of Moore’s failings; he managed to make everyone else more or less sympathetic, but not Laurie. You know, I’m not convinced he meant her to be sympathetic. Sometimes authors don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-watchmen-questions-for-fans-of-the-graphic-novel/503164/102 "2009-07-21T21:46:17Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I originally skipped over the Black Freighter bits. I rather wish I hadn’t, because they are in fact an echo of and precursor to the events of the primary plot, and you miss a lot of commentary on Ozymadias if you don’t read the comic-within-a-comic. IIRC, _Tales of the Black Freighter_ will be a separate animated feature on the DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-watchmen-questions-for-fans-of-the-graphic-novel/503164/103 "2009-07-21T22:30:59Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > IIRC, _Tales of the Black Freighter_ will be a separate animated feature on the DVD. This will still hardly do it justice, given how perfectly synchronized its narrative was with the newsdealer’s holding forth about the state of the world in general. (And other things going on around GWAR-girl as she read the comic.) The bulk of its significance and relevance to the main narrative will be lost when you take it out of its context. Ah well, what can you do about that? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-watchmen-questions-for-fans-of-the-graphic-novel/503164/104 "2009-07-22T01:59:41Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > (And other things going on around GWAR-girl as she read the comic.) She wasn’t - the black kid named Bernard was. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-watchmen-questions-for-fans-of-the-graphic-novel/503164/105 "2009-07-22T02:15:03Z")
Just wanted to say I asked my mom what she would do if a giant squid showed up and devastated NYC, would she unite withe rest of world against it… she said she’d probably root for the squid. I love that woman :D. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-watchmen-questions-for-fans-of-the-graphic-novel/503164/106 "2009-07-22T02:20:30Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > This will still hardly do it justice, given how perfectly synchronized its narrative was with the newsdealer’s holding forth about the state of the world in general. (And other things going on around GWAR-girl as she read the comic.) > > The bulk of its significance and relevance to the main narrative will be lost when you take it out of its context. > > Ah well, what can you do about that? As I recall, it was just as often the case that someone uttered some unnatural line of dialogue just to force a parallel with the pirate story. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-watchmen-questions-for-fans-of-the-graphic-novel/503164.md?page=5)