Thank you - especially for reading through when you haven't read Watchmen. I haven't seen the film, but the comic is excellent, if very very much of its time - Thatcherite Britain - and thus grimdark to a well-nigh ridiculous degree.
And I'm really relieved you think I managed to pull off their conversation about the war - I was worried it would come across as exploitative or what have you. But, well, the whole of Watchmen is pretty much a meditation on atomic power and mutually assured destruction, at least to some degree, so I think it's justified.
And it seems to me that immediately after the close of the war, lots of people really wouldn't have had the emotional energy to dwell on its cost, least of all its cost to the enemy. Though I was really astounded to find that the New Yorker devoted an entire August issue to charting the lives of six individual survivors of Hiroshima. That there is journalism doing its job.
And Sally and the Silhouette I can't imagine ever got along, though they might have understood each other quite well. I'm sure the Silhouette was the first to guess that Sally was dead set on making a respectable marriage, for instance.
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Date: 2010-10-15 01:06 am (UTC)Thank you - especially for reading through when you haven't read Watchmen. I haven't seen the film, but the comic is excellent, if very very much of its time - Thatcherite Britain - and thus grimdark to a well-nigh ridiculous degree.
And I'm really relieved you think I managed to pull off their conversation about the war - I was worried it would come across as exploitative or what have you. But, well, the whole of Watchmen is pretty much a meditation on atomic power and mutually assured destruction, at least to some degree, so I think it's justified.
And it seems to me that immediately after the close of the war, lots of people really wouldn't have had the emotional energy to dwell on its cost, least of all its cost to the enemy. Though I was really astounded to find that the New Yorker devoted an entire August issue to charting the lives of six individual survivors of Hiroshima. That there is journalism doing its job.
And Sally and the Silhouette I can't imagine ever got along, though they might have understood each other quite well. I'm sure the Silhouette was the first to guess that Sally was dead set on making a respectable marriage, for instance.