>of character development to get you used to the character, he
>is a major part of the movie The squid was one page in the
>comic.>>>

As long as you don't count the mystery surrounding the island, the disappearing artists and psychics. The alien reveal was the culmination of all that.

>
>It was less about the nukes, and more about stopping humanity
>from destroying itself, it's an end of the world story.
>Sacrificing 50 mil or so to save 7 Bil is worth it in Ozzy
>math
>

Humans were going to destroy each other through the use of nukes. It's the whole part where even if a nuke goes off in NY, there's radioactive fallout that's going to get the rest of the country. If dude can find a way to set off nukes and have no radioactive fall out, then fine. Otherwise...

>The idea is that they needed to unite against a foreign third
>party, Manhattan fits the bill perfectly imho because 1)He
>basically is alien and 2)Something so weird will be easily
>feared.
>

I'm not actually against them using Manhattan as a scapegoat. I do fully believe that even if a US agent goes rogue, then the US would still get blamed. "You should have put down that mad dog when you had a chance!" And, while they did show that he was powerful, they also outlined that he was still able to be killed. I think Ozymandias would foresee that.


>Im in the audience, ive watched these fucked up characters
>deal with their fucked up issues, their powers explained and
>quickly forgotten because watchmen has very little to do with
>'super powers' as far as themes are concerned...
>>>>

Manhattan's power was a big theme. Which would actually help the argument for putting it on him.

>Then suddenly I get my 'Oh Shit!' moment of they took it
>there...
>
>Then there's a CGI squid rumbling around in Manhattan a la a
>Godzilla for ten seconds...before they go back to discussing
>the fate of mankind and the original theme of the movie, lol.
>

Worked for the comic.

Like I've said, I'm not truly against Dr. Manhattan being blames for this. I just find the idea that the using the alien would be too much is laughable.

We bitch and moan about how the studios think we're stupid, then parrot the same excuses whenever something remotely non-reality based happens in a scifi/superhero movie. They won.

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