I just finished the chapter where we learn Rorschach's history; I'm not sure which I find more heartbreaking, his or Dr. Manhattan's. Certainly Rorschach led a much more brutal existence, but his exposure to the awful things people do to each other at an early age taught him deal with it by withdrawing and not letting it affect him. (I particularly liked what he did to the girl's kidnapper - nice bit of poetic justice there). Doc Manhattan, on the other hand, was an accident that left him completely bewildered; I think in the end, he suffers more simply because he's never learned to deal with people and events - and now, being no longer human and existing in all these times at once, his chances of learning to deal with it all and still have an identity of his own are pretty much nil.
Also, I think I owe Alan Moore for the phrase "Tijuana Bible" - what an interesting bit of American counterculture. =)
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Date: 2006-07-14 06:37 pm (UTC)I just finished the chapter where we learn Rorschach's history; I'm not sure which I find more heartbreaking, his or Dr. Manhattan's. Certainly Rorschach led a much more brutal existence, but his exposure to the awful things people do to each other at an early age taught him deal with it by withdrawing and not letting it affect him. (I particularly liked what he did to the girl's kidnapper - nice bit of poetic justice there). Doc Manhattan, on the other hand, was an accident that left him completely bewildered; I think in the end, he suffers more simply because he's never learned to deal with people and events - and now, being no longer human and existing in all these times at once, his chances of learning to deal with it all and still have an identity of his own are pretty much nil.
Also, I think I owe Alan Moore for the phrase "Tijuana Bible" - what an interesting bit of American counterculture. =)