1. To resume: easy to mock Cruz for choosing Rorschach as a hero but he understands character better than Alan Moorehttps://twitter.com/AndreuAitch/status/625425436063989760 …
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1. To resume: easy to mock Cruz for choosing Rorschach as a hero but he understands character better than Alan Moorehttps://twitter.com/AndreuAitch/status/625425436063989760 …
Jeet Heer added,
2. The critique of Cruz runs like this: Rorschach was a satire on right-wing vigilante superheroes and ha ha Cruz likes him.
3. Thing is this critique depends upon assuming that Alan Moore's authorial intent is definitive in how we read the book.
4. Moore in interviews has said he meant Rorschach to be satire on Ditko-style right wing vigilante.
5. Moore also said in interviews he was surprised at readers who didn't get the satire, who loved Rorschach as bad-ass superhero like Batman
6. RT @dylanhorrocks Moore was horrified when he realised how popular Rorschach was among comics fans
7. But huge popularity of Rorschach (he is most beloved character in book) perhaps suggests book has meaning different than Moore intented
8. "Watchmen" is work that has divided intents. Parts of book are satire or deconstruction of superhero genre, but others pure genre
9. One of the things that makes Moore's work interesting is that he creates pastiches that aren't so much knock-offs as pure distillations.
10. There are a couple of reasons why the audience comes to identity with Rorschach so closely.
11. Moore is really good at finding core emotions of genre tropes: Rorschach is perfect distillation of bullied/abused kid turned avenger
12. But beyond that we identify with Rorschach because he's the puzzle solver who unravels grand conspiracy behind the book.
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