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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 940564" data-attributes="member: 149">I have a friend who actually maintains that the only way to really get the full impact of the Watchmen WAS to read it one issue at a time over the course of the year. There are a number of subtle things in the series that wouldn't be quite the same if you got it all in one whack. The Blood oozing down the back cover. The parallels between Ozymandias and the pirate story.The clock advancing towards midnight.The slow movement towards war.The background characters interactions as things ground towards the climax where most of them are killed by the creature Ozymandias created.There are a lot of subtle undercurrents, parallels and plot threadsgoing on in Watchment. It really does reward rereading and careful analysis. Alan Moore almost never does a book in which everything that is going on is obvious or where there are meaningless background details. Almost everything he has going on has some meaning, implication or parallel to something else going. Give it another read and go through it slowly this time. It is well worth it.PS. I really can't see Watchmen getting adapted into a movie or TV series worth a damm. Short of someone who has the clout of Steven Spielberg+Tom Cruise, with a rabid determination to do the source material justice.</blockquote>