4 Stars
The games humans play and the inevitable shades of gray.
This was very good, conflicted, and did a lovely job of whipsawing the reader back and forth between positions. Some obvious and some far more subtle.
Good intentions. Does the end justify the means?
The parallel symbolism between the Watchmen and the Black Freighter comic was sublime. The paths chosen by each of the characters, the consequences, the terrible choices, the good ones, and in the end I have to say either I go the way of Doctor Manhattan or Rorschach.
Because an imposed end is never an end, merely a hiccup to be replayed. Jon is correct in his words to Ozymandias.
I think I shall read some Shelley, now: Ozymandias :
Btw. there's some lovely parallels between V for Vendetta and Watchmen.
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