Some of the gronaier lines were clumsy inserts to explain something -- like Rorschach's ramble about what happened to the first Minutemen. See, that I didn't mind so much. It would be single lines that dropped like stones: there was an exchange between Nite Owl and Silk Spectre I remember, roughly Spectre asking why the Comedian was called as such as he wasn't funny and then Nite Owl said something along the lines of "this was his final joke", which even coming as a comic fan and knowing the gist of the portent of the lines it STILL had me rolling my eyes.
And I certainly got the deal behind Nite Owl, but the way it'd been meant by Moore would only be picked up by people who'd read the comics. The scene in the alley where Dan and Laurie smiled/smirked at one another before royally busting ass really ruined the character for me. Turned him from vaguely sympathetic to somewhat of a shallow dick.
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Date: 2009-03-10 03:30 am (UTC)See, that I didn't mind so much. It would be single lines that dropped like stones: there was an exchange between Nite Owl and Silk Spectre I remember, roughly Spectre asking why the Comedian was called as such as he wasn't funny and then Nite Owl said something along the lines of "this was his final joke", which even coming as a comic fan and knowing the gist of the portent of the lines it STILL had me rolling my eyes.
And I certainly got the deal behind Nite Owl, but the way it'd been meant by Moore would only be picked up by people who'd read the comics. The scene in the alley where Dan and Laurie smiled/smirked at one another before royally busting ass really ruined the character for me. Turned him from vaguely sympathetic to somewhat of a shallow dick.