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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
 
Who's Watching the Watchmen?
 
Hello People. Man, it's been kinda long since I last blogged. That was on Monday. I haven't been on the com cause well, my erm..mother took it away. I think cause I have using it for too long. But what the hell am I supposed to do man. If there was something in the house that is much more interesting to do than using the computer, I swear I would much rather do it than sit in front of this fucking screen for such a long time. Also, I huge thanks to the people that came today. I hoped you enjoyed the food. Please feel free to voice out any opinions on how I can improve it, no matter how bad it may sound. Maybe I can improve it, cause I think the food still ain't that good. And it won't be curry rice the next time, maybe some Japanese noodles. Cause like since the first time y'all come, it's always been curry rice. If you don't find it boring, I kinda do. So, next time, noodles..no more fucking rice! If you weren't invited, it ain't cause I hate you or anything. It is because there was already too many people coming. My original plan was to only have 5-6 people coming, but it was increased to 7. Today, I had 9 people coming over. There almost wasn't enough rice, cause my rice cooker ain't big enough, it can only cook 5 cups of rice. LOLS! I know, it's like that cause it's old as fuck. And there also almost wasn't enough curry to go around. In the end, I didn't have a chance to eat. But it's cool, as long as y'all enjoy, it's alright. So you see, I'll have to cook at least 2 pots of curry next time and get a bigger rice cooker, so that more people can come and they can at least have second helping. I think people like Shane didn't have enough to eat. And I feel pretty sad QC couldn't make it today. I miss my assistant chef.. OK, now moving to my main topic: the new up-and-coming superhero movie: WATCHMEN!! If, like me you're really hyped up and haven't read the comic book, (Yes! Watchmen is actually based on a comic book. Please say you knew that?)and still want to watch it, here is a really quick but detailed run through of the characters. ![]() Now, the HEROES!!!  Concept: The Comedian got his start back in the early days of costumed heroics in a costume patterned after clowns, but Blake was always one of the more violent heroes, in an obvious and no doubt intended contradiction. The Comedian's costume evolved to be more armored, with shoulder pads adorned with U.S. flag imagery, with a "smiley face" button on his chest to keep the "Comedian" motiff. Not himself being super-powered, The Comedian enjoyed using dangerous weapons like big honking guns, grenade launchers and flame throwers.History: Back in the Minutemen days, The Comedian was the team's youngest member, and also the one that caused the most friction within the group, leading to a violent confrontation with another hero named Hooded Justice. Over time, Blake turned out to be the hero most eager to work directly for the U.S. government as a soldier and assassin around the world, most notably in Vietnam (along with Dr. Manhattan). In the 1970s, The Comedian teamed up with Nite Owl to help control civilian anti-hero protests, but clearly The Comedian enjoyed "controlling" the mobs a bit too much. Blake's violent death by defenestration at the beginning of Watchmen is the event that kicks off the rest of the story.  Concept: Vigilantes are rare in the real world, but when we do hear about them, they are often associated with psychological conditions. Such is the case with Rorschach, whose mask is based upon the inkblots of the same name, and who himself has a severely disturbing psychological background. The son of a prostitute, Kovacs took on the identity of Rorschach as a way to mete out his own type of dark justice on the world, which frequently included mutilation and murder. Rorschach's key piece of equipment is a grappling hook gun, but he also shows a MacGyver-like knack for improvising household items into weapons. Rorschach is most famous as the narrator for much of Watchmen and his dark view of the world, which includes rants about all the forces he perceives as being responsible for the world's ills. These rants display a strong sense in moral absolutism and moral objectivism, as well as very anti-communist, anti-liberal views.History: Rorschach got his start trying to be a "good" costumed adventurer, but an encounter in 1975 with a murderer who fed a young girl to his dogs flipped Rorschach from being a man who wore a mask to being a mask who was also a man, and just as violent as any criminals. Early in his crimefighting career, Rorschach teamed up with Nite Owl (who supplied him with his grappling hook gun). When the Keene Act outlawed costumed vigilantes, Nite Owl retired, but Rorschach never did. A wanted man, Rorschach frequently finds himself simultaneously fighting both the police and the criminals he's after.  Concept: Lacking the conviction of someone like Rorschach, Nite Owl is the ultimate example of someone who seemed perfectly targeted by the Keene Act which made costumed adventuring illegal. Drawing inspiration from the first Nite Owl (a member of the older Minutemen team) and his own interest in owls, Dan Dreiberg was arguably an engineering genius who invented his own air ship, the Owlship, and lots of gadgets and specialized costumes with which to fight crime.History: Coming into the costumed hero scene at around the same as Rorschach (the early 1960s), Nite Owl (II) was driven into early retirement by the Keene Act. Keeping the Owlship and all his gadgets in a dusty garage, Dan spent the next 10 years getting chubby, spending a lot of time with the original Nite Owl (who retired years earlier) and secretly obsessing nostalgically about his good old days as a superhero.  Concept: Laurie Juspeczyk was pushed by her mother, the original Silk Spectre, into the hero business at an early age. Like most of the heroes in the world of Watchmen, Laurie has no actual superpowers. But she is very agile and athletic and she's very big on kicking bad guys in the face.History: Taking over her mother's hero moniker as a teenager, Laurie quickly fell in love with Dr. Manhattan, and when most other heroes were forced into retirement, she moved in with Dr. Manhattan, living in his quarters on a government military base. Manhattan's growing disillusionment with the human race, however, causes friction in their relationship, and as Watchmen starts, Laurie finds herself attracted to another costumed adventurer.  Concept: In a world of superheroes who face down evil without superpowers, Dr. Manhattan is an exception. As a scientist at a government facility in the early 1950s, Dr. Jonathan Osterman's body is destroyed in an experiment. By the sheer force of his own will, Osterman is able to put his body back together, atom by atom, and demonstrates an amazing ability to understand and control matter and energy at even the smallest levels. With blue skin and a wide array of abilities that include teleportation, disintegration and an awareness of himself across time, the mere existence of Dr. Manhattan dramatically changes the course of 20th century history, including thousands of inventions (such as the blimp-like airships that replace jets as the main means of aerial transportation) that are created as a result of Manhattan's abilities and knowledge.History: With his amazing abilities, Dr. Manhattan is an obvious candidate to become not just a hero, but the world's only true super hero. However, his alignment with the U.S. government soon leads him to also becoming a pawn in America's military engagements (especially Vietnam), which Manhattan agrees to in no small part because of the detachment he now feels to the human race in general; after all, he is a sort of walking god. Dr. Manhattan has two romantic interests in his life, but both ultimately go badly, since he is so distanced from the emotions of normal human beings.  Concept: In comics, if a super hero doesn't have any actual super powers, some explanation has to be given for how they're able to go out and beat up criminals without being beaten up themselves, or even being killed outright. Usually, the writers just say that the character has learned to maximize what their body is able to achieve through training, and Ozymandias is an extreme example of that idea. Taking inspiration from Alexander the Great, Adrian Veidt taught himself how to use both his brain and body to their full potential, which includes his claim that he can catch bullets with his bare hands. Being so super smart, Ozymandias has also bio-engineered his own unique pet, the strange big cat called Bubastis.History: Not much is actually known of Ozymandias' early career as a costumed adventurer, except that he was responsible for taking down Moloch the Mystic, and was among those who were recruited to join a group of adventurers. When the Keene Act outlawed costumed vigilanties, Adrian Veidt was quite content to retire and focus on his corporate empire. Veidt Industries is a large, hi-tech corporation with varied divisions, not the least of which is one that creats action figures based on Veidt's former exploits as well as the likenesses of the other heroes. Man, Watchmen is gonna be so frigging awesome. Catch it in theaters 6th March 2009!!! Ciao..  | 
         
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