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CGA_ Soupdragon here.


Now back to the topic...

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According to his Wikipedia entry, J.D. Morgan had his sights set on professional basketball for a long time... until an injury derailed that career.

Hurm.

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This is truly a madhouse. And I'm the lunatic running it. I've spent three years wondering if I should be proud or ashamed.

As long as he's better at acting than michael jordan!!

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You never saw Space Jam!

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

oh yes i did
*sobs*
i did see it
even billy west's voice work couldn't save it
(hiya t3cii!)

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LOL. Interesting interpretation. Personally, I'm just asking that he has more acting talent than Shaq (yes, I saw Kazaam. No, don't make me recount the experience).

I was thinking more about the physical aspect. How tall is J.D. Morgan, I wonder? Does he still have the ability to train like a professional athlete?

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This is truly a madhouse. And I'm the lunatic running it. I've spent three years wondering if I should be proud or ashamed.

Since we're discussing their favorite subject and not Watchmen, our resident members of the The Jeff Oestrogen Brigade should be along annnnnnnnnny time now with the definitive answers to those very questions...

The Jeff Oestrogen Brigade??

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Usually I try to take it one day at a time, but lately several have attacked me at once...

heh okay i think i'm picking up some of the forum politics...
okay, so i take it you're notable as one of few girls on the forum??
and your famed for knowing everything??!
nice reply btw
oh and rachel weisz is awesome...
phwoar!

yeah i bet snyder's seen all these unreleased films before casting...
e.g. the lookout (released now of course, was it released in the US after casting?)
for Goode.

heh i just realised that some puns are ready to be made with these surnames!
Moore, Goode, er,....Snide-r

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Usually I try to take it one day at a time, but lately several have attacked me at once...

i see. so, considering a girl who's read watchmen is rare, what do you think on the female representation in the book?
For example, what about Laurie who despises the Comedian who is going to be played by Jeff Dean Morgan!

Hazaa! I kept it on topic!

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In the most tenuous way possible. *sigh* Fine, I'll allow it. But I'll try to get even further back on topic.

I think that J.D. Morgan will have to work very hard to get the Comedian/Laurie relationship right. He needs to show some subconscious emotional bond with Malin Akerman, but without losing the Comedian's brash and womanizing edge. Remember, this is the same character that knowingly and unflinchingly gunned down a woman he impregnated.

These are two radically different actions, and J.D. Morgan will have to portray both of them convincingly, weaving them both into the same character. A pretty tall order.

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This is truly a madhouse. And I'm the lunatic running it. I've spent three years wondering if I should be proud or ashamed.

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Usually I try to take it one day at a time, but lately several have attacked me at once...

the J.O.B. strikes again! nice answer!

RE: the Comedian...I agree he's not just a "cock-bag" (!)
I think Moore wants him to know a lot of what's going on better than anyone else...
no-one here has identified with the comedian that much on their first reading, right?
Nevertheless our own knowledge of history tells us that the Comedian saw the US's future, right? There's the infamous plan-burning incident and in 'Nam didn't he say that America would've really struggled if it weren't for the Dr?
I think Moore's trying to undermine stereotype....he's trying to say that just cos the Comedian is far from "the good guy" doesn't make him wrong, as those in who go see this in the cinema might think, but that doesn't make him "better" than any of the others (a mistake i make too often!)
As for redemption, perhaps the Comedian stays in NYC - weakened - because he is ready to die and refuses, even now, to change his viewpoint.
Y'know my two main heroes of the 20th Century are 1) Alan Moore (his ex-wife and he shared a girlfriend for experiments, just thought you'd like to know!) 2) Malcolm X (see avatar)
Recently I've been reading a lot on the latter (for history coursework, but i'm really enjoying it) and again and again it strikes me that he shares aspects of personality with the Comedian.
I'll finish this post with one little titbit and maybe post some more later.

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My mention of Blake's 'imminent end' wasn't an allusion to his literal demise. In the context in which it was intended, it would have mattered not if Blake had fled The Big Apple; it was the end to his purpose and not his life I was referencing.


Pretty. But to expect others to buy into this explanation presupposes a universal belief in the concept of Christian forgiveness and mercy... furthermore, that when they created those panels you reference in evidence, that Moore and Gibbons actually believed themselves. Really...how likely is that? What's more likely, taking into account the tone of the remainder of Watchmen along with so many other examples spanning Moore's creative and essay writing career, his interviews and public speaking engagements, is that this was a typically deliberate satirical attack on the whole illusory hypocrisy that is so-called Christian forgiveness. A few drunken moments of reflection and pity don't exonerate a lifetime of callousness, regardless of the lighting conditions and the presence of nick-nacks depicting an historically ambiguous figure lashed to two lengths of wood in the room. Neither do flowery words spoken aloud from a book of devisive dogma created down the ages by mere men with an agenda to exert influence and control over others, recited over a hole in the ground. Live a cock-bag, die a cock-bag, be remembered and reviled as a cock-bag by the victims you leave behind in your wake, and become so much worm food. Fuck you and goodnight Eddie, sweet prince. Amen.

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Usually I try to take it one day at a time, but lately several have attacked me at once...

Well, it all really very much comes down to exactly what it is you want to comment upon, doesn't it?

...which, very very few exceptions aside, has conspicuously been the sum total of your contribution to this forum to date. I'd dearly love to read your opinions and analysis on this fascinating twenty-one year old piece of work over and above the subject of just a single actor who has been chosen to play but one role in the movie but, on the basis of the evidence thus far presented, I am forced to assume that WATCHMEN fandom isn't really what you're about here. For wanting to so honorably defend your sex's track record in an undoubtedly male orientated (but by no means appropriately so) field, your efforts as an ambassador of sorts are sadly somewhat disappointing. On the subject of user names, it all really went kinda downhill on the expectation front with yours...

Simply my own opinion, you understand. You'll enjoy your continued time at this single thread without further response from me for some considerable time to come, I'm sure.

Clint, the internet is an anarchic utopia! Let Bev do as she likes...
her posts do not revolve around you...

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I don't think the question is whether or not Morgan will be able to develop the right kind of chemistry between Laurie and the Comedian, but how that relationship looks on screen. Will the Comedian be much more subdued when he sees his daughter, or will there just be a subtle change? Will Morgan play it as if the Comedian knows who Laurie really is, or will he be just as oblivious as she is? The relationship between the two is based on subtext, and I can't wait to see how that subtext is translated in the film.

(And for the record, I'm a girl, and I don't think my view on Watchmen is any different from the next male fan.)

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