stacy1201 wrote:I recently read a group discussion that featured Damon L. It was about the Watchmen graphic novel (hyping for the movie I guess). Damon talked about what a huge influence Watchman was to him. His writing style (non linear storylines) is directly from Watchman. He also talked about Dr. Manhattan. Dr. Manhattan starts out as a regular joe, has an accident that makes him super human. He can see time, look forward and backwards, etc... Eventually Dr. M starts losing his humanity because of his power. He becomes incredibly detached from everything. His one tie to humanity was his girlfriend, and when she leaves he gives up and teleports to mars...
I'm wondering that too, Hostile....Is that what happened to Rousseau's crew???? Is that what happened to people like Cindy that the others kidnapped from the 815ers???????
Point is, if you knew the meaning of life. If you knew everything and anything, you knew how microscopic human existence is in the grand picture of everything, wouldn't you start to become detached to humanity? Perhaps what happens is, somehow the island inducts Ben into otherhood, he is healed, and is given tremoundous knowledge of life itself. Dr. Manhattan at one point says "the worlds smartest man means as much to me as the worlds smartest termite."
At that point, is it really significant to purge Dharma and kill those people? They're a termite in the grand scheme of life. All the "evil" Ben does isn't evil from a certain perspective. It's meaningless if you're somehow transfused with knowledge of everything (Everything is a metaphor for what I think Ben learns as he is inducted).
my 2 cents...
