i agree that it's unhealthy! (i might nurse strange FEELINGS for smelly super-repressed vigilante gingers. that doesn't mean i support their politics!)
watchmen is good even if you hate superheros - because most of them aren't super, and none of them are heros.
He's currently (I can hear frantic typing and I have been shouting abuse at over heard phone calls through the day) trying to kick one of the most tory NUS branches in the country into action on Weds and seems to be succeeding, that counts yes?
He's not allowed to wear the cape out in case he gets sucked into an engine - given he's an engine noise specialist this could actually happen.
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Date: 2010-12-03 10:08 pm (UTC)watchmen is good even if you hate superheros - because most of them aren't super, and none of them are heros.
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Date: 2010-12-03 10:14 pm (UTC)The human fallibility of the "superheros" is the essential point of Watchmen, which is what makes it essential reading.
Should we point the Hoor towards the Ballad Of Halo Jones? Now she IS a role model.
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Date: 2010-12-03 10:18 pm (UTC)uncertain! i sort of liked it when i was 15, but never finished it - and i think i heard it was left unfinished?
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Date: 2010-12-03 10:23 pm (UTC)It was left unfinished; we all are.
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Date: 2010-12-04 09:46 pm (UTC)He's not allowed to wear the cape out in case he gets sucked into an engine - given he's an engine noise specialist this could actually happen.