Billy Crudup as Doctor Manhattan - from the film So what is this all about? One central concern is action versus inaction. Faced with a world approaching the brink of nuclear annihilation, is it better to act or not act? If one is to act, how far can one go to save the earth? Acting in the service of larger causes has implications. Is murder in the service of country ok? If it is ok in war, how about in preventing war?
The Comedian Is Moore a fan of the right-wing or a critic? My take is the latter. On the surface we hear Rorschach droning on about the moral depravity of the city a la Travis Bickel, while practicing his own form of depravity on any who get in his way.
The right-wing, rabble-rousing newspaper in the book certainly has plenty of parallels in our world. I do not think he was flattering in his view of them. Moore was writing in response, I believe, to Thatcherism, when creatures like Maggie and Reagan were seen as heroes by their fans, to the detriment of most of us.
I read that Moore set Watchmen in an alternate reality so as not to turn off Reaganistas. Who is watching the leaders? And who is watching the watchers? Nite Owl - from the book and as portrayed by Patrick Wilson in the film If these are the heroes we get, who needs heroes? Unlike the dominantly rose-tinted superheroes of the past, the Watchmen heroes are far past flawed. What actually do these characters value?
Doc Manhattan struggles even with the notion of valuing the continuation of the human race. The Comedian thinks that life is a big, bloody joke, G. Gordon Liddy with a special outfit, and Rorschach sees filth everywhere. Unlike most superhero tales, this one lacks a super-villain. So the heroes have to deal with less simplistic challenges.
It takes more to be a superhero than merely the ability to beat up the baddie. They have to use their brains, figure things out, struggle with very difficult moral choices. One annoyance here was that I felt the females in the story tend to serve as plot devices for the development of the male characters rather than as fully realized characters in their own right.
Silk Spectre - pen and ink, and Carly Gugino in the film Watchmen is part Batman, part noir detective story, part cold war crisis of nerves. It represented a sea change in the presentation of graphic heroes, from a more innocent time in which good was good and bad was bad, for the most part, to one in which the distinctions are much less clear.
Watchmen resonates on many levels and remains, on re-reading, a powerful tale. Review re-posted October in anticipation of the upcoming HBO re-boot - This will not be a re-make of the film, but uses the graphic novel as a starting point, branching far from the original material.
Should be interesting. View all 23 comments. Jul 23, Nicole Prestin rated it did not like it Shelves: graphic-novels. I realize that what I'm about to say is as close as you can get to comic book blasphemy, but I think that 1 Alan Moore is the most overrated comic book writer ever and 2 this graphic novel is overblown, pretentious and most unforgivable of all, boring. To be fair, I'm somewhat of a snob when it comes to my reading habits. First and foremost, I want to be entertained.
If the story happens to be deep, thought provoking or groundbreaking as well, that's icing on the cake. And the bottom line is th I realize that what I'm about to say is as close as you can get to comic book blasphemy, but I think that 1 Alan Moore is the most overrated comic book writer ever and 2 this graphic novel is overblown, pretentious and most unforgivable of all, boring.
And the bottom line is that this book simply did not entertain me. It was too busy trying to be Deep and Meaningful and Teach Us A Lesson to actually do anything as lowbrow as make compelling characters the reader can identify with and have them do interesting and entertaining things. While I love characters who are sucky human beings in small doses, stories where damn near everyone sucks like this one get on my nerves.
I don't like reading stories filled with a bunch of irredeemable emo asshats who do shitty things to each other and to humanity in general , and where the the themes of the story are pounded into your face with the delicacy of a sledgehammer. So clearly not my cup of tea, but I'm obviously in the minority on this one.
View all 56 comments. Aug 11, Schmacko rated it it was ok. I can understand why this is considered a holy tome in the field of graphic novels. Imagination abounds, and I am thoroughly impressed. I get frustrated because my graphic-novel friends keep foisting these things on me. They love me, they see me as very imaginative and very supportive of their creativity, but they cannot seem to get why I go cold at graphic novels.
This one was thrust upon me, because I was affected by the movie The Dark Knight. I got emotionally engaged. I felt hopeless with Batman. I got a knot in my stomach when that horrible, unspeakable thing happened two-thirds of the way through the film. I want more — I want to laugh and cry and cheer and feel despair. I want a core of true human story. Gadgets and colors and costumes and superpowers don't make me weep or shout or ponder or giggle or sigh. Well, they make me sigh - with frustrationa nd boredom.
I know I sound angry at these things. And yet, my graphic-novel friends still press these books in my hand, hoping to unlock my wonder and amazement. I am not above the magical, mystical, and fantastic I love Harry Potter , but there has to be more than just gadgetry and explosions. There has to be honesty and the courage to plumb the human experience. In Harry Potter, I rallied behind Mrs. Weasley's maternal drive. I loved Harry's indignance at cruelty.
I thought Hermione's concern for elves was sweet, and complicated who know they wanted to be slaves. Chabon succeeded at making me feel, and so did Rowling. Watchmen did not. Watchmen is about two generations of heroes. One was human — using costumes, strength, and cunning. The next was led bys a superhuman, Dr.
Manhattan — they were both human and somewhat superhuman. Then a law was passed making their work illegal, and they went underground. Oh - for the people who know and love Watchmen - I felt bad for how Dr. And I understood why Laurie got infuriated. The thrill of Laurie and Dan becoming superheroes again was honest and wonderful.
None of the long-winded, theoretical discussion about whether humanity was worth saving had any emotional pull to me. In all pages, I had four honest emotional reactions. They leave me cold.
Graphic novels are mostly cool. View all 54 comments. Jul 30, Fabian rated it really liked it Recommends it for: People turned off by graphic novels but with an open mind. Not a fan of the graphic novel but this epic actually moved me.
It tells of the human drama, the DNA that is passed down generations, the hopelessness of modernity, and which side we'll choose when the apocalypse is neigh. Can the past be altogether discarded so that one can live a "normal" life--whether its Superhero or Human?
This menagerie of misfits Nite Owl, Dr. Manhattan, the Comedian, Ozymindas, Silk Spectre Also, the match-cuts are cinematic in a work that is, ironically, dubbed "unfilmable. Let us hope the film comes close to matching its genius. View all 6 comments. Feb 07, Felicia rated it it was amazing Shelves: faves , graphic-novels.
Hmm, what to say. So anyhoo I read this and I can summarize this way: The Movie did a great summary of the plot while formulating a story that missed the subtext of the graphic novel entirely. I enjoyed both, but after reading the graphic novel, it's almost sad how the impression you tak Hmm, what to say.
I enjoyed both, but after reading the graphic novel, it's almost sad how the impression you take away from the movie is nothing of what Alan Moore was trying to say about the world, society or these characters. So interesting. View all 12 comments. Dec 17, Always Pouting rated it it was amazing.
So I've been super busy trying to figure out my life now that I've graduated and it's terrible and I've literally read nothing in weeks but I actually ended up taking a day to read this because someone lent it to me.
My boyfriend was saying that it was ridiculous that I hadn't read this yet and insisted I finish and even though now I'm like behind on this online class that I've been taking it was totally worth it.
Usually I write like some kind of synopsis but not sure how to go about that here. I would rather just say how I felt and babble about how good this ended up being so instead of like trying to summarize I'm just going to go through it which for anyone who tries to avoid spoilers means you should probably stop reading from here.
Anyway I really did like the artwork for this and I'm not an avid reader of graphic novels though so that might not really mean much as an opinion. What was really good was the writing though and the way things all came together through the story, like the research center featured near the news stand coming back to being important to the climax. The writing was really good and I just really loved the depressing gloomy tone of things.
Especially that second comic in the comic with the pirates. Oh man when that dude goes home and thinks he's killing the pirates but it's his wife like damn, I saw it coming but it was still so heavy. Also the way everything in the comic book unfolded so that it was foreshadowing as well as highlighting the main plot line a well. And aw man why is Rorschach's life so terrible, just seeing his childhood made me upset, and when he goes back to the apartment and is about to say something to the landlady and see's her kids oh jesus I was just like WHY.
Him in general though, even though he's abrasive as a person he's such a great character, like in jail he tells the other prisoner, "i'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me" that made me freak out. I was pretty upset that Dr. Manhattan fried him there at the end. Speaking of which the whole ending makes me so angry, because like why does one person get to decide unilaterally what to do. I get that things were spiraling out of control but I still don't believe that the answer was to kill millions of people and pin it on aliens, and I sure as hell don't see why the whole world shouldn't know what happen.
It doesn't mean that things would go back to devolving, if anything hatred can be just as uniting and I'm sure everyone's anger could have come in between the impending war. I know at the end his journal is there and they might find it but I just find it highly unsatisfactory that it hinges on something so uncertain.
I don't think anyone should have all the say on how things progress, no matter how intelligent. And also for someone who is supposed to be the most intelligent man on earth his morality is pretty childish as well as his idolization of people like Alexander the great. Also last comment, the whole handling of the rape situation between Sally Jupiter and Eddie was really interesting I thought.
Relationships do tend to be much less clear cut and dry in real life and it was nice seeing that unfold in the story. It kind of made me think of how people can have a hard time understanding rape in a consensual relationship like a marriage but how context can really change things and how things aren't always as clear cut as being wrong and right necessarily for the person who is raped. Anyway definitely one of the best things I've read regardless of how angry I am about how things end.
View all 26 comments. What's this? Unpopular opinion time? Most of my friends and most of Goodreads love this book. I did not. I read for pleasure. I don't care if reading makes me smart.
I don't care if reading makes me pretty. I just want that escape into other worlds. If I went to this world-I would die from boredom. I actually like the darker books so I thought this one would sweep me up into the fandom of it. But, alas, it just made me sleep quite well last night. I didn't even know there was a movie ma What's this? I didn't even know there was a movie made from it until someone mentioned it while I was reading it. My hubby would probably like the movie so we may try that at some point.
But I ain't in no hurry. Oh, and for the trolls that I'm sure I will attract with this review. Because everyone has their own opinion. Go write yours. View all 77 comments. Jan 14, Lyn rated it it was amazing. A clever joke, wound up inside a parody, and all surrounded and blanketed by a cool story. Three cheers for Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons for this deservedly popular and critically acclaimed, genre defining, wildly influential graphic novel. First published in , this has come to be a benchmark of what kind of powerful fiction can be accomplished in this medium.
Describing an alternate history where Richard Nixon has been president for multiple terms, the United States won the Vietnam W Brilliant. Describing an alternate history where Richard Nixon has been president for multiple terms, the United States won the Vietnam War, and superheroes guard the streets and watch over us against the bad guys.
But who watches the watchmen? The original heroes are all retired or dead and the second generation are banned, but then one of the originals is murdered and we are drawn into a world turned upside down and where the feelings and motivations of our heroes are explored and dissected.
Vidal talked about how Hollywood creates for us a new mythology, wherein our psychological needs for heroics are formalized and produced. Here, by creating a new group of heroes in an alternate universe, Moore describes for us, and defines for us in the periphery, how we need heroes as myth.
The various characters and personages are drawn and captured and put together from an amalgam of classic detectives and heroes. Just as in any pantheon of ethnic deities, here does Moore enact for us, in none too subtle form, how we have gods amongst us and they are of our creating. Like the gods of Egypt and of the Norse, Greek, etc etc we as a modern culture have drawn for ourselves heroes to incorporate and define what we want.
There are super strong heroes, geniuses, fighters, those who take the battle to the bad guys and win. Highly recommended. View all 5 comments. Mar 04, karen rated it really liked it Shelves: dysto-teque , youre-a-graphic-novel.
Alan Moore is the greatest graphic novelist of all time. He has created a world where superheroes are not typical superheroes like super-man, spider-man et al. Each superhero has a unique philosophical perspective. And he has created superheroes who were either in deep complex psychological crisis or are going through one, and they are not perfect who always save the day in the end. View all 22 comments. This acclaimed and groundbreaking graphic novel by Alan Moore story and Dave Gibbons artwork opens with a body plummeting out of a skyscraper window.
The year is , the place is New York and we enter a universe similar to our own but altered. Richard Nixon is still president, serving his fifth term, Vietnam being a big success! Many years earlier a group of colourful masked avengers became popula This acclaimed and groundbreaking graphic novel by Alan Moore story and Dave Gibbons artwork opens with a body plummeting out of a skyscraper window.
Many years earlier a group of colourful masked avengers became popular with the public as they fought back against the rising tide of crime that the police were failing to control. This later group, now retired, is made up of The Comedian - a violent, right wing adventurer, Rorschach - a lonely, damaged vigilante, Doc Manhattan - a godlike superhero, whose body was reassembled following a nuclear accident, the Silk Spectre - aka Laurie Juspeczyk a principled and respected crime fighter, Ozymandias - a super intelligent and super rich hero and finally Nite Owl - a brilliant, costumed inventor.
The body splatted on the pavement was that of The Comedian. Why was he murdered? Is someone targeting the Watchmen? The disparate group of ageing heros investigate and begin to unearth a vast and incredible conspiracy.
I loved the scope and variety of this graphic novel - sometimes challenging, sometimes thought provoking, often funny and always imaginative.
I read it very slowly over hundreds of coffee breaks, finding that although Watchmen had the depth of a novel, this was a good way to appreciate the artwork and themes - and a good way to read alongside standard novels.
View all 61 comments. Mar 25, Brad rated it it was amazing Shelves: graphic-novel , political , the-best , to-read-again , sci-fi , dystopian. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I've been in many discussions over the years -- some in classes I was teaching, some over pints in the bar, and still others late at night with people I love -- about what Alan Moore was trying to say with Watchmen , discussions about the meaning of his graphic novel, and I am convinced that the meaning is not what most people think.
Manhattan briefly returns to Earth to bring Laurie to Mars, as a discussion between them which he has foreseen is scheduled to take place at this time. In this conversation, she begs him to return to Earth and save humanity, an effort in which she is successful. This discussion also turns Laurie's life inside-out: She realizes that the Comedian, whom she hated for attempting to rape her mother , was later her mother's consensual lover and, in fact, Laurie's own biological father. Meanwhile, the reunited duo of Rorschach and Nite Owl prowl the New York underworld, searching for hints on who commissioned the hit on Veidt.
The trail leads to none other than Veidt himself, who has been orchestrating events all along. The company which commissioned the hit, owned by Veidt, also employed every associate of Dr. Manhattan's that had developed cancer. In a lengthy monologue, Adrian explains his early worship of Alexander the Great , which later turned to admiration of Ramesses II whose Greek name was Ozymandias ; his realization that the current arms race and disregard for the environment would lead to cataclysm by the s ; his belief that someone must save the world, and that only he could do so; and finally, that the crux of his plan is to teleport a genetically engineered telepathic monstrosity into New York City, a process that will kill the monster and cause it to emit a massive psychic shockwave that will kill half the city and drive many of the survivors insane.
Adrian believes that America and Russia, perceiving an extraterrestrial threat, will abandon their arms race and unite in defense of their planet. The Comedian, Veidt also reveals, was killed because he happened to stumble upon the island where the creature was being bred; the murderer is revealed to be Veidt himself.
Finally, Ozymandias establishes that he is not prey to one major weakness of arch-villains: the tendency to ramble about their plans before they are executed.
At the end of his explanation he reveals that the monster has already been teleported as intended. At PM Eastern Standard Time, the monster arrives in New York, creating a cataclysmic shockwave which kills millions, among them most of the secondary characters.
Laurie and Dr. Manhattan arrive in the devastated city and then teleport to Karnak, where Veidt watches the news and exults as his plan comes to fruition. Only these five former costumed adventurers know the truth of the matter, as Veidt has killed everyone else who knew anything incriminating about the project. Dan, Laurie and Jon agree to keep silent, sickened by the deaths of millions of New Yorkers but willing to countenance it for the sake of averting nuclear holocaust.
Only Rorschach, who does not believe that the ends justify the means, refuses to comply, and he prepares to return to America. Jon attempts to dissuade him, but Rorschach makes it clear that he will not compromise and demands that, if Jon wishes to stop him, Jon must kill him too. Jon does, then returns to Veidt's fortress. After destroying Rorschach, Dr. Manhattan talks briefly to Veidt. He plans to leave Earth for the time being to go to another galaxy for unknown reasons when asked about his newfound respect for life, he hints that "perhaps I'll create some".
Professing his guilt and doubt, Veidt asks Manhattan for closure: "I did the right thing, didn't I? It all worked out in the end. Manhattan, standing within Veidt's mechanical model of the solar system, smiles and replies: "In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends. The ending of Watchmen is ambiguous about the long-term success of Veidt's plan to lead the world to Utopia. Prior to confronting Veidt, Rorschach had mailed his journal detailing his suspicions to The New Frontiersman , a far right-wing magazine he frequently read.
The final page of the series shows the New Frontiersman editor contemplating which item from the "crank" to which Kovacs' journal had been consigned to use as filler for the upcoming issue. The final line of the story is that of the editor's superior, indifferent as to which piece from the crank file is selected.
He tells his subordinate — who has been established as not particularly bright — "I leave it entirely in your hands. The subject of anti-veneration explores superheroes who are treated as veritable gods to be worshiped at one point with Dr. Manhattan taking on the literal manifestation of a deity and then are deconstructed in order to reveal flaws, which makes them less worthy of hero worship in the eyes of the public.
In one of the epistolary essays at the end of each chapter, Osterman's former mentor, Milton Glass , repeats his first reaction to a newspaper reporter on learning of Dr. Manhattan's transformation: " God exists, and he's American "—a thought Glass confesses to be terrifying.
Interestingly, he reports being often misquoted as, " The superman exists, and he's American. Carlyle developed a concept of hero worship that was meant to overlook human flaws, as he contended that there was no need for "moral perfection. Along these lines, Rorschach dismisses what he terms as "moral lapses" when discussing the Comedian's past acts of sexual assault.
These Carlyle-inspired ideas are depicted throughout Watchmen , as Ozymandias, during a discussion with Rorschach, refers to the Comedian as "a Nazi. Apocalypticism and conspiracy theory are elements of both plot and mood in the series.
The threat of nuclear annihilation is ever-present throughout the novel. According to an interpretation by director Darren Aronofsky , "the whole motivation for Ozymandias is the impending doom of the world. Rorschach is obsessed with conspiracy theories, and appears to derive much of his thinking from the New Frontiersman. Aronofsky argues that Watchmen' s treatment of the subject was pioneering, but has since " become so 'pop' because of JFK and The X-Files , it's entered pop culture consciousness, and Rorschach's vision is not that wacky anymore.
Conspiracy theories invoke a lack of control on the part of characters like Rorschach and lead to the examination of other themes in Watchmen , such as determinism. Gregory J. Golda describes the relationship between the philosophy of determinism and Dr. Manhattan, who " lives his now-immortal life with a perception of time and events as unchangeable. He becomes the symbol of determinism " and " lives his own life under this illusion of determinism[,] failing to see that there was a superior intellect that could outsmart even an 'all knowing' being.
Manhattan — who will become a kind of God — initially grows up as a watchmaker. It is often Dr. This memo has a few interesting points to it. First off, Petey's office was filled with comic books to which the director asked how people are obsessed with pirates.
In the Watchmen universe, because there are superheroes in the world, the comics were more focused on pirates similar to how prior to the first appearance of Superman, comics in the US were all about Westerns. Second, the director also mentions there was a jug of oil leftover, thus adding more proof that Petey was Lube Man. The final point, and the one of most interest, is that the director says Laurie Blake is being debriefed at the time of the memo.
He also goes onto to shoot down rumors of a conspiracy linking President Robert Redford to the hoax created by Adrian Veidt. The director even reminds agents to remember the oaths they took. It's clear that the US government could continue to help cover up the squid attack even with Adrian in custody. Memo: Fogdancing -- Fogdancing is a book that made multiple appearances in the show. Written by an author named Max Shea, Fogdancing is considered a counter-culture book popular during the Nixon administration and among masked vigilantes.
Petey was also a big fan and even entered a contest on what was the plot of the book, which he ended up losing. The memo gives some subtle hints that Fogdancing is what inspired him to make his own hero persona of "Lube Man" from episode 4. One thing not mentioned in the entry is that Shea -- who also wrote the Black Freighter in the Watchmen comics -- was picked by Adrian Veidt to help come up with his world-saving plan. He, like the others who were part of the team, was killed by Adrian shortly before the attack happened.
Clipping: "Nothing ever ends" December, -- Unlike previous weeks, both Peteypedia entries are directly related to each other. This clipping is Petey's submission for the contest mentioned in the memo, and it was published in a magazine dedicated to the book called Nothing Ever Ends, named after a quote one of the characters says in the book.
According to the summary, Fogdancing is about a former soldier named Howie McNulty. He was part of a group of super-soldiers called Fogdancers, but that was years ago. Howie is suffering from what appears to be post-traumatic stress disorder and took an experimental drug called Shut-Eye to help with it. He meets up with a woman who's part of an anarchist graffiti group. As the two fall more in love, Howie wants to help take down the American empire, so so he leads a group to destroy a facility that makes Sunset Haze, the Watchmen universe's version of napalm.
The group planted bombs in the facility and escaped only to find out the explosion spread out for miles, killing thousands.
Howie then finds out he was used by a wealthy industrialist, and Shut-Eye was a mind-control drug. He forms another group with his former Fogdancer partner Rawhide to take down the mastermind. They end up causing Sunset Haze to rain down on the lair, destroying it but also killing his love. Howie then wakes up and realizes he's in a military hospital with his partner Rawhide, and a doctor and nurse who were the mastermind and his lover.
Confused on what's real, Howie finally understands what he needs to do and grabs a gun, and it's suggested he shot himself. Going by the summary, Fogdancing shares the same themes as the Watchmen story, with heroes thinking they're doing good but only causing more harm. It's no wonder both Adrian Vedit and Doctor Manhattan were known fans of the book, according to Petey's memo.
Speaking of the FBI agent, the description for the Fogdancing outfit makes a clear connection with his hero persona Lube Man. Rawhide's outfit is described as a "pearly haz-mat jumper and signature combat goggles.
The memo starts off with a little explainer on how the Tulsa Police Department requires its detectives to wear a mask. In the case of Angela, she says "watch the movie. The film is part of the Watchmen universe's take on blaxploitation films, called Black Mask, where the movies star black versions of well-known heroes. In the case of Sister Night, she's a take on the Minutemen female hero, Silhouette.
The movie came out in in Vietnam and is about a devout nun in Hell's Kitchen, New York, who takes down criminals at night. The film also has its own theme song, which appears to be similar to the famous theme song to 's Shaft.
Agent Petey adds another quick note that the film was played in a theater in Harlem owned by Will Reeves every Sunday until when Angela became a detective, though there's no explanation of why, considering Angela hasn't been to New York and the two don't know of their relationship yet.
This report says Cal suffered an injury after a car accident. He was found by Angela and didn't have much info about his background. It's clear this report was part of the plan concocted by the two to cover up his secret identity. One interesting note made by the doctor treating Cal was how he noticed Cal's interest in a Doctor Manhattan bobblehead. She recaps what happened in episode 6 , because according to her, Angela "Sister Night" Abar was muttering during her Nostalgia trip.
Blake goes on to describe the Klan spinoff group called Cyclops that Will Reed was dealing with back in the '30s. She explains that the group was responsible for creating mind-control technology, and she believes the group is related to the Seventh Kavalry. He appeared in episode 6 as the leader of The Minutemen and personally recruited Hooded Justice to be part of the team. Agent Petey wrote up a bio of the hero's life and his will. Gardner was born to a wealthy family in , served some time in the military, and was working with the NYPD as a consultant on urban warfare strategies.
He along with Sally Jupiter's agent came up with the idea of The Minutemen and began recruiting other heroes. The group disbanded in , but Gardner tried to form another hero group, The Crimebusters, in that included all the characters from the Watchmen comic.
Garnder died on Aug. He left his estate to Will Reeves, who at the time was working at a movie theater in Harlem, which might be the same one from episode 6, where the mind-control film projector was used and caused a riot. This fact may play out in the few remaining episodes of the season, considering that Reeves must be incredibly wealthy at around the time Angela was born. Clipping: "Lady Trieu: Factor or Fiction" -- The newspaper article on Lady Trieu has a wealth of interesting tidbits on the character, done in a "factor or fiction" style.
To start, Trieu's mother wrote a book about raising a super genius, roughly translated to Pachyderm Mom. Though her methods weren't mentioned, Trieu's mother did say she was inspired to raise her genius child by the likes of President Richard Nixon, Adrian Veidt and Doctor Manhattan. There's also another story of one person hired by her mother to train Trieu, with the final assignment being a duel between the teacher and pupil, which the teacher didn't follow through on. Trieu's spokespeople denied this event, but the writer of the article doesn't buy it.
A second interesting piece is that Lady Trieu's name is based on a Vietnamese legend. In the third century, a woman called Lady Trieu raised an army to fight against the Chinese invasion of Vietnam. She didn't succeed, but her bravery became legendary and she's known as the Vietnamese Joan of Arc. The next factoid has hints of references to other episodes.
Lady Trieu has several doctoral degrees, mainly in science fields such as astrophysics, bioengineering, nuclear fission and nanochemistry. All of which would be ideal for the various technological marvels seen in the show. She also launched 50 Voyager-class probes in Three words. When I saw the trailer for the movie, I was all like: "Wow! That looks cool! Teen, 14 years old Written by Comicnerd March 31, Alan Moore, thank you very much!
This book and the movie share so many good lines between the two. Although the book is better. This book has a few swear words now and again but not much. Teen, 16 years old Written by Mr Nobody January 11, The greatest book ever written, but not for kids I could go on and on and on about how much of a flawless masterpiece Watchmen is, but you're here to read about whether you should let your kid read it.
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