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[tealin]

Yesterday's Sketchbook - By the time I got home I was tired, mentally exhausted, and my headache hadn't gone away (still hasn't, grr) so I just did the cop-out and drew my cat.

The FINAL episode of Small Gods is up. (dun dun duuunnnn)



...If only V had made the rest of his armour out of the same material as his mask...
Or maybe just a bunch of masks (he had enough to spare) – that would have been sweeet... in a ridiculous kind of way.

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[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

That whole thing about him needing to be shot up - while it may have felt really cool and dramatic and made him a Christlike martyr in the end (helps you forgive all the mayhem he caused because he's willing to sacrifice himself)- I'm still turning over in my mind whether that was logically necessary to achieve V's ends or not. I guess I haven't thought about it TOO deeply because I really enjoyed the movie, and I'm probably a little afraid of tainting the memory with a disappointing flaw.

[jesidres.livejournal.com]

From what I understand, it makes a bit more sense in the graphic novel, which made a much greater impact when I read it in 1995 than neato matrix graphics ever did. V doesn't have to die for his goals, but for Evey, it's a bit of the final test, to see if she really has let her past modes of thinking go. By forging the ideals (V's hopes to take down the government to a point of accountability) within the heat of curiosity (Is V her father?). The book, in a sense wasn't about V, but about V's effect on people, and what that effect does to them. In that sense, it was perfectly logical for V to die; he'd accomplished what he set out to do; he was the last bridge to be burned before the populance could take it as they would. He was merely there to open the door to the everyman (Evey (thus her name)), but it was their choice on to whether they stepped through it.

Does that make sense, or am I just hallucenating due to the flu medication?

Of course, if Alan Moore had his way with it, the movie would have never been made, and the book would have gone out of print ages ago.

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

That's exactly what I was thinking was the reason for doing it (although I didn't consider the possbility of V being her father, or pick up the "Evey-man" thing, which seems obvious now. Duh.) Emotionally, it made perfect sense and had to happen - I just wish they could have made it logically inevitable as well. But that wasn't enough to really spoil anything for me.
Apparently Alan Moore is a bit of an odd duck - I guess he had a huge falling out with Vertigo comics (I don't know over what) and has decided to stop writing for comics altogether and just write wild, angry Letters to the Editor with his unconventional opinions. Too bad - talented guy, obviously.