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briandmyers  ·  3937 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Book Club: Watchmen Discussion Part 1 [final discussion March 1st]

Worth saying here, that Vietnam scene was a bit more powerful, back when the wounds that war left on America were still fresh. The Comedian talks about it himself - "I mean, if we'd lost this war ... I dunno. I think it might have driven us a little crazy, y'know? As a country?". That's one of the lines that hit me like a hammer on the first read, years ago.

The irony is that it's driven him a little crazy, that we won (with Jon's help).





kleinbl00  ·  3936 days ago  ·  link  ·  

More to the point, we'd just started to talk about it.

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