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fandomsecrets2008-08-08 04:30 pm
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[ SECRET POST #581 ]
⌈ Secret Post #581 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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150 - Oh, the comic inside the comic. People have been debating "Marooned" for decades. I don't know if there's ever been an official stance on that particular side-story, but I always thought of it as a heavy handed self-fulfilling prophecy.
I can't be the only person who's said this, it's a pretty common theory from what I remember of the old debates. But I'm gonna throw my $.02 in anyway. Compare the two plots. In "Marooned", the mariner was so very sure that something terrible was going to happen to Davidstown that he committed terrible acts (desecrating the dead by building a raft out of them, murder, theft, etc) in a desperate attempt to keep something even more terrible from happening. And in the end it turns out the the only bad things were his fault. The only death in Davidstown was at his hands. The only one who posed any threat to anyone was him, but he was so set in his idea that the Black Freighter was coming to wipe out Davidstown that he couldn't see what he was doing was wrong. He truly believed that he was in the right. In the end he realises that he was wrong, obviously, but just barely. Now, look at the main plot of Watchmen.
(SPOILER ALERT FOR OTHERS WHO MAY NOT KNOW THE STORY)
The basic plot behind Watchmen is that Adrian Veidt has become so convinced that war is going to break out between America and the USSR and wipe everyone off the face of the planet that he is willing to commit atrocious acts to keep it from happening (kidnapping the scientists, murdering the Comedian, allowing Bubastis to die {what?, it was important to me!}, sacrificing the population of New York City, etc). After all, the needs of the many out weight the needs of the few
or the one. In the end, the person who was the most dangerous, who caused the most damage was probably him. We can't know for sure that the world wouldn't have descended into radioactive chaos without his help... but the real world did fine without him, after all. The book ends before he comes to this realisation, but he's a smart guy. I'm sure he'd figure it out eventually, especially once the New Frontiersman publishes Rorschach's journals, and it all falls apart. Admittedly, the things Adrian did were a hell of a lot worse than the things the mariner did, but they were working within the bounds of what was available to them. The parallels between the two stories is obvious, if you put way too much thought into it....I'm probably reading way too much into it, and I could be WAY off the mark because it's been a long time since I read the books. But that's what I always figured it was. The Tale of the Black Freighter was a sort of storybook summation of the overarching plot of the story. A hint of things to come.