I'm interested in your thoughts on why the change seems glaring or makes bothering with an adaptation in the first place seem stupid.

"And he was American by nationality and employment."

Blame or no blame, the reason major cities in the US needed to be reduced to rubble, too, was so that it wasn't seen as an act of war. In any scenario, Doctor Manhattan went rogue.

That would have required the same amount of distracting set-up they already weren't able to include in the film. This way, there's no new plot threads - we deal with Ozymandias' plan in the context of stuff we're already seeing on screen.

The Daily Bugle tumblr sheds some light on that stuff - I was wondering why they did an "interview" with Alistair Smythe about his mobility technology, but it looks like they might tie that into the origin of that tech.

What would you say "the whole meaning of the work" is, then? The movie's ending spared exposition and seeding that the film had no time for, and kept the end contained to themes already heavily present in the film instead of risking throwing the audience for a last minute loop.

I'm with you, and will add that pulling off the comic book's ending also would have needed a lot of groundwork the book was able to provide but the movie wasn't.

100% agreed. The major advantage of the random space squid monster is that it is so, over the top comic book supervillain that it underscores how very not like comic books the book has been until that point. But, well, that's why it works in the book.

Take Watchmen — arguably the reason why Snyder's film fails to come together as a story isn't because he's lacking the graphic novel's ending, and he doesn't have anything strong enough to replace it.

I came back up here to post just this - she drew you the wrist bandage. I hope writing this letter didn't aggravate her carpal tunnel.

I was hoping she'd be Diana but not quite Wonder Woman yet.

I was certain the most popular video game was going to be Benedict Cumberbatch.

Is there any confirmation that the voiceover will be used in the film? Seems like something that - I hope - is just for the trailers.

I actually interpreted this backwards, I think. It looks like he winds up, and then fires at the microphone.

I'm especially disappointed because Guillermo Del Toro said his plan for Smaug's design was awesome.

There's a pretty awesome book called The Philosophy of Horror that spends a good deal of time on how a lot of things that make us squeamish are things we have trouble categorizing.

There have been, like, three characters that took up the mantle of Ghost Rider. This is the latest one. They didn't change anything.

Is this why the book-on-tape knows about Einstein and Chinese millennia before they exist?

They fixed it.