Yesyes yesssss exactly. It really bothers me how easy it is for people to blindly fanboy/fangirl Rorschach and write off everyone else; in one of my LJ friend's comment threads, they were even discussing and they were like... "Dude, the Comedian is fucked up in ways I can't wholly reconcile myself with. Not that anyone involved with that story isn't fucked up, but I can deal with Rorschach's brand of Fucked Up." && "The Comedian shot and killed a pregnant chick and raped Silk Spectre. That's enough for me to hate him forever.".
Which I think is utterly unfair (not the least because the Comedian is one of my fave characters). I don't think any character should be written off forever, particularly when you miss the point that there have been forty years since then, and he's certainly self-aware and knows about his own mistakes and regrets them and augh. I can't permanently disregard a character who understands his own fucked-up role that well.
And, now tying back into your post, I really don't think people should pardon one brand of fucked-up but not another. The movie certainly made it easier to do it, I think -- lessened some of the fucked-up things Rorschach did, increased the brutality of what the Comedian did -- but I still hate the fact that people can justify themselves into liking one psychopath, but not the other. If they can put on the empathy cap to understand one man, I think they should go the full mile to understand the rest. And not just latch onto him as your token ~action hero~.
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Which I think is utterly unfair (not the least because the Comedian is one of my fave characters). I don't think any character should be written off forever, particularly when you miss the point that there have been forty years since then, and he's certainly self-aware and knows about his own mistakes and regrets them and augh. I can't permanently disregard a character who understands his own fucked-up role that well.
And, now tying back into your post, I really don't think people should pardon one brand of fucked-up but not another. The movie certainly made it easier to do it, I think -- lessened some of the fucked-up things Rorschach did, increased the brutality of what the Comedian did -- but I still hate the fact that people can justify themselves into liking one psychopath, but not the other. If they can put on the empathy cap to understand one man, I think they should go the full mile to understand the rest. And not just latch onto him as your token ~action hero~.
... if I'm making any sense by now. ;_;