The_word_of_dog [he/him]

6 years ago is a lot of time for internalized opinions to manifest. Especially now with how much ideology is thrown about and available on the internet and the state of the country, people who used to think “lol politics don’t matter” are slowly realizing otherwise.

Furthermore 6 years is way before pre-trump rightwing radicalization so someone who had fascist tendencies internalized may have been much less vocal about it until fairly recently.

Hell 2020 alone brought a lot of internal racism to the surface in otherwise dull politically parts of the population.

The absurdity of it is what would bring people together. An unknown alien and interdimensional threat that would take years and years of cooperative research to even begin to understand how it was possible, all this while the threat of another attack would be looming at any moment vs oh no the American blue guy we have a decent understanding of that did war crimes did another one.

Though my view of the ending is skewed from the HBO one because they make a pretty good case for why the comic ending works.

Watchmen’s politics and style are intermingled due to the timeframe that it’s set in and the events that are covered.

Just because Snyder was able to emulate that, doesn’t mean he had any fucking clue what it all means in context. Like you literally could not make watchmen without the politics.

He added nothing to the story ideologically speaking, just simply retold it as it was written with an altered ending that felt more “serious”.

Because of this I don’t think Snyder has any understanding of politics.

In fact, since it was an almost entirely page by page recreation, it doubly makes me think this.

What he is good at though, is style. Gritty, hyper masculine, and a lot going on the surface, if makes it harder to see under the hood of the films. It also allows one to project their own ideology into it, since there’s a big vacant hole where a stance would be.

So you have someone with zero ideological coherence, in fact a great gaping void of it, but is great at making things look appealing and cool.

That makes sense to me for why right wingers would latch on.