Rant: Rodschach
Barry: Look in a mirror!
Rod: Yipes! I must have done something wrong.
Barry: Well, from the excitement of making that mask, you must have loved Watchmen.
Rod: I certainly did. I thought it was a great movie.
Barry: Well, that makes one of us. I didn’t like it that well.
Rod: What’s wrong with you? It was wonderful, especially Rorschach.
Barry: That is the character I had the most trouble with. He wasn’t a hero at all.
Rod: Yes he was. He tracked down the villains.
Barry: Yeah, but then what did he do? Turn them over to police? No, he was judge, jury, and executioner.
Rod: And with the troubles they were having, it was needed.
Barry: No, it was not. People are governed by laws, not by the whims of vigilantes.
Rod: He wasn’t a vigilante.
Barry: Yes, he was. He was not authorized by the police. He and all the others except for Dr. Manhattan and the Comedian were just that, vigilantes.
Rod: They were crimebusters.
Barry: Rorschach might have been, but Comedian? No way, he was nothing more than a legalized mercenary.
Rod: How do you come up with that? Comedian was working for the government, so they made sure he did things right.
Barry: Sure they did, like when he shot the woman in Vietnam?
Rod: I still say they were heroes.
Barry: And I still say they were vigilantes, and thrill seekers. If they wanted to fight crime, they should have done it right.
Rod: And what is doing it right?
Barry: They should have worked with the government and be okayed by them instead of doing it on their own.
Rod: Some of those criminals didn’t deserve anything but what they got.
Barry: Rod, listen to what you are saying. Do you know who you sound like?
Rod: What do…..ah…….<gulp> You mean I’m sounding like HER?
Barry: Exactly
Rod: Point taken and dropped. You have to agree with me on one thing….Rorschach’s mask was cool.
Barry: I’ll agree with that. Let me try that mask.
Rod: I’ll have to take it off first.
Barry: Oops, my bad.
Rod: What does that mean?
Barry: I thought you already had!