Noun Used As A Verb, Film At Eleven

[handful_ofdust]

Re yuki-onna, talking about how the ending of Watchmen doesn't work for her because she's been "Neuromancered"...WTF does that even mean, exactly? I read Neuromancer, but about a million years ago, and it occurs to me that perhaps it was exactly as not-so-impressive to me, in the end, as Watchmen was to her. But seriously: There's something "innate" in a received-wisdom sense that I'm supposed to be getting from the reference about how best to end a book, right? And...I'm just not gettin' it, sorry.

I should probably be asking her, I suppose, rather than the universe at large. But I get the feeling I'd just get slapped for being dumb, and I'm not all too into that right now.

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[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm definitely that old! So old I can remember what it was like waiting for Watchmen #6 to arrive after reading Watchmen #5. And how great it felt when it did arrive, mainly because it managed to convince me that while yes, this was a world where small children were fed to dogs and already-unstable men went irretrievably insane after final crushing moral betrayals, this was also at least a world where people who've always loved each other in a haphazard way could reunite over their shared fetishization of the accoutrements of crimefighting...and baby, when you don't have much else to cling to (aside from a raft made from lashed-together corpses), that's okay with me.;)