Kasz216 said:
badgenome said:
richardhutnik said:
There is a difference between connecting with Guy Fawkes and V. While the V character connects to Guy Fawkes, V character himself is connected with the graphic novel, and important to understand how that is different.
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It is not especially different. Both Fawkes and V resorted to extreme means to fight against oppressive governments, and whether or not they were justified in doing so depends on whom you ask. That was the entire point of V for Vendetta - to make it morally ambiguous so that the reader has to decide for himself whether V is right or just crazy.
Similarly, we each have to decide for ourselves whether Anonymous are right or just dickbags. Based on the past actions done in its name, I vote for the latter.
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Was it supposed to be morally ambiguous.
It always seeemd pretty onesided to me.
Of course, so did Rorshach being right at the end of Watchmen.
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I don't think it was necessarily done all that well, and I personally rather dislike V to the point that it was initially hard for me to believe that it written by the same guy as the brilliant Watchmen, but yeah, according to Moore it was at least intended to be ambiguous. Being an anarchist, Moore undoubtedly sympathizes more with V and so - whether intentionally or not - does seem to lead the reader to see him as the hero, or at least as being better than the government. But with the exception of Finch, everyone is detestable enough that I think you can still take from it what you will.
