Abstract

This piece is not about the experience of watching Watchmen , but rather about what the Watchmen were watching, and therefore what they were doing . This will be more difficult that it would seem at first, because some of the characters were literally mindless, some were fighting a battle, some were fixing a clock, and some were watching a static picture, and although those are radically different activities, they were all patterns over the same events. The key is that what things mean depends very much on who you are, and in that sense Watchmen is a very clear lesson on what happens when different kinds of posthumans interact or fail to