I\’m talking about the use of violence by the characters in the gangfight. for god\’s sake laurie is stabbing someone to death along the way (the direction of the fight is btw. laughable, how in the hell is laurie kicking guys like puppets). this is seriously changing the characters and shows that snyder also doesn\’t understand key motivations of characters and their reasons for becoming vigilantes (don\’t get me started on the psychosexual aspects).

actually the blamegame in the case of watchmen surely doesn\’t land only on snyder. sam harris first script was laughable. hayters script shows taht he simply didn\’t get basic themes of watchmen (the bad \”v for vendetta\” update of setting and timelines, veidt dies etc.), which he even admitted in interviews. tse was basically a hired gun for snyder to bring hayters script back to the 80ies setting (though there are versions with the old setting from tse), reconstruct timelines and implement left out scenes from the gn. that script was \”polished\” by snyder and at the end even orci & kurtzman uncredited \”polished\” it. so the script issues really can\’t be blamed on snyder. what he CAN be blamed is the lousy implementation of music, character-destroying use of over the top violence (see gangfight) etc.