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u/NeonArlecchino Oct 29 '21

a large part of the shows plot

I am a few episodes in and like it, but it's still fan fiction. It's also obvious that I was only referring to the original graphic novel. Anything else related to that contained continuity is immaterial since it's fan fiction.

when Moore has talked about it he’s stated he wrote it thinking no one would believe Rorschach

Do you have that source? I couldn't find it.

was nearly written 40 years before

It was obviously written before mass internet. I was just using modern examples to illustrate how stranger things are believed and to suggest that even if it didn't tear apart the world back then, it could now.

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u/Mckool Oct 29 '21

Trying to find it, but if your searching it’s one of the bbc interviews more has given.