WATCHMEN's Ever-Full Moon, Part 2

Part 1 here.

 THE EVER-FULL MOON

PART THE SECOND

            To quote Andy Rooney, “Did you ever notice ...”

            ... that in Watchmen, the moon is always full?

THE LUNAR LAGNIAPPE

            The moon is always full, even when its depiction is not part of the current storyline!

            Whenever the moon appears within the Tales of the Black Freighter comic being read by Bernie, it’s full.

            It’s full as the narrator eats shark (5:21).  Follow the arrow from a small version of the Black Freighter panel, to a larger one in which the full moon is obscured by the sailor’s narration “balloon.”

 

          And it’s full as he arrives at Davidstown (10:23)...

.. and as he leaves Davidstown for Black Freighter (11:13

           The moon’s even full in the “Nostalgia” TV commercial (7:13)!

A FULL WATCH-MOON

             True to Zack Snyder’s slavish channeling of the comic, the 2009 Watchmen movie similarly featured an ever-full moon.

            You can easily identify the story spots for the above three frame grabs.  Blake goes airborne at 05:00, Rorschach comes in at 13:10, and this view of the Black Freighter comic is from 26:26.

            At 1:54:23, the moon was full in Kovacs’s flashback to the night he solved the Claire Roche case.

            This shot is seen as Nite Owl and Silk Spectre 2 swoop in Archie to aid the tenement-fire victims, at 2:15:28.

            There’s a cross-voiceover from President Nixon, “Take Us to Defcon 1,” at 2:39:54, as Nite Owl and Rorschach search Veidt’s offices.

            Just as seen in the comic,  the moon is full as the once-marooned sailor rides into Davidstown and avoids “the pirate sentry,”  at 2:47:14

            In the third and final phase of our Lunar Survey, we’ll try to figure out a reason – any at all – for the wild fulness!

See you on Thursday some other wild madness!