Watchmen, Then and now.
If you do not know how the story ends, Stop reading now, because that is what I am about to touch on.

THEN-
I first read the watchmen when I was a freshman in high school. I love it, just about every part of it. I always knew heroes had to be flawed and human, it does not really work any other way. I thought Rorschach was the best of them. Justice at any cost. He had all the best lines. And then I got to the end of the story.
I was so angry at Rorschach, he had lost, and he was determined to rip it all down. A sort of "F you I'm taking my ball and going home", setup. If you loose, and by loosing the world is going to be made a better place, a Utopia. Who cares if it was biased on a lie? Is tricking the world into becoming a better place bad? Yes I know lots of people died, that is why the "Heroes" tried to stop it. But that Journal, with "The Truth" in it, was there just to destroy. It was not going to make anything better, just add to the suck that existed.
This anger stayed with me most of my life. It just did not seem right to me.
NOW-
I look at it all differently now. I have a better understanding of the world and how it really works. I do not hate Rorschach anymore. I pity him. All that hate, all that rage, and planning and figuring things out. He did not ruin anything. No one will believe that Journal. It will be the talk of crackpots and conspiracy nuts. It will come up again and again, and be refuted over and over again. It may even get published as a book. But only so people can cringe at how broken the man was. What sort of monster hid behind the mask.

Where before, it made me mad.
Now it makes me Laugh.
Thank you Comedian, I get the joke now.