Different thematically or plot...ily?

Both, kind of. There's no good way to explain it without spoilers... they've taken Moore's vision of WWII facism and moved it up in time to the present day. This is George W Bush's facist England, which I think was an incredibly strong choice to make, but it does necesitate some major tweaks to the look and feel of the world, not all of which are wholly successful.

Saw V. Liked it a lot.

It took me SO LONG to realize you didn't mean the mini-series about aliens.

Likewise.

At lunch I was poring over the Walt Disney Co. annual stockholders' report. I see that the studio has The Shaggy Dog and Santa Clause 3 as upcoming releases.

The operating expenses section didn't itemize sufficiently to tell what we paid for Tim Allen's soul.

I just read V for Vendetta and was kind of underwhelmed by it. I liked the ideas but I thought the plot was a little scattershot. I kept thinking that it might actually work better as a movie.

Heretic!

Just kidding.

What did you think was scattershot about it? I thought it quite tight, so I'd appreciate the perspective.

As someone who was impressed with both the scope and attention to detail in both V and The Watchmen, I'm likewise interested in a contrary opinion. I can't drum up really good conversation about them, despite wanting to, because all my friends who've read them agree with me, which is no fun.

There's no "The" in Watchmen, fool.

There's no "The" in Watchmen, fool.

There totally is. Watchmen. See?

Jessica, re your whitefont, now I'm making an "O" face. That sounds...neat.

The main problem I'm having with the ads now is that V is presented like a superhero with the swishy knives. Is this mostly an ad thing? Because that's fine. I keep trying to believe it is just an ad thing. I guess... I want him to be creepy. He should be creepy.