8 Things Watchmen TV Show Must Do Differently To Zack Snyder's Film

6. Represent Rorschach Properly

Undoubtedly one of the most annoying things regarding Watchmen's reception is how spectacularly the book's fans manage to misread its darkest and indeed disturbing protagonist, Rorschach. Failed 2016 GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz famously included the character in a list of his top five favourite superheroes, and that - precisely - typifies the problem at play here.

You see, Rorschach is not a hero, but rather a deconstruction of the superhero genre's darkest elements. He's a satire of Steve Ditko's Mr. A - a stalwart of Rand's objectivist school of thought and indeed, a pretty repulsive character when you get down to it. He describes Comedian's attempt to rape the original Silk Spectre as nothing more than a 'moral lapse', and his murderous tendencies are as much a foible as they are a commentary on the decline of the superhero genre since the silver age.

While Snyder didn't explicitly misrepresent the character in any way in his film, there was a resurgence in fans lionising Kovacs in the wake of its premier. Yes, the delineation between Rorschach's ideology and that of Veidt's is an interesting enough one to consider, but it's important to illustrate that the character isn't the hero fans make him out to be.