Why was he so sad about his ex-gf having cancer when he could instantly cure her and even make her younger?
>inb4 he doesn't care about humanity
Ozy said she was the only thing that he could use against Manhattan since she was the only one he cared for, so this argument is invalid.
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Dr. Manhattan doesn't have control that precise over the bodies of others, pretty much all he knows how to do is disintegrate them
Don't think he could just do anything he wanted like cure her cancer or make her younger. He's not a god and humans are incredibly complex biological machines. He couldn't even make a giant crystal clock machine stable enough to survive. His final lines in the movie were about perhaps making some life of his own, implying that he never had before and probably had no experience manipulating/manifesting biological systems.
But what do I know, never read the graphic novels and only saw this once some years ago.
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and yeah, as others said above, I don't think Manhattan's powers extended that far.
Couldn't he re create the earth to that point without her having cancer?
blue dick man is such a faggot
Doubtful. He couldn't even reliably stop every US/Russian nuke and that would be much simpler than creating an alternative earth.
You faggots just don't understand how Dr Manhattan's powers work.
He has the power of a god. He can do anything, be anywhere, any time. Cancer? No prob. Create life? Boom. done. He discusses this with Adrian before he takes off at the end of the book.
The issue is, he is bound by his destiny. He COULD cure Janey, but since he is already in the future, he didn't. Therefore he can't. He's a puppet in a puppet show, only he can see the strings, and presumably the puppeteer.
He has to ''follow the script'' as it were. He explains this to Laurie on Mars.
What happens on Mars is that he takes the step to do what he wants since he can't see past the "tachyon disturbance" that's clouding his future. Once he does that, he's basically cut the strings that hold him, and he's able to act on his own, no longer bound by his destiny.
Thats why he leaves Earth for good, and goes off to "create life" somewhere.
Its some very complicated shit that doesn't translate well into a 3 hour movie. A lot of the fine details get lost due to time constraints. If Watchmen had been done as a 10 hour miniseries, it would have been 1000 times better. But even then, it still wouldn't capture all of the book.
the "being bound by destiny" thing doesn't work like that. you aren't powerless to make decisions, it's just that your decisions are part of your destiny. he would have had to decide not to cure her cancer, because if he had decided to do it, it would have been his destiny. he did not "cut the strings" holding him, even when he couldn't see the future. cause -> effect
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