Rant: Watchmen's Ending (the Graphic Novel one)

SPOILER WARNING!!!!!!!!!

Just a few days ago, I finished reading Watchmen for the first time.  Yes, it's a bit late, I suppose, but still.

I was so into the GN that I was reading it instead of doing my homework.  It takes a really good read to make me avoid homework like that.

The entire end of the GN was a disappointment.  I mean, the whole time up to then, there are a bunch of themes like being human and learning about oneself and political unrest and a few other themes- all of which were executed brilliantly.  None of the superheroes are your traditional heroes with powers, minus Dr. Manhattan.  In short, the GN brings a lot to the table than other GNs ever do.  It's a nice step into a world that you're not used to.

I wish I could have just finished my work without procrastinating.  That's how bad the ending of Watchmen is.

Really, Ozymandias somehow creates some sort of brain/squid thing with a brain so powerful that it causes an explosion upon its death.  What.  The.  Fuck.

Oh, and he catches a bullet as it's coming towards him.

I thought he wasn't supposed to have any powers!  Total, complete, utter bullshit.  Moore was probably drunk when he wrote that last chapter.  I mean really, all of that build-up and the ending uses just about none of that.  What were they smoking?!?!

I felt that everyone was out of character too.  Rorschach didn't keep trying to kill Veidt, and then he made Dr. Manhattan vaporize him, leaving Rorschach to just be some steaming pool of blood in the snow.  It just doesn't seem like Rorschach to give up like that, considering we saw him group of jailmates during the riot (electrocuted one of them, suffocated the other by shoving him down a toilet).

Or, Dr. Manhattan turning all lifeless and Terminator-like, or Nite Owl and Silk Spectre getting busy where anyone could see them (well, Veidt at least, the guy who threw a plate at Nite Owl, Falcon Punched Spectre, and wiped out half of New York City) (I mean, really, who wants to show their bits to a guy like Veidt?), then dying their hair blond (like Veidt's hair...) and all of that nonsense.  None of it felt true to the characters.  In the end, it was a major letdown that should have been much, much better.  The only good part was at the last page, where the kid at the newspaper place finds Rorschach's Journal in a pile of papers.  It had a feeling like Rorschach wasn't completely dead, and that maybe he is the ultimate winner in all of this instead of Veidt... who is a complete bastard, by the way.

From what I hear, the Watchmen movie has a different ending, one that is supposedly better.  I'm sure hoping it is.  I don't think I can bear to watch/read another bad ending (main offenders: I Am Legend, Push, Babylon A.D., Next,