No time to post anything terribly in-depth right now, but a question has been nagging at me, so I thought I'd throw it out there.

There has been a lot of talk lately – a lot – about Zack Snyder's adaptation of the graphic novel Watchmen and the degree to which his movie is an "accurate" or "faithful" rendition of Alan Moore's writing and Dave Gibbons' artwork. Indeed, there has been so much emphasis on the movie's "accuracy" that it struck me as redundant when Warner Brothers released a "motion comic" on DVD that takes the panels of the graphic novel and makes them move. Isn't that more or less what Snyder is doing, except he uses actors etc.?

I have not yet seen the film for myself, but I have read a few reviews, and a line at Roger Ebert's blog (he likes the movie, by the way) puts a fun, witty spin on my concerns: "Faithfulness in adaptation is not necessarily a virtue; this is a movie and not a marriage."

If the discussion has reminded me of anything, it is of the way Christians tend ...

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