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1. What is up with the musical score? It’s like they got bored partway in and just used the director’s iPod set to “shuffle”. 99 Luftballons – seriously?

2. Apollonia Vanova: HOT. AS SUNS ARE HOT.

3. Truly not following the pretentious-movie-critic whining about the violence. Hey, about violence? It is violent. And ugly. Apparently the chattering classes would have preferred The Comedian’s attack on Silk Spectre to be more like Rhett Butler dragging Scarlett O’Hara upstairs, rather than, oh, actually beating the crap out of a woman so she isn’t in any position to fight off a brutal sexual assault.  A.O. Scott’s adult sensibilities are offended at the notion that if a superhero beats up a bad guy, that is going to involve pain, and broken bones and crippling, bleeding injuries, instead of an “Oof!” and a pratfall.  I’d suggest that these critics need to spend less time in confined spaces where the main meal is popcorn, and more time on the planet with the rest of us.

4. She’s right: Ozymandias is an asshole.

5. Yes, the squid ending was changed. No, this is not really a problem. There are many things that work in a graphic novel that would look stupid on the big screen, and a giant vaginaform squid is one of them. The plot change got to the same place without changing the story.

6. I’m actually OK with the sex scene even though it was kind of unnecesary and overlong. It does show a lot of the dynamic between Silk Spectre II and Night Owl II; he’s sort of along for the ride and baffled about it and she is, basically, running the show.

7. I wonder how much of some people’s offense is really rooted in the fact that there is male nudity as well as female. I suppose they wanted Dr. Manhattan to constantly be clad in discreet Jack Kirby-style boy shorts.