Tasha Robinson, over at the Onion’s AV Club, has an excellent piece up comparing the book and film versions of Watchmen.  In addition to the obligatory laundry list of fannish greivances, she points out a crucial difference between the two versions that Snyder had no control over:  comics are a medium of visual narrative, while film is a medium of audiovisual narrative.  Robinson is talking about the actors’ performances, and she does a good job explaining the effects of that.  But she doesn’t mention the other big part of the film’s soundscape:  music.  And that’s kind of a shame, because the music department did something really interesting here.  (Our own Mlawski saw this coming, as devout OTIketeers will no doubt recall…)

Spoilers ahead, for what it’s worth.  Though I doubt anyone would read this without having seen the movie anyway.