My Thoughts on Dr. Manhattan

     I don't have many complex thoughts on the comic Watchmen and the historical or political stances. What I've taken away from this so far is that I love Dr. Manhattan/Jon as a character. In the beginning it doesn't seem like there's much to him. He is portrayed as an emotionless foreign entity. So there comes this question of whether Jon's humans emotions transferred when he regenerated in his blue form. Obviously he had to have felt something, since he dated Sally, and later Laurie. But there's something different with the way he processes emotion, as he clearly is not the same as he used to be. His emotions seemed very surface level. This is clear by the way he handles conflict with Laurie. When she became upset with him for using his powers to be in more than one place at once in an intimate moment, he responded in a very mechanical way. He said "let's talk about it" but didn't connect to her emotionally or feel any empathy to how she was feeling. He is very literal and scientific in the way he functions. Is that because he was a formerly a scientist? Or was his brain changed in the transformation? He's trying, but for some reason he can't function the way he used to. Perhaps this is what led to his outburst when he was interviewed. In that interview I think he felt more emotion than he had in a long time and became extremely overwhelmed and had no idea how to cope with something that has been void in his life for such a long time. I would honestly really love to hear other opinions on Jon and how he functions.