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Just watched the whole show... (SPOILERS)

posted 10 years ago by FigtherOfTheNightMan
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(SPOILERS BELOW) too lazy for tags... Apologies in advance the lengthy post.

Thought it was really great overall. There was a lull after Misa and Light were being held and lost their memories and after L died. The majority of the show was excellent though. Loved the portrayal of Light and L's "friendship"/rivalry, didn't really get that same sense with Near.

I guess I'm a little conflicted about the end. Part of me wanted to see Kira get caught (his actions were dispicable) and another side wanted to see Light win (he was so damn smart and sometimes it's fun to root for the bad guy). I would have been satisfied either way, I just found it hard to believe that Light would fail so miserably after having been so careful for 5+ years.

There were so many ways for him to win but only one way for him to lose. And he lost spectacularly. I will admit it was fun to see him squirm and panic, even if it was out of character. I guess I was expecting a brilliant counter move, since he always had one. I can picture a scenario where he would anticipate a fake Death Note and have X-Kira write Light's name down and just make the time of death 1 second before his life span was over (write the life span in invisible ink?) and implicate Near by not including his name. Or make a deal before the meeting for the Shinigami eyes. Or even if he was caught, just admit to it and walk away. The SPK and taskforce don't believe in killing and Kira's influence might have been great enough that he could have gotten off. But he had a meltdown instead because he lost. I guess they wanted to show how his arrogance had caught up with him.

I also wonder what will happen to Misa, now that she has no memory of the Death Note and an unnaturally long life span thanks to Ren's sacrifice. And dammit, I wanted to see what would happen to Light when he died since he can neither go to heaven or hell.

[–] Kawada_Kira 10 years ago

Great post. I too felt there was a dip in quality in the later part of the show, and I was disappointed with the end. You put your finger on it; Kira was always so careful, it was a shame how easily and spectacularly he ended up losing, especially to a newcomer L-wannabe like N. Right up until the moment Matsuda started shooting him, I honestly believed Kira was going to suddenly reveal that he had one last card to play. I was so disappointed that there wasn't one. It felt like such an anticlimactic way for Kira to go down.

As for Misa, I think it was implied that she committed suicide after Kira died.

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[–] loodlelouu 10 years ago

Yeah, I was extremely disappointed with the second half of the show after L died. I told my husband that I thought it would have been more interesting if Light and L battled it out until the end in a cat and mouse type of rivalry. I could have seen L dying and Light telling him all about how he was Kira all along right before his death and then somehow Light finding a way to make the Death Note disappear, the memories gone, and living his life normally again. I felt the first half of the show was fantastic and that the second half was a cop out and really sloppy writing. In the first half you have L who is smarter and more interesting than Near and Mello combined, and cannot figure out how to connect Light to being Kira. Light was not so bad in the beginning and I think that a lot of people who have a strong sense of justice were rooting him on because they could see why he was getting rid of the bad in the world. I was torn between the two and who I should root for. Light was too smart to go down the way he did, and that is forever the reason I will not fully like this show.

[–] Kawada_Kira 10 years ago

Light was too smart to go down the way he did

Yep. It occurred to me after I watched it that Kira should have had one last backup plan in case Mikami screwed up and N found out about the real notebook. He should have had Mikami carry an extra page from the real notebook, that N couldn't possibly have discovered and tampered with, hidden on his person the same way Kira had a piece hidden in his watch. Then it wouldn't have mattered if N found out about Mikami switching the real notebook with a fake one and tampered with the real one, because there would still have been one last piece of it that Mikami could have turned to after nobody died when he wrote their names.

That's what I would have done if I were Kira. And I don't consider myself to be very smart; if I could work that out, Kira certainly would have. Like you said, the second half of the series had sloppier writing. It got... lazier. The finale was so disappointing for that reason. There's no way Kira would have gotten so lax after all he'd done, all his hard work, all his brilliance, and let himself be beaten so easily by some L-wannabe who just kind of strolled into the show and won.

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- Voltaire

[–] loodlelouu 10 years ago

I realized that parts of my post didn't make any sense. Haha I meant to say that if L couldn't connect the dots, there wasn't any way those two washed out L-wanna-be's would be able to do it. "We couldn't figure it out when we were fighting, but once we put our heads together it became clear." (Obviously not an exact quote.) Oh, okay. That's all it took.

Also, I agree with you and I even feel that Mikami would have been smart enough to figure out that he should hide a piece of the real notebook. Otherwise Light would not have picked him as the fourth Kira.

*sigh* There are just too many things that don't add up and it really annoys me that Light was still very humane throughout the first half and once L died it was like his psycho switch flipped.

Every time I think about the ending, I become angry. Haha

[–] MrsSpooky 10 years ago

Also, I agree with you and I even feel that Mikami would have been smart enough to figure out that he should hide a piece of the real notebook. Otherwise Light would not have picked him as the fourth Kira.

If anything, Mikami wasn't paranoid enough and I think maybe Light wasn't watching him closely enough - to see just how obsessive he was about his behavior and patterns. Mikami was probably unaware of just HOW predictable he was and even if he was, he thought he had no reason for anyone to even be watching him and notice a break in the pattern.

*sigh* There are just too many things that don't add up and it really annoys me that Light was still very humane throughout the first half and once L died it was like his psycho switch flipped.

This is what killed me about that though. In the beginning (pre-Yotsuba), you see Light watching TV, and the names and faces that were broadcast that said "wanted for" or "suspected of" etc. And he was killing them. Of course in Japan, there is something like a 97% conviction rate, the belief being that if they weren't guilty, they wouldn't have been arrested (and they usually get a confession out of the people they DO arrest, whether it's a legitimate confession or not, so that might be a factor). But yeah, someone was suspected of something, Light would take them out. Then when memory free Light is contemplating the "change" in Kira's behavior, he says that the other Kira did research and made allowances for circumstances and sometimes didn't kill people if they stole but were feeding a starving family for instance. That's not what they showed us in the beginning, and no allusions to that effect were ever made prior to that point.

My theory on that is due to the publishing history of the manga. Earlier issues had already been published, then Ohba realized that they had to notice something different with this Kira so threw that in - possibly aware that it was too late to put any references to that sooner because it was too late (maybe hoped nobody would notice).

But yeah, I love how you put that, "the psycho switch flipped." It certainly did!!! xD

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[–] MrsSpooky 10 years ago

MY favorite thing about the end was that it was Matsuda who took him down. Matsuda who never got credit for anything (the reason for that was in the manga but didn't make it into the anime), Matsuda the idiot. He saved Near's life and darned near immobilized Light. I've often wondered - Matsuda took a shot at Light's head and missed, but did he miss on purpose or because the rest of the task force grabbed him and made him miss? Matsuda hits what he shoots at, as soon in his taking out the gangster who had the notebook they went in after and how he shot the heck out of Light only wounding him. Did he MEAN to miss Light's head or was his arm pulled off?

That for me was the biggest surprise, the class clown wigs out and holy crap. xD

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[–] toky-world 10 years ago

Nonsense. Light should ve won. I felt manipulated as if i was watching an oceans eleven movie." We actually altered both notebooks." That was lame.

Light shouldve won as he predicted it.

I think the writers figured out that they were out of ideas and better end it with some dignity.

[–] Meera-Khan 9 years ago

I thought the ending was perfect and completely in charecter for Light. Light really thought he could not be taken down. He really believed that he was god. His over confidence destroyed him.