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zherok:
--- Quote from: Insanity on May 01, 2009, 11:41:10 AM ---yay spoilers! :P
(click to show/hide)He just saw his whole world, in which he was god unravel right in front of him, I don't think it was such a strange reaction especially given his narcissistic nature he most likely couldn't imagine any scenario that didn't have him ending at the top.
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(click to show/hide)I don't think it really matters if it's justified or not, the fact of the matter is that killing L took a tremendous number of factors going his way in which Light had almost zero influence in determining their outcome. He was the lesser competitor between the two in my opinion. Yet he wins anyway, only to then get bumped off by a less interesting but otherwise "near" (lawl) identical clone of L. All while the majority of Light's cleverness almost drops out entirely. He gets incredibly sloppy, and regardless of whether this makes sense, I think it'd be hard to argue the fact that the tension from the first half just isn't present in the second.
I think Near is too similar to L to be that interesting. The differences are fairly minor, so he comes off as almost an identical surrogate. Except he's less interesting because we just spent the entire show up until that point with L. His role in the story feels almost entirely like a sort of universal karmic justice, which does nothing but undermine what caused him to be created in the first place. His significance is so tied to L that he can't really stand alone. He exists only because L exists.
LordRhino:
(click to show/hide)I think the ending was good, Ryuk said in the 1st episode that he would be the one to kill Light when things got out of hand. Light's reaction was almost as if he released all his bottled up emotions that he never showed, considering he thought he was victorious at that point, and couldn't hold out from laughing anymore.
Scudworth:
I hated near and mellow.
at the start of the show I wasn't sure if I was routing for light of L. first half of the show was brilliant.
but...
(click to show/hide)as soon as L dies the show takes a huge downward spiral up until the end, then it pulls itself up just long enough to kill of the coolest character and his hot chickadies. I wanted Light to live :(
morrefule:
So the ending... here is why i don't like it
(click to show/hide) First off Light was extremely intelligent on how he manipulated people and events. His demeanor even without L around was perfectly calm and calculating. When I was watching the last few episodes, I was wondering how he was going to pull it off. Since we know he understood what Near (N) was doing he could have easily beat Near.
This is how he could have done it. If I remember correctly he told Teru Mikami to rip a page out of the death note after the pages were numbered or something like that. And if he didn’t he should have. What he then could have easily done since Teru Mikami had the deaths eye is take the piece of paper, hide it somewhere safe on his body at all times, and then to the warehouse with him and write the names on that piece of paper. Then there is no way Near could have tawarted Light, even if Teru Mikami Lost the deathnote. Then if the Deathnote was lost, all Light had to do was send Ryuku to find it for him and bring it back.
And that’s what pissed me most off about the series is it totally flipped itself upside down at the end and made Light seem psychotic. Which if we watch his development from the beginning he never had that trait nor did he allude to it. It was more like the creators of the series didn’t want Light to win, because if he did that meant, in some twisted way, that evil triumph over good. And apparently that’s politically incorrect even in fiction in the global society.
and that's my 2 cents rant.... I could have gone on, but thinking back on it, it really grinds my gears... (thanks Family Guy)
SeventyX7:
Enter, Defender of the Ending of Death Note!!
(click to show/hide)(1. If Light "won," how would the series have ended? It pretty much would have had to jump the shark and enter some crazy plotline untrue to the spirit of the show.
(2. Light's plan would have worked if Mikami didn't panic and kill Light's-high-school-sweetheart-who's-name-I-forget after Mello kidnapped her. That's what gave away the death note's location. What is so great about this is that Light couldn't possibly have predicted this! It was just beyond the scope of his knowledge. The reason why this is so perfect, is L died from the same lack of information he couldn't possibly have had. It goes to show how these two "legendary" planners couldn't save their own lives, even with all their schemes. It's so perfect!
(3. I didn't detect this "psychotic" feature you saw in Light at the end. I saw Light's delusions finally getting shattered. He isn't infallible, and I think that's why people have a problem with the ending. The series is presented almost one-sidedly from Light's perspective, a perspective painted with ridiculously grandiose delusions (God of the New World? Are you serious?) and over-the-top arrogant thinking. Like Light is capable of making judgements regarding life and death for everyone in the world.
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