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rionaleonhart) wrote2009-05-26 04:34 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2009-05-26 04:34 pm
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Dear Self: You Cannot Spend Sixty Pounds On A Manga Boxset.
SERIOUSLY, GUYS, SOMEONE WRITE/DRAW ME LIGHT/HIMSELF. PLEASE. HE IS SUCH A NARCISSIST AND THIS NEEDS TO EXIST. I have a mental image of Kira!Light pinning down non-Kira!Light's wrists and smirking at him, and it is amazing. I would love to bring it into the physical world. It is such a shame that I have no artistic ability whatsoever.
Ahem. Anyway, I have now finished watching Death Note.
I became quite emotional during the final episode, actually. There's just something a bit horrible about seeing controlled, calculating, intelligent Light reduced to a pathetic mess.
I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE FEELING SORRY FOR A DERANGED MASS-MURDERER.
SERIOUSLY, DEATH NOTE, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME? If I end up in prison, I'm blaming you.
Other notes:
- Oh, oh, Matsuda was so betrayed. I want to give the poor man a hug. He always believed in Light!
- Near: you're all right, I suppose, but you cannot replace L in my heart. It did feel a little too 'OH, HEY, L'S BACK, EXCEPT WITH WHITE HAIR AND WITHOUT THE TRAGIC UNREQUITED CRUSH ON KIRA. ALSO, HIS QUIRK IS NOW TOYS INSTEAD OF SWEETS'. If you want to kill L, writers, kill L; if you want L around, don't kill L. You can't just kill L and then bring in L the Second!
- Really, Death Note did rather go downhill after L's death. I still enjoyed it, but not to quite the same extent. Woe. This, I think, was in part because, y'know, no L, and in part because it just became too complicated.
- Also, I was a little sad at the lack of interaction between Light and Ryuuku in later episodes. They had an oddly adorable relationship.
- Was - was that Matt? The man who appeared in one episode, had two lines of interior monologue and two lines of dialogue, and was then shot to death? Don't people massively 'ship him with Mello or something? He barely even appears. Does he have more of a part in the manga? Was I mistaken in my belief that Matt/Mello was an enormously popular pairing? I am so confused!
- Light! So sad! So inexplicably sad! (I cannot believe I am mourning Light. He is just a terrible person in so many, many ways. And yet!)
This is probably my favourite scene in the whole of Death Note. I laughed so hard. It is simply not what one expects of a terrifying god of death.
In conclusion, Death Note is essentially a murder mystery that tells you who the murderer is before he starts murdering. It is a slightly odd concept, but I think it works.
Ahem. Anyway, I have now finished watching Death Note.
I became quite emotional during the final episode, actually. There's just something a bit horrible about seeing controlled, calculating, intelligent Light reduced to a pathetic mess.
I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE FEELING SORRY FOR A DERANGED MASS-MURDERER.
SERIOUSLY, DEATH NOTE, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME? If I end up in prison, I'm blaming you.
Other notes:
- Oh, oh, Matsuda was so betrayed. I want to give the poor man a hug. He always believed in Light!
- Near: you're all right, I suppose, but you cannot replace L in my heart. It did feel a little too 'OH, HEY, L'S BACK, EXCEPT WITH WHITE HAIR AND WITHOUT THE TRAGIC UNREQUITED CRUSH ON KIRA. ALSO, HIS QUIRK IS NOW TOYS INSTEAD OF SWEETS'. If you want to kill L, writers, kill L; if you want L around, don't kill L. You can't just kill L and then bring in L the Second!
- Really, Death Note did rather go downhill after L's death. I still enjoyed it, but not to quite the same extent. Woe. This, I think, was in part because, y'know, no L, and in part because it just became too complicated.
- Also, I was a little sad at the lack of interaction between Light and Ryuuku in later episodes. They had an oddly adorable relationship.
- Was - was that Matt? The man who appeared in one episode, had two lines of interior monologue and two lines of dialogue, and was then shot to death? Don't people massively 'ship him with Mello or something? He barely even appears. Does he have more of a part in the manga? Was I mistaken in my belief that Matt/Mello was an enormously popular pairing? I am so confused!
- Light! So sad! So inexplicably sad! (I cannot believe I am mourning Light. He is just a terrible person in so many, many ways. And yet!)
This is probably my favourite scene in the whole of Death Note. I laughed so hard. It is simply not what one expects of a terrifying god of death.
In conclusion, Death Note is essentially a murder mystery that tells you who the murderer is before he starts murdering. It is a slightly odd concept, but I think it works.
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I have the manga and even I read it I spent ages going, "So... who's Matt again?" On rereading, I swear he's in a few frames, or like 2 pages. I'm sure that's pretty much it. Somebody might wanna confirm that though.
Perhaps he's used so much as it's a male character who isn't an OC but isn't really developed?
I really missed L. (When I was spoiled about his death, I guessed when he would die by the images on the manga covers. I got it right too! :P) I did like the ending because it couldn't really have ended any other way.
Alas, I struggle to find good Death Note fic however (although I would totally read narcisstic Light/Light fic, just because it could be amazing!). I just read a rather crackish AU and all the fics of another author whose Final Fantasy 7 fics I really liked (and then they wrote amazing Death Note fics - great!).
Whoops, sorry for the fanfic babble! :P
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Perhaps he's used so much as it's a male character who isn't an OC but isn't really developed?
I suppose that makes sense. I imagine some sort of fanonical characterisation has sprung up and been propagated through fanfiction. It just seems terribly, terribly odd to me.
I was spoiled for L's death as well, but I wasn't expecting it when it happened, largely because I had also been spoiled for the Death Note movie and confused that with the spoilers I'd heard for the anime. 'WHAT? HE CAN'T DIE NOW, WHAT ABOUT... oh, that doesn't happen in the anime, does it?' Essentially, I was so spoiled that the spoilers combined to make events a surprise, which I suppose was quite nice.
I would totally read narcisstic Light/Light fic, just because it could be amazing!
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