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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 DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO SAY
YOU ARE AMAZING
It is such an effort not to break into a massive ridiculous grin and laugh in delight and flail off the sofa, but my brother is sitting next to me and he would probably wonder why and that would be awkward.
Right. First point: yes, you should have stayed up another forty-five minutes writing this. This was one hundred per cent the correct decision.
Second: LIGHT ANALYSING EVERYTHING
(all right, I am not going to be able to keep up a 'first, second, third' structure; my present state is far too gleeful to be so coherently expressed)
Light! Recognising the situation as a hallucination! Calmly analysing what aspects of the hallucination might represent! His musings on the significance of the shackles fill me entirely with delight.
Kira! Being so very persuasive! Seeming so very reasonable! Expressing the mindset of the criminal in mathematical terms! Being warm where Light is cold!
they have been passed down and down the lines, from great thinker to great thinker until finally they reach perhaps the greatest
Oh, oh, oh, I love Light's ridiculous narcissism so much. ALTHOUGH NOT NEARLY AS MUCH AS I LOVE YOU.
You have the tools to be the ultimate expression of the law. To do any less would be to let criminals go unpunished. To let criminals go unpunished would be to go traitor to the law yourself. To hold to consistency you must write at least one name in that book, and if you'll write one alone, make it your own.
YOU ARE JUST SO BRILLIANT I CANNOT EVEN EXPRESS IT.
And that ending! And everything!
Thank you so, so much for writing this.