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Jun. 15th, 2006 04:22 pmWell, I finished Death Note. Took about three days, but I got all the way through the entire second arc to the end. And you know, it took a little while to care at all about Mello and Near, but after a few chapters, I really liked both them and their storyline.
( Spoilers go here )
Once, towards the end, when Mello and Near are trying to trap Light into proving that he's Kira, I surprised myself. Near said something like "if this person dies at this time, I'll know that L is Kira" - and the next time I saw Light I thought "Don't kill that person! You'll reveal yourself!" The second I finished that second I thought: What the fuck? You're not rooting for Kira!? You know he's going to fail, and you know that he should fail. You're horrified at his actions...what's wrong with you?
I still haven't fully justified it to myself. I guess I'm just impressed by the sheer cleverness and brilliance of Light, and I sometimes forget that he's a psychopath. He's one of the worst I've ever seen depicted. He's killed thousands of people, thinks of people only as a means to an end, manipulates and despises everyone, has a god complex, started murdering because he was bored, and still, somehow, part of me likes him. I think that is the brilliance of Death Note.
( Spoilers go here )
Once, towards the end, when Mello and Near are trying to trap Light into proving that he's Kira, I surprised myself. Near said something like "if this person dies at this time, I'll know that L is Kira" - and the next time I saw Light I thought "Don't kill that person! You'll reveal yourself!" The second I finished that second I thought: What the fuck? You're not rooting for Kira!? You know he's going to fail, and you know that he should fail. You're horrified at his actions...what's wrong with you?
I still haven't fully justified it to myself. I guess I'm just impressed by the sheer cleverness and brilliance of Light, and I sometimes forget that he's a psychopath. He's one of the worst I've ever seen depicted. He's killed thousands of people, thinks of people only as a means to an end, manipulates and despises everyone, has a god complex, started murdering because he was bored, and still, somehow, part of me likes him. I think that is the brilliance of Death Note.