Poll: The DeathNote

[Ultrajoe]

i just remember everything i come by (especially the things that don't make sense)

i can't help being smarter then you.(doesn't make me a nerd)

How does memory of a japanese cartoon make you smarter than me? In fact, that logic you just use proves just how much you AREN'T smarter than me

You two play nice.

 

[Zorg Machine]

ethically it was bad but crime fell all over the earth to almost nothing.
tis a conundrum.

 

[squid5580]

I think Light embodied to very old sayings. "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions" and "absolute power corrupts absolutely". Still it is my fave anime and the live action movies did it justice.

 

[johnzaku]

Dude, the series wasn't even very good, I don't know why people get so worked up about it

Read the manga, that's where most of it stems. The manga was excellent, but the anime... XP

OT: I think that yeah, in order to stop bad people it was a good thing.... to a point.

When Light was goin' all crazy near the end, it was to point out that "absolute power corrupts absolutely"

 

[Trotgar]

I think Lights intention was good, but the way he did it was shait. He probably saved some people, but he killed thousands and thousands of people and caused terror and chaos.

 

[Ultrajoe]

not necessarily, but in this case it seems pointless. The thing is no one really died, it was fiction. If you really wanted to discuss the implications of death and humans, it would make much more sense to argue if humans have the right to take the lives of other people and use something real as an example, such as executions.

With a work of fiction like this, it doesn't carry much weight, because every single element is fictional. There is no way to kill someone by writing their name, and "death gods" do not exist, so it makes the argument seem flimsy and almost silly.

So because Frankenstien was a man made of body-bits, it's silly to suggest that the novel about him has anything salient to say on the nature of hubris?

 

[AWC Viper]

He deserves to make me a sammich

Take that as you may

Spoiler

that made my day.

 

[Saarai-fan]

Didn't Light have the idea of killing all lazy people?

Didn't Light have the idea of killing all lazy people?

That was Teru Mikami, also known as the fourth Kira by fans. Know you, the guy who kept saying "delete" after writing someone's name in the deathnote. If I do remember right though, Light did seem to sort of agree with the idea but thought it was too soon to do or something.

Also I wanted to see Ryuk, as Light had mentioned early on, go back to the shinigami realm and reinvigorate it or something.

Yeah, I was hoping to see something like that too.

This scene particularly I thought was very descriptive:


The whole thing.

Light sure is displaying some lunatic god complexes there. "You're in my way, so die because I can!"

...Yet, look at L...

L has no problem sacrificing someone, even if it was a criminal. He's a hypocrite. He killed someone, he put them on the chair knowing they might die, just to serve his purpose. Yet he hunts Kira for the same reason.

My particularly favorite part, watch around 4:48 to 4:57.

"I.AM.JUSTICE!"

Both of them say it. Both of them see themselves as some nearly divine personification of justice.

They both have very shaky morals. Light will kill people who stand on the way of his vision, yet L will give away precious details, like letting Kira know he knows, details which would have made his capture a LOT easier... Just to egg him on. Just to taunt him. It's personal. It's not a service for him, it's a hunt.

I'll also agree with this. Though I do believe Light was wrong in using the deathnote and was no better than those he murdered using it's power, L isn't a saint either. Sure L had his heart in the right place wanting to capture Kira and stop him, but I can't agree with all the methods he used to find him, especially when they were just plain cruel.