Sorry about the wait: my dorm's internet has been crap today.Azraellod said:Thaius said:Maybe I have to watch it again: I remember Light putting on a facade after his father died, but as soon as he was alone he expressed nothing but victory. I apparently don't remember those events all that well...
I will agree that part of it all was the threats. His actions only got really bad when he had to kill innocents to keep his cover. That did happen a lot though...
Anyway, I would also agree that he pretty much was not himself once he regained his memories. Somewhere around that point was where I started thinking he had completely lost himself to his cause, though obviously I'll need to watch it again if I'm forgetting his emotions surrounding the following events.it's not mentioned in the anime that light regrets it. they had to cut various parts out. i bought how to read 13 though, which contains author comments on the situations. otherwise you're right, light doesn't show much regret that his father dies, i just know this because i went partly into the manga as well.
i notice that he tried to avoid killing innocents, and depending on how you define innocent there, he did quite a good job. he considered anyone trying to catch him not innocent by default, which seems fairly reasonable if he wants to stay safe. misora was just unlucky, aiber and wendy i think were also a threat, and probably reminded light of L, and the yotsuba corporation... well, i was actually against that killing. i think it was stuck in at the last second though, as the image of them being wiped out looked silly to me.
takada was probably the point where i thought that he finally crossed the line. takada was a willing servant in his new world, and he killed her quite without feeling. i can understand his reasoning, but there could have been nicer ways to kill her then to burn her to death: after all, presumably she was still fully conscious.
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My favorite ending is fromRingo and his wife rob the diner, and then, Jules talks him out of it, comparing his life to passages from the Bible. I thought it put things together very nicely, and made me love the movie even more. And his wallet says "Bad ************" on it.
sorry i didn't respond earlier, i opened this message, then had to log out immediately so i then forgot about it.Thaius said:I guess it seemed to me that he fell back on the Death Note a bit too easily. I mean, there were a few situations he could have handled a number of different ways: Light was a supergenius. All the amazingly smart things he did throughout the show, and yet it seemed, more and more throughout the show, that he resorted to the Death Note with less and less struggle. At first he tried finding different ways of doing things, but eventually it got to the point where he would just try one or two things to get rid of someone, and if they didn't work he would just go write their name. I guess it seemed like sometimes he could have tried a bit harder to spare their life. Of course, this became more frequent and extreme, culminating in Takada's death: he just killed her as soon as she was no longer needed.
My thoughts, at least. Admittedly, though, I'm seeing that I have to watch it again. I'm realizing how fuzzy my head is on the details of the last half or so.