Blade wrote:
> Yay, my post finally propagated? Nothing I post has been getting
> through for awhile, though I can read just fine...
>
> "sanjian" <mungkb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Blade wrote:
>>> "Doug Jacobs" <djacobs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> Mark Jones <faferd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>> Massive, massive...
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>>>> Hm. I just thought of something. Didn't Ryuk say that anyone who
>>>> used the Deathnote would be sent to Purgatory? In this sense, the
>>>> father has unknowingly triumphed over Kira/Light and L. His
>>>> unwillingness to use the deathnote means he'll probably go to
>>>> heaven. However, L will probably end up in hell for his "ends
>>>> justify the means" manipulation of people, while Light gets off
>>>> with a "light" sentence by just being sent to purgatory.
>>>
>>> Ryuk says people who use the Death Note don't go to Heaven or Hell.
>>> He is not lying. Light figures out the truth almost immediately -
>>> there IS no afterlife. There is nothing after you die. No heaven, no
>>> hell, no purgatory, no nothing.
>>>
>>> This feeds into Light's general impression of himself as the actual
>>> God, dispensing judgement upon the evil and unworthy. It also is a
>>> large part of the reason his own death is (in the manga) so utterly
>>> humiliating - he begs and crawls and screams and cries trying to
>>> avoid it. The anime softened this considerably, by far the change in
>>> it I like least.
>>
>> Oddly enough, even though it's just, I found that part severly
>> unsatisfying. Kira should not go out with a whimper.
>
> Interesting. I felt it was the only satisfying way to end it. Near
> also has his most truly satisfying moment, when he listens to Light
> rant about how he's done all this good and blah blah blah and he's
> too im****tant and cuts him off with "No, you're just a murderer."
>
> Light isn't god. He's just a guy who killed a lot of people and got a
> swelled head over it. He has no real morals or convictions other than
> to himself; he deserves to be exposed for the shallow and cowardly
> creature he is. Any ending that does not strip him of his dignity is,
> I think, completely the wrong message to send.
I'm not so much worried about the message. If someone's getting their
moral
truths from anime, we've got problems. I found him to be an interesting
character, and I wanted him to go out well.
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