"sanjian" <mungkb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Blade wrote:
>> "Doug Jacobs" <djacobs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Mark Jones <faferd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>Oddly enough, even though it's just, I found that part severly
unsatisfying.
>Kira should not go out with a whimper.
I thought so as well. It hardly sounds in the character's nature.
But after a little pondering, I think maybe the author is being
ironic.
For his crimes, some would find no greater ending to the series
than watching kira die a cowards death, humiliated, begging for
his life. In a sense, their moral superiority is the death
note in which Kira's name was written. And they, like he, are
reveling in their own divine judgment. The author has in effect,
and maybe unintentionally so, sent them out for a stroll in Light's
footware.
Of course, I've not read the manga, and I've only seen of
the series what's aired on Cartoon Network. So that's just
a wild thought from reading the spoilers in this thread.
So this is most likely just the sleep deprived ramblings of
uninformed fool at 4am. :)
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