Death Note is no longer killing me

[thistlechaser]

Again: Spoilers. Old series = not cutting. Spoilers up to the first 30 eps or so.

I really really hope the writers know what they're doing. The two kids were introduced maybe five eps ago, and I still don't like them. The whole story, the whole point of the series had been L vs Light, so when Light won that would have been a great ending. (Especially ending it with the ep that L died, don't tell us what happens next! Leave it open!)

Near and Mello are annoying. Not to mention, they look highly disturbingly like the love children of L and Light (WTF?). One sits like L, the other has a sweet tooth like him. Again, WTF? I read a post somewhere about L's sons, so I'm assuming that's what they are (it hasn't been mentioned in the series yet), but genes do not work that way. Sweet tooth? Maybe, maybe, maybe I could wrap my head around that, but how one sits? Bah.

I really hope there's some good payoff to introducing these two. Right now it feels like they (the writers) have ruined the series. I really hope they pull it out in the end and make it worth it.

I have three or four eps left to watch, but I probably won't see them until I go back to work on Monday. (At least with this downturn of the story I'm not itching and wiggling to watch the rest?)

I really hope they do something to make it worth having added these two...

Comments

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Blah. Well I'll watch it through to the end, I just wish they had cut everything after he died. :/

[aelice.livejournal.com]

I absolutely agree. To me, it feels like the writer wanted to leave it at L dying, and some kind of ambiguous Hitchcock-like ending leading the viewer to assume that in the years to come Light either achieved his dream, or he was eventually found and caught.

[doxxxicle.livejournal.com]

What's also possible is that the anime caught up with the manga and the anime writers had to make up the rest of the story because they couldn't wait for the manga writer to finish.

[doxxxicle.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, another person whose LJ I read regularly is also watching Death Note and got to the same point. They had some interesting things to say about it (first paragraph): http://twoflower.livejournal.com/531636.html

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link! That was interesting, both what he had to say and that he's watching it at the same time I am. I guess I'm not the only one so far behind! :P

[citizenbleys.livejournal.com]

It doesn't get any better. Near and Mello continue to be dull and anile characters until the very end

[wanderingscribe.livejournal.com]

Near and Mello aren't L's sons; they're orphans from Wammy's House that happen to be first (Near) and second (Mello) in line for the position of "L".

As for Near and Mello as characters, I'm going to be in the minority and say that I like them both and I think the bashing against them is kind of unfair. They're not L; they're supposed to have habits of his because they admire him, but they're their own individual characters.

But anyway, that's just my opinion and YMMV as always.