It's almost 5AM, and I finally finished Death Note. Very well done, and kept me hooked until the end. The L arc was better than the N/M arc, but it provided closure to the whole series.
The dynamic with Light and L/N was strange, there were times when you were really for Light's side, and others when you hated Light's actions. The episodes when Light was his normal self made me want to keep the three of them in that state for the rest of the time, but by the time he regained his powers, I was dying for a real enemy, anyway. By the time the last 10 episodes came about, I really hated how cold-blooded Light had become. The shades of gray seemed to disappear. And then you kinda feel sorry for him (and Misa) on the last episode. I kinda wished that Kira accepted his fate, instead of running until the end.
Also, the 2nd intro was one of the best I've seen. Who would have thought that Japanese Death Metal (with a touch of System of a Down) would have worked so well?
Did anybody catch the last two "rules" in the last episode? Everybody dies and goes to Nothingness. This was sort of a poetic jab-in-the-eye of the "Heaven and Hell" and biblical things they were talking about in previous episodes, as if to say "All of these things don't matter, because there is no judgment to speak of." Of course, the Death Gods know this, and this is likely why they don't even give a shit about who to kill, morals, and whether their role is important.
The dynamic with Light and L/N was strange, there were times when you were really for Light's side, and others when you hated Light's actions. The episodes when Light was his normal self made me want to keep the three of them in that state for the rest of the time, but by the time he regained his powers, I was dying for a real enemy, anyway. By the time the last 10 episodes came about, I really hated how cold-blooded Light had become. The shades of gray seemed to disappear. And then you kinda feel sorry for him (and Misa) on the last episode. I kinda wished that Kira accepted his fate, instead of running until the end.
Also, the 2nd intro was one of the best I've seen. Who would have thought that Japanese Death Metal (with a touch of System of a Down) would have worked so well?
Did anybody catch the last two "rules" in the last episode? Everybody dies and goes to Nothingness. This was sort of a poetic jab-in-the-eye of the "Heaven and Hell" and biblical things they were talking about in previous episodes, as if to say "All of these things don't matter, because there is no judgment to speak of." Of course, the Death Gods know this, and this is likely why they don't even give a shit about who to kill, morals, and whether their role is important.
Rosalina: But you didn't.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.