Death Note and why its Evil. - And why if you like it, you are evil too.

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Knight of the Rope said:
The only thing I even remember from Death Note at this point was how hilariously dramatic they made the act of writing look in all of Light's spaz-outs.

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yeah half the fun of it is how the cartoon (and to no small extent the comics, but the cartoon has the music to take it to 11) will just TAKE A POTATO CHIP... AND EAT IT! and shit becomes this hypernovella melodrama level-2
 
Did :) ever watch Death Note?
What if he did? Would he write trolls in a notebook?
 
ICametoLurk said:
Did :) ever watch Death Note?
What if he did? Would he write trolls in a notebook?
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I think the fact there isn't some series of videos of him using a Death Note he bought off ebay is pretty strong evidence he never saw it.
 
From The Uncanny Valley said:
Teru Mikami was the only good part of part 2 Fite me
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I actually forgot about Sakujo-boy for a bit. He was another madlad that made writing look infinitely cooler than it is.
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This is the Second, and most vile of heresies because it undermines the fundamental power of God. Namely, that God has ultimate authority over death, and no mortal can invoke supernatural demonic powers to slay one his agents in the world.
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This is one of the many ways I know this whole fucking wall of text is bullshit because the literal premise of death note is that the death note is literally the death record book of the gods in the story and it's about generally how that kind of power should not be given to fucking humans. Light starts out as a straight A student somewhat morally driven when finding the book but quickly becomes corrupted by the power that comes with saying people can die after finding out people online are catching onto the fact someone is probably doing something to make all those prison inmates die and some assume it's a work of some occult god literally named "killer" lmao.
 
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Wonder what this guy thinks about any of the many JRPGs that end in you killing God.
 
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Knight of the Rope said:
I actually forgot about Sakujo-boy for a bit. He was another madlad that made writing look infinitely cooler than it is.
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Wonder why he had to step back to write a name.

If you want a serious answer, in my opinion death note showed that if humans we're given the power of god, we'd screw it up and start getting mad with power on people. Just like how human nature turn a good thing like the internet into a sanitized-corporate thunderdome where you can't say what you would want to say IRL.
 
mindlessobserver said:
I really don't like this implication because it smacks of publishers and producers being genuinely disturbed by what they are reading and demanding the author tone things down. Its very clear there is a tale of two stories here. Where the original intent gets coopted towards the end by producers desperate to try and salvage some sort of moral message out of an otherwise morally bankrupt pile of crap.


Is nobody allowed to have firm moral convictions anymore about anything?
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"I was only pretending to be retarded"?
 
Ngl its a story about a killer notebook. Its just entertainment.
If you want to complain about something, better their later work, Platinum End, which sucked and was stupid.
It also ends with God killing himself, so you'd have lots to complain about.
 
mindlessobserver said:
I got as far as I could. As I pointed out, what did it for me was when the lady detective was killed by Light. The show really could not redeem itself for me at that point, because it implied at a fundamental level even the "just" could be supernaturally killed. I really cannot stress enough how much the scene of that woman walking to gallows enraged me. It was a direct challenge to the western world view of justice and the divine. Done pretty gleefully it needs to be noted. There is a reason lights Shinigami is dressed as a jester. Death Notes creator was going all out to slay sacred cows in order to push his nihilistic world view.


I am wrong about Death Note being a magnum opus to Nihilistic philosophy? Please explain how the show is not nihilistic.
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That was one of the best episodes.. that whole episode was a duel of wits between her and Light. You seem to think that just because Light succeeded means that the show is endorsing him. It is not.

Death Note is a show with a villain protagonist. He is the bad guy. You are not meant to root for him, as much as just be fascinated at the story unfolding. Her death is shown to be somber, not something that is reveled in.
 
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