[Lambda]

That was a brilliant episode. Suddenly the show has a new dimension.

Spoiler for Ep14:

The key moment of course was when L said Light was his only friend. But most notable was the contrast between this, plus Misa's obsession with him, and the way the episode takes great pains to emphasise that Light is thinking of nothing but killing. Indeed almost immediately after learning about L's friendship, he takes what would seem like the decisive action if we didn't still have many more episodes to go. Light really does seem like an elemental force of death at the moment. But I can't help but wonder if...

Spoiler for speculation based on the anime so far:

they're setting up some manner of "redemption" for him, some sort of welcome back to the normal ways of the human race. I get the sense that Light has always been distant from absolutely everyone, probably due to being such an unusual person. But now he has someone rather similar who he's in close contact with, and someone else whom he just can't "escape" from, both of whom are very much friendly towards him. Of course, he's talking casually about killing them both at the moment, so there's quite a long way to go, but something's got to happen, or at this rate everyone will end up dead.

But of course, the big question right now is just how is L going to avoid death?