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After reading through every post up until now, I couldn't restrain myself from not commenting on this series.
First off, I think the pro-Light audience is a lot bigger than the contrary. Though the posts until now clearly show that not a lot of people agree with Light, it is more or less them not wanting to get flamed for an.. well.. against the what-opinion-I-should-have. I'm rather disappointed that those people do not speak up which makes this threat kinda biased.
-Power corrupts the human soul-
Hmm, personally I don't think "corruption" is right word for this series. I would compare it with how environment influences people's way of thinking. No one here can honestly say that they have never contradicted one of their beliefs, because everyone did someone that made them think "I have become what I used to hate/oppose, however.. that's only because...".
With that said, Light is neither insane nor a madman and before labeling me as a Light-lover, read on.
Most are saying that Light is simply crazy, his "justice" is and was wrong from the very beginning - this is false. Recall when Light relinquished ownership of the Death Note the first time, he immediately agreed to join L in the investigation. He was also honest enough to spit out L's exact thoughts every time he was testing him, i.e. when L asked him if he would succeed him if he dies. He even thinks about how very similar Kira and his own views are when he lost his memories but immediately discards the thought of him becoming/being him. But the absolute argument is that Light himself says - after regaining his memories in the helicopter - "I knew I would join L and fight Kira, that's just the type of person I am".
I think the moral and message of the story was delivered in those thoughts of his when he regained his memories.
Personally, I interpret it as him telling the world...
"If there was anyone who had to power to judge over the lives of people in accordance to their own view of justice, it would be a crime and I would not support it and fight it,... unless that individual is myself."
I don't think anyone can disagree with the general idea of that phrase because he shows that, if he had no memory of him being Kira and him currently not being Kira, he would go against it. However, the very first time he got the Death Note, the very first idea he gets about what he could use it for is reform the world. Also, as soon as he regained his memories and despite he experience he gathered and opinions he developed with L, he was back to his old self, without doubt. In clear-text, even after seeing how wrong Kira's power can be, if it is in his hands he believes that he can do it right.
-Would the world Light could've created really bad-
Going with the assumption that Light finished off all his opponents and had absolutely no one who opposes him. Now, you are born into such a world and your history teacher tells you "The world wasn't always like this; before Kira, there was war, organized crime, etc...", would you see Kira, and therefore Light, as a hero or savior? "Ends have to justify the means", however the means are ephemeral whereas the ends are lasting.
Lastly, the ending.
The story and its twists and its characters are simply genius; the flow was smooth and everything delivered was realistic. But since this is a fictional piece of entertainment, it has to end somewhere and somehow and therefore ending it with Light being victorious would have made no sense except fanservicing. Whether the author himself wanted it to end it the way it did if he was a spectator rather than the author is far from definite as well. The last episode, as well as the last few chapters in the manga were completely unrealistic BUT necessary for a fictional story of this caliber. As already mentioned numerous times, Light's ability of deduction and naiveness of resting his entire plan on Mikami without backup is totally out of character. His begging only served to ease the fact that the hero of the story lost and destroy his image/popularity; instead of having people thinking "Oh no, he lost.", thinking "Oh no, he lost... wtf now he's begging pathetically, I don't care for him anymore".
Basically what I'm saying is, if you want to interpret his actions and morals, do not use the content of the last episode as an argument. The only thing that it does convey is that Light is no God, bullets have the same affect on him as anyone else showing that he is a human and nothing else.
Last edited by Espp; 2007-06-30 at 21:44.
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Now that's the music they should have used for the finale.
Fly since ↔...
