• Victor@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      It’s from a show called Death Note. A guy finds a book in which you enter the names of people you want dead, and then they die. It’s a pretty good show. Kind of a cat and mouse detective show almost, but with a supernatural twist.

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            All he had to do was stop writing names for a while after L very publicly announced that he was narrowing the search area. It’s his own ego that pushes him to come up with elaborate ways to hide what he’s doing as the number of suspects dwindles.

            As soon as he learns that you can affect the time and manner of death, he could have made all the rest seem like accidents, spread out over years. Again, it’s his own ego that gets in the way; he wants people to know the deaths are connected.

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              But that’s the point - he wanted people to know they were connected because he wanted society to change. And IIRC at some point it worked. People started not committing crimes because they were scares they’d get killed.

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            I think it detracts from the main premise of a detective show. Not that it becomes automatically bad; all the other characters carry it enough. But it would be a truly great show if Light was as intelligent as he is presented to be.

            As it is, Death Note is less of a detective show involving supernatural elements, but a show about supernatural involving detective elements. The story I got from it wasn’t of two masterminds clashing in a battle of strategy, but of a vulnerable teenager being used by supernatural entities for their amusement. Which makes me feel misled.

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              15 days ago

              Why were you expecting something in the first place? Doesn’t sound to me like it’s the fault of the show.

              I thought the show was amazing. Very novel concept. Both sides don’t need to be masterminds. I don’t see how that would’ve been better. The deductions of one mastermind is enough for me to ride on. 👍

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                15 days ago

                Why were you expecting something in the first place?

                Because that’s how storytelling works? If you don’t expect anything from the story, you aren’t invested into it and you aren’t enjoying it.

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                  15 days ago

                  I mean why were you expecting something beforehand? Not during. I wasn’t expecting anything, and I still enjoyed the show for what it was. No need to add a second mastermind. What happened in the show was exciting, and I’m not so sure adding a second mastermind would’ve made it better. 🤷‍♂️

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                    15 days ago

                    Because the first few episodes leads you to it. You get this cool main character who takes it upon himself to purge the world of those who can’t be made responsible for their evil otherwise, and then you get the detective angle. It clearly tries to be Holmes Vs Moriarty type of thing, except with the opposite PoV. If you didn’t get those expectations from the show itself and enjoyed it, good for you! It was a different experience for me, especially with how much praise I’ve heard about it beforehand