[ SECRET POST 3889 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3889 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

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[(Anonymous)]

I thought it started out okay (though Light screaming like a little girl had me crying from laughter) and then something went wrong about a third of the way in. The tone was all over the place and, though the pacing was fast, it felt weirdly choppy. Ryuk was the best character and, while I kinda liked L, he felt like a mish-mash of L and Mello and I think I would've liked him better if he'd been another orphan from the Whammy House (or whatever it was in this adaptation) with a different name. That would've made me stop mentally comparing anime L with Netflix L.

I think I would've liked it better if Mia had outsmarted Light and gotten him killed while she survived. Light never really come off like a smart kid and Mia seemed more cunning to me, but at the same time, I didn't know anything about Mia except that she was some kind of edgelord cheerleader who got off on killing people.

The music choices were baffling. My friend and I were cracking up so hard during the ferris wheel scene that we woke up her kid, who wanted to see what was so funny. I wasn't pleased with the ending or the bloopers during the credits. To be honest, it actually wasn't the worst anime adaptation I've ever seen. It wasn't good, but it wasn't horrendously bad. My expections were incredibly low, but I was entertained. It's the kind of movie that's more fun to watch with friends so you can talk about how baffling it is.

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[(Anonymous)]

Mia definitely made no sense. She was, as you said, just an edgelord cheerleader who Light had a boner for, for presumably no reason other than she was hot. Her personality was terrible. Even in the beginning, Light thinks she betrayed him after the bully fight. It's baffling that Light would just show her the Death Note because he's madly attracted to her and wants to impress her, but it's even more baffling that this random girl is cool with it. From there on, she is portrayed as willing to kill all kinds of people that Light is not willing to kill. It's not only unexplained what Mia's motivations are besides being an innately horrible person, it's unexplained what Light could possibly like about her if he's a more moral person than she.

I think there really would've been no point in Light at all - without him being remotely reminiscent of the original character - if Mia outsmarted Light and killed him. I really, really wanted Light to betray and kill her and go full Kira mode - because it would've at least justified this Light being a, erm, nicer (?) guy than the anime Light, for the sake of contrast. Plus, it would've been cool if he ~judged~ her to be a horrible person and took her out. I know he kind of ended up killing her, but they played it off like he didn't actually intend to and really didn't want to do it.

The whole Mia thing was just a mess, honestly. It wasn't satisfying to see Light jerked around by her when he's supposed to be the one jerking people around. I wouldn't mind a more vicious and intelligent version of Misa, but she didn't have any motivations. Hell, they gave Misa's motivations to Light (parent killed by bad guys and never got punished, ergo the avenger role, instead of Light just killing people out of his pure idealism). Just so disappointing.

Re: Spoilers

[(Anonymous)]

I just watched it, and even if they had sorted out the writing, acting, and pacing, it still wasn't even slightly a Death Note story.

Like it felt like something that was more trying to be some weird 80s dark comedy, but then random Death Note references were there. If they were going to do that story they just never should have called it Death Note.