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 ====== Death Note ======
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 **デスノート**(Death Note) is a Japanese media franchise based on a [[lb:manga|manga]] which focuses on a random highschool student, named **Light Yagami**, who finds a Shinigami's notebook, which allows him to kill anyone provided he follows the rules.((:fn:>Which can be conveniently ignored at certain points in the story.))\\  //Death Note// is an interesting franchise because the initial story has some pretty incredible elements that are evened out by some of the dumbest things I've ever seen in a story.\\  So, yeah, I'm not gonna be popular.
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   * Her own life is in danger.
-That last point is the most important as she really //shouldn't// trust anybody she isn't sure is part of the investigation team.\\  Now, consider the situation she is currently in: she went to police headquarters and found nobody from the Special Investigations team was there. While there, she meets the son of the Police Chief who she talks to and, well, he walks her out of the building.\\  However...then he starts following her. He follows her for an //unusual// amount of time until she points it out to him. He gives some excuse and continues following her. He's curious in why she's at police headquarters. She intends to circle around hoping someone will be around when she gets back, but this guy is still following her.\\  When she finally intends to turn around and go back to the station, he claims that //nobody// is going to be there (completely new information) and, further, that he is part of the team so she should just relay whatever information she has to him.\\  Taking all that together, there is no reason she should trust him. The anime even has her glancing back at Light as if to say ‘she's suspicious’ and as if to //mock me//, //**directly**//, for noticing how unusual this all is. While Light's questions about why Naomi was there, who she was and such can be easily excused as casual curiosity...the main fact is that he's following her for no good reason. In a real life situation, that is highly unusual. Anything he says after the fact he keeps following her is //obviously// a lie or excuse. She's a former FBI investigator...why the Hell does she trust him after all that?\\  The main flaw here, that Naomi isn't thinking, stems from the series' central flaw: Light is a Mary Sue.((:fn:>The other aspect of this is that Light is not very smart. If he were thinking like an intelligent person, he wouldn't be following her so overtly.)) The reason Naomi doesn't find this suspicious is, quite simply, because Light //needs// her to not find him suspicious.\\  I think this whole sequence is a microcosm of the issues that plague the entire series...just that they're exasperated here because it was rushed. Rushed? Why, yes.\\  The author found that Naomi was way too good for the plan that he had set out for the series...I mean, just look at the beginning of that situation: Light loses the second she reports her findings. So the author decided to quickly get rid of her to keep his original story plan in place. That's why this is the ‘broken sequence that **fixes** Death Note’.\\  This is definitely the reason why the issues are so visible here while they're generally unnoticeable in the rest of the series.\\  Despite it ‘fixing’ //Death Note//, I think the far better option would have been to put the series on hiatus while the author re-planned something...because he clearly is not good at the whole ‘improvisation’ thing.
+That last point is the most important as she really //shouldn't// trust anybody she isn't sure is part of the investigation team.\\  Now, consider the situation she is currently in: she went to police headquarters and found nobody from the Special Investigations team was there. While there, she meets the son of the Police Chief who she talks to and, well, he walks her out of the building.\\  However...then he starts following her. He follows her for an //unusual// amount of time until she points it out to him. He gives some excuse and continues following her. He's curious in why she's at police headquarters. She intends to circle around hoping someone will be around when she gets back, but this guy is still following her.\\  When she finally intends to turn around and go back to the station, he claims that //nobody// is going to be there (completely new information) and, further, that he is part of the team so she should just relay whatever information she has to him.\\  Taking all that together, there is no reason she should trust him. The anime even has her glancing back at Light as if to say ‘he's suspicious’ and as if to //mock me//, //**directly**//, for noticing how unusual this all is. While Light's questions about why Naomi was there, who she was and such can be easily excused as casual curiosity...the main fact is that he's following her for no good reason. In a real life situation, that is highly unusual. Anything he says after the fact he keeps following her is //obviously// a lie or excuse. She's a former FBI investigator...why the Hell does she trust him after all that?\\  The main flaw here, that Naomi isn't thinking, stems from the series' central flaw: Light is a Mary Sue.((:fn:>The other aspect of this is that Light is not very smart. If he were thinking like an intelligent person, he wouldn't be following her so overtly.)) The reason Naomi doesn't find this suspicious is, quite simply, because Light //needs// her to not find him suspicious.\\  I think this whole sequence is a microcosm of the issues that plague the entire series...just that they're exasperated here because it was rushed. Rushed? Why, yes.\\  The author found that Naomi was way too good for the plan that he had set out for the series...I mean, just look at the beginning of that situation: Light loses the second she reports her findings. So the author decided to quickly get rid of her to keep his original story plan in place. That's why this is the ‘broken sequence that **fixes** Death Note’.\\  This is definitely the reason why the issues are so visible here while they're generally unnoticeable in the rest of the series.\\  Despite it ‘fixing’ //Death Note//, I think the far better option would have been to put the series on hiatus while the author re-planned something...because he clearly is not good at the whole ‘improvisation’ thing.
 ==== Light is Stupid (and Lucky) ====
 This is something I won't elaborate on for a while, but the series has a quirky issue where it presents Light as highly intelligent while his actual actions suggest he really isn't.\\  Seriously, pay attention to what he does...it's honestly amazing that L didn't beat Light near the start of the series...as he actually //is// intelligent.\\  It's a little disturbing that I haven't noticed anyone else notice this about Light.
+==== The Bus Hijacking ====
+I checked this article and realized that the bus hijacking is actually another great example of Light's nature as a Mary Sue. It's also, ironically, what almost gets him got.\\
+What do I mean? Well...\\
+The rules of the Death Note mean that you cannot have a criminal do something they wouldn't be able to do.((:fn:>There is a whole other thing here where the Death Note allows anyone to commit suicide because apparently that's something every human has the capacity to do, but I'm not gonna focus on that too much...yet.)) Basically, you can only tell the criminal to do something ‘in character’: hence why a criminal who doesn't speak French can’t write a message in French, or why a criminal locked up can’t die in another location. In the event any part of that is impossible, it just defaults to a heart attack.((:fn:>That's if I'm remembering this correctly, so I'll ask someone else for confirmation later.))\\
+That would mean that this entire bus hijacking is not possible...and Light would just be sitting around, awkwardly, while on a date.\\
+The plan hinges on three things which, I think, in combination cannot be possible.\\
+First, Light specifies that the hijacker will walk over and pick up a note that he dropped. Light isn't currently in the bus and there's no guarantee that he //will// be there...so I suspect he wouldn't be ‘counted’ by the Death Note. Though I'll admit this is my weakest argument, because it's really ambiguous as to whether Light acting consciously (or not) should be factored in. I'm leaning very hard towards //no//, because Light could have gotten sick, tripped, gotten mugged on the way or just decided not to...or forgotten the plan. All of those would render the entire plan gone. Though I must also admit that I don't remember exactly whether //that// was specified in the Death Note, but it //is// definitely the case that the entire plan hinges on it.\\
+Second, Light specifies that the hijacker will see a ‘demon’ and then start to panic. This eventually leads the hijacker to stop the bus to get away. This is the part that is definitely impossible because, while he's an addict, you can’t just assume he's going to randomly hallucinate during a bus hijacking, Light. In fact, that's //not// what happens, because Light has to consciously intervene with the note above (the demon in question being Ryuk). I think this is the most blatant example of the series ignoring the rules of the Death Note for Light's benefit.\\
+Third, the death itself relies on a random vehicle appearing after the bus stops, to kill the hijacker. This one is the most ambiguous, I feel, because the deaths are reliant upon something being able to plausibly happen. So someone dying in a car accident is more likely to happen if they're currently driving versus them not having a driver's license. Considering that, as far as we see it, the road is completely empty besides the bus...I find it unlikely that he should have died by car. Actually, I change my mind, this is probably the weakest argument I have. Though if the likelihood of him dying by getting hit by a car is too low, it would still render the entire situation impossible, meaning he dies by a heart attack and Light has to //unfortunately// go on a date with a //hot girl//.
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