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L isn't a genius. Light is just CATASTROPHICALLY stupid
(lemmy.world)
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Disclaimer because I’m about to start defending his intelligence: Light is a horrible person regardless.
Light’s first slip up is his temper, causing him to act without thinking to kill Lind L Taylor on live TV. In all fairness, until that point he had killed hundreds of people already with zero resistance and if you want people to “know of my existence” what better way to do so than to kill someone on live TV and get away with it.
The next “mistakes” he makes are in focusing on killing L instead of hiding from him. But really he would rather play a deadly game with L than anything else, and he does play that game intelligently and win despite many unforeseen obstacles.
Point is, light doesn’t get caught because he isn’t intelligent, he gets caught because he’s more obsessed with power and domination than not getting caught or actually saving the world.
I mean that’s literally why he’s evil: he’s not trying to fix the world.
He himself mentions that society just tends to decay and—knowing that he won’t live forever—he must know that killing evil people and trying to keep people in line with fear will not work and will not last. However, he does it anyway because fixing the world is just the excuse he uses to justify his god complex.
He’s not stupid, he’s just more entertained playing with death than he is doing anything else.
Well said!
Do you know of any other shows where it is about the mind games like this?
"Monster", which IMO is much more interesting and clever then Death Note. And if you like that, "Pluto" by the same creator.
Code Geass is basically the same premise, but I feel like Death Note does a better job pretending to be some 400 IQ mind games then actually being intriguing and clever. Way more telling us the protagonist/antagonist is smart then showing us in subtle, engaging ways.
Still both good shows, but I just didn't see them as 10/10 masterpieces.