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Originally Posted by AquariusX
"If he descended into the "dark side" a bit more gradually, maybe I wouldn't have minded."
I agree with that, although I became a little bored when we kept seeing him in his room watching tv at the beginning. Also, if they had stretched out the time when he manipulated the police--who is staffed by idiots anyway except for Afro-kun--and shed more light on Kira's temp replacement then that would have been alright as well.
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I guess my thing is, I wanted Light to be sympathetic. I liked being conflicted about his mission But then he was killing cops in episode 5, and Light shifted from Anti-Hero to flat out Antagonist (I don't care what any one says, Light is NOT an anti-hero once he started killing innocent people), and the show became "who's gonna catch Light?" instead of any thing deeper, like "can mankind truly attain an acceptable society without the aid of Divine powers?"
It's kind of like the Star Wars prequels (I hate to bring them up). But basically, Annakin slowly descended into the Dark Side, and the audience empathized with everything he had to go through. We felt bad for him, and a lot of people probably were thinking they would've done the same thing in his case. Then, he killed the kids in the Jedi Temple, and all of a sudden, we wanted him to get mauled. The movie was no longer about the philosophies of the Jedi and Sith, and the whole "evil is based on perspective" thing. That had to happen, since we know Vader was ultimately evil. It's the same with Light. Once he started killing innocent people, he lost any empathy. The show stopped being about philosophy, justice, and religion, and turned into a more mature Detective Conan. And that would be fine... if it didn't happen so early.