Thank you! I'll have to be a worthy poster, to honour your help! *g*
It's manga canon, so it's hard to just dismiss like that... Yeah, sadly I'm also to kind of fan who can't just pretend a part of the canon is fake. So in good paranoid tradition, I am looking for alternative explanations (very healthy attitude, I know :P)
One thing which didn't seem to fit for me was also L going and shedding his heart out suddenly to the children. An outburst of honesty doesn't seem to fit with the manipulative and secretive L we have seen. I think whatever he said, he said with the intent of gaging the children's reactions, which fits with what he said afterwards about Mello and Near, that he'd pick them solely based on their attitude. Also, what Near said, that some of the children learned the meaning of despair that day, and potentially lost their hero worship of L -- isn't somewhere else in canon mentioned that everyone at Whammy's wanted to be like L? I think the author is losing track of things sometimes...
I don't know, somehow I think the key of the issue is whether L would have risked his life only for the sake of potentially winning a game. I'm not sure, because I know I'm not 100% objective *g*
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Date: 2008-03-03 04:13 pm (UTC)It's manga canon, so it's hard to just dismiss like that...
Yeah, sadly I'm also to kind of fan who can't just pretend a part of the canon is fake. So in good paranoid tradition, I am looking for alternative explanations (very healthy attitude, I know :P)
One thing which didn't seem to fit for me was also L going and shedding his heart out suddenly to the children. An outburst of honesty doesn't seem to fit with the manipulative and secretive L we have seen. I think whatever he said, he said with the intent of gaging the children's reactions, which fits with what he said afterwards about Mello and Near, that he'd pick them solely based on their attitude.
Also, what Near said, that some of the children learned the meaning of despair that day, and potentially lost their hero worship of L -- isn't somewhere else in canon mentioned that everyone at Whammy's wanted to be like L? I think the author is losing track of things sometimes...
I don't know, somehow I think the key of the issue is whether L would have risked his life only for the sake of potentially winning a game. I'm not sure, because I know I'm not 100% objective *g*