Death Note 17... very minor spoilers.

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It really bugs me that the only female in this cast is an insane Bratz doll come to life. Where are all the women? This whole show is so... male. I usually don't pay attention, but it's incredibly obvious here. Everything about this is masculine, from the simple things like an all-male cast or the lone female as a negative stereotype, to the subtler things, like the way L and Kira think, and the way the author explains things. I don't believe that certain things are strictly masculine or feminine, but the show certainly fits the comon stereotypes of those labels. This show may be daring in its anti-protagonist and anti-antagonist choices and in its casual treatment of murder, but it's not nearly as subvertive as it could be. It's boys playing a boy game against boys, where the only girl gets used as a tool for the male characters' plot advancement.

I know that the cast is cops+Kira and the majority of cops are men, but female police officers do exist and they could do with having a few on this task force. If nothing else, at least to provide a different perspective in analysis. It seems a very basic distinction to make, but it's an important one if you want to have a full view of any situation. They should find themselves a female mathematician or logician, and a female psychologist too. For that matter, this whole team should have more intellectual fields represented than just criminal justice aherents.

I have another thought, too: if L were really as smart as he supposedly is, he'd have an entirely separate investigation team acting and reporting to him, completely unconnected to the police task force. He's too vulnerable and the information/scope too limited with just these people. Plus, he looks like the type to have a control group, like in any social experiment. In some ways he's using Light as a control when it comes to comparing the task force's theories, but that's a double-edged sword considering how suspect he is.

Nobody can build a mega sky-scraper in a few months. Pipe dream, and not a very good one. I hope we're supposed to believe that he bought and refitted it, not built it from the ground up. Even when you're rushing materials and financed by the best, shit like that takes 2 or more years to finish from cement slab to indoor networked security system.

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Not to mention that I think they could have been awesome friends if Light hadn't been a wackjob.

Just watched episode 20 where Light asks L if L really thinks Light is capable of murder on a large scale. L said yes he'd thought that from first meeting him... I was dreading that he might lie, but he didn't.

The episode was mostly filler, unfortunately, and how Light went from L's theory of Light being controlled and then forgetting to the exact perfect truth of Light being willfully in control, forgetting his powers, and planning to get them again... how would L know all that? How would Light, from his position, guess that L knows all that when Light himself doesn't even know it? They make wild leaps of idea that have no basis in logic, reason, or even continuity! The show is treating it like L already knows about the powers of the shinigami and the notebook, when the only things that L really knows are that it takes a face & name, that it's done from a distance, and that more than one person can do it. Where he went from that information to the ability wipe one's own memories is arbitrary speculation and plainly only there because the author wants it to be true... L and Light happen to guess the exact right thing out of a million because it suits the plot, not because it makes sense. Ergh.