perhaps -and- mishaps

                   Aizawa + sleeping bag appreciation

❝ A face only a mother could love ❞

1. american =/= white. asians are the most underrepresented group of people in us television. light would’ve especially given them a unique role to break stereotypes in that he’s presented as intelligent, sexy, and ruthless, which contrasts how asians are actually represented (men are desexualised, women are sexualised)

2. do you not think it’s highly suspicious that they’ve set it up so that the White Guy With The God Complex kills the Ominous Hooded Black Man

3. this ‘adaption’ falls so flat because japan shapes light’s sense of justice. it specifically comes down to japan’s justice system in which most cases don’t make it to a prosecutor/court whereas in america money makes a huge difference in yr defense. basically light’s sense of justice is based heavily on the fact that many criminals never got a conviction (like misa’s parents?) & he deemed them guilty based on the facts that were available to him, whereas an american light’s solution to injustice will be very different to light’s initial screening-his-victims approach ya feel (tldr: light’s sense of justice involves acting as the prosecution whereas an american light would just be going against rich ppl)

death note is a story that’s almost contingent on japan’s justice system; light’s father and his squad (and L) are specifically and inherently japanese in their handling of crime. imho it could never translate to the united states in any way and maybe not even any other country’s, honestly

beyond that, whitewashing light (especially in the context of the united states, a non-homogenous country where white straight cis boys have the most privilege per capita and hold that privilege over nonwhite communities) turns the narrative from a sorta-grey-moral story of a young man who spirals into a complete, egotistical lack of control to…

…the story of a young white man who serial murders because of his own twisted sense of justice? as in…the story of most american serial killers, with a supernatural twist? yawn

beyond that, if they’re true to the original narrative and its nuances (which is a big if), we’ll see a brilliant, autistic-coded black man in L…defeated and ultimately killed by this bored, megalomaniac of a white child

Episode 8 wasn’t as gay as episode 7 but I think episode 9 made up for that. 

The ending scene where Yuri was already in the airport made a lot of people hold their breath. I for one didn’t expect anyone to go to him in the airport because in episode 1 no one picked him up so I thought it would happen again. BUT NO! When I saw Maccachin I knew Victor was there!

When the Camera showed Victor he did not have the usually smile or happy aura around him. It was like he was in deep thought until Maccachin became excited by seeing Yuri. Vitor seemed like a totally different person when he was waiting, besides his happy aura he sort of looked like a mess. Not the drunken mess but the mess that involves a lot of thinking or even over analyzing. Was the separation for him that hard? 

Victor’s expression here looks so real, like you haven’t seen the one you loved in a long time and you don’t know what will happen with the two of you now that they are back. Compared to couples who could be having a long distant relationship and have been separated for years or months, Yuri and Victor have just been separated for 2 days and he is already so worried. I never thought I would see Victor with this much emotion, it felt so real.  

When they were running the didn’t break eye contact with each other. It can be seen that Yuri didn’t expect Victor to be there to pick him up but when he saw Victor it was like a dream come true, he really didn’t expect him to be there at all. The fact that they didn’t break eye contact was like they were so relieved that they can finally see each other again after being apart for so long. This scene alone really made it seem like it was happening in real life by just the emotion the viewer can feel. 

When Victor was waiting for him with his arms stretched out it was just like a scene from real life when you are waiting for your love ones. It really looked like Yuri was about to cry when he saw Victor waiting for him with his arms spread out. Victor looked like he was still dreaming and couldn’t believe that Yuri was finally back home.

The look in Yuri’s eyes were the look as if he couldn’t believe Victor was there. It really showed all the worry he had while being away from Victor. It was like all the emotions or feeling he has been keeping in since Victor left where now coming back up and making their way out of him. He had so much pent up feelings that it was about to burst but being in Victor’s arms seemed to make it all go away little by little. 

The look Vitor had here was like he was relieved with what Yuri requested. It as if all the things he was worrying about and thinking about were all put at eased when Yuri asked him to be his coach till he retires. It was a huge weight of Victor’s chest because he was so confused on how to become a better coach to Yuri. 

i had to reblog this because im actually pissig mysefl

Let’s take a second to compare Aladdin to The Return of Jafar: