AEGON II TARGARYEN & SUNFYRE in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Season 2, Episode 4, "The Red Dragon and the Gold"

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AEGON II TARGARYEN & SUNFYRE in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Season 2, Episode 4, "The Red Dragon and the Gold"

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I'm sure that some has talked about this before, but I have always been confused about Mello's reasoning for kidnapping Takada. I finished a read through of the Death Note manga recently and I FINALLY feel like I understand why. I'm going to break this down into 2 sections: Why he did it, and Did he intend to die?
Why he did it:
While I think it's meant to be kept somewhat vague for narrative purposes, the thing that I never understood fully was the wording in the scene:
Why specifically "his" name? Of course this line always made my little Meronia heart flutter, but before my manga read through I never quite understood it. If Near's plan to catch Kira went wrong, all of the SPK would die, not just Near. So why the emphasis on him? Especially if we are looking at a completely surface level reading of DN where Mello purely hates Near? But then I found this moment a few chapters earlier:
To summarize what is happening before and after these pages (Chapter 90), Near tells Light that there are 4 members of the SPK and that he is in Japan. He says they might meet soon. This is all coded language to challenge Light to an in person meeting. At this point Near admits that he doesn't have a concrete plan in place for confronting Light. But he knows they must meet Kira face to face and prove his identity by having a name written in the Death Note. This is prior to the SPK starting their investigation into Mikami. The part that stuck out to me was " When we meet Kira, the first person he'll write down is me, so..." To me this means that prior to finding Mikami and adding fake pages to the death note, Near planned to sacrifice himself to catch Kira if they didn't have any other options. This DIRECTLY correlates to Mello's line (read right to left):
Mello kidnapped Takada because he knew that if he didn't there was a good chance Near would die. This is literally the only reason that the text give us. Which leads me to our next part.
Did he intend to die?
While I've seen a lot of different takes on this, many of which I find very interesting, I now believe that yes, Mello kidnapped Takada with the intention to be killed by the death note. Here is my reasoning.
Mello knows better than anyone else investigating Kira how the death note works. Like L wanted to before his death, Mello used his time in the mafia to experiment with the rules of both the death note AND the shinigami eyes.
In the manga, Mello has one of the mafia members Kal Snydar (a.k.a. Jack Neylon) make a deal for the shinigami's eyes. Rod and Mello use Snydar's eyes to kill others for an extended period of time. This would give Mello at least a basic understanding of how they work; what face coverings inhibit the eyes, etc... And then after his encounter with Soichiro Yagami he becomes aware that there is always a chance that anyone associated with Kira could have the eyes. He also knows that Kira knows his name but not his face after the explosion. Meaning that he would know that the ONLY thing stopping Kira from killing him would be his face. Given that Mello never uses the death note himself but had other's use it for him, I believe that he also would theorize that Kira would do the same (such as X-Kira/Mikami, Misa, and Takada). Because of all of this he would be especially careful around anyone he knows has connections to Kira, such as Takada the spokesperson of Kira.
Moving on to the kidnapping. Mello wears a motorcycle helmet that appears to be tinted, but is clear enough to fully discern his face through. We know from previous instances that a dark tinted visor will block the shinigami's eyes from seeing your name, which most motorcycle helmets already have. Here is a comparison of a helmet used to block the face vs what Mello wore:
Mello specially chose one with a clear enough visor to see through. You could argue that he did this to show Halle who he was, allowing him to take Takada. However if this was his intention there were many other ways to make his identity clear to Halle without revealing his face. There is also the line on this page that intrigues me. "She's connected to Kira... Unless I do this..." The sentence structure implies that there is a direct consequence Mello envisions. Unless you do this...then what? Given everything else I have outlined above to me the implication is "Unless I do this then Near will die." You could argue that heβs thinking something like βUnless I do this then Near will win!β However, Mello has always been outspoken in his desire to be the one to catch Kira. If thatβs what he was thinking wouldnβt it just say that? Whatever his reason is is something he canβt bring himself to say even in the privacy of his own brain.
If you were to argue that Mello didn't realize that his helmet was clear enough to see his face, this is then made moot when he takes it off in front of Takada. There was no reason for him to do this, in fact, there were a multitude of reasons not to. Even if Takada didn't have death note pages on her, Mello knows that if she escapes, Kira could easily ask her to write his name in the death note because she knows his face. You may then think "but why does Mello take precautions to not get followed and killed by Takada's men? He takes away and ships off anything that could be bugged and tracked including her clothing." This just further proves that he is trying to be killed specifically by the death note. The kidnapping is planned to a T, but he doesn't take the simplest precaution of concealing his face from one of Kira's biggest supporters.
So what was Melloβs plan? We know that Mello is someone who plans for a lot of different contingencies. We see this when he plants bombs through out his safe house in the event that heβs backed into a corner. Because of this I believe he had a few different plans. But no matter what his goal with kidnapping Takada is to force contact with Kira. In fact, Near thinks that Melloβs goal is to use Takada as bait.
What his exact plan was up in the air for me. He may have intended to be killed by her, thinking that she had access to a death note when kidnapped which would explain why he didnβt check her over before giving her the blanket to cover herself. He states that his intention of taking her clothes is to removing any tracers so her bodyguards didnβt find them. They make a deal that he will give her the blanket before taking off her underwear, where sheβs hiding her pages of the death note.
Even if Mello didnβt know that you can used pages torn out of the death note, there are a few time in the series when a person hides a full death note under their clothes (Near being my favorite example). So itβs not out of the question that she could have had one tucked into the back of her underwear.
His plan also could have been to release her in some way so that she could get back to Kira and use the death note. Mello knows Kira has his name, now with Takada having seen his face Kira would have her write Melloβs name for him. Or it could have been that he intended to use her to draw Kira out and get killed by the death note in the process.
Going back to our first example from the manga, Near says "The fact that we replaced the pages in the notebook and the notebook happened to be a fake⦠I find it hard to believe that Mello thought that far ahead." I do agree with Near here. I don't think that Mello had figured out that the notebook was fake. But I do think that Mello could see that Near's plan had holes in it, and any mistake would result in Near getting killed. His solution was to be the name that was written in the book instead. You can argue in a lot of different ways why it was important to Mello that Near lives. Such as, Mello knew that with Near dead he didn't have any hope of catching Kira by himself with all of this resources and allies depleted. Or my favorite reason, despite his protests Mello deeply cares for Near and was willing to die if it meant Near would survive.
Please let me know any of your thoughts!
if I see one more post about Aegon βbullying Aemond his entire lifeβ, I will go fucking ballistic, I swear to gβ
scratch that, I will actually go ballistic right now. this is the βAegon doesnβt deserve such a shitty treatmentβ club and Iβm the self-proclaimed CEO. we are about to do some analyzing and reading so BUCKLE UP.
gonna make one thing clear first β Aemond was bullied when he was a child. no one denies that, no excuses can be made for that. Iβd only like to note that there wasnβt only one bully. hereβs a quick reminder:
now that we successfully counted to three, letβs look over Aegonβs other horrible crimes relationship with Aemond throughout the years.
π the night Aemond lost his eye (S1EP7), Rhaenyra suggests he should be βsharply questionedβ (she means tortured) so they can learn who told him that her sons were bastards. Viserys, in his perpetual denial, angrily asks Aemond βwho spoke these liesβ to which he replies that it was Aegon. it is clear that Aemond does that to deflect suspicion from their mother but his words come as a surprise to Aegon.
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I was rewatching the second episode of Masters of the Air, and decided to make a psych analysis on the bar scene. This is what I've noticed:
- Gale doesn't talk, at all, during the conversation with the Brits. Even when they're talking about him, he does not participate in the conversation, he only answers once when he's prompted by Curt, and even then it's very brief.
- John, as he does, takes every opportunity to either tease or mention Gale. He even answers for him when the Brits enquire Gale if he wouldn't rather be a fighter pilot.
- "He is a fighter pilot. A fighter pilot who happens to fly a bus."
- And that's how it goes until the Brits mention "heavy petting" from their end of the table (clearly referencing the Bucks, since it's followed by the mention of their nicknames and the teasing).
- It's funny how, before that, they said something absurd about how the americans would have more crew if they flew during the night. But that isn't what tips them over the edge, no it isn't. It's the heavy petting comment.
- Gale's demeanor immediately changes, and the first time he interacts at all during the scene is to take them up on their fight.
- It goes: a Brit says "Let's make a bit of a sport ourselves" and then Gale "I think that's an excellent idea." That's the first time he's spoken unprompted all night.
- Gale keeps John from taking in the fight, and then Curt has to basically beg him to be the one to fight. Which is so unlike everything we've seen from Gale till this point.
- John questions him why Gale is interested in boxing (having it implied that he doesn't like any other sports), and Gale says that it's because "it tests the manhood".
- When later in the episode Gale admits he agrees with the Brits' point, John questions him why he wanted to fight then. Gale says it's because he didn't like their tone.
In conclusion: Why would Gale want to test his manhood if not for the nature of the Brits comment? He doesn't mind having John answer from him and pet him and hold his cheeks (it's even of the few times he smiles during the whole ordeal), but he does mind having it point out by the brits. Why? Because it isn't true? Not really. He minds it because it's homophobic. And he can't have that. He can't have people noticing things, and that's why he then feels like he has to test his manhood.
There's a lot of subtext in this show, like how in the same scene Gale confirms, in a way, that he isn't religious (religious and repression go hand in hand, especially in the 40's). They gave us so much subtext, it's basically text at this point.
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