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wait, huh? when did he get amnesia? was that in the original manga run? (I never read the whole thing, but I don’t recall that angle at all)

He gets amnesia because he chooses to have Ryuk get rid of the Death Note to throw the police off his track, and one of the rules of the Death Note is that you lose all memory of the Note and anything you did with it if you lose ownership of it. The same thing happens to Misa at approximately the same time.

Hmm, it’s basically that his personality and charm makes fans forget about the less savory aspects of his character. But he does gain more depth.

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Yeah, pretty much. He does gain depth and you find out why he wants to be president so badly, but he’s a huge dick in the beginning.

Ah, gotcha, good to know! I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels that way.

And I’m definitely looking forward to seeing where his character development goes, but I’ve got to say, it’s gonna take a whole lot more than personality and charm to make me get past the whole genocide thing...

to be fair, Tom looks like quite a few teenagers I knew. but I agree, not quite the right age. 

Leaps closer than previous castings of peter though.

Oh, don’t get me wrong - like I said, there’s lots of variation among 15-year-olds (some of them look 8 years old and some look 20, it’s a weird age) and he can definitely play a believable teenager.

And like, I adore Tom Holland in this role and I completely agree that him looking and sounding like a nervous, scared kid is a huge part of what makes him so great as Peter. So please don’t in any way take this as criticism of him.

Really takes some of the appeal out of their relationship tbh. I liked the idea of it being a subtle, slow progression. This looks like rushed fan service.

^Yep, I completely agree. And I don’t think it really makes sense for the characters to go from Point A (tentative friendship that’s not something either of them’s ever had with someone before) to Point B (”I am now completely comfortable ripping your glove off with my teeth”) that quickly.

I thought my fandom was dramatic but this one.. wow

I was going to give this a snarky reply, but... Yeeeeahhhh. Honestly, there’s a lot about it that genuinely bothers me because I’ve seen people being bullies in some incredibly not-okay ways and some incredibly important issues being cheapened in the name of scoring fandom points.