#i am just ridiculously fervently passionate abt my opinions

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i kind of cant believe how infrequently death note and hannibal are compared to eachother like the comparisons almost seem to obvious to me as to not be worth saying. maybe its cuz most of the intersection between the fandoms is nbc hannibal only and i feel like when u compare red dragon and silence of the lambs its a bit more obvious but like. yea. one post i saw someone comparing them was like "hmm there isnt anything rly like death note i mean hannibal's sorta close but hannibal is more abt blurring the line between investigator and killer" or something like that an i cant stop thinking abt it because like. thats SO insane to me like HOW is death note not abt that. again it might be more obvious when u also look at the musical as it makes the line blurring between L and light really explicit but like?? even in the show like?? ofc it feels a lot different because light is definitely a villain protagonist but L basically explicitly saying that the reason he can profile kira so easily is bcz he has a lot of traits in common with him? also the way they both think of other people as pawns and means to an end. like light keeping 50 or however many criminals just on reserve in case he needs to kill without having access to media. using criminals to experiment w what the death note can do. compared to L literally broadcasting a man dying on live tv in his stead to prove a point. also right before L died he was literally going to use the death note to execute a criminal to test if the death note rules were real. like these behaviors just do not seem unlike eachother at all. they both have insane egos and misguided faith in the criminal justice system. they r fucking mirror twins of eachother man like. at least to the extent that will and hannibal were if not more so