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DEATH NOTE!!!! .:.Master Thread.:.
twik:
It took me a while to do the conversion since I'm a stupid American, but I think Detroit, Michigan (where I'm from) is the winner so far at negative 7°C.
Is anyone else a bit wary about the upcoming "Tennis" episode? I guess they'll just have to play their mind games in between serves.
Cougar:
I just have one question, I think everybody should give their take on this.
What is the significance of the apple or apples? We see the apple in the intro, and we see Ryuk eating apples. Does this possibly have anything to do with why Ryuk is following Light?
Shruikan:
Yeah, in episode 1 Ryuk eats a apple and is totally freaked out about the good taste, because in the Shinigami world nothing has flavour. So light just feeds him apples to keep him happy ;D
twik:
--- Quote from: Shruikan on December 08, 2006, 07:26:20 am ---Yeah, in episode 1 Ryuk eats a apple and is totally freaked out about the good taste, because in the Shinigami world nothing has flavour. So light just feeds him apples to keep him happy ;D
--- End quote ---
Now imagine if he ever discovered chocolate...
The significance of the apple in the intro fits right along with Christian traditions symbolizing temptation and the fall of man. This depiction is notable in that it is Ryuk that offers Light the apple in the intro and not the other way around. If any doubt remains, the apple morphs into the Death Note at the end of the intro as if to say "yes, it really is this obvious."
This begs the question, why is Ryuk the one eating apples in the series? I think it is just a fun character trait he was given (i.e., Awww, the scary death god is an apple junkie), but if someone really wanted to read into it, they might have an argument that Ryuk's taste for apples parallels his fascination with Light and his usage of the Death Note.
kayryn:
Apples are like an addiction to him.
I'm not sure if he still ate them in the shinigami world, but in this world, if he doens't have any, his body twists up, like it did before (thus Light having to feed him the apple) It MAY be that it's supposed to represent how Light believes himself as a God, and thus is passing the temptation onto others?
But there is also little to no allusions to religion and God in the series, save for mentions of it. there's nothing blunt, such as in Evamgelion, so it may just be a slight "pun" (for lack a better word) when he picture is there, with Light in Adam's place, and Ryuk taking up the other position.
One quick little tidbit of information for ya: There actually WAS no apple mentioned in the bible during the fall of Adam and Eve. It only says "fruit" when referring to the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and so it could have been any fruit, rather than an apple.
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