AJ M.

On the topic of saving people, I will namely pinpoint certain situations where the tactic of preventing one’s death (which will simply be abbreviated as POD) is appropriate or not. I’ll start of with Shinichi’s attempt during the end of the Moonlight Sonata case (File 67.13 – 67.17). In this scenario, POD would be appropriate. Although Asai Narumi killed at most 3 men to avenge her father’s death, Shinichi willingly tried to talk her out of suicide, but to no avail. His attempt, however, is agreeable if we consider the morality of justice being served; in this case, committing suicide would be the “easy way out” for Narumi and thus, would not atone for her crimes (like being sent to jail would). Therefore, Shinichi kept that in mind, and although he ultimately failed (which in turn scarred him for life), his act of POD was not selfish in any way because he was given the opportunity to save Narumi’s life and primarily focused on saving her life. However, he cornered her in a way that averted him from doing so. Such cornering a suspect would indeed be selfish had he not made an effort of POD, which leads me to the next case. When Shinichi prevented the murderer from committing suicide during the Distinguished Family's Consecutive Accidental Death case (File 153.13 – 153.16), POD would again be appropriate. After realizing his mistake during the Moonlight Sonata case, Shinichi saw ahead of time the killer’s future endeavors and successfully prevented her from pursuing suicide. Once again, he was given the opportunity of POD, and despite the fact that the person was a murderer, Shinichi saved her life not for the selfish reasons of being a hero, but for serving justice (which is essentially the reoccurring theme of Detective Conan). Now for a more controversial example of POD – when Shinichi and Ran saved a serial killer during the end of the New York or Golden Apple case (File 354.8 – 354.14). I’m 50/50 on this one. For one scenario, letting the serial killer fall to his death would not only make it easier for the police to capture him, but would also save lives down the road, let alone Shinichi and Ran’s lives, had the serial killer managed to escape. For the other scenario, saving his life would allow him to serve justice suitably if he was subsequently captured and would possibly change him for the better (as cheesy as it sounds). But considering the fact that Shuichi Akai said, “Every crossing to this street is secured already” when he decided to leave Ran alone, I think it’s fair to believe Ran and Shinichi did the right thing since there would be nowhere else for the killer to escape to. Technically, it wasn’t Shinichi and Ran’s responsibility to let him die; one could counter this by saying it wasn’t their responsibility to save him either, but saving his life would allow higher-ranked officials to determine the serial killer’s fate after his capture. Who knows? Maybe the police department needed him alive for questioning, or maybe he would’ve been sentenced to death anyways, so it could go either way. But because it’s the police department’s responsibility to determine the killer’s fate, not Ran’s nor Shinichi’s, I would say POD is appropriate to a degree. This is probably the only example I can think of when I actually question Ran and Shinichi’s motive, but I don’t think their intentions are anything immoral. Lastly, when Ran practically sacrificed her life to save Haibara during the end of the Halloween Party case (File 434.6 – 434.9), POD would definitely be appropriate because Ran’s main focus was to protect Haibara whom she believed was still a child. Even if it meant her death, Ran still jumped in front of Haibara and caught Vermouth off guard. There’s not much to say in this scenario since it evidently demonstrates Ran’s selflessness. In the end, I DO NOT believe that Ran and Shinichi are arrogant for trying to save lives. On the other hand, I DO believe it is selfish to THINK that you can save everyone's life in any circumstance. It's pretty easy to assume that these two have this thought process in mind, but I honestly believe it is the other way around - they KNOW they CAN'T save everyone's life. But it wouldn't be wrong to try to save as much people as they can when given the opportunity to, and so far, every POD example I could think of in the DC series has a legitimate reason behind it; most of which are associated with serving justice. The closest (and probably only) example of when POD is not appropriate is during the New York case when Ran saved the serial killer/Vermouth from falling, but like I said, the killing spree would have ended regardless if she saved him or not because the surrounding streets had been secured by law enforcement. Overall, the ACT of saving everyone is far different from the THOUGHT of being able to save everyone. I apologize for such a long post, but I just wanted to get my point across.

I said "look-alike." I knew it wasn't Shinichi, but they almost look EXACTLY the same. Just the tuff of hair on the back of Hideo's head distinguishes the two.

I'm waiting for the day when Ran incorporates her horn into her karate and rams the living hell out of her enemies.

Thanks CC. :mrgreen: *thinks you should pin topic*

Another Shinichi look-alike at 1:10?

I'm practically a Gandhi. Economic Left/Right: -4.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.15

Now I'm curious about what Icka showed you all. :???:

I have to go to court in two weeks.

Track 1: Conan almost realizes who the murderer is, then commercial break. Track 2: Climactic revelation about to happen. I like the second one better because it's dramatic and suspenseful, and I agree with MadelineLime. It makes me want to watch more DC.

Touche, my friend.

Oh yeah, that was the other "scary" character I forgot to mention. By the way, I miss the thriller/horror aspect of DC that was shown in the earlier eps. One of the reasons why I loved this series was because of the gore and suspense depicted in some episodes.

I honestly never take openings and endings too seriously, but in my opinion, this particular one had no cohesion at all! It begins with Ran and Conan running together holding hands (with weird expression on their faces), then separating after the floor crumbles below them. Afterwards, Conan glances at the collage of Rans on the wall (stalkerish much?) and is trapped among protruding Japanese words flying around (which I believe are previous cases Conan was involved in). So the next part really threw me out of the loop when miss damsel in distress (Ran) stood atop of a pillar, and of course, Conan is trying to save her. But wait, there are "obstacles" that he must face before rescuing his princess! E.g. a wall of familiar words in which Heiji knocks down, a time bomb in which Pokemon Genta, Mitsuhiko, and Ayumi must defuse, a random cameo appearance by gothic lolita Haibara, several more cameos by recurring characters with Conan skateboarding passed them, and finally Ran helplessly freefalling off the pillar in which Conan catches her with his big soccer ball (not sure if that sounds right). So the whole point of me basically summarizing the events in the video is to point out how random and unnecessary some of the clips were. If the creators of this video wanted to feature a gothic Haibara, then make the video have a "gothic" tone to it or at least have Haibara doing something productive for the video. If they wanted to have characters helping him along his "journey", then make the whole video centered around family and friends helping Conan through his obstacles. I don't know. I think some of the ideas they had in mind were good, but it's how they portrayed them together that made the video as a whole terrible. As for the song, no comment. I mean when has a song in the past had relevance to the mystery aspect of DC? Almost never. So I'm not too bothered by it even though it sounds mediocre. But overall, I give the video a 3 out of 10.

Wow, I think it looks great! (and it's not because I'm a Pokemon fanatic ) Nice coloring and photo shopping.

*bows down to Sir Aaron* I'm debating whether I should welcome you to DCW since you are very familiar with this place already (I mean VERY familiar). Eh what the hell, welcome to DCW! :mrgreen:

Welcome to DCW! :mrgreen:

It's awesome! The shading and lining are amazing (as usual). <3 :mrgreen:

From what I know, taking a spoonful of sugar will help stimulate the nerve endings in your mouth, which in turn may overpower your hiccup reflexes. So sometimes, sugar would do the trick.

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