u/Bewilderbeat

A lot of people have talked about how Woody didn't need to be in the story, as Jessie has most of the focus. I agree, but I want to focus on how he was handled considering his screen time. And I don't think he was handled well

Woody is CONSTANTLY made to be the butt of the joke in the movie. To be honest, the whole "Woody is old now" thing was fine at first, but they make constant remarks about it. Like Woody meets a new character "LoOk HoW oLD hE iS . HE iS BaLD" Like it makes sense for him to have a bald spot considering how old Woody is, but the old gags get to a point. Also, the Woody "fat jokes". Whilst it makes some sense that Woody would look different after having his voice box ripped out, it's weird that we didn't see it at the end of Toy story 4, and again, the numerous fat jokes are so unfunny.

I am a fan of how Woody has more of a mentor role. Him talking to Buzz with Buzz expressing how he wants to propose was a great moment. The conversation with Jessie is also great. Woody isn't all bad in this film. But the thing that really makes me sad is how they set up Woody being Buzz's best man ,only for him to not even be present at the wedding. I know the writers had to contend with the major problem that was the ending of Toy Story 4, but Woody not being involved in the wedding of two of his closest friends, is just sad. Anyways, Toy story 5 is solid overall, but this really irked me.

There's this overblown narrative that Light is an idiot. Now look, this isn't a post of me trying to argue that he is smarter than L. But he is not stupid, and he makes very smart decisions in many points in the show

The first mistake Light gets called out for is killing Lind L Tailor. This was undoubtedly not the right move, and accelerated how fast he got caught. Light's plan was to kill all criminals, so I believe that L would've found out his location eventually, by broadcasting criminals to specific regions only, but Light foolishly baited out his location early. I'm not going to defend this, Light was dumb here.

People often bring up how Light using his dad's police files was dumb. How do people think this? Genuinely how? The ENTIRE point was so that L would start investigating the police, leading to the police distrusting L , which would lead to them withdrawing from the investigation. Light succeeded in this. Yes, it lead to suspicion that he was Kira, but imagine how problematic the investigation into him would be if the WHOLE police force was working under L

People often bring up the Raye Penber incident was well. Light theoretically could've just waited for Raye to stop investigating him. He has a supernatural notebook, and there was no evidence of him killing, so he didn't need to kill Raye. However, killing the fbi agents was very advantageous for Light. He was able to force the US to withdraw entirely from the Kira investigation, further isolating L and the tools he had at his disposal.

The bus incident was very risky, and it could've been used to incriminate Light. Light was EXTREMELY lucky to run into Naomi Misora. But predicting that an fbi agent is also engaged to an ex fbi agent who worked with L would've been extremely difficult. If Raye Penber was an ordinary fbi agent , dating a normal person , or just single, Light's plan would've worked perfectly. So no, I don't think it was dumb.

There's a few other examples of Light making mistakes in the 2nd half of death note, but I just wanted to go over the main ones from the 1st half for the sake of brevity

Light made a lot of mistakes in death note. Which is bound to happen when you're a psychopath trying to become a god. But Light makes many smart plans, manipulating Rem into killing L, the plan to save Misa, the potato chip trick, tricking Ryuk into looking for the cameras, finding Higuchi, etc. The story goes out of it's way to tell you that Light is smart. He completed several cases with the police as a high schooler, he was the smartest in the taskforce besides L, he is deemed worth of being L's successor by everyone in the taskforce, and outsmarts Near several times in part 2. He made MANY mistakes along the way, there's no denying that, but if we're calling him a dumbass, we're blatantly ignoring everything the story shows us. Call him arrogant or whatever, but he's not dumb.