Chekhov MacGuffin wrote:
It would be more thrilling, but it would be a risky turn of events from the point of view of the author. I assume Gosho is going to continue to write DC for a while longer at least. The problem with your idea is that is closes options - once you do something you can't undo it. By closing too many options it becomes very, very easy to write oneself into a corner - which results in a clumsy deux ex machina to save or a weak ending. Specifically, by upping the danger, you will begin to run into problems as long as the manga continues on for a while; the heightened level of danger won't seem real, and the readers will think the org is weak and "overrated" because it has been holding onto all the cards and still hasn't managed to do anything with them. The readers won't easily accept a downgrading of the "threat level" either. Doing something like this without a clear vision of how to continue indefinitely or gracefully end can easily back you into a wall.
He already made the B.O. weaker to my opinion. CIA agent, Akai, and obvious disorder between the members. I think that even in a bigger threat level, the manga can continue for a couple of years. Is it really that hard to make a really really long arc? Conan's urge to solve cases on the way even though he shouldn't because someone might be watching him...
Superhero comic books are a great demonstration of why options should be kept open. Retcons are common because the authors had inadvertently forced the story one way, but then later when they had a vision of a new direction to take the story, they were unable to because they effectively pigeon holed themselves. Retcons would probably be fatal for a manga like DC which relies on continuity and accumulated hints. Conan's identity is one of the biggest cards he has and one that Gosho has not given out lightly. The only characters who know it are the ones who keep it to themselves and won't do anything about it, maintaining the status quo.
Didn't they kill superman and later brought him back to life? (I can get very bored and read about a lot of things in wiki...)
Gosho has been very careful not to write into corners which has allowed him to continue coming up with great ideas for a decade plus. The clues he has given which are pertinent to the overarching mysteries of what the purpose of the org is and the boss's identity are vague and can easily be written to fit many different potential endings. Basically Gosho has left himself multiple backdoors, a good thing, to escape should he feel that he is suffocating himself. If you are planning to write for years, giving yourself room to move even if you have the ending in mind is an excellent thing; you never know when you will come up with something even better that you simply have to implement. I really admire how well Gosho has managed to keep the plot moving without shutting out options. It is difficult to do well.
But still, I can't appriciate the too bright atmosphere that Conan has daily while knowing that whatever he's doing may put his friends in danger. Haibara was added in order to show that, but I seriously hope that Conan will stop being so arrogant and see the real risk at hand (and as it seems, the only way to do that is if one of Conan's friends will die)
mizumi wrote:
CoolKid3 wrote:
Kor wrote:
I'd be really satisfied with a dark ending when some of Conan's friends will really die or even Conan dies and the organization continues to exists, but the odds of that are...low...
Few sacrifices would be epic... For some reasons, I kinda like the idea that one, two or more DC characters would end up dead... This kind of ending would really be an unforgettable one...
I'm really hoping that the DC ending would surpass the shock that I had when I saw the Code Geass R2 ending - Zero Requiem...
Noooo I don't want anyone die

even BO members

Probably Gin and his gang all go to jail.
I really, really hope no one die... b/c I don't want to see Conan failing to protect someone

Probably BO's going to reveal their objective, probably going to turn out to be something that deserve pity, everyone come to an understanding at the end. But probably Conan still capture all of them for their crime.
If Conan can protect everyone...he's no different than a superhero, something that he isn't. Through several occasions in the series Conan has been saying "as a detective, I can't let you kill other people." or "as a detective I can't let you commit suicide..." and to me it is ultimate crap. Does Conan think that detective=superman? Did his father feed him with too much mysteries when he was young and eventually led him to believe that a detective is the protector of humanity? Conan should be put in a situation in which he sees that he actually
can't protect everybody. If Gosho meant that to happen after killing Akemi then...it did nothing at all. Conan was sad for one page and then later he became like his former self. If one of his closes friends die then it'll put some sense into him.