Every episode, people are complaining about EVERYTHING! The new op and ending suck, Mello and Near suck, Light sucks, blahblahblah. The opening and ending changed because the story starts to get crazy and disorganized thus the opening and ending should reflect that. Mello and Near are freakin awesome. They are basically the two parts of L but yet their own entity. Mello has the aggressiveness that L had to get things done and Near has the patience and sight to figure things out with what little information he has. Yes, I love L, too. Who doesn't? But, he died because if he hadn't, the story would have died. Personally, I hate Light. But as a character, he is amazing. The depth to his character and persona is genius. And yet people can't appreciate the pure genius of Ohba and Obata and the work they put into this amazing story. If you don't like it, stop watching. Not that big of a deal. I'm tired of seeing people put down one of my, if not my absolute favorite, animes. Yeah, I know I'm gonna get people telling me to shut up and everyone has their own opinion. Well, this is mine.