Did L's plan not depend on the event he did not anticipate? [Spoilers]

Yeah thats the main reason I dont like this movie as much as the first. The first kept the rules simple and loopholes to a minimum. This one brought up so many new ideas and assumptions that it leaves viewers feeling like we do, with a whole lot of questions and no answers...

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No, that's not right, Misa gave up the death note so the killing the previous owner rule did not apply. Not the case with Takada who never gave up her death note, forcing Light to kill her. As for the L death. I think L didn't want to take any chances, while he didn't know he would use the death god, he probably anticipated he had an ace up his sleeve, which he always did. L knows Light so well that he would sacrifice his life just to make sure he didn't miss his chance of catching him. Since the main fear is L's name being learned, he pretty much takes care of any threat to him, in exchange for certain death. L was committed to the cause and knew no one else would catch him if he did not. L may put others in harms way but proved he was just as willing to sacrifice himself. With that done, he had 23 days free and clear to prove Light was kira without the threat of death hanging over him. A ballsy move.

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They would have arrested Misa as she tried to write his name down. She would have then refused to give up Light and died in the process. Meanwhile Light continues to play it cool and eventually L ends up dying.

In this scenario, Misa would be arrested and L would still fake his own death. Light would believe his only real obstacle was gone, and L would have several weeks to catch telling moves by a Light who thinks he's free and clear.

Also, I'm a bit fuzzy on the details since I never read the manga, but the movie seemed to imply that you could only use the DeathNote once you had taken ownership (which in turn only occurred after you killed the current owner - as demonstrated by Light killing the reporter).

Not the case. Remember, for example, FBI agent Raye writing down the names of his colleagues on a page ripped from Light's notebook.

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Combo breaker;

The last notebook Misa uses in the live action film is a fake. L makes this clear during the confrontation scene. On her first day after recovering the buried notebook, murders were committed but the task force was still suspicious and because of that, they were able to confirm her reckless killings.

They didn't arrest her though. They merely replaced the real death note with a fake one. She then continued writing names down and the police and media reported on those names as if the criminals had died, leading Misa to believe she was in possession of a real notebook still.

L plans to have the task force leave the building (the trip to DC to test Takada's notebook) and sets up a confrontation between Misa, Light and himself.

He had previously wrote his own name in Misa's REAL NOTEBOOK beforehand, though. When Misa and Light hook up at the empty headquarters, L's plan was presumably to catch Misa or Light using the fake notebook to kill him as the only other real notebook was with the Chief.

At this point, L would still fake his death after Misa/Light write his name down in the 'fake notebook' (hence why he mentioned the heart monitor to Light, to set up a verification system)

Everything would then still proceed accordingly to how it played out at the end of the actual movie.

L's mistake was not accounting the Shinigami (he say's as much in the finale) This is why he's remorseful over Watari's death..

In the actual version of events in the movie, once L saw Watari ACTUALLY die, he did make a quick, split second calculation to continue faking his death in order to continue to carry out his move, "exactly as planned"

(this also explains another question on this board...L said he wrote his name down in the real notebook anyway to prevent any unaccountable attacks or variables, even in his "original plan" if his name was written down in the fake notebook. They make repeated mention of the willingness to sacrifice everything, and L did that in order to prevent any unforeseen variables interfering...which is exactly what happened in the film. REM was an unforeseen variable. L's sacrifice, though, accounted for it.)

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