On Fri, 13 Sep 1996 23:02:30 -0500 Mihoshi said:
: Okay, I could handle the first one, hell, I even thought it was amusing.
: The drugs bugged me only minorly as the laugh I got overran my caring
: much. But... now... that's just straight wrong. Making Hiroshi and
: Daisuke into druggies??! COME ON! It was even almost something I would
: expect... a conversation I could actually SEE those two having with Ranma.
: The smoking was INCREDIBLY unnecessary. I could even like these stories,
: but making Hiroshi and Daisuke druggies is just too much. It could really
: do without it. That's Mihoshi's opinion.
Sorry, same here.
The actual *story* was just as weird and funny as in the first
part, but - just as in the first part - the drugs grated on me.
That's not because of my feelings about drugs in and of
themselves, but rather because there is no *point* to it. It
seemed like a rather forced and hollow attempt to make the
characters seem depraved, decadent, degenereate or some other word
beginning with "de-".
It smacked of "Whoah, Look here! Not only are they talking about
sex, but they're taking drugs, too!" Unless there is some point
to the drugs, you might just as well leave them out.
Sebastian