I'll avoid continuing the time-theories in public after this post; one
reply's okay, more would be spammy.
At 09:17 AM 12/05/98 -0500, CHRISTIAN A ROGERS wrote:
<<<Oh, and if I hated Sailor Moon I sure as hell wouldn't be spending
this much time on a story for it.>>>
Apparently, you haven't seen the Anti-fics of Nav and Bane. ^_^
Nope, I quite honestly haven't.
<Yet again, I'll state the reason I did this story is _Sailor Moon_;
disappointment at the one-dimensionalness of SM fiction villains.>
You've got a point. I'll admit, I've fallen into that trap with my
fic villains more then once. (Except, with Endworld: Moon Run, the
Supiriors acted that way in the source material.)
It's just... that's what drew me to anime in the first place; the bad guys
often weren't. The Zentraedi were just following their warrior nature(and they
were attacked first...), the dragons of either side in X think their way is the
best for Earth, in Ranma the villains often resolve their differences or
call off hostilities and even Happosai (despite whatever self-motivations)
has on more than one occasion shown kindness to children, in Nausica the bugs
were just misunderstood, and in Moldiver the bad guy was, when he wasn't
being larcenous, quite a likeable guy. And I'm not going to get started on
stuff like Evangelion(and that's not an invitation for others; private mail
please).
Sailor Moon has that too; yet not many writers seem to think so, they boil it
down to good vs evil, and that's just NOT what it often was about. It can be
seen to operate on more levels than that, it can be about anything you wanted
it to be; the struggle of youth to protect their loves and homes, fighting
against teenage deliquincy(Ail and Ann) :) , Order vs Chaos(my personal
favourite, and one I'll be using if I write more SM stories), the strengths
in a team of the diversely skilled, and even good old plain and simple
friendship.
I really, really think that Sailor Moon fanfiction needs a couple of stories
like this. Sort of like a needle full of adrenalin into the heart. I'm really
hoping it will inspire some decently covered villains, although knowing my
luck it will just spawn a series of fics where villains righteously whip the
Senshi's butts(but enough about my lemon tastes. Ahahahaha). Oh well.
I guess it's just that, I was used to the way things were when this
fic came out and it was so radicaly different, (not to mention the
fact that the main character had issues with my fav. Anime char. ^_^)
that I guess that was was the reason I went balistic.
I wouldn't worry, I certainly wasn't targetting you specifically in my
comments; the flames were expected.
I still can't agree with Emeralds interperatation of the future (I
can't see Usagi OR Serenity trying to brain wash people, it's just
not in their nature) but I will except that there are alternate
future's where it's possible.
Ah, but just how alternate? :P
That brings up another topic; the possibility of Emerald winning. If
he does that, then he loses.
I guess that depends on which particular time theory you rely on. Because
that's all that time travel is; theory, we have no real idea what works and
what doesn't. And there is one which states that if someone changed the past,
the time they came from would still exist in a side-dimension, while the new
timeline is built.
Why? Standard Time Paradox.(Patent pending)
He wins, Serenity vanishes, the world is still trapped in ice.
Unless someone else was capable of stopping the Great Enemy(Emerald, obviously,
wasn't, but still...)
Emerald can't go back because he's still fighting the demon who froze
the world, so he doesn't and Serenity pops back into existance
because he never went back.
Not necessarily. It depends on how much of a damn the Universe gives about
paradoxes; if the cosmos fixed its own time problems there'd be no need for
a time guardian. Serenity 'popping' back would be a paradox in itself, after
all.
[v. small snip]
Now, as we all know (thanks to Star Trek, Back to the Future, The
Time Tunnel and others), when a paradox like this happens, it's
resolved one of two ways...
Nah, there's lots more than two fiction theories on what happens in a time
paradox; it gets covered a lot.
1) The cause of the paradox (in this case, Emerald) is wipped from
existance.
That's one theory; in the very first journal entry, in the first chapter,
Emerald makes it clear he's not really sure what will happen if he suceeds,
and that he might be wiped from existance if he kills a young Serenity. It's
pretty obvious from that journal that he's getting tired of the endless dance,
and doesn't care/mind if he wipes himself from the continuum.
OR
2) The world acts as an extra in Dragon Ball: Z and blows up.
Of course, there are other possibilities; some have been mentioned in private.
The most obvious other one is that he goes back to his own time to find that
a new timeline exists, and that he doesn't at all belong there...
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