On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Razorclaw X wrote:

  Where to start? Beside how utterly-predictable the story was, beside 
how, almost word-for-word (sarcastic) it was the same as with the 
original Christmas Carol with a few names switched around, beside how 
cliche the devices are (then again, EVERYTHING about the original 
Christmas Carol was cliche, but then, it was the Mother of the cliche), 

I was afraid of that when I started writing this story.  It has been done
countless of times in the past by many other better storytellers.  I have
watched the half dozen different Christmas Carols myself and many of them
twice or more.  I tried to give as much a Nabiki spin as I could, though,
and it looks like I didn't succeed too well.  Some of the dialogue, I've
already been told is not Nabiki-esque, so there will be slight changes in
how she talks.

beside how much the crossover doesn't seem to work (at least, not for 
me; the moment Urd popped up I refused to buy it), beside how utterly 

If I had used the ghosts, I felt it would have been even more of a copy
rather than a slightly different twist, which was what I was going for.

one-sided Nabiki was written (I think it's safe to say that we can agree 
that she ain't a cold-hearted bastard, dare I say SCROOGE, but that's 
the impression I got from this), beside.... 

True.  Nabiki has a capacity for being very nasty, but I don't think she
could come close to Scrooge.  Another difference in mine to the original.
Scrooge's chance came late in life, I wanted to give Nabiki a chance
earlier on.  Not as effective as the original, but again I waw going for a
different feel.

  In short, this one did nothing for me that the original Chrismas Carol 
did. The only question left in my mind after reading this is: "Why?" 

Sorry, you didn't like it.  Why?  I wrote it because I love watching any
version of the Christmas Carol during Christmas and I like Ranma 1/2.  I
thought a fusion could work plausibly.  Sorry, you didn't feel the same
way.

"Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Fool! Pain is my friend. Allow me to introduce YOU to 
it!" --Inferno, Beast Wars
"Decepticons FOREVER!!" --Ravage, former Decepticon
"Your persistence is futile! I rise again!" --Rampage
"[Rampage] may be ugly, but he's a PREDACON!" --Quickstrike

--Razorclaw X

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