On Fri, 8 Mar 1996, Foxtrot wrote:

I got a mild rebuke from WW about my negativeness and so now,
I will now proceed to explain why I didn't like the story.
Don't flame me for my opinions, cause if you
do, you'll find a 500 lb tiger sitting on your <ahem> head.


Okay, other than the fact that like Kun-chan said, it
wasn't in canon and not remotely Ranma-ish, there wer
quite a few loopholes.

First, with the possible exception of the times when
his mother's around (and he stated this took place after
his mother found out) he's never a girl long enough to 
have the female sex hormones kick in.  So he never could
have had his period in the first section.

That's nothing.  Did you know that according to the law of conservation of 
mass, P-Chan must have exactly the same mass as Ryoga does?  It's a miracle 
he isn't crushed to death by his own weight when he's a pig.

Second, there was *no* characterization at all.  The characters
were like a drawing on a piece of paper, and that drawing
was in faint pencil.  They didn't resemble the characters

>from the manga or the anime or even the fanfics.  They wer

charicatures of animation, not even a photograph. They had
no depth or personality.

I was focusing more on plot and irony than characters.  I agree, the 
characterization did lack *some* depth, but it wasn't *that* bad.

Third, the story was dull and unexciting.  So Ranma escapes to China
to have the baby.  Wouldn't they have had some kind of adventure
along the way?  Ranma has the baby alone, with no support or

She's not alone.  Nodoka was there when she gave birth, remember?

non-support (for lack of a thesaurus) from his friends
or family.  And Nodaka goes against all moral codes (that even
transcend the codes of a martial artist) and wants to kill her

Didn't Nodoka agree to that seppuku contract in the first place?

only son.  As shown before, a mother's love (Ranma's for the baby)
is stronger than anything (she could have aborted it).

If that were true the world would be a much better place.  While many, if 
not most, mothers do a great job of raising their children, some really 
are evil and abusive instead.

Any one who wants to debate this with me can try.

Foxtrot the Furryous
...not even Jacques Cousteau could 
salvage this story...