Subject: Re: [FFML] [FANFIC] Who's Life is it Anyways? REPOST/UPDATE
From: Sebastian Weinberg
Date: 5/17/1996, 5:30 AM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

Hi Harold Ancell,

 In message <199605110208.WAA15598@access5.digex.net> you said:

: Haven't had time for my re-read yet, but...:
:
:    Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 20:08:35 -0500 (CDT)
:    From: "Ranma al'Thor <ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>" <ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>
:
:    [ ... ]
:
:    I rather disagree with the basic premise of this story (I still don't
:    think they should have succeeded in raping Ranma...not joe ordinary
:    thugs), but given that premise, the rest of the story flows very well.
:
: I don't know about you, but I'm willing to give any author one
: somewhat implausable thing in a story to get it going.

Err, *actually* a female of Ranma's figure beating five big thugs
would be more implausible.  The thing here is not plausibility but
consistency.

We all have accepted Ranma as being this superhuman martial arts
master who doesn't loose.  It is one of the basic premises of the
series and just as implausible as the other one (Him turning into
a girl, of course. :)  And now he suddenly gets beaten by a
handful of untrained guys.  While this is probably nearer to
reality it is *farther* from the series' background.

:    I'm not sure how well the Akane gets ki powers/Recovery of Ranma story
:    lines work together either...
:
: Well, I think.
:
: Akane has a new role, of protecting Ranma, and a severe demand
: requires severe means.  (I wonder if any of his enemies will be
: looking him up....  Plus at some point she may need to turn the four
: perps into their constituent ions, and this allows the author to do it
: without the Sturm und Drang of a big fight.  They deserve to be
: stepped on like cockroachs, nothing more).

Hmmm, I wonder if Andrew will take this easy way out.  While
revenge on the criminals would certainly be more satisfying for
all of us who read this, I think it would be a lot more
challenging (and keeping in with the way the story develops) if
the cast had to deal with the fact that most rapists are never
caught and the victims are left to themselves to deal with that.

On the other hand, I certainly won't complain if we get to see
those criminals being strangled by their own guts.  }:)

:    I hope you finish it :)
:
: Ditto.

Thirded.


Sebastian
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