Subject: Re: [FFML] [Question] About Akane's future plans -Reply
From: Thomas_Schauer@ITA.DOC.GOV
Date: 9/13/1996, 8:59 AM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com


My question is this:  Where on earth do people get the idea she has
any
interest in becoming an actress?  The only possible support for the
idea
can come from the Romeo & Juliet storyline, wherein she plays Juliet. 
However, she only did that because she was forced to play Romeo
when she was little.  Moreover, she initially refuses to be cast in the
play, telling the producers, literally, "I hate plays".   >  Only because she
always gets cast as a female "heavy" so to speak...she's  tired of being
typecast as butch.  Note the total turnaround when she  finally gets a
role she WANTS.
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

I dunno.  It really seems to me that she's doing it not so much because
she wants to be in the play for the play's sake, but to erase or salve the
memories she has of her earlier experience.  I have to think, if it was any
role other than Juliet, no matter how feminine, she would not have taken
it.  

Oh well.  As someone else pointed out, it is no more unlikely than
Kasumi's becoming a doctor (which I also found strange, since she's the
epitome of the stay-at-home Japanese housewife, even though she's not
married).  I only brought it up because I have seen more than one person
use it, and I wondered why in light of the scanty evidence for it.

btw, when is the next installment of Elseworlds coming out?  Clues?