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On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, WebDragon wrote:

3. Ukyou wouldn't really have let Ranma go to Akane. She would have 
grabbed him back to the floor after Akane left and picked up right where 
she left off.

        Now THIS is unrealistic in the extreme.  

        Ukyo and Akane, the way I see it, are sort-of friends.  

   They get on better than, say, Akane and Shampoo, true, but they're hardly 
close, and get on steadily worse after the Ten-Year Sauce story.
   I can actually see Ukyo going even further and rubbing Akane's nose in 
the fact that Ranchan is with _her_, not Akane. This is not to say, of 
course, that she would not regret it later.
   Akane comes to the door, all tears, looking to know if Ranma is there 
or has been there. But of course he is, replies Ukyo, with a hint of 
triumph to her voice, I am comforting him, and it is your turn to suffer. 
To think you of all people thought yourself worthy of him, you who give 
him only pain!
   In disbelief Akane charges into Ukyo's room, to find Ranma in his 
boxers. This time, Ranma cannot deny with any effectiveness the charge of 
unfaithfulness, for he knows he has been unfaithful in his heart. Now 
there can be no forgiveness, as with Shampoo. Akane runs out into the night, 
cursing Ranma for breaking her heart.
   For Ukyo, too, there will be no forgiveness, for she has committed the 
unpardonable sin of decisively driving Ranma from Akane's heart, 
unpardonable because there is no repairing the damage. He strikes her 
with his hand, cursing her for the heartless seductress she has played, 
and runs off in his own course, pleading for Akane to take him back, to 
bestow the forgiveness he knows he cannot receive. Ukyo calls to him, 
pleading to him to return; but the traitor may count on the love of none, 
and as Ranma's betraying his love lost him all Ukyo's betraying her 
friend in turn cost her all
   Now we see Ukyo retreating to her room after her entreaties go 
unheard, cursing her fortune and the pride and lust that robbed her of 
Ranma at last, and led to both of them being cast out into the dark where 
there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, deprived forever of the light of 
love.
   The thought of Ukyo being cast out into the dark, or worse, burnt at 
the stake like a daughter of Satan, as it has been recommended to me  
should be done to Shampoo, does not give me pleasure, as it seems to to a 
few; but it is hard to see how it might be reasonably avoided. It is not 
always appreciated that her desire for Ranma's happiness is not all that 
rives her, and that alone will at last bring her down.

Paul Corrigan
budgie@insomnia3.dorms.utoledo.edu