On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Richard Lawson wrote:
Well, on Saturday all of the members of the FFML in the Kansas City area
got together at Travis Butler's aapartment. I myself was late, being
held up at work. When I showed up, Greg Sandborn and John Biles were
already there.
We had concluded that clearly he'd been attacked by the evil space aliens
slowly taking control of that fine city.
They were watching the You're Under Arrest OAV #4 on laser-disc. Travis
has a laser disc player he got for $100. It tends to stop unexpectedly
and sometimes is difficult to get started. It behaved well today.
AFTER you arrived, it did.
My memory is already hazy, but I think the next thing we watched was a
UY OAV, "Inaba the Dreammaker". I've only seen a few of the TV episodes
and one of the movies - I'm not a big UY fan. The OAV surprised me.
Everyone was drawn *very* well - Shinobu actually looked somewhat
desirable. The story was good, zany without going overboard like UY
Shinobu's a babe :)
We then watched some of John's Sailor Moon tapes. We watched the first
episode subbed, and then the ending to the first season dubbed. John
was having trouble using the VCR, since the remote control was balky and
would only work if he held it in certain positions. John was contorting
his body in several different ways trying to get it to work, prompting
the peanut gallery to shout out, "In the name of the moon, I shall Fast
Forward you!"
Hehe.
I couldn't believe how much the animation improved in this series.
Episode 1 was bad, just bad. The end of the first season was *much*
better.
It's impressive.
John provided running commentary throughout the showing of the two
episodes. He told us how two of the evil generals were in love with
each other. In the subbed version, the two generals are men. In the
dubbed version, the gender of the effeminate one gets changed to
female. This led to some new ideas for a fanfic: "The Nature of Love,
Part 2: The Sailor Moon Crying Game".
Hehe.
We then went to dinner. We talked about recent going-on's on the FFML.
Travis and I briefly continued our running debate of PC's vs. Macs.
John told us about some of the projects he's working on - everything
from DnR to Akane in the Robert Jordan universe to a supplement to the
Encylopedia Brittanica. We need not fear that John will run out of
things to write about anytime soon.
Hehe.,
Back to Travis's place. We watched the first three OAV's of Video Girl
Ai. I borrowed the tape from Travis. Even though the tape was labelled
"Video Girl AI 1-6", it actually only contained the first four OAV's,
leaving me hanging. Bummer.
Oy!
I borrowed John's Sailor Moons tapes, and he got my VCR to keep. One of
us got a really good deal.
I'd say we both did :)
So far, I can only watch so much of Sailor Moon before I have to shut it
down and give myself time to recover. I really liked the Sailor Moon R
movie I saw at AWA, but so far there's not much to like in the early
episodes of Sailor Moon, which is the reason I never got into it when it
was being aired. I'll try to force myself through them.
As one friend of mine once put it, "You have to tie yourself down through
the early episodes, but it gets better :)"
John Walter Biles : MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas
ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu bailesu@komodo.hacks.arizona.edu
http://www.hacks.arizona.edu/~bailesu/falcon.html
P-chan ran across the field and hopped into Akane's arms. She
snuggled her little pet. "I love you, P-chan, especially with a little
apple in your mouth and that special sauce Ukyou makes." They cooked
P-chan over an open fire and made special okonomiyaki out of him. And
all was good.
--Draft of Lemon Sherbet, Episode 12