I've been reading the Talswapr awards and other fanfic reviews, and it
seems to me that alot of the critics seem to enjoy the more
serious Ranma stories, a departure from the usual Takahashi mayhem.  My
Ranma/SM fanfic basically sticks to the original formula, and I've only
gotten positive responses to it (no flames), but I was wondering if most
people enjoyed the more serious Ranma stories.  I feel expanding the Ranma
characters or placing them in different situations is fine, (Mark
Latus does a great job of this) but think many people go beyond that and
change the characters.  Do people actually prefer vast differences in the
Ranma characters they know and love?  Or is the original hijinks Takahashi
started prefered? 
One more thing, I'm just wondering what the average response to a fanfic
is.  Ranma/SM was my first work, and I'm wondering if I should be happy
with the decent number of comments I've had or if my writing is such
mindless dribble people most people don't even bother flaming.