At 01:18 PM 19/10/97 -0500, The Eternal Lost Lurker wrote:

Okay, maybe this will end the debate about the last couple scenes of Nibun
no Senshi Sailormoon ep 5 being OOC. At least, the part about Ranma. The
part about Kunou, I'm answering for in episode 6.

It's still a "goose-gander" scene (What's good for the goose isn't good
for the gander, where one side is shown in very good light, the other in
very bad, to try and force readers down a certain path), and it now, even
more, raises the question: would at least a couple of them act that way?
Certainly, there have been similar situations. But not like this. Usagi WAS 
in casts, and you're telling me that at least some of the people
wouldn't have noticed, and tempered their reactions? 

I pointed it out to you in the first place for two reasons. 1, the smirk
scene, which you wiped here, but left it clearer that the others were
ignoring a seriously injured girl in their jealousy. 2, the scene was
too forced into a "good"/"evil" scene. Personally, I don't like that
sort of, quite frankly, brutish psychological ploy, and so I pointed out
that there might be a problem. The problem's still there, (again) in my 
opinion.

I'm not saying it's wrong, I'm not saying change it, I'm not saying
anything, but this: it doesn't read right to me, I've lost interest
in the series, and so I commented. 

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