Subject: Re: [FFML] [Ranma] [TOP/TIL] Definitions of Hell
From: Metthyew@aol.com
Date: 10/22/1997, 3:26 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

      Finally got around to actually READING the damn download, and was
immediatly sorry that I'd waited so long. This thing ROCKS!! Of course, it
could've been a lot better. And longer and.... <Let the C&C BEGIN!!!> 

{Even though I don't have the time or patience to put in excerpts from the
work itself.}

      First off, it seems odd that TILma would go straight home from
Australia without first actually INFORMING that shaman guy that the monster
was dead. I mean, why would he leave them hanging like that? Did he just
somehow assume they'd know the thing was dead?

      Next, there needs to be more interaction between TILma/TOPma and
they're respective universes. The Nabiki/TILma thing was good {better than
anything else except when TOPma/TILma come face to face} but there could have
been sooooo many others. I mean, can you imagine TILGenma meeting PREGNANT
TOPma? He'd freak!! I'm talking mind numbing, out of control, likely to have
a stroke, sleeve-ripping "I have no son!!!!!" kind of freak. Nodoka and Soun
probably wouldn't be much better. 
      It's the pregnancy that really makes it interesting, IMHO. I mean,
intellectually, TILkane could probably acknowledge the possibility that Ranma
married a guy, but she wouldn't *really* believe it. Him being pregnant
{examine THAT statement for logical consistency} drives the point home.
      This kind of also begs to be used as a vehicle to see just what the
*hell* happened to the supporting cast in TOP. Except for a single Ryoga
scene in Building Bridges that wasn't even written by you {the you being
Richard Lawson... who the heck else would this be meant for?} we never find
out what happened to them. Once TOPma was Kaisuifuud {my own verb} one would
think that all the fiancees would come swarming back out of the woodwork,
especially Shampoo. This really doesn't relate all that much to this story,
just thought i'd bring it up.
     There also exists the possibiity for some really, *really* funny scenes
between TILma and TOPGenma/TOPSoun. Ah, I can see it now...

Soun: Isn't it wonderful Saotome?! Somewhere, out there, Ranma DOES marry
Akane!! Oh, i'm so happy!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

Genma: Say Tendo, since he already married her once... and she IS still
single... and it looks like he's stuck here...

Soun: Yes, that's a wonderful idea Saotome!! Our families will be united
through marriage at last!!  <Shoves TILma and TOPkane together. General
uncomfortableness ensues.>

      Yes, so there's a snowballs chance in hell of you actually writing
this. Just some of my unique, criminally insane brand of humor I thought I'd
share with the world.

      On an actual serious note, a scene between TILma and TOPkane has GOT to
be done. Yes I KNOW this has already been brought up. I'm sorry, but the
angst potential here is so great that it MUST be written. Akane all of a
sudden confronted with a Ranma who actually DID marry her... all those old,
long-forgotten feelings being dredged up again... oo. It's exciting.

      Other than this stuff, I can't say anything more other than to
wholeheartedly concur with everything Sabastian Weinberg said in his posts.
Especially that whole "Occams Shaver" thing. 

      That's all from me. Ja ne everybody!!

                 
                            -Matthew Giglia, the Magnificient Mr.Bean.