On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Matthew Campbell wrote:

Mark Doherty wrote:

Help the Senshi
by Mark Doherty (mdoherty@mailbox.uq.edu.au)

expounded in I'm Here to Help, and it offers a different view on certain
things. This won't be the only one I do from another's view, probably.

Well here's the different view you've been promising.  I had been hoping 
for someone a bit more impartial, but maybe next time.

What impartial person?  There aren't likely to be very many people in the
years after the Ice that aren't biased one way or another.

 

She was... she is incredible. So calm, so wise, with a quiet power that
speaks to us all. She was a creature of peace, of love, and she had a
bright hope for the future. All she needed to do was to drive out the last
of the darkness from our tainted Earth, so that we could all make peace in
a new, bright world.

I see she wears the same sort of blinders the youma-killer does.  Hers 
are just tinted towards a different shade.

That assumes she isn't right :)
 

So, I was asked to be there for the people, a soothing reminder of the
protecters of the city, giving whatever help for their minds that I could.
It was exhausting work, with periods of intense emotional pain, from seeing
so much suffering so close-up. But it was so fulfilling too, I was doing
something to help those in need.

Why is she working in Tokyo?  The entire world was under the ice, right? 
 That means there should be millions of people all over the world in 
need of relief efforts.  Why does Tokyo get the special treatment?

Because someone who only speaks Japanese probably wouldn't be a lot of use
outside Japan?

Because Serenity likely lacks much in the way of transport capabilities in
the aftermath of the ice?

(Note below that they didn't even have the resources/power to start any
meaningful rebuilding in Tokyo alone.  If they had gone to other people,
they likely couldn't have helped them, except to chase off any monsters in
the area)
 

The Neo-Queen. The grim looks in some of their faces... they were going to

So she's already declared herself Neo-Queen.  My, that was fast.

Assuming she declared herself.

 

attack, going to try and kill the Neo-Queen! Damn them, why? She'd saved us
all, and now they repayed her like this? I'd heard the mutterings about some
people being discontent with the idea of a queen, but this was taking things
too far.

It's hard to judge how right she is here.  We aren't privy to how much 
discussion, if any, took place between the senshi and the rebels.  Maybe 
they are attacking without warning, or maybe there have already been 
failed attempts at negotiation.  Personally, I think Serenity had plenty 
of warning.  After all, she had all her senshi grouped around her, 
rather than scattered across the planet helping people.

I have the rather strong impression that they didn't have any warning.
Otherwise, unless Serenity is an IDIOT, she would have warned the rest of
her paranormal forces.  Nor is Usagi the kind of person who is any good at
keeping secrets :)  You don't form a paranormal police force, then not
tell them anything.  I didn't get the impression from what we've seen in
the other story that the rebels made any effort to negotiate or present
any kind of demands.  They just decided she had to die. 

Hmph, probably not. What's he writing this time? I don't see why he does it,
he almost never rereads what he writes anyway. If he did, he'd be a lot less
trouble for the Senshi. Let's see...

I don't understand this remark.  Why would he be a lot less trouble for 
the senshi?

He might think about what he is doing, and stop, she hopes.

If Pluto wasn't there, if he made it, he was going to kill Neo-Queen Serenity
before she was the Neo-Queen. That monster was going to kill her. Crystal
Tokyo would never be. He was going to destroy it, destroy a happy, peaceful
city.

But if you're still here, that means he didn't succeed.  There's no 
if-then in time travel.

Assuming only one time stream and instantaneous changing of the time
stream.  Time Travel involves a lot of confusing metaphysics :)


John Walter Biles :  MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas         
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New CS Lewis Quote :)
"This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn.  We must play.
but our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest
kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each
other seriously--no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.  And out
charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in
spite of which we love the sinner--no mere tolerance or indulgence which
parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment."
--The Weight of Glory