Ranma Al'Thor wrote:
On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Matthew Campbell wrote:
Mark Doherty wrote:
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.
Hmmm. Well, how about Sailor Pluto? Nope, I'm not kidding. Sure we
know her ultimate loyalties will be to Serenity, but she's had the
chance to objectively view events from the outside. In the first
chapter of IHtH she even seemed to feel sorry for the youma killer. At
the very least, she's privy to all the facts. And the best part is,
we'll have a name to call her by when discussing the fic! :) (just
kidding Mark)
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 :)
Why not both? :) She probably is right, as far as she goes. I was just
commenting that Mr. Doherty was presenting an equally extreme point of
view. Now that I consider it again, it was probably a good idea for him
to do so.
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)
Those are all valid reasons. My problem is that none of them were given
in the fic. Left to speculate, I was beginning to wonder if maybe there
just weren't many people left alive outside Japan. The reasons you give
make sense, I just can't determine from the fic whether or not they're
correct.
So she's already declared herself Neo-Queen. My, that was fast.
Assuming she declared herself.
Point for you. I was assuming the Neo-Queen thing was Serenity's idea,
but it could very well have been a title bestowed by a grateful
populance.
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.
Well, the youma-killer seemed to think it was their only option. He
must have had some reason to think they couldn't bargain or negotiate
with her. It might not be a good reason, but he knew how powerful she
was. It seems logical that if he believed anything but an all-out
attack would work, he would have tried it.
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.
What he's writing is pretty heavily slanted towards his side. I don't
see why rereading it would make him any less fervent about his cause.
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 :)
I'm sorry I brought the subject up. The truth is, thinking about time
travel makes my head hurt. From now on, I'm willing to accept any idea
of time travel anyone wants to write.