On  3 Jan 98 at 11:43, Scott Pollert wrote:

	Chapter #9 is a bit slow as far as the lemony bits go, though by now, what
is there is more making love than having sex.

Considering how little lemon there actually is (IIRC, only two paragraphs 
have any explicit sexual content, and that's just mild foreplay), I was 
considering trimming the sex so I could mark this as lime instead of 
lemon, in the hope of scaring off fewer readers. I decided against doing 
that -- if someone was put off from reading the previous chapters due to 
the lemon content, this one will make no sense at *all* -- but it got me 
curious. How many people refrain from reading fanfics due to lemon 
content? Any guesses? Me, I have no idea.

	Speaking of Aeka's fears, Happosai has from the start been using the
Tenchi Universe timeline with little bits of the OAV thrown in. Normally,
I'm not a big fan of the TV series, but Happosai has really done a good job
of making something that I felt was flimsy and silly become rather
enjoyable for me. Thank you, Happosai. For that matter, using the OAV
timeline at this point would be a bit of a copout. Too much of the tension
between Aeka and Tenchi rests on the uncertainty of what Aeka's royal
parents will do, and in the OAV series, that matter was resolved for us. 

<Nods> Some of the "flimsy" aspect of the TV series is, IMHO, stuff 
with lots of potential that they put in but didn't make use of -- such as 
Aeka being attracted to Tenchi without knowing that he's of Juraian 
descent. Considered in light of what was said in the OAV series about many 
Juraians not liking the "mix with blood of other planets" law, this had a 
whole series worth of dramatic potential, but they dropped the ball. I'm 
just trying to pick it up and run with it.

Thanks for the C&C.


Hassheen!