Mike Noakes <s669330@aix2.uottawa.ca> wrote:

[snip]

This was a great little short. It touched on a lot of interesting
themes: how a super-martial artist has to keep himself under control;
what happens when he doesn't; and what it's like for more normal people
to try to relate to the experience.

One complaint I have:

    He turned burning eyes to gaping friends.  "And only one
thing has rivaled that experience.  And since then . . . life has been
quiet and dull, and I wonder if I can ever forget that moment when
I was fire and ice, winds swirling and torn rock; when life and death
seemed as one and I glorified in my own existence, hanging
between Heaven and Earth.  Sometimes I think I would do almost
anything to recapture that moment."

I just can't imagine Ranma saying this dialog -- particularly with the
Horny Duo and their female conterparts as the audience. The way it's
expressed is just too poetic. I know that Ranma's no dummy, and I could
see him thinking this, but I don't think he's comfortable enough with
the literary mindset to start talking this way in front of these guys.

BTW, I believe Hiroshi is the curly-haired one, and Daiskue the one who
looks like an Asian.


Gary Kleppe
http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics