At 09:56 PM 11/05/98 -0500, Ranma Al'Thor wrote:

On Tue, 12 May 1998, Mark Doherty wrote:

Oh, and if I hated Sailor Moon I sure as hell wouldn't be spending this
much time on a story for it. Do you know how many hours went into this
chapter? Argh. It's the POV of a guy who is the Senshi's enemy, you can't
expect it to be _too_ nice now, can you?

Actually, I have read many fanfics where the only conclusion I could draw
was that the author of the story HATED the series in question, and wanted
to destroy and revile it.  

Oh well, I've stated my position; if people choose to not believe me, I'm
really not going to lose too much sleep over it. I'm not so much angry or
annoyed over flames as I am... well, to put it bluntly, amused. They've 
been really sad, but they're all operating under the misconception that I'm
doing this in a fiction assassination attempt. 

I think the Usagi scene from this episode is proof enough against such an
accusation, 

But then again, maybe I put that scene in to mislead you all. Bwahahahahahaha!

but I wouldn't be reading this if I thought you were out to
destroy all that is good :)

That is, if you can think of a mass-killing despot as good. Argh! Argh! He's
possessed me! Get him out! Get him out!

Yet again, I'll state the reason I did this story in _Sailor Moon_; 
disappointment at the one-dimensionalness of SM fiction villains. The

original 

SM villains had something; Jadeite's flash of niceness in the Love Boat

story, 

Ail and Ann's entire reason for being on Earth, Fiore's relationship with
Mamoru.

The Zodiac who...oh wait, that's me and Jeff's story :)

They're not evil, they're just misunderstood. ^_^

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