At 01:57 AM 7/26/98 -0500, The Eternal Lost Lurker wrote:

In Crystal Tokyo, Small Lady is the Crown Princess, and every aspect
of her life is subject to public scrutiny and criticism. When the
Crown Princess acts like a spoiled brat, it reflects badly on the
entire Royal Family. Add to that her status as a Sailor Senshi, and
her actions reflect badly on the Sailor Senshi as well. 

<NIT>She wasn't a full-senshi. She was a senshi-in-training. Trainees make
mistakes, and dont *anyone* try to tell me that full-senshi in this series
don't. We've seen every one of them make nothing *but* mistakes. Even speak
Treason towards the crown, when you come down to it.</NIT>

In Crystal Tokyo, Small Lady isn't just some kid. She's Princess
Tsukino Usagi Small Lady Serenity, as well as Sailor Chibi-Moon. As
such, she can't *afford* to behave the way she does when she's trying
to spring Sakuya out of jail. Sakuya, for her part, did some stuff in
her efforts to *protect* Small Lady that under other circumstances
would have gotten her an execution sentence for treason. She made her
bed, and set out to lie in it, like a responsible, mature
adult...like an ideal Sailor Senshi. When Small Lady's behavior
reflected a completely opposite attitude, it angered Sakuya. Given
Sakuya's mindset, this is all too understandable.

Just what *did* Sako do that was so bad? She got rid of people that were
threatening the one she's supposed to protect? What's so bad about that? I
don't get it.

Usagi was trying everything she knew and could to get Sakuya out of jail,
except the one thing she knew she couldn't go - break her promise to
Sakuya. Someone send this entire cast to psychiatric care if they think
it's unexpected that a gravely upset 10-year-old is going to react that way. 

Of course, these are the same people who didn't bother to explain to Misako
(oh, how I despise that character) that Kimeko was going to be away at a
training course for a while.  Instead, they seemed to think it fine to
leave the kid wandering around thinking that she was the reason Kimeko went
away. (for that matter, I can't believe that *Kimeko* didn't tell her). And
if they did tell her, then why did she spend the next year in agony
thinking she'd done something wrong to make Kimeko go away.

I swear, I'm beginning to think this cast is almost as bad of a group of
head cases as the cast of Evangelion is  ^_^


Jeanne
<wondering if the next fic is going to be titled "Tales of Younger Mars"
and star Elder Uranus>