Subject: Re: [FFML] Surreal World Second Season Part 2
From: redneck@txdirect.net (Redneck Gaijin)
Date: 7/27/1998, 9:45 PM
To: ffml@fanfic.com

The ten second summary impression -

Some amusing vignettes.  However, overall somewhat disappointing.  There
are too many repeated series (KOR, Ranma, UY, SM) and too many of the
characters use gender confusion (Shun, Ukyou, Haruka, Ryuunosuke).  First
season had a better balance and mix of characters.  There are many other
series set roughly in present-day including YUA, Ghost Sweeper Mikami,
Phantom Quest Corp, Gunsmith Cats (I know it's set in Chicago, but I'm sure
that there is some way to get Rally or Minnie May over to Tokyo), Project
A-ko, MB, and DHY.


You want the simple reason why some series were repeated? First
there's continuity. Second, if I decided to get REALLY obscure with
the characters, I could sure as heck have picked any one of a
number of series, but let's face it... who would read that?
The entire point of this second season IS the gender confusion. The
first season characters, with the possible exception of Nuku were all
involved in a multi-person love relationship.

This is the primary reason why your version vastly dissapointed me. RpM's
version threw together a bunch of popular characters with no apparent
overall plan for humor; you have basically turned the concept into a
one-joke pony.

Your story simply does not have the variety or comedy potential of RpM's
work, simply because you have fixed it so all the characters are either
cross-dressers or perverts. All the jokes have already been told. There is
nothing original, in my mind, to make me want to read more of the series.

So I won't.

Sorry.

Redneck (three days til the move)

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