:Re: [FFML] Classic Fanfiction

:From: "John Lemon" <jlemon@hotmail.com>
:Message-ID: <19980923062236.10515.qmail@hotmail.com>
:Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 23:22:35 PDT

:>From: Shadow6865@aol.com
:>Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:14:11 EDT
:>To: gaffney@iconn.net, ffml@fanfic.com
:>Subject: Re: [FFML] Classic Fanfiction
:>
:>
:>In a message dated 9/22/98 5:15:08 AM, gaffney@iconn.net writes:
:>
:><<Y fans don't just hate TSY...they
:>despise it with every fiber of their beings. ;_;  Ah, well.  But :yes, 
:I'd
:>agree it doesn't fit what your page needs.>>
:>
:>      We don't like The Senior Year because it is was too OOC. I 
:usually don't
:>mind OOC but I loathe the Senior Year. Most UY fans like Ataru 
:because 
:deep
:>down inside he really loves Lum and only Lum, he is also a very good 
:natured
:>person. There is no plausible reason why he would become a serial 
:killer (I
:>know I sound a little like GUTB and I'm sorry I do.) I have read 
:plenty 
:of
:>serious UY fanfiction but I just don't like TSY. The serious UY :stuff 
I 
:like
:>tends to concetrate on Ataru finally admitting his love for Lum-chan 
:(Oni-chan
:>in one fanfic, I really like this pun.) If you want some serious 
:fanfiction
:>for UY but "The Prince and the Leecher" on your site.
:>
:
:How can you say that it's out of character? He gives a plausible 
:explanation for why Ataru was the way he was in UY as well as why :he's 
:acting the way he does in TSY. The explanation may be different then 
:what your used to, but that doesn't make it invalid. 
:
:I think the real reason most UY fans don't like it, is that they, :like 
:Tomobiki, villify Ataru and venerate Lum.
:
:--John

I suppose that I could borrow Koosei-kun's Saturn Five...

But, I'm not sure whether most UY fans should or should not venerate
Lum .. ^^; -- it reminds me of the presence of Lum's Stormtroopers
back in their heydays...

I've only caught up to UY - the manga after its' stop-gap release
by Viz came to a halt.  I have the manga TPB as they stand, and have
read the available fan-fiction as it stands.  UY-TSY provided
a plausible reason for Ataru's behaviour, managed to fulfill his
dreams of a harem...(along with all the problems..) and keeps
Ataru and Lum together.

As Herriot describes it, TSY is a growing up story, perhaps those
that 'detest' the story, don't like the thought of their cute
Oni-chan growing up. <shrugs>

--Helen

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