On Tue, 22 Sep 1998 Shadow6865@aol.com wrote:

	<... I shouldn't.  I *reeeeeeeally* shouldn't.>

	<Who'm I kidding?>

      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

	Ex-cuse me.

	I take one hell of an objection to terming Ataru's behavior in the
later stages of UY: TSY the acts of a serial killer.  I find it *ignorant*,
in the worst way, of both the ways in which serial killers operate (as
*predators*) and of the storyline.

	What Ataru does is respond *in* *kind* to people who have threatened
his life, his (developing) family, and his (real) friends.  Now, turning
one's cheek may be the Christian thing to do, but the man is not a
Christian.  Under his cultural axioms, what he is doing is appropriate.

	I'm not really fond of certain aspects of UY: TSY myself.  I find
every sequence that's a blatant rip off of a scene in the Star Trek movies
to be *acutely* painful.  (But I'm the guy who's blending every anime ever
made into one story.)  I think that the overall "sensualist" philosophy
is a very bad idea, and that Mr. Herriot's obsession with androids is ...
well, strange.  (But hey, this is coming from a man obsessed with lesbians.)
And I wonder what Greenbeans was smoking when she let Herriot talk her into
having her appear in his Sailor Moon/UY: TSY crossovers ... but that's her
problem and none of my own.

	But I wouldn't call Ataru's behavior in *that* regard too far out of
character.  You can only push some people so far, and then they either snap
or they start pushing back.

Chris Davies.