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Title: Wheel of Fire #9: The Past is Prologue, part 1

{Paul}
 Let the backstory... BEGIN! Seriously, though, sending a spiral out
 into the darkness before the series from the darkness after the
 series is what this particular series has been doing all along.

  ?? You've got me confused, boy @_@

 Serially. At any rate, it's not my place to call it plausible or
 implausible, only to judge... and I say that it's fairly
 interesting, and leaves a definite touch of what might be
 foreshadowing somewhere down the line. The wedding of Ryoga and
 Akari, which was played up at least somewhat beforehand, was a bit
 of an anticlimax... but then, who can follow Kleppe-sempai's
 prelude to Hearts and Minds without a comparison being made? All in

  Okay, folks! THAT's how you know I'm running an uphill battle! 
  (well, geez, it's not like every wedding will have something go wrong 
with it, hmm?)

 all, a nice chapter, one that is obviously looking to the future.
 Here's hoping the future is soon, hmm? 15 or 16 out of 20.

  Cheers! 

Title: Wheel of Fire #9: The Past is Prologue, part 2
{Paul}
 Oh my. This is not how I pictured Mama Kunou... then again, the
 picture's been shaped by Lawson and MacKinnon beforehand, and this
 series is substantially more fast and loose than either of the
 prior two. Yet more backstory, a nice slice of life for the Kuno

  Uphill battle number 2....

 sibs, and a bit of psychobabble... but what does one expect from
 psychos, hmm? :> But unlike the prior part, this doesn't really GO
 anywhere... although I imagine those plot points are likely to
 come up again, given the implied cyclic nature of this series.
 Still, though, this particular installment was noticeably free
 from the foreshadowing its predecessors all had small amounts of.

  True. Or is it...? 

 But meaningless literature - gads, I'm turning into Gubby - still
 has its merits, and this story is nothing if not well-written and
 at least passably plotted. 14 or 15 out of 20.

  One of the problems with writing out a series is the reader expects to 
see the immediate connections here and there. Well, I've still got a few 
cards left up my sleeve.... 

Title: Wheel of Fire #9: The Past is Prologue, part 3
{Paul}
 I was laughing out loud at how pathetic Mousse's attempt at wooing
 Shampoo was... then realized that it's perfectly in character, at
 least given some interpretations of the boy. Odd, then, that it
 should be followed by something as uncharacteristically insightful
 as what Mousse says. I find it to be rather at odds with my own

  The living paradox :) Like in the first story, he had no idea whether 
or not he wanted to kill Ranma anymore.... 

 understanding of his aims and such in the manga, but then, he's
 been like that since the fanfic series started. "Mousse, Version
 2.0" is probably the most concise statement of what needs to
 happen to Mousse for him to be at least passable in Shampoo's
 eyes... ah well. Even if I don't entirely agree with what happens,
 I can't say it's not logically done. 14 or 15 of 20.

  Uphill battle number 3....

  Coolness, in three consecutive fics I've managed to challenge 
someone's accepted view of characters.... (but then, is that really a 
good thing?)

"Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Fool! Pain is my friend. Allow me to introduce YOU to 
it!" --Inferno, Beast Wars
"Decepticons FOREVER!!" --Ravage, former Decepticon
"Your persistence is futile! I rise again!" --Rampage
"[Rampage] may be ugly, but he's a PREDACON!" --Quickstrike

--Razorclaw X

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