At 09:06 AM 12/21/98 -0700, Shunsuke wrote:

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Series: Ranma 1/2
Title: Nabiki Tendo Must Die
Genre: Ludicrous
Author: Matthew Lewis
Email: maybeso@ican.net

Archive #: 227
Date Sent to FFML: 11/11/98
Size: 15 Kb

Summary:

I think the title and genre kind of sums it up rather
well, don't you? But if you must... Ranma has a revelation, but
must decide on how to put it into action.

{Paul}
  *piku* Ladies and gentlemen, we have here an example of Parodius
  Scribus, the fanfiction parody fic. Almost every little insane
  deviation from the norm, wrapped up in one writing package for your
  comedic convenience. Funny to read, in places, but not as funny as
  its individual parts. Perhaps distorting everything beyond belief
  is as unamusing as having nothing distorted at all. 6 of 10 for
  humor, 12 or 13 out of 20 overall.

{Shunsuke}
  Y'know, if you take away the out-there (attempts at) silliness, 
  this could work as a dark comedy, not just a parody fic.  The 
  ideas and elements would be much better served, and would be much 
  funnier by not trying to be funny, if you understand my meaning.

Perhaps the ideas might be better served, but the _idea_, I feel, would
not be. The idea, that these cliches and conventions are silly, and that
the reader should take them as a given, as gospel truth. I merely point
out that they are silly and funny. I will admit, however, that this
could easily make a darker comedy, but the purpose of it would have to
be different.


Matthew "Maybeso" Lewis is:
InDefinitelyso on IRC
Sojiro_Seta on Kawaiimuck
	maybeso@ican.net
prone to exaggeration, 150% of the time
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A ll our dream worlds may come true.
F airy lands are fearsome too.
A s I fade far from view
R ead and bring me home to you.
	-dedication from Haroun and the Sea of Stories
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