On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Alan Harnum wrote:

Commentary's appreciated; public or private, your choice.

Incoming!  :)  All comments strictly my opinion; comments
Gary Kleppe has already made are not duplicated (unless I goofed).

S'good.  It was late when I edited this, and I made a few more mistakes
then I usually do.  :)

Tiredness does play a factor in things like this.  I wonder
if that's Rod's excuse...

{Yow.  Another vivid image -- we've seen this so many times in
the anime, and now it's sinister.  Will I ever see Tofu the
same way again?}

Dunno.  S'pose it depends whether or not Evil Doctor Tofu becomes fanfic
canon.  ;)

Once makes it novelty, three times makes it cliche, five makes
it a convention...  We're on the road to clicheness, I believe,
if you want to make the weird bit at the ind of IMBS the second 
mention.

This is my own personal view of why Nabiki turns out so different from her
two sisters; Kasumi's role is obviously her mother, Akane's her father.
Nabiki had no one to emulate, no one to feel she was the favourite of; this
is why she became the person she did.

I believe that this is the view that Lara Bartram also takes,
in her several examinations of the Nabiki character.  If you
completely look only at the facts of the manga/anime, it doesn't
make sense that Nabs would support anyone but herself.

Not that it really matters, considering he's dead now.  :)

Why, oh why, must we be given characters we start to like,
only to watch them die, or be maimed, or turn to the evil 
side?  Methinks you're taking tips from the Willmore school
of fanfic.

Things are going to be... interesting once people start meeting Ranma again.

When are we going to get to this part???  Everytime something
*bad* happens, I want the Lord of the Waters to step in and
say, "Enough!"  You're torturing us, Harnum. <grrr>

{There are some things man was not meant to know...}

Mebbe she's just got an unsightly mole?

"I have a *mole*???"

Everything's basically come together now; the next chapter will have a
unified storyline for the first time since around Chapter 6.  No more
subplots.  It's the end times, kiddies.

<dramatic sigh of relief>  Finally!!!

Ciao,
-Alan Harnum

Trisha L. Sebastian
tls@thekeep.org
Proud Member of the BML Productions Crew

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Shakespeare in Islamic pentameter.
"Forsooth, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is...not veiled? Stone her! STONE HER!!"
			--Matt Nute

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			--Warren Ellis
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