| John Walter Biles wrote:
| >
| > Which is another problem with this story.  Ultimately, Sailor
| > Moon isn't a
| > very good universe in which to tell this story, because the
| > protagonists
| > lose.  Oh, they may keep their dignity, but Crystal Tokyo in the canon
| > gets along just fine without them.
|
| Milton chose to tell, or rather start, his story in much the same
| place:  with the hopeless rebels, defending freedom, and the same
| universe:  the rebels lose.
|
| What you are asking the author to do amounts to rewriting the entirety
| of Paradise Lost:  gradually shift the viewpoint _after_ our sympathy
| for the devil has been engaged, so that we later see the devil for
| what he really is.

An agent of heaven, present to show mortals an easy path that flies in the
face of everything they believe is good as a way to test their dedication to
God?

Oh. Wait. That's the devil in just about every book of the Bible he's
mentioned in, until Revelation. The notion of him as a fallen angel is due
in part and perhaps in whole to this book, which is largely symbolism and
quite subject to interpretation. The Bible is quite noticeably without any
major avatar of evil. (Any Scripture scholars out there want to correct me
on this?) Milton's work, while admittedly thought-provoking and undoubtedly
well-written, was based very loosely on Scripture and more so on
contemporary interpretations of evil. (And one wonders if Chaos is a
forebear of H.P. Lovecraft's Elder Gods...) There is very little
justification for the existence of a spirit of evil in the Bible proper.
(Again, if I'm wrong, correct me.) C. S. Lewis's "The Great Divorce" (so
called because it is a rebuttal to "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", by
Blake) presents a Hell which people have made for themselves, with the
notable absence of any evil overlord. Evil comes from no external force; it
is within ourselves. The entire concept of free choice exists because God
wanted beings who chose Him, not servants to follow His will. At least,
that's my understanding of things.

There is something else yet to consider, a point that I don't think anyone's
raised yet...

If Serenity doesn't carry out this purification and exile those who refuse,
there will be no Black Moon invasion, ChibiUsa will likely not get her hands
on the Ginzuishou, and there won't be two Ginzuishous to confront Wiseman
when he returns. The two combined were barely able to defeat him... I don't
fancy the chances the Senshi have with only one.

Further, ChibiUsa won't have the experiences she had when she returns in
SMS. She likely won't provide the life-saving if entirely impotent
distraction she does in the episode she returns in, and might not befriend
Hotaru and give the Senshi a place to stand on to encourage the child to
fight Mistress 9.

Even further, ChibiUsa was the contact point for Helios and all the Senshi
powerups in SMSS. Without said powerups, the Lemures and their assorted
masters/mistresses (some of whom dress in women's clothing and hang around
in bars) will have the advantage, and the Dead Moon Circus will win in the
end.

And with a scorched Earth to greet her, what's to stop Galaxia from going on
to take over the universe, I wonder?

So. Make perhaps a million people's lives a living hell, or wind up quite
probably losing the entirety of Earth and quite possibly the universe to a
much greater and more powerful evil. What would YOU choose to do, I wonder?

--G. Falconar

So it's not quite as simple as all that, but it is something to think about,
ne?