On Tue, 4 May 1999, David Johnston wrote:

However, one notes that even the end of Sailor Moon suggested that attempts
to achieve perfect order were bound to backfire.  The real question, of course
is whether Serenity's "purification" of the world constituted such an attempt.
Some people have portrayed Crystal Tokyo as a "true Utopia" free of all manner
of ills,

	Nobody with a lick of sense ought to.  Particularly anyone who knows
that "utopia" means "nowhere", literally.  

	I won't comment on Mr. Cornett's work, because John said damn near
everything that I'd say, only much more politely and with less swearing.  My
reaction to an argument along the lines of "We have the right to destroy
ourselves if we want to destroy ourselves" is "Like fuck you do.  You have
no right whatsoever to condemn the generations forthcoming to nonexistence
because you're a selfish bastard who refuses to give up his dangerous toys."

but so far as I know, we are not actually given that much information
about what life and people in the future are like.  

	Try none.

Ah.  I was uncertain of that, which was I broke off my little spamfic at
that point.  Of course, perhaps that was enough talking anyway.  
However, there are some problems with that approach.  Assuming that the
Black Moon clan are descended from exiled rebels against Serenity, it
works better if they are exiled before the ice.  That gives them a 
thousand years to grow in power and craziness before they have to take
Earth on.  Otherwise they have no more than a couple of generations.

	Consider Germany from 1918 to 1941.  That's not even a generation,
and look what that hurled up.

However there is an excuse for Serenity's feeble argument.  Why should she
bother?  After all, Dumond's choice is predestined.  In fact if she convinced
Dumond not to accept exile, she'd screw up the entire timestream.

	Do you honestly think that would stop her?

Chris Davies.