I'll say that I wanted to throw this one out the window. I didn't get
through a third of the story before miasmal boredom overcame me, and I
started skipping sections at a time until I hit something potentially

Sorry you felt that way.

  It was probably also the wrong time of day, too. I'll probably go back 
through it later.

Now, if you just don't like character development scenes, then this is
probably the wrong series for you to be reading, If, OTOH, there's
something that could be done to the ones in this fic to make them more
interesting, that's something I'd be interested in hearing.

  I've no problem with character development, and I don't know what to say 
about this fic. Let's just say the gut feeling hit the wrong part of the 
field (or maybe I wasn't in the right mood-- it makes all the diff, oh 
well).

 I thought the part where Ranma switched his conversation point to the 

game

with the 'hundred levels' seemed silly--

What do you think should've happened at that point?

  I don't know, but for a cover-up that seemed pretty lame for Ranma. I'd 
almost expect he'd get someone mad at him at that point somehow.

reminds me of the one fic where
Ranma and Ryoga play Street Fighter 2, which I thought was only good for
cheap laughs, but not much more.

Haven't read that one, so can't really comment.

  Author (and title) escapes me for the moment, but I think it was Oneshot.

 The more I read the parts about the 'switching bodies in an instant,' 

the

more I want to kill the cursed characters; sure, this'll probably have 

nasty

consequences later (they always do with good writers), but it reeks of 

plot

convenience at this point.

Not even sure how to understand this. You mean it isn't believable that
someone could come up with a magical technique that unlocked the curses?

  Well, no. I don't think it could be THAT easy. I think there has to be 
some kind of consequence to this trap door method. If not, then it is plot 
convenience.
  The cursed characters (well, not all of them) have essentially become 
ANIMORPHS!!! :)

Well, I don't think of it as 'filler.' I'm not under any obligation to
pad these chapters out to any certain length, and nothing in them is
there unless I feel it should be there. Will Ukyo/Mikado relate to other
things that are going on in the series? Eventually, yes. But even if
that answer were no, I don't quite see why that would make it
problematic.

  Sometimes I ask myself, 'Is there a point?' As it stands right now, the 
answer is 'no, not really.' But gut says 'yes.' Either I trust my gut way 
too often than it deserves, even when it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, 
or I take as given (but that doesn't work for me).
  It's the Force :P
  (I'm also halfway wondering why any of this is Nodoka's business, but 
then, if the kids are concerned (and Ukyo certainly doesn't want to give 
that up), I guess it's all her business.)

 Okay, at this point, I think Kasumi is going to die. This is based on 

the

power-with-price idea-- so far she's thrown some tremendous power (if

Well, she at least would say that you're wrong about that. "The spirits
have power; I don't."

  Yess.... She can explain it away all she wants....
  Until the next chapter, when something else happens to the contrary, then 
weird reasoning stands....

  "I AM power!"--Megatron

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fanfiction that way, and consequently I never grew attached to this whole 
idea of remaining true to the original.  I call it "correction."--Reverend 
Prez

--Razorclaw X
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