Subject: Re: [FFML] [Ranma] [Lime] Divinity: Chapter Six
From: Gary Kleppe
Date: 10/4/1999, 12:10 PM
To: ffml@fanfic.com

All comments strictly my own opinion; your mileage may vary.

This chapter is grossly over-using the "She's a lesbian?" joke. This can
be quite funny up to a certain point, but this chapter really beat it
into the ground.

Also, while mis-assumed sexual innuendo does have the potential to be
funny, it needs to be kept believable for it to work. People hearing the
word "come" will almost always assume the innocuous meaning. If you want
Yuka to assume the other one, you need to establish beforehand something
like (1) Yuka is secretly obsessed with sex, or (2) Yuka is already
convinced that Aizen and Ranko are sex-crazed perverts (her believing
that they're lesbians is nowhere near enough).

Just my 2 yen here, but Divinity's been a genuinely funny series so far.
It really doesn't need to resort to these kinds of cheap laughs to the
degree that this chapter did.


Gary Kleppe
http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics.html