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From: Scott Jamison majks@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 04:03:15 -0800 (PST)
To: ffml@anifics.com, gaijin@sfcmd.com
Subject: [FFML] Re: [Fanfic][Ranma/SM] Relatively Absent: Chapter 5 (part 1
of2)
Well, at least we've got some activity on the ML again.
(( And a fine little story it is, too. ))
Thoughts: I for one want to see the kunoichi girls discover that
they've made bad assumptions about the Nerima characters and have it
come back to bite them in their collective asses.
(( Absolutely. The Kuno family, just as one example, has got to have at the
very least a sane business manager, and probably some fairly sane members
elsewhere who would probably be known to the Yamadas. I mean, they're that
rich, but how do they STAY that way if they're that nuts? ))
Grandma *says* she's sorry about her bad relationship with Nodoka,
but the editing of the videotape would seem to belie that.
(( This is called "digging yourself deeper", yes. ))
Ranma is way too weepy for my tastes. Thought. Maybe Eiko is
interfering with his emotions to make him more pliable?
(( Yeah, it's not like this is the first time he's been stuck as a girl. On
the other hand, he's also trying to live up to his new family's
expectations, and - thank to Genma - he thinks he has to be a manly son for
them, just as he did for Nodoka, Or Else. Wearing women's underwear is not
exactly high on his list of ways to prove himself. ))
So why *doesn't* Pluto know the Gates are sentient? They've had
3000+ years to make this apparent to her. And honestly, I think
Pluto would pick the Crystal Tokyo future because it required the
*least* number of innocent deaths.
(( Puu is in willful denial. Eiko probably HAS been screaming in her ear
for the last thousand years, she's just ignoring it. ))
Note that Eiko carefully did not tell Ranma that eliminating Crystal
Tokyo would kill Chibi-Usa. Sounds to me like "she" wants a dupe,
rather than a free-willed guardian. And that ribbons vs. bows
deception clearly indicates that Eiko is willing to fudge the truth
to get what she wants.
"Eta"? Nodoka better have some really good backup on that, because
you just don't say that if you don't really mean it.
(( Or you really want to spit on somebody. ))
Usagi spontaneously transforming in front of her mother, and Luna
blabbing like a madwoman were the best bits in the chapter. Keep
those, though the protocols stuff was a teensy overdone.
(( *chuckle* The Ginzuishou's AI is obviously not as well-programmed as the
Gate's. I'd have a word with the code team if they weren't all ten thousand
years dead. ))