At 12:59 11/12/2003 -0500, croaker@rochester.rr.com wrote:

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. ))

         Okay, I _think_ this may be a timing problem. If memory
serves, that tape was sent BEFORE Ranma claws his/her way out
of the wreckage of the mountain. In short, Granny was still
pissed, and in a mood to teach Nodoka that she is, in the words
of a certain famous regular from CHEERS, "just too STUPID TO LIVE!"

         Then, along came Ranma, still alive, there's no reason -
well, okay, SOME reason, but not as much - to be pissed with
Nodoka, but the tape has already been sent off. Ooops.

(( 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.

         Well, I wouldn't call it wanting a dupe, so much as wanting
someone a LOT less into Dominance games. (And having had a lover who
was SERIOUSLY into B&D, though not with me, I know whereof I speak.)

"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. ))

         Oh, yeah. While I have no personal experience, I suspect that
using it in this way is a lot like using the words "nigger", "spick",
"dago", or any of a number of such insults. I'm been on the receiving
end of "spick" and "wetback" a number of times myself.

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. ))

Croaker

         Yeah, something like "Jesus QUACK! What the hell did you idiots USE?!
Visual BASIC?!"

         Ed Becerra

         "Dreamers may die, but the Dream is eternal..."



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