Subject: [FFML] Re: [C&C] Re: [fic][SM/YST]Ronin Summer 7
From: Aaron Nowack
Date: 6/16/2006, 2:19 PM
To: Morgan Hudson
CC: ffml@anifics.com

Morgan Hudson wrote:
I am pleased to report that I was also able
to finally get the last DVDs I needed to finish off my Ronin
Warriors/Yoroiden Samurai Troopers collection. There were totally in the
discount bin. ^_^

I need to get around to picking those up.

Good luck - the bad news is that Bandai is not exactly restocking them 
anymore, so they're getting a little hard to track down. The good news is 
that you can usually pick them up pretty cheap when you find them: I got 
mine for about $4 each, and I've only rarely seen them sold for more than 
$10 per DVD.

I seem to recall seeing that a collection of some sort was released,
actually.  Assuming it isn't udicrously expensive, I'll probably go for
that.

You know, I can't really say it's inaccurate, but I blink when I see one
of the Generals referred to as a demon.  Too used to thinking of them as
humans, I suppose.

Good point. I was actually using "demon" a little more figuratively, but I 
guess in a fic like this that's not always a hot idea. After all, it could 
easily be taken either way. :)

Well, particularly when you're basing things solely on the anime which
doesn't really, as I recall, get into the origins of the Generals, it is
a perfectly valid interpretation.

If prolonged exposure to the nastier side of humanity is reducing the
effects of the Moon Healing Escalation, one might think that a decision
to start using the blackmail material again, at least to protect
herself, would come first.

By that point she no longer had that option. Remember, a "mysterious fire" 
had destroyed all the blackmail material she possessed. Even if she had 
wanted to, she had nothing left to use against anybody.

Ah, right.

Incidentally, how do her enemies figure out so quickly that she's no
longer willing to use the blackmail material?  Just because she quits
her job at the tabloid?

Actually, it was that she was starting to look for work elsewhere in the 
news world. She was bad enough when she was just working for a rag that 
nobody took seriously. If she got a *real* job in the media, she would have 
been too big of a threat to her old victims. They started to resist her, by 
using their own contacts to deny her jobs. Once they realised she wasn't 
fighting back, they decided to finish her off while they could. After all 
the blackmail evidence was burned, the only thing she had left to threaten 
them with was the knowledge in her own head, so they decided to kill her - 
or at least scare her into staying quiet.

Okay, that makes sense.

If Radanthus is still trying to recruit Jadeite (my memories of the
details of your Dark Kingdom political setup are a little fuzzy, so I
could be mis-remembering) wouldn't that be more than a little unwise?

A few weeks of public humiliation and torture is the *minimum* punishment 
expected for a spy who gets caught.

Without those diplomatic papers, Oniwabandana is just an intruder, free to 
be executed, locked away forever, or hung from the castle gates as a lesson 
to anybody else who tries to break into Radanthus' castle. With them, she 
might get roughed up a little, questioned for a few weeks, and subjected to 
some humiliating public punishment before getting returned to Jadeite in 
more or less one piece.

Radanthus *is* trying to suck up to Jadeite, which is why Jadeite is betting 
that Radanthus will not want to kill anyone who is working for Jeddy unless 
they give him a good reason. A dead ninja cannot report back what she found: 
an embarassed one who is sore in several places can still talk.

I suppose it depends on how you look at it.  You see, the thing is,
while Oniwabandana might be a spy, with those papers she's formally an
_ambassador_, which makes things difficult.

It seems to me the that the smart options would be to:

a) Play along, to an extent.  Either set her up in an ambassadorial
suite under heavy guard or firmly and promptly escort her back to
Jadeite for being in a restricted area or whatever.

or b) Make Oniwabandana disappear and deny ever seeing her, in which
case Jadeite can't really do anything about it with out admitting that
he was sending a spy under cover of being an ambassador.

Torture and humiliation (particularly _public_ humiliation) of someone
who is technically Jadeite's ambassador seems to me to be a deliberate
insult to Jadeite, which puts him in a position where it is very
difficult for him to join forces with Radanthus without it seeming like
a humiliating capitulation, which is exactly the opposite of what
Radanthus should want.

	"Well, we didn't track down Mistress Nine and Shutendoji to be
chaperones, if that's what you're asking," Ryo admitted, looking a 
little
confused. "What's the big deal? We just went to a museum."

...okay, it seems I really am fuzzy on some details.  When did the
Samurai Troopers learn about Mistress Nine again?

There was a fuzzy period around Chapters 3-4 where we didn't really follow 
what the Troopers and Senshi were up to in Yokohama. Since Ami mentions in 
Chapter 5 that the Troopers had told her about Arago, it's safe to assume 
that the Senshi also did a general info dump at that time.

Hmm.  It seems odd to me that Ryo would just casually bring up Mistress
Nine in conversation this way under those circumstances, then.  I mean,
he might have been told about Mistress Nine, but she/it wouldn't exactly
be on the forefront of his mind, I wouldn't think.  (Now if he was
dating _Hotaru_, that would be a different matter, of course.)

Yeah, I couldn't resist poking a little fun at one of the more common YST/SM 
pairings. Usagi struck me as the kind who would actually use that logic in 
real life. :)

	"Not to me there isn't!" Usagi crowed victoriously. "I've never
checked out a guy I didn't fall immediately in love with!"

....heh.  That seems more of a Minako-ism than an Usagi-ism, though.

Yeah, but Usagi has had a fair number of crushes of her own, back in the 
past. There was one point I recall where she was having her usual trouble 
deciding whether to daydream about Motoki or Tuxedo Kamen, and Luna told her 
to make up her mind. Usagi's response was "I guess my heart is naturally 
fickle", or something like that.

Wasn't that relatively early in the first season, though, prior to her
actually having a real relationship with Mamoru?  This story is set much
later, and Usagi has changed somewhat since then.  :)

I mean, I can remember several occassions where Usagi checks out a man
(or a woman, in the case of Haruka) later in the series, but I can't
remember her ever talking about _loving_ them.  She generally seems
devoted to Mamoru.

Though I've never really sat down and watched SuperS or Stars and  it
has been a while, so I could always be wrong.


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