On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Chris Davies wrote:

On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Richard Lawson wrote:

This story has none of the sweeping drama of a Davies or a Biles.

	People who are still alive should not have their last names used
as nouns.  It tends to make some of us ... nervous.

Quite :)

	Oy.  Richard, you've stumbled onto THE cliche of Sailor Moon
fanfiction.  (Okay, one of THE cliches, the other ones including making
new Sailor Senshi for the Earth and Sun ...)  Yeah, I know I did it, and
that makes me look like a hypocrite for coming down on it ...

That and Minako having an new boyfriend who turns out to be EVIL :)
 

But even in death, in this nether dimension between dimensions, Jadeite
was still the First General.  This was not defeat, just a setback.  He
gathered his power and waited.

	Erm.  First General is not really a title, per se.  It's more of a
statement of fact -- he's the "First General" to appear.  His power is
actually substantially less than any of the others.

In the manga, the generals had regional responsiblities at first, though I
can NEVER remember them correctly :)  We see Jadeite first because Tokyo
was in his area.
 

Serena scowled at her.  She wanted to be through with the locket and the
Crystal and being the Moon Princess (who would want to be the Princess of
a dusty gray hunk of rock anyway?) and especially Sailor Moon.  She never
had enjoyed a single minute of being Sailor Moon.  She spent a lot of
that time scared out of her mind.

	Not true.  There have been plenty of moments that she has enjoyed
being Sailor Moon, and she is more or less cured of her "I just wanna be a
normal teenager" syndrome mid-way through the first half of R.  (In the
second half, after the end of DiC's dub, there's an episode where she
admits that she's grown up a lot -- "Before, I could have said `I'm
hungry!  I'm scared!  I wanna go home!' -- but I can't do that anymore.")

Well, it depends on whether that is the author speaking on Serena never
enjoying it, or whether that is Serena's own viewpoint at that moment of
time as to whether or not she ever enjoyed it.  The human mind plays
amusing tricks on itself :)

	I hate dimensional travel crossovers.  They always feel like ...
cheating.  Think about it -- if there are infinite dimensions, then (as
Niven so graphically demonstrated in "All The Myriad Ways") what is the
point of anything, since any event not only could have gone all the ways
that it could have gone, somewhere it DID.

The point is ensuring that you yourself get to have things your way where
you are ^_-

John Walter Biles :  MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas         
ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu       
naru@sailormoonfan.com
rhea@tass.org

http://www.tass.org/~rhea/falcon.html

"But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly
in our world quite realise what it will be like when He does.  When that
happens, it's the end of the world....For this time, it will be God
without disguise;  something so overwhelming that it will strike either
irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature.  It will be
too late then to choose your side...That won't be the time for choosing;
it will be the time when we discover which side we have really chosen,
whether we realized it before or not.  NOW is the our chance to choose the
right side.  God is holding back to give us that chance.  IT won't last
forever.  We must take it or leave it."
--C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, final paragraph.