A clever beginning, but to anyone who can't stand to read about the 
Ranma/Akane wedding once again would probably chuck the fic before 
getting past the first three paragraphs.

  And would have robbed themselves of a pleasant read in the process.  
It's called irony.

  You know, I think I've finally begun to understand some of GUtB's 
biases (besides the obvious problem with SIs).  Consider:

Now, a Kasumi/Tofou wedding is a fresher idea--too bad the fic quickly 
reverts to the tired Ranma and Akane Express Their True Feelings With a 
Little Coaching From Their Friends premise. Aside from the little 
sideshow of Kasumi and Dr. Tofou, nothing interesting happens, and 
nothing new is discovered, just the same beaten path being trudged down 
once again.

   The problem isn't that the idea is hackneyed--after all, just about 
everything in the world has been done to Ranma, and then some.  Hell, 
we've had two separate posts under the title of *shudder* "P-Chan's 
Lover".  

   His problem seems to be an inability to understand the nature of the 
emotefic.  There is usually little in them by way of plot--this is not 
to say that nothing happens, just that what does occur is of a much more 
subtle and gradual nature.

   He's looking for something dramatic, like a bursting dam, and is 
disappointed when, instead, someone writes about the slow formation of a 
single crack in the dam.

   BTW, GUtB, Ranma and Akane did not "express their true feelings", 
they danced.  Just a brief spin about the floor before reverting to 
type.  Takahashi herself made the most of such moments, often having 
characters flashback to little instances and careless comments.

   Short pieces like this are not about high drama.  They are an attempt 
to watch the characters we love outside of their more familiar lives.

In the final analysis, this is a well-written but bland fic.

   So says a man with no taste buds....

--Freemage

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