From: paradoxtxs@yahoo.com   
      
   Chris Kern wrote:   
   > Episode 21 - Protect the children's dreams!  The friendship bound by   
   > anime   
   >   
   > There's an interesting scene here -- Hiromi tells the director of the   
   > Sailor V anime that she's going to kill off Sailor V in the final   
   > scene because children want to see explicit scenes like that nowadays.   
   > This is supposed to be taken as indiciation that she's fallen under   
   > Nephrite's evil power, but I think it's interesting given the way the   
   > first season of Sailor Moon ends.   
      
   Good point.  Very good point.  Given how I heard that the children of   
   Japan reacted, Hiromi was proven quite wrong.  ^_^;   
      
   > This is a pretty cheesy episode, though.  I get the feeling the   
   > creators put a number of inside jokes about their own animation studio   
   > in it.   
      
   Oh, I definitely got the feeling that in-jokes and cameos were the   
   themes of the day.  I imagine that a lot of the background characters in   
   the anime studio bore at least some passing resemblance to real artists,   
   given that they got a little bit more face time than I'd normally expect   
   when the characters were giving their post battle speech about anime making.   
      
   Luna's crack about their story being just too silly to make anime about   
   made me grin.   
      
   Maybe it's just my skewed perception, but right now there seems to be a   
   lot of focus on Ami.  Slowly building her from that lonely quiet girl   
   into someone who's ready to deal with what's coming later.  She still   
   studies, probably too much, and she's still reserved, but that's not   
   all.  She can tease Usagi and even Rei a bit, in her own way, and take   
   action on her own, when she needs to.  Of all the Inner Senshi, Ami   
   starts out the least suited to the fate before her (not counting Usagi).   
     Deep down, she was designed to be a doctor or teacher, not a fighter.   
   So it seems like they're taking a bit of time to show her growing out of   
   her shell, hence the "Ami the Plot Driver" theme of the last several   
   episodes.  Rei comes pretty much ready to take up her role as Mars, and   
   Usagi... well...  We'll deal with that later.   
      
   SK   
      
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