From: paradoxtxs@yahoo.com   
      
   Chris Kern wrote:   
   > Episode 25 - The really strong girl in love, Jupiter-chan   
   >   
   > At the beginning of the episode Queen Beryl gives some energy to   
   > Metallia, but where did that energy come from? In the past 24 episodes   
   > only two plans have been successful at getting energy.   
      
   I assumed it was what Nephrite had taken from Naru a few episodes back,   
   but it's hard to be certain.   
      
   > This episode is the prototype for the "crystal/mirror/star seed   
   > extraction" that dominates the later seasons.   
   >   
      
   All that trouble over a Dark Crystal that wasn’t working right anyway…   
      
   You know, for having led the invasion of the moon, Beryl sure doesn’t   
   know much about it until Metallia reminds her.  Same for Kunzite and   
   Zoicite.  Might they be somehow suffering from the same swiss-cheese   
   brain as Luna?  If so, why?   
      
   Umino should have that notebook rammed someplace uncomfortable.  By   
   midday, his blabber-mouthing has the entire school avoiding poor   
   Mako-chan, well, except for Usagi, of course.   
      
   Ahh, Makoto and her sempai.  She’s rather honest about it.  He was bad,   
   he broke her heart, but she still automatically sees him in anyone she’s   
   attracted to.  Even when she realizes that Joe is a jerk, it just   
   intensifies the resemblance, and hence, her interest.   And when he   
   mentioned her height, she admitted that it was the same reason that   
   sempai used against her.   
      
   The strangest thing is how *sincere* Makoto is about it all.  She's   
   really taking up the role of bodyguard for this guy she hasn't exchanged   
   more than a dozen words with.  Is she trying to prove something to him   
   this way?  Or to herself?  Just what did happen between her and her   
   sempai?  It's horribly easy for an adolescent to take criticism to   
   heart, even when they shouldn't.  Makoto, on introduction, strikes me as   
   someone with a very shaky, or even negative self-image.   
      
   On the other hand, Makoto neatly avoids the issue of her family life,   
   for obvious reasons.   
      
   And of course, the (in)famous Mako-Ami theory is born here, with a   
   rather odd reaction from Ami, blushing as Makoto happily scratched the   
   delighted Luna in her arms.  Maybe it was just a reaction to the   
   invasion of her personal space… but it seemed a bit delayed for that.   
   On the other hand, it coincided with Makoto’s brightest smile just about   
   perfectly…  Make of it what you will.   
      
   SK   
      
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