From: inverseparadox@comcast.net
Gerardo Campos wrote:
> The Wanderer wrote on Wed 21 Jun 2006
> 08:55:58p:
>
>> Rick S wrote:
>>> I always looked at it as when the Youma is destroyed, the
>>> draining stops, but what was taken is still gone. Once the
>>> draining stops, people are able to recover and eventually
>>> replenish what was taken.
>>
>> FWIW, I never saw it that way - in part because that wouldn't make
>> sense with Beryl getting angry with Jadeite for continually
>> failing; you'll note that the one scene where she commends him for
>> success comes after the one plot in which he *does* get away with
>> energy before Sailor Moon shows up (the fitness club). I always
>> read it as that when the big ball of energy Jadeite was holding
>> disappears, wherever it actually went (and the immediate recovery
>> of the victims, which does happen at least some of the time, seems
>> to indicate that it went back to them), he certainly doesn't have
>> it anymore and hence can't deliver it to Beryl for Metallia.
>
> I always wondered, If it was common that SM whows up and defeats the
> youma, why not put in storage what has been accumulated, instead of
> waiting until the end?
Apparently they *do* do this after a certain point - witness the single
episode I noted in which Jadeite did succeed, in which the scheme had
been going on for some days (perhaps even weeks) before Usagi stumbled
across it - but this point is measured in days at the least, which is
very rarely sufficient.
Beyond that, and especially given that there is at least one other
scheme which apparently lasted quite some time undiscovered (the
Midnight Zero love-letter radio show), the only thing I can suggest is
raw egotism.
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The Wanderer
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side of it.
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