From: macross@mx1.ibm.com   
      
   The Wanderer wrote on Wed 21 Jun 2006   
   08:55:58p:   
      
   > Rick S wrote:   
   >   
   >> Chris Kern wrote in   
   >> news:qlqj92h3ge94qo0mddv2tmgs80hl8vbing@4ax.com:   
   >>   
   >>> But it all seems to go away when the youma is defeated -- the   
   >>> people that got their energy drained immediately get up and are   
   >>> back to normal.   
   >>   
   >> 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?   
      
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