From: paradoxtxs@yahoo.com   
      
   Chris Kern wrote:   
   > Episode 39 - Paired with a youma!? The Queen on ice, Mako-chan   
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   Again, Kunzite is looking for someone graceful and athletic.  Idiot…   
      
   Surely Beryl has to have been told that Endymion is playing both sides   
   off and on, and she’s content to let it happen, whereas Zoisite got the   
   axe for slanting orders with regards to Endymion.  Very interesting.   
      
   We never find out exactly where Makoto learned to skate.   
      
   With the exception of Usagi, the others all seem to have at least a   
   little experience, though none of them looked all that comfortable on   
   skates.  As for Usagi, well, she’s Usagi… you know how this ends.   
      
   Ami’s reactions here were very, very interesting.  When Misha makes his   
   appearance, pretty much every single spectator either blushes or has   
   hearts in her eyes, except for one.  Ami.  To take it a step further,   
   when Makoto steps out onto the ice and starts showing her skill, the   
   girls are all cheering her on, but only one is blushing.  Again, Ami.   
   Make of it what you will, but I have trouble writing it off as coincidence.   
      
   Clearly, the crush at the end of the episode is intended as comedic, but   
   it does raise the interesting question:  Is Makoto doing this to herself   
   on purpose, falling in love at the drop of a hat?  Yes, part of it is   
   that she’s clearly a romantic, but look at the skills she has already   
   presented with a fair degree of expertise:  Dancing, Figure Skating,   
   Cooking, Cleaning.  All about as feminine as one can get.  You just as   
   easily say that a hopeless crush would fit in that category.  Add all   
   this to how she quickly apologizes for her weight on the ice, and I get   
   a young woman who sees herself as very manly and unattractive, and is   
   possibly immersing herself in feminine things to comfort herself and   
   convince herself that she isn’t the brutish thing that her sempai said   
   she was.   
      
   SK - reading a lot into things, but that's half the fun of this.  ^_^v   
      
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