From: phoenix@mediaone.net   
      
   Chris Kern wrote:   
      
   >Episode 43 - Usagi isolated? The Sailor Senshi's big quarrel   
   >   
   >The basic story of this episode is an attempt to trick the Dark   
   >Kingdom into thinking the Sailor Senshi were breaking up so that Moon   
   >could get access to the Dark Kingdom. Usagi gave the Moon Stick to Rei   
   >for safekeeping -- I remember the dub made some change to this episode   
   >so that Rei stole the stick, or something like that.   
      
   This episode once again shows that incredibly close link between Usagi   
   and Rei.   
      
   As for the dub however, it showed the exact opposite...   
      
   In the scene before Serena is attacked, she is offering to exchange   
   the wand for Darien's life. The scene switches to the senshi hiding in   
   the bushes where Rei whispers in disbelief that Serena would actually   
   be willing to give up the wand. As Serena struggles against the sash   
   choking her, she starts to think that the other sensei really did want   
   to get rid of her, that this was all a setup by them (In the dub, this   
   plan was apparently a group decision, not a plan by Serena). In that   
   fateful moment where Rei reveals that she has the stick, she says that   
   Serena forgot it in her room, so she kept it (apparently to keep   
   Serena from giving it up).   
      
   In the original, Usagi/Serena kept begging the other senshi to stay   
   away, to let her be captured. In the dub, she kept begging for them to   
   come help her.   
      
   When it was all over, Serena asked Rei why she took her stick and why   
   they waited so long to save her. Rei said that Serena stupidly left it   
   under her bed and they were delaying help so they could get a reading   
   on the warp hole.   
      
   In every sense, the dub had completely cheapen and demeaned the   
   character of both Serena and Rei. For Serena, it showed her losing   
   faith in the senshi and losing heart enough to want to abandon the   
   mission in mid-stream. For Rei, it showed her having lost complete   
   faith in Serena (truly believing that Serena would give up the crystal   
   if not for Rei's intervention). She also callously allowed Serena to   
   be choked to nearly to death so they could get some dubious readings   
   on the warp hole (There was no talk of getting readings in the   
   original).   
      
   It's almost like the English writers are going out of their way to   
   take the heart and soul out of the original version. I just can't   
   understand why. Do they honestly believe that western kids would not   
   be able to connect with characters that truly loved and respected each   
   other?   
      
   --   
   Phoenix   
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