From: tenchsama@cox.net   
      
   "Lyrical Nanoha"  wrote in message   
   news:Pine.LNX.4.64.0607121410580.30438@dosius.ath.cx...   
   > On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, anmcco43@hotmail.com wrote:   
   >   
   > > rwa2play wrote:   
   > >> Chris Kern wrote:   
   > >>> Episode 46 - Usagi's wish is eternal! A new rebirth   
   > >   
   > > Did anyone notice the Queen has the hots for Endyimon?   
   >   
   > Clearly.  I believe that's why she just had him kidnapped, and not killed.   
   >   
   > > Unlike my previous post, I though just about everything in these two   
   > > episodes were better than the dub. The songs worked a lot better this   
   > > time (I liked the epilogue song; title?).   
   >   
   > YOU'RE JUST MY LOVE   
   >   
   > > However, the one thing that makes me say 'just about' and not   
   > > 'completely' is...   
   > >   
   > > 'Carry On'   
   >   
   > I agree.   
   >   
   > > Yes, the sub's use of the title song for the final battle is competent,   
   > > but the dub's selection rocks. Despite it's positive tone, 'Carry On'   
   > > also carries a desperate edgy rythym in synch with the situation: if   
   > > Sailor Moon doesn't win, the earth is doomed!   
   > >>   
   > >> Actually, the ending was meant as closure to the whole series if it   
   > >> wasn't successful.  Of course, by the end of the first season it was   
   > >> very successful.   
   > >   
   > > I remember being surprised by that ending when I first saw it on USA   
   > > Network. I thought, 'that's how it ends?' Before, I thought it was good   
   > > that it continued, but nowadays, the idea of a contained season might   
   > > have been better.   
   >   
   > Prolly.   
   >   
   > -uso   
      
   I could be wrong, but in the first broadcast of thje series in Japan they   
   did use the original ending where they all die (Usagi's last thought is of   
   being a normal girl again). Traditionally, Magical Girl series last only 1   
   seasoin, they start with the pet (toy, spirit, etc.) granting them magic   
   powers (magic wands, magic ribbons, whatever), they fight the villian (help   
   their friends) and then lose their power or die at the end of the season*.   
   In the second airing of the first season they changed the ending to have the   
   senshi awaken or be re-born or whatever. I am sure they were already in   
   production for R, but they still ended the first series as originally   
   intended,   
      
   Anyway, thats the way I heard it!   
      
   * Except for poor Minky MoMo who got hit by the truck and didnt even make it   
   to the end of the series. Bummer   
      
   ten/mark   
   (sticking to my meds)   
      
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