From: paradoxtxs@yahoo.com   
      
   Chris Kern wrote:   
   > Episode 48 - For love and justice! A Sailor Warrior once again   
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   A local TV studio is auditioning girls for a small part in a drama.  The   
   five candidates invited to audition, Naru, Ami, Rei, Makoto and Minako.   
     Contrived?  You betcha, but we needed to get everyone back together,   
   and they didn’t want to take too many episodes to do it, so it’s all   
   good.  Might have been an interesting way to fill time in a largely do   
   nothing arc, though, watching each one reawakened and reacting to the   
   restored memories and the absence of the ones who still don’t remember.   
      
   Both Usagi and Luna are quite reluctant to pull the girls back into   
   this.  I think they’re both going off of Usagi’s reaction to her own   
   awakening and assuming that the others also want their second chance at   
   a normal life.   
      
   Which they probably do, but on the other hand, those girls lost a lot   
   more than just their powers and responsibilities, they lost each other,   
   and two months into their second chances, it still looks like they’re   
   all pretty much alone.   
      
   It’s tough to say what would have been crueler, forcing them to take up   
   their duties and risk their lives again, or denying them the friendships   
   they’d forged.  Sometimes there isn’t a good answer, just a necessary   
   one.  Through plot contrivance and monster attack, all four Senshi are   
   recalled to duty.   
      
   None of them express regret the way Usagi did.  Of course, she was   
   coming back alone, and while she was reluctant at first, now that the   
   others are back, she’s very happy to be back with them all.   
      
   Side note – What does Naru actually remember?  You assume that if the   
   girls forgot season 1, then so did everyone else, but she made a clear   
   reference to the many strange occurrences around her, when there’s only   
   been once since Usagi’s wish.  Does she remember Nephrite and the rest?   
      
   Then again, I’ve never known just how much Naru knows.  She was   
   obviously angling to have Usagi come with her, not my first choice for   
   someone to make me feel safe.  Usagi on a production lot is a disaster   
   looking for a place to happen, but Naru is clearly waiting for the   
   offer, and quite relieved when it comes.   
      
   It goes back to the discussion as to what happened at the end of season   
   1.  Clearly, the Senshi had their memories altered.  I don’t think   
   Minako even remembers being Sailor V anymore.  Usagi wanted them to have   
   normal lives, so that’s what they’ve got.  That’s probably why Artemis   
   is always over at Usagi’s in these first few episodes, he can’t talk   
   around Minako anymore.  However, Naru does seem to remember being the   
   Youma Duracell, and as Sunnie reminded me, in a few episodes you see   
   that the people in general remember Sailor Moon a bit more than you’d   
   expect for having been involved in  just a few minor incidents.  It   
   would be possible to give the girls a new life just by taking *their*   
   memories, since no one else really knows who they are (with a few minor   
   exceptions who have been written out of the story anyway).  They may   
   even be among those trying to figure out just who these mysterious   
   figures were, not quite sure why the question is so intriguing.   
      
   I’d leave it at that, except for Usagi’s declaration that she was 14   
   years old at the start of R.  It just makes no sense unless time has   
   been messed with a bit.   
      
   The Silver Crystal is a very strange thing.  Don’t give it imprecise   
   instructions, or you’re going to get weird results.  ^_^;   
      
   And I'll just leave it at that, for now.  This makes my brain hurt.   
      
   SK   
      
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