From: paradoxtxs@yahoo.com   
      
   Chris Kern wrote:   
   > Episode 85 - The birth of Black Lady, the queen of darkness   
      
      
   Wiseman’s like a fortune cookie gone horribly wrong.  He slowly warps   
   Chibi-Usa’s memories to convince her that she was never loved,   
   convincing her to accept the power of the Black Crystal.  It’s a much   
   more subtle brainwashing than anything Mamoru goes through.  More of an   
   enforced change of heart.  Someone once wrote that anyone can be   
   convinced of anything, as long as they're deeply afraid that it might be   
   true.  Wiseman plays on all of Chibi-Usa's deepest fears to convince her   
   that she really is alone in the world.   
      
   Even with Esmeraude’s death, Dimande isn’t listening to Saphir’s   
   warnings about Wiseman.  All of a sudeden, he’s gone from obsessed with   
   Sailor Moon/Serenity to obsessed with revenge.  I wonder if Wiseman   
   isn’t quietly reining in his puppet prince.   
      
   Pluto appears to the others, telling them that Dimande and Chibi-Usa   
   have headed to the past, and they hurry to follow.  No sooner do they   
   arrive than they see the growing black crystal and head off to fight,   
   only to be confronted by Black Lady.   
      
   First confrontation between the Senshi and Black Lady, you see a few   
   real memories, courtesy of the Silver Crystal, before Wiseman starts   
   warping them again, including the explanation for one of the earlier   
   ‘negative’ ones.  Chibi-Usa’s birthday party was delayed a day so her   
   parents could be there, and a surprise party besides (not a good   
   combination, at that age *I’d* spend all day thinking no one bothered, too)   
      
   We really get a look at the older Senshi, and they do seem to have aged.   
     Ami in particular has a much more mature face, and maybe a little   
   added height.  She’s also right beside Makoto at the birthday party.   
   ^_^  The Senshi attend the party in uniform, and without any significant   
   others in sight.  Both are interesting observations, just what have   
   these girls had to give up to see this utopia created?   
      
   Amazing what you can read into a five second scene, eh?  ^_^   
      
   Anyway, we're slowly trying to get caught up a bit, or at least not fall   
   any further behind.   
      
   SK   
      
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