From: phoenix@mediaone.net   
      
   Chris Kern wrote:   
      
   >Episode 98 - Save a friend!  Moon and Uranus allied   
      
      
      
   >I also wonder about Uranus' decision to leave Neptune.  Did they   
   >really make a pact that any time either of them were in the least bit   
   >of danger the other one would just run away?  How did they survive up   
   >to this point?  I would understand if they agreed to do that for more   
   >extreme situations, but in this case it doesn't make sense.   
      
   It really seemed like a cowardly move on Uranus' part. I can   
   understand that the writers needed to show a dramatic contrast between   
   U&N's philosophy and that of Sailor Moon's, but I think it could have   
   been done better. The danger should have been much, much greater to   
   prompt Uranus to simply abandon Neptune like that.   
      
   The dub writers have really gone off the deep end with this episode.   
   I'm convinced that they had only the vaguest idea of the Sailor Moon   
   storyline and are simply translating each episode as they come to it.   
   I think that relationship developments and plot twists end up being as   
   much a surprise to them as it is to the intended audience.   
      
   Initially, the writers had left the relationship between Amara and   
   Michelle (Haruka and Michiru) rather vague, which was in the same   
   manner as the original. However, once the Naru/Umino episode showed   
   up, it became painful clear (even to the script writers) that the H&M   
   relationship was something much more then a casual friendship. That   
   was the first episode that we get a brief voice over (from Ami, I   
   think) stating that A&M are "cousins". Then, in the Makoto episode,   
   they explain that they are cousins who grew up together and have been   
   inseparable since birth (I don't remember how the dub ended up   
   handling episode 106, where we find out that H&M had actually only met   
   each other a short time ago). It seems like this latest episode takes   
   the cousin references to an insane degree, bringing it up in every   
   other line that they are cousins, cousins, cousins, even to the extent   
   that both Kaolinite and Sailor Moon refer to Uranus and Neptune as   
   cousins. Huh? Since when did anyone yet know anything about the   
   identities or relationship of U&N? In fact, it's a pretty big deal   
   near the end of this episode that Usagi is only just starting to   
   realize that Uranus and Haruka may be one and the same.   
      
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