From: chriskern99@gmail.com   
      
   Episode 123 - Shadow of destruction! The Messiah of Silence awakens   
      
   Another rare scene with Usagi's hair down.   
      
   Where's Luna-P when Chibi Moon goes looking for Hotaru?   
      
   The scene where Hotaru takes Chibi-Usa's pure heart is one of the most   
   chilling scenes of the entire series. This is what all the happy   
   scenes of their friendship were building up to -- Hotaru wrenching   
   Chibi-Usa's pure heart from her body while Chibi-Usa is just happy   
   that Hotaru is still alive.   
      
   More on Sailor Saturn and the Messiah of Silence -- I think that   
   people are too ready to take what Uranus and Neptune say at face   
   value, especially given what happens in the manga. But here's what I   
   think. Uranus and Neptune saw that Hotaru was Sailor Saturn. All they   
   know about Sailor Saturn is that she's from the "planet of   
   destruction", so they assumed (correctly) that the enemy was trying to   
   use her as the Messiah of Silence because she's Sailor Saturn.   
   However, they seem to have also thought that merely the awakening of   
   Sailor Saturn would cause the destruction of the world. Obviously   
   they're not correct about this part. The episode here also shows that   
   Mistress 9, rather than Sailor Saturn, awoke. I think this is a key   
   piece that people sometimes miss when looking at episode 125 (so I'll   
   postpone most of that discussion until Friday) -- Sailor Saturn is not   
   some inherent evil or uncontrollable destructive force.   
      
   -Chris   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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