From: phoenix@mediaone.net   
      
   Chris Kern wrote:   
      
   >Episode 125 - Shining shooting stars! Saturn and Messiah   
      
      
      
   There's not much I can add to this, Chris. You made a great   
   summarization and I agree with your entire assessment.   
      
   >I have never seen the dub of this episode -- I wonder how the dub SM   
   >dealt with the "Crisis make up!" part. Kotono Mitsuishi does such a   
   >good job on this that I'm not sure I want to hear anyone else do it.   
      
   It was not... horrible. In fact, Linda Ballantyne did a fine job here   
   even if she could not truly replace the original actress. In place of   
   "Make up", she said "Transform". It lost some of it's heart, but it   
   was passable. Actually, the whole translation was excellent, which is   
   surprising considering how terrible the episode before this one was.   
      
   I suppose now that Hotaru is reborn, she can live a more normal and   
   happy life to make up for the tragedy of her first childhood.   
      
   Also, with this episode, we know why the Super movie had to occur   
   before now as the movie uses the grail for SM's Super transformation.   
   In SuperS, she will get a new source for this level up.   
      
   While watching, I thought the writers missed a perfect chance to show   
   Saturn's transformation. When Mistress 9 was vanquished, she could   
   have turned back into Hotaru and then she could have immediately   
   transformed into Saturn giving us our one and only chance to see it.   
      
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