From: chriskern99@gmail.com   
      
   SMSS Review -   
      
   This season was pretty much as I remembered it.  It's mostly filler,   
   and while the filler is good, there's just too much of it.  I wonder   
   what motivated the creators to do this -- the manga has a lot more   
   plot and involves the Outer Senshi as well.  The creators had to know   
   the outers were popular, so this decision was deliberate to change   
   things around.   
      
   Once the story gets going, though, it's pretty good.  Nehelenia is a   
   welcome change from the villians of the past seasons (and the AT and   
   AQ are fun as well).   
      
   Stars preview -   
      
   Here it is, my favorite season.  Even though it does repeat a lot of   
   elements from S, I think overall it does it better than S did.  First   
   there's the 6 episode Nehelenia arc, and then the main arc of the   
   story is only 28 episodes long.  So there's not a whole lot of filler,   
   and I think Galaxia is the best villian of the entire series.  The   
   mood of the season as a whole is much darker and more mature (mature   
   in terms of mood, not sex/violence) than previous seasons.   
      
   As a side note, this season started airing in Japan right after I   
   started watching Sailor Moon and reading this group.  In those days   
   there were no digisubs (or any subs at all), so the only information   
   we got about these new episodes was from a few people who either lived   
   in Japan or knew someone in Japan who could mail them tapes of the   
   show.  It was interesting to see people's reactions to the episodes,   
   but I'll talk about that more in the individual posts.   
      
   -Chris   
      
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