From: phoenix@mediaone.net   
      
   Chris Kern wrote:   
      
   >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).   
      
   I agree. On the whole, this season was light-hearted with many   
   charming and funny moments. For myself, I never had a problem with the   
   filler episodes. To me, they were each satisfying in their own way and   
   I was not particularly in a hurry to finish this arc.   
      
   >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.   
      
   And now for the final stretch. Even with the dark theme, there are   
   still many funny moments in this season and I'm really looking forward   
   to it.   
      
   >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.   
      
   I still remember watching the last five episodes of Stars at a small   
   convention about a year after they aired in Japan. I had still not   
   seen Stars at all yet, and these episodes were raw with no subtitles.   
   It was difficult for me to follow it but never the less, it was such a   
   wonderful experience to see something like this surrounded by fellow   
   Sailor Moon fans.   
      
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   Phoenix   
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