From: chriskern99@gmail.com   
      
   Episode 181 - Seiya and Usagi's nervous date   
      
   This is definitely one of the best episodes of the entire series. It's   
   hilarious for the most part, but gets pretty serious near the end.   
      
   Poor Iron Mouse and the phones following her everywhere was a stroke   
   of genius on the writers' part. There's also a lot of sexual innuendo   
   in the episode -- Minako's movie that she wants to go to is probably   
   not pornographic but it's definitely risque. I love that whole opening   
   scene when she ends by trying to sell Makoto the tickets. Then Haruka   
   and Michiru also ramp up the innuendo again -- I like the "only   
   couples and pigeons come to parks" line; H&M aren't pigeons. Then   
   there's the scene in the dance place, although I don't know why Seiya   
   got that room if they were just going to dance out in the main hall.   
      
   But then this is really the first clear indication we get that Galaxia   
   is not the usual SM villain; she's already ruined the Starlights'   
   planet, and probably more planets than that, so this is not a villain   
   that's just going to cause a little bit of damage in Tokyo.   
      
   Then when Usagi is speaking of Mamoru she gets very serious. She   
   definitely has matured a lot over the seasons.   
      
   BTW, I'm leaving for winter vacation on December 12th, and episode 200   
   is scheduled for December 13th.  I haven't decided yet what I'm going   
   to do about this; I can watch the episodes on vacation but posting is   
   not convenient.  I may actually reduce it to 198 days and watch   
   197-198 on the 10th and 199-200 on the 11th.   
      
   -Chris   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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