From: chriskern99@gmail.com   
      
   Episode 199 - Light of Hope! The final battle for the galaxy   
      
   I said this earlier, but the conclusion of Stars was often criticized   
   for being too long and padded out. I mostly disagree with this, but I   
   do think that they were not able to come up with quite enough material   
   for this episode and they had to pad it out. I'm not sure if they   
   could have concluded it well in one episode because I don't feel like   
   200 is padded out at all. But there are some strange scenes in this   
   episode -- in particular, I really don't understand the scene where   
   they turn into balls of light and go all around the galaxy.   
      
   I've always liked that music box theme that plays at the end of the   
   episode, but what I never realized is that it's just a version of   
   Golden Queen Galaxia (Galaxia's theme song, which never appears in any   
   episodes but is on the CDs).   
      
   In Galaxia's final monologue when she has just defeated Chaos there's   
   a crucial line that I think a lot of people miss (at least judging   
   from newsgroup posts) -- the reason why she sent out her Star Seed as   
   the Light of Hope is because she believed that nobody could protect   
   the Galaxy except for her alone. Obviously that's not the "correct"   
   belief according to the Sailor Moon mythos so there's no way the Light   
   of Hope is going to work as the solution.   
      
   Here, Chibi-Chibi's identity is finally revealed -- she's Galaxia's   
   Star Seed, the Light of Hope. Obviously there was no way anyone could   
   have predicted this back when she first appeared so any guesses would   
   have been wrong.   
      
   -Chris   
      
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