From: phoenix@mediaone.net   
      
   Chris Kern wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   They spent 8 episodes wrapping up Stars. I would have preferred two   
   additional filler episodes and then had them wrap it up in six. There   
   were just too many scenes where we seemed to go over the same issues   
   again and again. There were just too many trips back and forth from   
   Galaxia's throne to the TV studio, back to the throne, back to the   
   studio and so on. In particular, episodes 197, 198 and 199 could   
   certainly have been trimmed to two episodes.   
      
   >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.   
      
   That was an odd motive. But it makes sense in a way. That is, whoever   
   found the star seed would be using Galaxia's own power to once again   
   seal Chaos. It would be her providing the real power. The person   
   wielding the power of Galaxia would only be her proxy.   
      
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