From: rick-samSPAMSPAMSPAM@shaw.ca   
      
   Phoenix  wrote in   
   news:98qbr21c0samcnv9nt6u8ia5grudj69c94@4ax.com:   
      
   > Act 17 - Minako Transforms in Front of Rei's Eyes   
      
   snip   
   > Rei and Minako end up meeting each other when the priest asks them to   
   > help him care for an injured dog. Minako is surprised that Rei did not   
   > recognize her and Rei confesses that she does not watch much   
   > television. However Minako did know that Rei was Sailor Mars.   
   > apparently Minako has the ability to immediately recognize the senshi   
   > even in their civilian forms.   
      
   I think Minako and Artemis have been secretly researching the other   
   Senshi from the beginning. way back in another episode, Minako knew Usagi   
   was Sailor Moon without any hints that I'm aware of. So I don't think   
   Minako saw Mars in Rei, she just already knew who Rei was.   
      
   > Rei and Minako spend a little time   
   > getting to know each other and seem to enjoy each other's company.   
      
   This isn't the episode I thought it was, maybe the next one where they   
   try to out do each other. I'm looking forward to it. ^_^   
      
   > Usagi is singing,   
      
   If you can call it that, she was a bit... well a lot off key this time.   
      
   > ...shopping and talking with Makoto   
      
   I wonder how they got all those birds to stay there till Usagi could   
   scare them away.   
      
   > ...as she frantically   
   > attempts to make herself believe that it is Tuxedo Kaman that she   
   > loves, that he is the one for whom she will make the muffler. Her   
   > charade continues until she runs into Mamoru and the mystery girl on a   
   > pedestrian overpass. After a shocked silence, she runs off to be   
   > alone. She finally admits to herself that it is Mamoru that she truly   
   > loves.   
      
   I'm a bit dissapointed in Usagi. She may have a problem to resolve, but   
   it's not life and death, in the mean time, she let it distract her from   
   helping her friend when she was called for help AND she sidetracked the   
   other two as well so in the end no one showed up to help.   
      
   snip   
   > Minako   
   > transforms into Sailor Venus and we finally get to see her full   
   > transformation, which is really spectacular. It seems to me that she   
   > got the best henshin of all the senshi. Mars witnesses the whole   
   > thing.   
      
   Yes, very nice. I'd forgotten how that looked. I like her attack too.   
      
   > During the following battle, Venus is knocked to the floor and the   
   > youma escapes. Mars goes to Venus's aid and Venus chastises Mars for   
   > choosing to help her rather then chase down the youma.   
   >   
   > The act ends with Mars and Venus staring daggers at each other.   
      
   I think that was unfair, everything Mars has been told so far would lead   
   her to believe the princess is top priority and so her staying to see if   
   the Princess is ok makes sense to me.   
      
   > Phoenix   
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