Gandalf commenting on Rahkal:

>You mean, you read them in alphabetic order?!?!

Well, I kinda understand him. He's reviewing them (IIRC).
Besides, it's easier to do it alphabetically. 
How else would you do it?

Stiffanie speaks a lot:

>Mine are Ranma and Akane!  Don't really care much for the others

May I join you? I ain't interested in "secondary characters" either.

>Have you ever thought that the reason she isn't able to admit her
>feelings is because of fear? 

Come on, give him a little credit.
Anyone past 13 would understand that.
OK, so it was a rethorical question. Whatever. 



>Hey, big surprise, behind that facade of violent energy is an 
>incredibly insecure girl.  Can you blame her?  Her mother died when 
>she was too young to understand death, leaving her with an 
>emotionally distraught father, an oblivious Kasumi, and a Nabiki who 
>would grow up to be even a better "pretender" of emotions than 
>Akane.  With all the problems of growing up, she has no one to seek 
>advice, since Kasumi would just smile and say it's okay, and 
>Nabiki's hardly the type to give "motherly" advice.

I don't know why, but whenever the argument comes up, it irks me.
I have no idea why their mother's death would affect the psyche of 
the Tendou girls that much.
The story says that Akane regrets to have lost her mother that young, 
because she doesn't remember much about her. But that's all.
I don't think the "problems of growing up" were that a big deal for 
her. Akane sure seems to be doing well enough.
I always thought it was a bit easy to put so much responsability in 
the absence or her mother. You can prove everything you want if 
you're using this.
"Proper Punishment", anyone?

>And if they did think that Ranma did really love Akane and wanted to
>marry her, if *they* really loved Ranma as much as they claimed, why 
>did they destroy the wedding, and thus destroyed (even if 
>temporarily) Ranma's happiness?

OK, the way I see it, 2 big problems:

The fact is, no need to brainstorm on that one to see that it IS 
meant to be a final big joke. Ranma has mocked and parodied so much 
before, so the finale had to happen that way.
Of course, one can argue that Shampoo, Kunou, Ukyou and such really 
outdid themselves this time, but hey, it's supposed to be the last 
big rush. It all happens in 4 pages, and I like to think that if it 
were to be taken seriously, Takahashi would have done a long chapter 
about it, possibly a side story or something like that. I thnk that 
many fanfiction authors got it too, which is why you have those 
continuation fics with impossibly long explanations on how R&A get 
things explained to the other fiancees and at school after the 
wedding. ("The taming of the Horse")

On the other hand, I know that I'd go for it. Just to be sure, just 
to be rejected definetely, to stop hoping. I know that explosives 
might seem too much, but since pain isn't considered serious, in 
regard to our superhuman martial artists, I know that I'd do 
something like that.

"Love is to be happy if she is happy"; that's an ideal. An ideal I'd 
like to believe in, but that I never could apply to my life. Well, 
I'm only 20, so maybe I'm just too much of a youngster, but 
seriously, I don't think anybody would actually go out and do it.
It's like those Kant theories; Pure reason is the only thing we 
should be doing, that's for sure, but you just can't apply it to real 
life.


	Pierre