I was thinking about my most recent remarks, about the tenderness
Tenchi showed toward ZeroRyoko, and I realized there is a bigger problem
with Tenchi there. He didn't figure out that she wasn't the real Ryoko till
he was told. Aeka noticed. If he thinks he needs a submissive, vulnerable
Ryoko, he needs to hang it up: No, she needs to hang it up and go away. Why?
Because a submissive, vulnerable Ryoko who didn't embarass him by rubbing
and groping him in public would be a mere shadow.(hey, she can't be fired
for sexual harrassment, she doesn't work.B-) If 1300 years of slavery and
700 years pinned in a hole by Funaho didn't crush her, Tenchi won't. Twice,
when she had every reason to believe she was thinking her last thought, it
was of Tenchi. This is a woman willing to die for Tenchi, but never to
surrender.
        Now I do have a question about this. I tend to think that there are
few details of the OVAs that are not thought out by the creative team, but
could it be that this is a faux pas produced by "male chauvanism" on the
part of the artists?

                                Greg M.

*A foolish consistancy is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little
statesmen and philosophers and divines. -Emerson*