Re: Yet more Tenchi the Movie 2 Comments


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from Wing <xiaoxien@obsidian.calstatela.edu>
subject Re: Yet more Tenchi the Movie 2 Comments
date Thu, 30 Apr 1998 16:10:29 -0700 (PDT)
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Rockman Leung wrote:

> 1) Does Ryouko have gems at all?  We never get a clear shot of her wrists,
> so we can't be sure.  Her comment that "she's drained of power" seems to
> mean that she is exhausted.  This does not fit with the OAV Ryouko.  She
> has unlimited power from the gems.  I also doubt that the "dark" dimension
> is sucking up her powers.

Ryouko doesn't have "unlimited power" from the gems. She has a great deal
of power, but not unlimited. If she did have unlimited power, she wouldn't
have been put to sleep in the cave(oav), drained so severely by
souja(oav), or need to create false gems to balance her power. Unlimited
power goes a long long way.. :) And Ryouko can regenerate and perhaps
collect energy, channel the energies of the gems, but she doesn't gain
unlimited energy from them. Or do you mean unlimited as in time? In which
case, it's just a matter of how much she's got spending and how much she's
got coming in. ;)

> 2) While tenchi is wearing his OAV battle outfit, the main theme in the
> OAV is that the power is HIS own and not that of a tree's.  Why does he
> need the branch?  "I have relied on this too much."  Plus, where's
> tenchi-ken?  

The tenchi ken(master key) is worthless once you have used it to activate
your power. (Tenchi's power). The power seems to be of his own, but more
likely, it is tapped from another source. At least, that's how it's
sitting in my mind. Tsunami is powerful.. but even she can be cut off from
whatever her source is. The same applies to Ryouko, the master key, I
assume yousho(and his tree). 

> We just have to remember that this movie is a mix of several continuities
> and thus we can not make any assumptions that are specific to one
> continuity.

Perhaps not..... but it's fun. :)

> Personally, I didn't like how wimpy Ryouko and Tenchi were portrayed.
> Like I said, if it was 100% OAV, Tenchi would have toasted Yuzuha in an
> instant (Out of his control of course).

Tenchi doesn't have conscious control of his abilities. Much like how
Shinji(Evangelion) doesn't have full conscious control of his eva's full
potential. He has to lose control first. And to do that, he has to get
pretty beat up. :) And I doubt he'd live through Yazuha's treatment long
enough. 

That and the fact that the plot kinda suggests that he entered the
anti-thesis of the jurian tree's, a place which was created from an
ancient nightmare and which is the place of the tree of darkness, where
Tsunami is the tree of light. By stepping into her dimension, I would
assume that Tenchi is cut off in the most drastic sense, from his source.

Wing.


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