In a message dated 6/1/2000 12:08:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
replicant@northstate.net writes:

<< In TMiL2, Tenchi
 is shown having sex with Whoruna and at no time is he able to be fully
 consenting to her due to the mind control.  >>

        The time has come to insert my useless, probably pointless, two 
cents.  At no time is "mind control" involved.  A selective hypnosis, yes, 
but even Tenchi admits he just does not remember things, not that he 
remembers them differently.  Which brings up the question, if you had 
amnesia, would you admit to it, or try and play it off like nothing was wrong 
for the sake of avoiding looking like an idiot?  Even with the belief that 
Haruna's, um, an undesirable, sad, stupid, pathetic, sick, whatever, 
character (you'd be wrong, wrong, wrong... but with that idea in mind), 
remember everybody loves Mayuka (unless you are undesirable, sad, stupid, 
pathetic, sick, and everything else; she's cool dammit, admit it), and 
therefore something cruel and vicious done to Mayuka (and don't you think 
realizing what happened is going to hurt her?), must hurt you, the viewer of 
such mean things, a lot more than something being done by (a) a character you 
don't like, (b) to a character who's actions in the film have been 
continually criticized as not to be liked/accepted (therefore, not the 
character you give a damn about).  TMiL2 scene: eh, it was just sorta there 
(Tenchi having sex, now that didn't sink in for awhile, shellshock maybe); 
MnE scene: I cringed, I cried, I had to keep my friend from attacking the 
screen (with the incredibly dense baseball-sized weapon of mass destruction 
kindly known as the Justice Planet; excellent tool for watching hockey and 
soccer games with, 'specially when your team's losing).