nik wrote:

> SHIN continues to dissapoint me. Why does Tenchi like Sakuya? She is the same as
Ryoko
> and Ayeka in the "he's mine, we are destined to be together" way, and it makes me
angry,
> because it seems to me that if Tenchi would give the same amount of time with Ryoko
or
> Ayeka away from the other girls, he would be just as happy as he is with Sakuya.
Yet this
> seems not to be the case, even after the date ep with Ryoko. It's slightly frustrating,

> because even in their mangled, hacked-up forms, I still like Ayeka and Ryoko better
than
> Sakuya. The only thing good for Ayeka so far is that she seems to be a little more
open
> and a bit less protective than her UNIVERSE self. Ryoko, IMO, is totally getting
the
> shaft. I would like to speak to the series constructor and ask him why he choose
this
> show's format the way he did.

I haven't seen any of Shin (was over at my parents' place the other day, where I might
have
been able to catch an episode, but my little sister pretended to watch Fresh Prince
while I
was in the room, and went channel surfing when she thought my back was turned...),
so I'm
probably not the best person to be spouting opinions about it, but I would guess that
the
logic behind Shin went something like this.

1.)  Whoever was responsible for this show decided that they needed to do something
different
with Tenchi.
2.)  Those same individuals decided that Tenchi should have a new "serious" love interest

(i.e. in the Ryoko/Aeka category of interest).
3.)  Those individuals decided that in order for people to take this interest seriously,

Tenchi would actually have to "pick" her as his primary love interest, ironically
something
that neither Ryoko or Aeka has ever managed to pull off (I don't care what people
think, I'm
still not seeing it in the end of TU).
4.)  Then, because this is something completely different, they had to redo everyones'

backgrounds, and since Ryo-ohki is more often identified with Sasami anyway, they
apparently
went ahead and made the transfer of ownership official.

I'd add a couple more lines, but I've read the plot summaries for the a good number
of the
later episodes (including the last few), and I wouldn't want to spoil the rest of
the show
for anyone who's planning on seeing the entire thing for the first time during the
current
run.

On the bright side, Ryoko apparently finally gets an actual date with Tenchi (I'd
kinda like
to see that... I don't think she's ever managed to get quiet time alone with Tenchi,
unlike
Aeka), Kagato manages to miss this movie (some villians get all the breaks),  and
violence
against cabbits is now approved under certain circustances (such as against the species

cabbitus lunacus).

And maybe, just maybe, all of this pain and suffering that many fans had to endure
will
manage to convince AIC that instead of screwing around with completely new settings
for their
characters (characters are always the most convincing when they're in the setting
for which
they were created, for some odd reason...), they should continue the original Tenchi
Muyo!:
Ryo-ohki series.  A nice two year TV series sounds good to me...  we don't see enough
of
those these days.  Fifty-two episodes of OVA continuity, with the original people
involved in
the creation of plot-lines and stories that are more serious than most of what was
seen in
both Tenchi TV shows.  65 episodes long, when the OVA episodes are cycled in.  With
an
episode 64 that made you feel really, really down (but not as down as one of the female

leads), and an episode 65 that featured a marriage.  If they could pull that off,
and have
the same quality of work that it originally had, wouldn't that be great?

I think so.

junior

"If you prick us, do we not bleed?  If you tickle us, do we not laugh?  If you poison
us, do
we not die?  And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?"
        --Shylock / The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare