Re: Cousins: What's the Big Deal?
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:57 pm
There are different continuities, and I personally believe that you cannot take a fact from one and always apply it to the other, which seems to be what the two main proponents of the 'not a big deal' camp, zwzn and PCHeintz72, are doing. What seems to be happening here is that people are applying facts from something created later and expecting them to apply to the older series. How to word this.. it's kind of like Diane Duane's Young Wizards series of novels, where the timeline slides forward with each installation, except that here, it's the facts that are sliding, and not the timeline. (note that I won't even touch the 'when seasons three through five take place' debate that seems to be going on. I've got enough on my plate, thank you very much.)
I cannot speak for others, but that summary of my stance is not quite correct.
When I say I do not care or that it is not a big deal to me, I am not stating I take from one and apply to other canon continuities... I'm saying it does not matter to me overly much which canon continuity the author is using, which is not the same thing.
I've seen stories where the two outers are cousins, I've seen them where they are lovers, I've even seen them as man haters (not the same as merely being lesbian)... likewise, I've seen other items different from one canon continuity to another canon continuity, I've even pointed a few here out, such as Makotos mother being alive in anime dub.
As long as I know which continuity I'm in, I do not in fact overly care and it is not a big enough deal for me to be spitting tacks so to speak... About the only one I generally avoid is the live series continuity... I've only seen at most a couple decent stories using that as the base.
There are a *lot* of fannon and misrepresentation of things in Sailor Moon, some the fan community itself seems to accept without arguing anymore. One such example is the misrepresentation of the time gates and instead of their actual use and look as presented in canon, they are described and work as a controllable Guardian of Forever (Star Trek TOS reference) or Old Time Tunnel series device. They are *not* the same.