SailorStar9 wrote:How would the Classic Season have turned out if Mercury, Mars or Jupiter hadn't appeared? What would have changed at D-Point?
And how would the rest of the anime turn out if a more powerful version of the missing Guardian Senshi appeared during the Black Moon Arc?
Crescent Pulsar S wrote:This is why I'm glad they're producing a new anime. There's little chance that it will turn out any worse than its predecessor, because they did a bang-up job the first time around. And by "bang-up job," I mean they banged it up until it was a pile of trash. Well, pretty trash, but if looked at with any depth it's just mediocre or worse.
Ellen Kuhfeld wrote:I'll have to disagree. There may have only been about ten minutes of good stuff per episode (after you get past the OP, ED, transformation sequences, and speeches). The monsters of the week may have mostly been dumb, but they had occasional flashes of quality. Some of the mid-bosses weren't half bad in the first, fourth, and fifth seasons.
If you trim off the redundancy, piece things together, ignore some digressions, and use a soft-focus lens -- you have a five-season run of The Once And Future Queen.
I'll simply ask this: does it make sense for something to kill its user if it's just going to be revive them anyway (and why didn't that happen with Usagi's mother?), along with others of note who had also died?
If there's only ten minutes of good stuff, and you consider but don't apply your second paragraph, I do believe that's what's called mediocre.
As for the seven great youma, Venus and Usagi wouldn't be alone. There'd still be Tuxedo Kamen, remember?
The only reason why they seem incompetent in the anime, as opposed to how they're portrayed in the manga, is because just about every episode has to follow the same formula every... single... freakin'... time.
Overall rating? On a scale of one to ten, they each individually rate a
three, maybe a four at best. They're just too
untrained, although very enthusiastic. Together though, they score a
high eight, maybe even a nine. In general
they're just a team of bullies, unable to be effective unless they
travel in packs.
Crescent Pulsar S wrote:The Ginzuishou killing Usagi from overuse, or being a strain in general, is nonsense. In the main example given for it, it's not even true. Not only is she still alive afterward, but all four of the sailor senshi are brought back from the dead. (People may also cite her mother, but it's never said or suggested that she died from using it, as far as I recall.)
Crescent Pulsar S wrote:The Ginzuishou killing Usagi from overuse, or being a strain in general, is nonsense. In the main example given for it, it's not even true. Not only is she still alive afterward, but all four of the sailor senshi are brought back from the dead. (People may also cite her mother, but it's never said or suggested that she died from using it, as far as I recall.)
TerraEpon wrote:What about the R Movie?
Spica75 wrote:Yes it makes perfect sense.
Nah, the series is overall actually rather good. But it´s good DESPITE everything stupid and badly hacked together.
If someone manage to remake it without all the dreadful bad sides, it´s likely to be a great series, potentially awesome, even if they don´t actually change anything beyond getting rid of the stupids.
PCHeintz72 wrote:Him? I would like to note, remember, you are talking 1st season Mamoru... not 2nd - 5th, and not Manga...
1st season Mamoru was, well, mostly harmless and a mere distraction.
No... Sailor Moon won most of her earlier battles through flukes, though I suppose fans could argue it was her destiny and fate to win those battles since she was on the side of good...
She was extremely clumsy, which is not entirely her fault as she is not familiar with combat... at all. It is actually fairly embarrassing to watch some of her battles, but is forgiven merely on the count she is a 13 year old girl.
She was also generally lazy, she did not want to train, either in combat or magic or schooling... as it would ruin her free time....
But I reiterate, without the others I doubt she could possibly defeat even the incompetent Dark Kingdom... She simply looses too significant an amount of her capabilities. For good or ill, the senshi mostly did not operate near as well independently as they did as a group. They need the synergy and symbiosis for combat effectiveness... The only way they won even with that is due to the sheer incompetence of the Dark Kingdom... I could have thought of dozens of better ways to have taken on the senshi or even been more effective in general than they did...
Mercury was the thinker, whom solved and figured out the best, or only way to kill some of the monsters
Jupiter was their power horse. Both physically, and attacks... and she marks one of the only Senshi to have physically attacked a dark general (unless you count being run over by planes).
Mars was the sensitive and sometimes picked up on things far quicker than they otherwise would have.
Without all that capability she would have lost in this scenario, I cannot see her pulling a win.
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