Crescent Pulsar R wrote: I don't know why I'm going to bother, but...
If all that is arguing for predestination, you're still wrong. If it were predestined, then anyone's death in the past would have absolutely no effect on their future selves: they wouldn't become incapacitated or disappear. Also, what Pluto says in the third story arc doesn't favor predestination, either: "That Saturn's soul has been reborn must mean the gears of fate have been thrown off somehow." Basically, a future is all but certain; it's never one-hundred percent.
Great now I have a cute picture of Hotaru dressed as a repair girl with cute little grease smudges on her face fixing a machine with the words fate written on it.
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Perhaps the quote would mean something different if the context it was spoken/thought was given?
As the quote is presented it appears:
Pluto believes there is a cosmic plan(fate), and that everything is pre planned.
Pluto believes some force works to ensure fated events happen.
Pluto believes Saturn is a tool used by the what ever ensures fated events to happen.
So, Pluto believes there is a script everyone is suppose to follow even if they don't know it, and if you try to ad lib you get smacked down hard by an unseen force.
Doesn't Galaxia actually say Saturn isn't there for her?
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I actually doubt the Senshi could have achieved their higher forms without Chibi-Usa's interference.
If you want to show that there is not a predestine paradox you need to show the senshi's pasts altering during the fourth and fifth arc since Crystal Tokyo is a major part of the Senshi's pasts, and Chibi-Usa caused many events to happen in a very specific way because of Chibi-Usa even in the fifth arc as i recall.
If I am correct that the Pluto in the third, fourth, and fifth arc is the future self of the Pluto who died using time stop, then Sailor Pluto would not be able to be in the 20th/21st century without the Dark Moon Families attack on Crystal Tokyo, and Chibi-Usa going back in time for example.
Am I missing some major peace of evidence that shows the past that was altered by the denizens of Crystal Tokyo being over written by a new past?
Otherwise Pluto and the other senshi are proof of a predestine paradox. I don't see what the big deal is. Sure it makes the later arcs boring to read because the senshi can't lose, but that is why we write fan fiction isn't it, and it also makes the series more appealing? We want to put our own spin on the basic setting and take things in a direction canon didn't go.
No Crystal Tokyo means no Dark Moon arc after all.
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Yes, I feel the fifth arc has all the fall marks of a lotus eating machine. So what?