Quote:Mea culpa. For some reason I had you confused with Gryphon (the cheif editor of Undocumented Features, for anyone who doesn't know. And if you dont, GO FIND IT!! Its well worth the read!)
Oh, no, I don't hate Ranma, not at all. Peg and I were buying the Viz videotapes up until the beginning of the the "Hard Battle" season, and now that Viz is doing all the box sets, we're going to be catching up as soon as we can afford it. I really quite fond of the Ranmaverse. It's just that SIs in Ranma have been so overdone -- it's almost the definition of an over-the-top SI.
And, of course, Ranma is a perfect example of Sturgeon's law as applied to Fanfiction. 90% of it's Ranma, and 90% of THAT is... not well written. And bob's right. Once upon a time, it seemed like 90% of all Ranma FF also included a rediculously overpowerd SI... All of which are things Bob has said he's been trying to stay away from. There's a REASON why there's that quote about 'Inverting Fanfic Cliches since..." in the quote rotation."I was an Otaku before those kids came along and changed the meaning of the word."
-- HM "Howling Mad" Wilson to more than one team-mate.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children