Freemage . wrote:

Wahoo!  Another chapter of the post second-fall era.  Gotta luv it!

Agreed.

"Bento the Cat, aka Sailor Neko"
   C'mon, it'd make a decent spin-off, don'tcha think?

Actually, I think I've seen similar.  Sailor Luna, anyone?

The Church of Serenity
   Ahh, nice to know that another 2000 years of evolution won't
eliminate this particular strain of idiocy from the human genome....
I'm not talking about the religious impulse, but rather the ability of a
small portion of humanity to take things utterly out of context and
build a new theocracy out of it.

What to say but...amen.  ;)

Mercury and her Computer
   Some chilling implications here, especially those last two names.  I
do like her growing proficiency with the thing.  So when does she
finally wise up and ask if it's got a tutorial?

Or if it's actually got Mercury's memories?  She *did* want to talk to
Ami; could the former Mercury, as a hedge against death, have created an
AI of herself?

The "outing" of Sailor Jupiter
   Hmmm... Not sure I found her father's reaction all that plausible.

I do.

"You lied.  You did it to protect yourself and us, but that just means
you judged yourself to be a better protector of this family than I am...
you thought yourself to be *better* than I am.  You're potentially
dangerous.  Worst of all, you have memories - lots of memories - that I
wasn't involved in.  You are something I did not forge with my own
hands.  You scare me.  Go away!"

A perfectly understandable reaction.  Utterly degenerate, illogical,
insensitive, and many other things, but I can see it happening.

   In the meantime, I've got a room in the dungeon for him, right next
to the one I use for Genma....

Like I said: utterly degenerate, illogical, insensitive...

Hey, maybe he's Genma reborn!  ^_^;

The Council
   *shudder*  Number 12 is... inspiredly evil.  I think the other
Council members are coming across a bit too meek, though.  In my
experience, any corrupt politician worth his weight in graft has a few
back-up plans ready, just in case.  Do you mean to tell me that none of
them has thought of finding other sources of supernatural power?

I'd give fair odds none of them *believed* in supernatural power before
Sailor Venus showed up, and did not want to consider the source of their
Master's power.

The newest Senshi
   Oh, man, Bendis really screwed this one up, didn't she?  I've been
thinking about it, and I've come to the conclusion that Iku is probably
Sailor Moon.  Or maybe Sailor Rupert.  (Hitchhiker's Guide reference).

No...the villain's daignosis seems true: she's just unconfident.  Of the
major characters thus far, if I had to, I'd bet on the girl who
indicated Iku to Bendis being Sailor Moon.

The only problem I find with your writing is, of course, the fact that
it isn't fast enough.

Agreed, even if I do make myself a hypocrite by saying so.