The whole team is together in one of season one’s best episodes!
Finally the team is all together, and it feels so good.
Venus made a hell of a debut, and she did it in style.
Is Venus going to be my favorite after all?
I dont really have any criticisms about Venuss intro itself, more about the episode as a whole.
It would have been much stronger if Sailor Venus just showed up without any warning.
But all that is relatively trivial.
It was still an amazing entrance and intro to the character.
Im not sure why.
Its unfortunate, especially given how much filler there is in Season 1.
In fact, thats the thing that enrages me the most about it.
You know, we have all these filler episodes, just stretches of them at a time.
Not enough time in the schedule.
Zoisite may be a vain, catty bitch, but to his credit, he gets shit done.
After all, pride is counterproductive, and Zoisite is, with one noted exception, a pragmatist.
So, he needs to lure Tuxedo Mask out.
Whats a surefire way?
Put Sailor Moon in danger.
Whats an easy way of putting Sailor Moon in danger without expending any energy?
Orchestrating a phony capture of a phony Sailor Moon.
Which leads us to… oh, here we go.
Okay, so Sailor Pseudo-Moon… we need to talk about this.
It is so problematic.
I mean, it was a good plan, obviously effective.
I dont really see the point in altering the costume in any way.
If they can replicate it that well, why fuck with the color scheme?
The audience knows it aint Usagi.
Also, why did Zoisite have to do it?
This was nothing beyond the capabilities of any random youma.
And also, while he is admittedly quite effeminate, there is nothing in this characters dossier about crossdressing.
It does bother me that drag is so easily assigned to a character just because hes gay and effeminate.
But the knee-jerk conflation of homosexuality with gender dysmorphia or even just crossdressing is so ignorant it really chafes.
Look, Im not trying to be the PC police here.
They make an amazing team.
To their credit, they were nearly successful here.
Sailor Venus was an X-factor they couldnt possibly have anticipated.
If not for her, they very likely could have won and the show would be over.
Hell, the world would be over.
They would have had a decent chance if Beryl hadnt extracted them.
So, its nice to see that when push comes to shove, the Senshis lives come first.
This episode was solidly good.
Really, really good.
One of the best of Season 1 without a doubt.
I have complaints, as I usually do, but this time around theyre few and rather trivial.
Overall, this one is a classic and good to the last drop.
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Rating:
4 out of 5
