Working, or, why I Like Sailor Moon in the First Place

Making progress again. Not as fast as I'd like, but not too bad.

That said, I've just been exchanging emails with someone who expressed surprise that I like SM at all. It's not an uncommon attitude, or even an unwarranted one, actually. (Not when you consider the DiC dubs.) My mother watched an episode once—she was baby-sitting a young girl at the time—and came away saying, "What rubbish that is!"

And if I'd only seen one episode, I might say the same.

So how it happened was ... Sailor Moon was on TV where I live at around 7:30 AM. (Not any more, of course.) And at around 7:30 AM every morning, I was getting ready to go to work. I'd turn on the TV to check the teletext weather report; and quite often, I'd see a flash of ... some anime program I didn't recognise.

I checked the TV listings. Sailor Moon. What on earth did that mean? I had no idea. It seemed to be about a bunch of girls, doing ... ordinary girl things. (Recall that I was only seeing bits of the beginnings of episodes.)

Eventually I caved in and set the VCR to record a week's worth of episodes. Watched them that weekend. And—

I've heard it said, more or less, "Watch a single episode of SM and you'll think it's trash. Watch a week's worth and you're likely to get hooked." That's what happened to me.

There are worse fates.