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The real reason I will never watch Sailor Moon
is because I am terrified to death that I will actually love it.
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Watch it, It's actuallt pretty good for what it is.
For some reason, I seem immune to this effect. Maybe this immunity goes by the name "self-fulfilling prophecy", but if I think something is going to be great, suck, or be forgettable, I'm usually correct.
Though in your case, how well does it line up with your tastes or expectations? That's usually how I predict whether I am going to like something or not.
One of my things with a lot of magical girl shows is that the action often feels like non-events.
I think Blamspam said it best when she said you could pretty much not miss ANYTHING by skipping ahead to the last 10 episodes of a season.
If you do watch it, try to watch for the point where it stops being a parody and begins to take itself as seriously as the audience did, too.
Is it any good?
"If you do watch it, try to watch for the point where it stops being a parody and begins to take itself as seriously as the audience did, too."
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Odd statement to make. How seriously are you assuming the audience is taking it?
I am asking Malk to locate the point at which this happens.
It's basically an all-girl Power Rangers, so if that's your thing, give it a shot.
Thereafter, though, for years, I nevertheless still found myself interested in the genre. Gradually, in my undergraduate college years, this turned from actual interest into more so nostalgia. Though, even prior to that, I did (somewhat secretly) check out some of the spinoff series. And I learned things like how PRiS and PRLG had more interesting episode structure and arc storylines than the original MMPR did.
It's interesting how the super sentai series--as well as their western Power Rangers counterparts--ended up switching to new series, despite (at least for MMPR) switching casts a few times. It seems that, in part due to power level creep, they went the way of using new series and contexts in order to keep interest, rather than sticking to a very episodic formula and occasionally changing the cast the way Law & Order has done. I also learned that the series was first sold to ABC, and then later to Disney.
As for Sailor Moon itself, I also (somewhat secretly) checked out the series back in the day, less out of interest and more out of boredom. During a period of time when my dad had car trouble, my mom would drive him to work and then drive back every morning. My middle-school-age self learned to get up at this time and watch what was on TV. At 7 AM was Robocop, which I actually wanted to watch, and at 7:30 AM was Sailor Moon, which was like a consolation prize, but much easier to catch. This was back on UPN 33. Then one day, Sailor Moon came on at 7 AM instead, leaving me to wonder what was going on...and discovering the very first episode of Pokémon at 7:30 AM. Yes, it was on UPN for the first two weeks; the second week it began at 7 AM, to my annoyance.
Even back then I thought that Sailor Moon was cheesy, and I still think so. That said, it is rich in setting trivia, which is useful for things like offhand references, puzzles, and running gags.