Epsilon: I need an angle before I can spin off it.
Blade: True, but I don't have any ideas as of yet. Hmm...
Epsilon: Well, brainstorm. What particular parts of Tenchi do we find either funny, annoying or interesting that we haven't talked about already?
Blade: Hmm. We haven't really touched MUCH on the alternate continuities. Or on whether the show is supposed to be epic sci-fi with harem comedy elements or the reverse.
Epsilon: Its a harem comedy. The epic sci-fi is obviously the tacked on element.
Blade: There's some serious argument as to that fact, at least with the OAV fans.
Epsilon: Bah. Look at the format. Every episode is "Insert girl" "Insert Girl" "Insert Girl", even the supposed "plot" parts (episodes 5 and 6) were both used to introduce girls (Tsunami and Washu).
Blade: Okay, but the second series isn't much like that, and unlike the spin-offs, doesn't focus much on the Love Polygon.
Epsilon: Except doesn't it still focus on further developing the "girls", as it were? Sure, not every episode of Love Hina is about uh, the geek, trying to seduce a girl. Often it's just about the girl getting screen time. Witness Washu and her "phantom baby", which was basically just something to feed the Washu fanboys. Not much that was sci-fi about that.
Blade: But...uh...the deep and overarching plotline which the creator spread through 14 different media formats, only one of which is in English, and, y'know, the Goddess War, and...screw it, I totally agree with you anyway.
Epsilon: (sighs) I play a much better devil's advocate than you do.
Blade: Oh, it's true. It's damn true.
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