Sailor Capricorn said:
I like it that there is a senshi for every planet. It gives a lot of possibilities for otaku senshi.
Yes, it does, but the point of plot developments aren't to allow fans to create more material. Once you start thinking about it, the whole series starts suffering because of this revelation. Why didn't Luna or Artemis say anything? Why didn't we see any other Sailor Guardians until the final season even when there were enemies from planets outside the Solar System? Why didn't the other Sailor Guardians investigate what was going on in the Moon Kingdom or after the fact? What does this mean for our Solar System Sailor Guardians afterwards? Will they have to travel to other worlds to help out with the other Guardians' messes? Will the other Guardians that are left share what they know?
Sabrblade said:
To be fair, they did say that Nemesis remained largely undetected until the 30th Century, so its protector, if it has/had one/ would have been unknown. And, since Death Phantom became essentially linked to Nemesis, it's possible that he is the protector of Nemesis.
All of the planets that make up the Solar System are uninhabited and it's implied that this was even the case in the Silver Millennium. So that wouldn't have prevented there from being one for Nemesis in the first place.
Instead of changing Chibiusa to Black Lady, Wiseman should have infused her with the power to become Sailor Nemesis. Or he could have mentioned he killed Nemesis' protector, since after all, he's facing the Guardians of the other planets. Then, at least there'd be an established idea that these other planets have their own Guardians, too.
Sabrblade said:
Then again, up until the Stars arc/Sailor Stars anime, it was never explicitly stated that the Sailor Soldiers were an exclusive unit of the Moon Kingdom. Plus, those ones are formally referred to as the "Sailor Team", whereas any other Sailor Soldier is just another Soldier.
I know it was never explicitly stated, just as it's never explicitly stated that Usagi doesn't have a twin sister nobody knows about and was brainwashed into forgetting who was sent to another universe. But given how heavily their powers tie into their past loves, this connection is implicit, especially with the Princess forms in the manga.
Sabrblade said:
But, there is a greater significance of the Sailor Soldiers revealed in this final story: They are guardians of life itself. Chaos is the ultimate source of all evil and the sworn enemy of all Sailor Soldiers. The revelation of his manipulation of everything from behind the scenes the entire time created an extra layer of depth to the overall story, making the stakes higher, the scale grander, and more important than ever before. The Sailor Wars were a struggle over life itself, and to bring the Sailor Team into the existing conflict made their value to the story all the more precious.
Except, it's pulled completely from thin air. Like the Black Star Dragon Balls or, more analogously the evil Shadow Dragons from DBGT. While these developments are attempts to add consequence to the events earlier in the series, they come out of the blue and too late to mean anything.
If this were the endgame, it should have been handled the way it was in ReBoot. It was established that Bob was a Guardian*, one of many, but for a large part of the series, he worked without the aid of other Guardians in Mainframe. Yet that thread of him being one of many was kept open long enough that when the really Big Bad did come in and the greater Net-wide implications arose, it wasn't completely out of the blue.
On the other hand, Sailor Moon slowly adds members of its group in a relatively logical procession (even if it did start stretching continuity in terms of the backstory), then turns into Green Lantern for the last story arc, and adds several layers of retcon on top if it.
I mean, we go from Nehellenia, who was directly tied to Queen Serenity and the Silver Millennium in the manga and was tangentially tied with the past even in the anime, to some interstellar/intragalatic war that makes the Sailors into warriors for this grand conflict that no one knew existed. Either establish this from the start (why I like the dub's "Negaverse/Negaforce"), or at least throw some links or hints to this in the preceding material to this final over reaching arc...or extend the series longer to explore this concept. Instead, there is no groundwork laid and not time given to develop this concept into a satisfying conclusion.
The problem with this is that it's obviously bad writing that is a slap in the face to the audience, even in the anime which does not take itself that seriously. If this were a fanfic, someone would be called on it. Since it happens in the manga and the anime, viewers give it a pass.
Maraviollantes said:
More like the center of the Evil. During the Silver Millennium, the Earth was barbarian and divided into kingdoms warring with each other. People from the Moon (who lived under an artificial transparent dome, which suggests they were aliens taking the satellite over at some point in the past and not indigenous population) tried to improve and influence people from the Earth in a positive way. Metaria was a demon originating from the Sun, and thus an indigenous creature of the Solar System.
You've got a point, albeit a picky one. I mean, the Solar System/Moon itself was seen as the good, and the warriors were reincarnated on Earth, thus in the present fighting for Earth as well. Not unless you want to say Tuxedo Mask and humans are not merely prone to evil tendencies at times but are indeed plain evil.
*For those not in the know, yes, that what his "format" (job title) was.