>Gryphon has a bad habit of letting his characters get away from him.

You say that as if there's some other way to do these things, which, frankly, I don't buy.

>That's what Utena, Anthy and Corwin did here. Their relationship was a
>complicated snarl that needed sorting out somehow. Sure, it was a bit
>of a contrived solution to the problem, but so what? I don't think
>there was going to be a "good" solution here

Ironically, if you were right and this was essentially just me flailing spasmodically to get out of a hole? It probably would've ended up being more elegant.

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Admin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/