Why don't I support SOS? Why don't I have one of the cute little banners proclaiming that I support SOS. Sure, I used to, you could very well go back and look at my older pages, I even did and had to beat myself in the head for naiveness. No, I have nothing against that people at SOS, they're actaully really nice people, I just don't like their whole campaign and how they manipulate new Sailor Moon fans.
We all know about their little story about Prince Uranus loving Princess Neptune and how when she died he came back as Sailor Uranus, and that's why they really weren't lesbians. This is a total contradiction of something else they have on their page. They have on their page somewhere, that Naoko herself said they were lesbians. Sure, it's a nice story. It could be plausible, in a fanfiction! I had been starting to doubt SOS for awhile before this BS came out, but when I saw this, I was infuriated. To my knowlage, so were a lot of other people, especially Uranus and Neptune fans.
Also, do we really want to see DiC dub all the episodes and movies? What WILL they do to Haruka and Michiru-san? I will refuse to watch it if they make them sisters. SOS at the moment has that whole letter campaign going on to try and get the SMS dubbed by Buenvista and others. I would myself rather watch subtitled episodes then watch the crap these companies produce. SOS is in part helping to destroy the beautiful anime Sailormoon is. That's right, Salormoon is ANIME! It is NOT and was NEVER meant to be a cartoon! That's what SOS is asking for when they want you to help support yet another one of your campaigns.
Ever since I stopped supporting SOS, I've asked myself the question: "Just who exactly are we trying to save? The "Scouts" or the Senshi?" After hours of mental debating and talking to others who feel the same way I do do about SOS, I've come to the conclusion that they are trying to save the Senshi, but they are only destroying who the Senshi really are. So, in reality, they are turning the Senshi into Scouts! I personally think this is and awful thing to do! Like I've said in my other little rant, I can direct to a nice fansubber that gives you 15 episodes of the REAL Sailormoon for $11 each. Sometimes I wonder if the people at SOS have seen past the dub themselves. I mean, how would they have come up with some of this stuff unless VKLL made an EXTREMELY bad fansub, which I doubt even he could do.
How could we have been manipulated so badly?! How did SOS get as popular as it has? And why am I getting mail from people to sign their petition to save the dub?! (DON'T send me that stuff PLEASE!!) Why is it that everywhere I look I see some sort of SOS lable? Is SOS using subliminal messages? And if anyone from SOS is reading this (or if you're one of their spies), don't flame me for expressing an opinion.
I am not trying to get you to stop supporting SOS, they're trying to save something they want to get done, and thats good and all, but I just don't like what they're supporting. Really, I have great respect for their whole SOS effort, but that DOESN'T mean I have to support it.