rosepetalrevolution replied to your post: docholligay replied to your post: Well…

I personally got annoyed by the amount of stage time the villains got. The full Witches 5 + Kaolinite + Tomoe + Death Phantom + Mistress 9 is a lot even when nobody’s getting resurrected or excessively long songs. I get that fans love them (I’m all about Eudial) but it took away the very little time we had for the actual Senshi and didn’t even really get us into their characters. That was disappointing, along with final battle being mostly just Satomi standing there I think UNV could’ve gotten away with more in medias res storytelling if it had really committed to it.l – that’s what LR had to do and it didn’t really detract from things that much. Just throw us in and let us watch it play out in vivid detail.

These are all good points. IIRC (from like 6 hours ago whoops) towards the beginning there are two villain songs back to back, which r e a l l y threw me off. And for as much stage time as they got, I don’t feel like they did anything new or interesting with them? (LR and PE had lots of villain time too, but LR was like, boy band!! BERYL IN ARMOR! and PE was like PLOT TWIST: SAPPHIR. (and also Rubeus’s arms)) I actually would have been down with them cutting the Witches 5 ala the Ayakashi sisters. (I like the Witches 5 but I like almost everyone else in this musical more)

And in media res would have been interesting, especially since we didn’t get much of an introduction for Haruka and Michiru anyway (and NOTHING FOR SETSUNA I’M REALLY BITTER ABOUT IT). 

Now I’m frustrated thinking of all the ways it could have been better.