[ThoHell]

Originally Posted by grey_moon

Oh FFS *runs off and commits seppaku*

No not with a knife but Leona in No Sound style. I'll buy who ever I was arguing against a pint in the London Expo that is coming up

*sob*

Grumble grumble grumble

Spoiler for thoughts to epi22 which I haven't seen yet:

They better write the loss well, but from what ThoHell says it looks like they made Tama lose just to push the story their way.

So Rin has bigger boobs then Tama, Rin ponied Tama in a BB contest and now Rin ponies Tama who was brought up in a dojo (who can't beat grown men) in kendo.

Looks like the main guy isn't The Don after all but Rin. Kinda suits the late arrival being the black ranger and all.

Do they explain why Rin is so good? Or is she bestowed with writer's haxor shinai 2.0? Let me guess her love for Shinaida is much greater then Tama's upbringing. As it does seem that all Blade fans must be dan grade or above and the fandom is rated by kendo skills...

They already have one girl who needs to over come a kendo fight. She is fighting for something far more important then a perceived must have life lesson. That person is the real Shinaida and her name is Miya and she is fighting for her honour and for the love of her life.

Tama is as I feared going to be written as a stupid person who can't transfer her experiences from one subject to another .

By the way when I asked earlier why do sensei 1 and 2 want Tama to lose and no one answered with specific show driven reasons. Sensei 2 is really easy:

He lost in the final. He got hung up on losing. He only snapped out of it 5+ years later after fighting Tama. He expects Tama to react in the same way he did.

Spoiler:

Rin won because she's lost in the past before and she favor a characters who knows about defeat, while Tama SUPPOSEDLY HAS NEVER LOST a match before and favors a character that always wins. I'm sure she can transfer her experiences, she showed great sportsmen ship at the end and didn't go all emo/snap when she lost. Well like I said, the losing part we all knew was bound to happen as like it would in real life. It was just the way they set it all up with Yuji and sensei 2 going from always awing Tama to an entire episode of them giving her a weird stare as if they KNEW she was going to loose even before she got to the tournament or knew her opponent. Like a character 180.
Tama got defeated so easily, even though she's already at an insane skill level, because he opponent knew the feeling of defeat and wanted to show Tama why Braver will never win. Pretty much winning or knowing you'll win before you even know your opponents skill or it isn't even a factor. Rin knew before the fight she would win, sensei 2 and Yuji knew she was going to loose that very match against Rin. Ok I think I'm rambling on too much, what I meant was she lost due to some master plot that over ride all skill/experiences.