keyofnik: *paws at screen, cries that nobody is real and thus cannot be hugged* *only solution, openly squee about everything* First let’s stop for a moment to consider that TOMOE is passing value judgments on the Senshi here. Tomoe, who at the opening of this episode was giving singular breathy laughs over the top of the speech from his valued and utterly useless minion about teatime, while preparing to make a monster out of a deck of cards. TOMOE thinks you are too much. But he’s a SCIENTIST and he has a BIG HOUSE, and Rei still wants to impress upon him that she is a very upstanding person thank you who deserves to be completely taken seriously as a Sailor Senshi and she is reliable and hard-working and will accomplish the mission perfectly if you would PLEASE JUST IGNORE HER ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS FRIEND OOPS DID I SAY FRIEND I MEANT ACQUAINTED REALLY I MEAN SOMETIMES WE WORK TOGETHER I DON’T KNOW HER HARDLY AT ALL WHO ARE YOU I’VE NEVER SEEN YOU BEFORE GO AWAY And Usagi, naturally, is about to the point of having enough of Rei’s shit. But Ami is still working with the illusion that things are okay and she actually kind of has important stuff to say here but in typical Ami fashion has to say it in fifty words rather than five and it’s really more information than everybody needs. But Rei leaps on this. Ami hasn’t finished and Rei’s just, “SEE, Usagi? This is your problem, Usagi. You don’t LISTEN to people. LISTEN to people, Usagi. Why don’t you LISTEN??” WHILE AMI IS STILL TALKING And I fucking CAN’T with you, Rei Hino, I completely fucking can’t, with your utter lack of self-awareness you gigantic moron oh my god I love you. Meanwhile Ami KEEPS TALKING. In the same little voice, just delivering the important information in the face of absolutely no one paying attention. And Mako and Minako wonder if they can’t just cash it all in and go join the Outers after all. THIS SCENE
