Why devise a timeline for Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon in the first place?
Call it a personal interest of mine. I’m a huge fan of time-travel movies such as the Back to the Future trilogy, video games like Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, and television series about parallel earths with alternate pasts and futures such as those seen in Sliders or the various Star Trek series that I decided it might be fun to do something that no one’s ever tried before and come up with a coherant timeline for one of my favorite anime. Little did I suspect when I started just how difficult it would end up being. As I’ve said several times before here and elsewhere, I personally think that the show’s continuity director should be shot. The timeline I’ve devised is far from perfect and there are several instances where I’ve had to try and come up with excuses to explain away serious plot holes and continuity errors while still trying to maintain its overall sense and integrity. The biggest reason for the problems I’ve had with the chronology is because I’ve tried to integrate al