Clow, it might help if you read the rest of what I wrote. 
I said PGSM was indeed melodramatic, which incorporates everything you're talking about...but it also had a lot of very silly moments. Rei and Minako competing together on that game show. Motoki and his pet turtle. Usagi's mother. Not to mention countless little moments here and there that, as Sapphire noted, blended with the melodramatic moments that you brought up and contributed to the weird feeling the show had (which I still enjoyed very much).
For what it's worth, Minako is one of my favorite Inners and I loved her storyline in PGSM. The impact her death had on the rest of the characters was so real and it was just such a ballsy move for the show to make. Meanwhile, I kind of like the twist that the show had that depicted a serious consequence of Usagi and Mamoru's relationship.
But those are just opinions.
They are very dramatic and, like I said before, maybe even a bit melodramatic or over the top...but to say that the show took itself too seriously is kind of not true at all. There are dark and dramatic moments in PGSM that are swirled together with lots of cute and lighthearted and bizarre moments -- much like the 90s anime, though I think the 90s anime balanced its different tones in a better way than PGSM did.
A show with talking plush cats, one of whom transforms into a blue-haired little girl with sugar powers, is not taking itself too seriously. A show with a secret karaoke room base underneath a video game arcade isn't taking itself too seriously. A show where the girls can change their outfits by taking pictures of dresses with their camera phones isn't taking itself too seriously. A main character dying of a terminal illness is a serious matter and the UsagixMamo moments in the show culminate with a highly melodramatic "villain" in the form of Princess Sailor Moon, but those things don't mean the entire show took itself too seriously.
I know you're really into the Fushigi Comedy Series and a Sailor V live-action show in that style would probably be cool to see, but you can't really judge PGSM for not doing something it never set out or promised to do in the first place. Clock it for its uneven tone, its low budget, its often-criticized "ballerina-fu" fight scenes. Don't clock it for not being Poitrine or ChouChouTrian.
I said PGSM was indeed melodramatic, which incorporates everything you're talking about...but it also had a lot of very silly moments. Rei and Minako competing together on that game show. Motoki and his pet turtle. Usagi's mother. Not to mention countless little moments here and there that, as Sapphire noted, blended with the melodramatic moments that you brought up and contributed to the weird feeling the show had (which I still enjoyed very much).For what it's worth, Minako is one of my favorite Inners and I loved her storyline in PGSM. The impact her death had on the rest of the characters was so real and it was just such a ballsy move for the show to make. Meanwhile, I kind of like the twist that the show had that depicted a serious consequence of Usagi and Mamoru's relationship.
But those are just opinions.
They are very dramatic and, like I said before, maybe even a bit melodramatic or over the top...but to say that the show took itself too seriously is kind of not true at all. There are dark and dramatic moments in PGSM that are swirled together with lots of cute and lighthearted and bizarre moments -- much like the 90s anime, though I think the 90s anime balanced its different tones in a better way than PGSM did.
A show with talking plush cats, one of whom transforms into a blue-haired little girl with sugar powers, is not taking itself too seriously. A show with a secret karaoke room base underneath a video game arcade isn't taking itself too seriously. A show where the girls can change their outfits by taking pictures of dresses with their camera phones isn't taking itself too seriously. A main character dying of a terminal illness is a serious matter and the UsagixMamo moments in the show culminate with a highly melodramatic "villain" in the form of Princess Sailor Moon, but those things don't mean the entire show took itself too seriously.
I know you're really into the Fushigi Comedy Series and a Sailor V live-action show in that style would probably be cool to see, but you can't really judge PGSM for not doing something it never set out or promised to do in the first place. Clock it for its uneven tone, its low budget, its often-criticized "ballerina-fu" fight scenes. Don't clock it for not being Poitrine or ChouChouTrian.
This was a nice way of putting of it, John!
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