Tsubasa: Resivoire Chronicle
I decided to weight in on the current WTF CLAMP YOUR CURRENT STASH OF CRACK IS BAD!!! events in TRC.
I can't remember the chapter number but it's the chapter that's out this week. So don't click if you don't want to know.
For those who aren't in the fandom but are curious what happened. It turns out that TRC!Syaoran is the son of CCS!Sakura and CCS!Syaoran (and no, Syaoran is not his real name). Oh, yes and he's in love with a version of his mother from another world.
Personally I find the entire thing hilarious, lol. I love the FUCK YOU CLAMP! YOU RUINED MY LIFE! comments that fans have been posting. I've been anxiously refreshing my flist hoping that it'll show up on on clamp_rants with lots of more bitching. *glee*
Ignoring my amusement and getting right down to the plot development, I'm kinda disappointed in CLAMP. I don't mind the WTF INCEST! because I'm use to weird things from them (and from fandom in general). I'm mostly disappointed in that I don't think they did a good job handling the new plot twist. What I mean is, the stuff with clone!Syaoran was great! We knew that there was something off with that Syaoran but no one figured out that he was a clone. Despite our thoughts that there was something wrong with C!Syaoran we still thought he was the real one. We didn't get that with TRC!Syaoran and that's where my disappointment is.
TRC!Syaoran looks and acts exactly like CCS!Syaoran. I really would have liked hints somewhere along the way that indicated that he wasn't Syaoran but Syaoran's son without making it obvious. If you go back to the early volumes of TRC, you can see signs there that the Syaoran there was a clone. But if you go back and re-read between Acid Tokyo and now I doubt you'd find many signs that Syaoran wasn't Syaoran.
At least we now know why everyone was calling him "Syaoran" when he first showed up when it made more sense to call the clone "Syaoran".