input: Text: Machines in the Garden In the animated ecological epic Princess Mononoke, the camera travels over landscapes with a clear, steady gaze, like a Zen hang glider. The images have none of the comin'-at-ya pop-surrealism of American cartoons, many of which have characters that spring out of the frame like jack-in-the-boxes. The Japanese director, Hayao Miyazaki, who spent three years on Princess Mononoke and is reported to have done 70 percent of its paintings himself, seems to work from the outside in: to begin with the curve of the earth, then the mossy hills, the watercolor foliage, the nubby stones, the whorls on the wood, the meticulous carvings on a teacup. He captures the texture of light and the currents of air. You could almost settle down in this landscape. A view of nature that some would call "tree-hugging" doesn't feel softheaded when the trees are rendered in such brilliant and robust detail. But then, "soft" is not a word you can apply to Princess Mononoke, however pantheistic its worldview. The film, which is rated PG-13, is full of splattery carnage. If Miyazaki in long shot is contemplative, in close-up he's ferocious. He's both inside and outside the action: He knows when to rock your world and when to induce a state of sorrowful detachment. According to the New York Times, Toy Story animators screened reels of his work when their imaginations flagged, and writers for Star Trek named an alien species after one of his features. Watching Princess Mononoke --which has been
  Question: The reviewer shares the following similar criticism of Princess Mononoke and Roberta Guaspari:
  
   (A) They are unoriginal and sexist caricatures of stereotypical female archetypes
   (B) They are not developed to the fullest extent they could be, and the audience loses interest in their storyline
   (C) They lose their appeal when the director reduces their rough edges
   (D) They should have been cast as the protagonists of their respective stories, instead of secondary characters
  Answer:
output: They lose their appeal when the director reduces their rough edges