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I at least want to see an extended edition of the trailer. From this interview with the creators: As for a real film, it would bomb with fans of the series because not many people would really be open to the franchise confronting the horrific animal rights issues it's always been happy to...

Even the games have described battles as "anything goes" and "no holds barred" and similar. The turn based system is a game abstraction, even the games don't seem to hold onto it being the real way of things. Not only would it make for a supremely uninteresting sport, it would also be pretty...

Even in the context of the myth, Arceus is a god with a lower case G, not God with a capital G. He's not the all powerful arbiter and overseer of the universe, he only played a part in creating a few things within it. Asking why God made people who do bad things is kind of a unique question to...

Re: Do you hide in the poke-closet? Most of my friends are current, recovering, or relapsed WoW addicts. So, most of them see there's not much difference as far as social acceptability except that if I close the DS and walk away, I don't have 24 angry people yelling at me to stop setting off...

Ok, allow me to rephrase. The police in the pokemon world are portrayed as either grossly understaffed (Officer Jenny) or comically incompetent (Looker). Even in their best showings, they're outnumbered several times over by criminal gangs big enough to have research and development divisions...

They're easy to beat in game, but so is the league champion. It's game balance, and the game is balanced to be reasonably easy, no champion could hold their position in the league while being only a matter of a few days practice to defeat. The anime teams don't roll over nearly so easily, and...

Nonexistent police. Runaway consumerism on the level of work buy consume die, just with a happy face. Violent criminals effectively walking the streets with weapons of mass destruction and regularly trying to catch doomsday weapons, opposed more by vigilantes than the legitimate powers that be...

North Korea's only a threat if you live in Seoul, and that threat comes from the massive WWII era cannons that are still zeroed on the city from the war. If they used all of their decades old nuclear material (they have no means of manufacturing more) and put it all on missiles, there's about a...

The anime and manga both have roads between cities, presumably trainer routes are off the beaten path. There's one farm in the games, presumably it's not the only one in the world, just the only one you happen to pass in your travels. It just doesn't seem enough of a "big deal" to be truly...

If the beyond low budget CGI didn't tip everyone off, 14 seconds in, the news feed says "Gary Oak's only comment was, 'You can't ignore my girth.'" It hits just about every pokemon based meme (and a lot of others), all that's missing is a mudkip somewhere. The only people in hollywood capable of...

Just to add to the luvdisc bit, it's a butterfly discus to be specific. They're a mutant strain with no tail (it can also refer to a specific striping pattern with or without a tail). The middle right picture on that page of the pigeon blood butterfly discus is pretty much luvdisc right there.

Not a tetra for lack of an adiopose dorsal fin. Finneon has two dorsal fins, but they're next to each other and it also has two caudal fins next to each other, which are cyprinid deformations usually seen in fancy goldfish and some barbs. Cichlids generally emphasize outline fins, lumineon...

Suspended disbelief. Sometimes something just works as a gameplay mechanic or is just necessary for the game to be balanced, but doesn't make sense even in internal game logic. Sometimes it doesn't have to make sense, you just kind of look the other way when it happens. If the game doesn't...

Is that what happened, or are you looking at a side effect and assuming it was intent? Remember, after Giratina came through (in Platinum at least, events vary a bit with the three versions), everything in the immediate vicinity was gone, including Dialga and Palkia, only the portal to the...

That's still assigning belief to events, not events to belief. Giratina would likely have intervened if it felt itself or its territory threatened. If the anomaly was itself the beginnings of a connection with the distortion world, that alone would have been enough - another powerful pokemon...

It's considered bad writing to spell out what something really is when characters see it incorrectly. Doubly so when the misconception is part of the story like it is here - take Lord of the Rings and its associated works, where mundane events are seen as significant repeatedly. Tolkien never...

Knee jerk reactions all around, frankly. Nobody involved had a reasonable response to the situation. I already covered Rowan's credentials, his scientific rigor is questionable at best, and that's only going on his own shortcomings and not those of his colleagues (the very basics of oviparous...

Well, you've got to consider the source of the claims that it is. They're from very conservative Christian groups. From those groups, mythical is the same thing as devilish. Everything that isn't their brand of Kool-Aid is satanism, no middle ground. It doesn't even have to be evil, saying the...

Personally, I go with something I said in the government sticky: There's something very backwards about society in general in the pokemon world. For a world where Star Trek level technologies are used for basic pet care, the average house has nothing more advanced than a television. Scientific...

Figureheads? Japan has an imperial royal family, and a few democracies in Europe kept their royal families around, too. They all command some degree of respect and influence, but no power of government. The royalty that's been seen in the pokemon world could be similar remnants of an old...