dman_dustin
Well-Known Member
LOL @ some of these takes.
So, instead of, you know, the writers taking advantage of this for Go's character to grow and learn from his mistakes, you want them to give Rabbifoot to Ash and in process turn Go into an even worse character who just abandons his first Pokemon? Brilliant. This is peak Ash-obsession that knows no logic.
I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but both Go and Rabbifoot are here to stay. Rabbifoot is not going to leave Go. Go is not going to release his Pokemon. The trailers already confirm that Go and Rabbifoot will make up and that Go will make actual effort to train his Pokemon (which is a sign of positive development).
Also, is it just me, or are people literally forgetting that Go is a goddamn rookie trainer? Why is an inexperienced, flawed rookie trainer getting so much BS from the fandom? He is obviously depicted as a foil to Ash, both in terms of behavior and experience, but people go out of their way to act as if Go is (somehow) supposed to know better. He's never done this before. How can people learn without making mistakes? It's quite frankly embarrassing the lengths people will go to in order to morally condemn a literal kid who doesn't know better and is still in the process of growing and learning.
The very concept of "instead of fixing the problem between Go and Rabbifoot, let's give Rabbifoot to Ash!" is so insanely ludicrous it's hard to believe a sane person came up with it. There's no logic behind that argument, it's just pure spite towards a character (largely because that character dares to "steal" Ash's screentime. Nonsensical.)
Not that I disagree with you because the upcoming episodes proved they're not parting ways in any way shape or form.
But I have to ask: Would Go be a worse character if he forced Raboot to stay with him or even to leave him in Hoenn over actually letting Raboot join Ash?
Because that's all I really see here. Is that because Go's feelings would be hurt or Go would be lacking Pokemon that somehow allowing Raboot to go with Ash somehow is a cardinal sin of sorts, or would make Go look bad.
I don't think the better solution is to NOT give a crap about what Raboot wants and just keep him on Go's team and force Raboot to "like him" at least in the context of that mentality.
Just like you said "Abandons his first Pokemon" how does Raboot wanting to go with Ash to battle for example means he's abandoning it, is Ash a worse trainer for abandoning Butterfree, Lapras, Goodra, Greninja, etc, etc. Is Jessie a horrible trainer for abandoning Dustox.
Everyone's talking about Go's character and his characterization, BUT isn't what Raboot wants more important?
I mean obviously nothing is going to happen, like the preview has Go say "Do you hate me that much?" only for it to be an obvious "No, you idiot, Raboot thinks you hate it" resolution of sorts, but for the sake of argument, in these type of contexts, why are people ignoring Raboot's feelings to say Ash is stealing Raboot for himself, or that Go is abandoning Pokemon.
I find that assertion FAR more ridiculous that to place Go on a pedestal that we should care about it comes at the cost of throwing Raboot and Raboot's feelings under the bus which is what Go has shown to do. Like Go is a rookie trainer, then why even make it a point to basically call his Scorbunny mentally/physically challenged/handicapped simply because it couldn't use ember instantaneously, as if Go even knows what the hell he's even talking about, though the episode CLEARLY showed that Go didn't know what he was talking about, and further didn't even apologize to Scorbunny/Raboot at all.
Like yes, this is to develop Go as a character, that's fine, that's what WILL happen. But under the sheer hypothetical assumption, Go can not raise Raboot the way Raboot wants to be raised/trained and Raboot wants to battle, how is Go allowing Raboot to choose to go to Ash anything other than showing that Go actually cares about Raboot's feelings?
You know as opposed to what the trailer is implying by abandoning Raboot without even saying goodbye, presumably. Who knows though what will actually happen.
I just find it weird that Go is somehow a bad trainer for letting Raboot join Ash while also completely ignoring Raboot's feelings and thoughts on the matter in the context of WHY Raboot joining Ash is a bad thing. Like could it not just simply be about Go. Go this, Go that, could we actually include Raboot here when discussing this theory, and actually care about what it wants/needs. Not what makes Go look bad or good as trainer. Since I think Go being purely selfish makes him look bad anyway but that's just my opinion.
I don't know, that's just my opinion, feel free to disagree with me. I mean after all people justified Go's treatment towards Scorbunny in that episode, so honestly I wouldn't be surprised if this entire argument boiled down to JUST being about Go, without any regard for Raboot anyway but maybe people can explain why I am wrong if I'm massively misinterpreting the point here.