I highly doubt that J is alive...she was indeed a very sinister character for pokemon...Not showing an ounce of respect or consideration for people or pokemon...when the price was right, she'd stop at nothing to get what she wanted, and wouldn't allow for anyone to get in her way...And just for that, I think it would be more appropiate for a character like herself to be terminated in death...
Just because
you expect (want even) her to dead doesn't necessarily mean she would
actually be dead. As I have mentioned several,
several times before that she's neither alive nor dead unless otherwise stated explicitly, much like the Schrodinger's cat scenario. You can't prove she's dead, neither can I that she's alive. Logical speculation is the farthest we can go as of now. The show needs exclusive villain(s) like her to spice things up from being monotonous. Don't bother mentioning the new Team Rocket or Team Plasma - no other antagonistic characters have ever been so dark, cold, calculating, ruthless, and witty at the same time to match J in my opinion.
you'll only have to go with what was given to us, and that's basically what we've been doing.
Exactly. We are going by what has been given to us.
What was given to us? Anything but the fate of J (see below).
There was far too much symbolism that would represent the termination of J and her team. For one, while she was attempting to catch the lake trio, she was directly attacked with their Psychic energy...damage represented in her damaged visor. Who knows how much pain her body sustaind from that? After that, when she got back on her ship with her crew, the ship was struck with the Pixies' Future Sight attack.
Yeah, gotta wonder how much pain could Jessie, James, and Meowth could sustain from Pikachu's Thunderbolt for 600+ episodes. If we go by your logic, they should have been affected by paralysis by now. J didn't blast off, which must mean she took less damage than Team Rocket does by Pikachu in the span of an entire episode. Apart from the symbolism that you apparently pulled off out of nowhere, unlike TR J's clothes showed no sign of damage, let alone her suffering from visible physical injuries. My point is you could break your glasses if you drop them on the floor.
While the ship was going down into the lake's torrent whirpool thing, that would've been the perfect opportunity to call out her Salamence or one of her pokemon for an escape because the ship was going down, and the crew couldn't do anything to get it working.
I've got the hunch that's exactly what she did.
As the ship was going down in the depths of the water, J's visor was sinking down along with the ship. Now, something like that may represent that J may have had a very small chance to make an escape from the water, but smaller than her chances before. But that could also mean that as the water crashed into the ship, it could've washed away her visor as she sank to the bottom of the lake with the ship.
Normally in the anime, when they show personal items like the visor, or a headband (Naruto anyone?) falling off or getting lost dramatically, while the person not to be seen anywhere on-screen, they are most likely alive and usually returns afterwards. Notice, however, that I'm not guaranteeing you that J is alive, but that the probability of her surviving is quite high unless the writers have already decided to write her off the show.
And last but not least, there was the explosion. Now, this kind of explosion isn't the same as the kind of explosion that Giovanni escaped...This one is an explosion where J was closer to the source of the explosion, which would mean that her body and the rest of her crew would feel the impact of the explosion very quickly. For the explosion, the waters crashing in, and J's delayed action to make a move combined, along with all of that symbolism just makes me think that J is no longer alive. But that's just how I see it.
Here's my 2 cents:
The Future Sight hit the back of the ship, so the explosion must have taken place somewhere in the rear. The cockpit was most likely at the front, and even though J and her crew might have felt some sort of impact, I highly doubt that they had suffered from physical injuries that could result in the loss of their quick thinking ability. Since the explosion didn't cause any fire, the body of the ship must have been constructed out of fireproof material, such as silicon-titanium alloy, which should give J enough time to plan an escape route rather than worrying about getting incinerated. Assuming that the ship was designed aerodynamically, the psychic move from the pixies must have hit the radar - which is situated at the back-side of an airplane. A malfunctioning radar would result in the loss of maneuverability of the airplane. The lift (force) is primarily produced by the side wings, which is why we saw J's ship hovering on the air more than it was supposed to after it got hit, buying her some more time. The trajectory and at the speed the ship crashed into the water, it's still possible to stand on your ground, so I won't find it shocking had J called her Salamence in that 3-4 seconds and made her gateway. She could have dropped her visor in the process of that struggle.
If the writers followed the physics so immaculately, kudos to them!
Your word is not the word of god, or in this case the word of the writers. As I have mentioned many times before, as well as I have to agree with Cyber here, that the manner J got her ending or send-off is like the writers' way of saying that they are done with her.
