Weedy Spyze
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The characters, mostly. I like White, but not Black. Part of my dislike of the BW arc stems from the fact that I didn't play the games, and I don't plan to either.
Pardon my curiosity, but why is Black your avvie if you don't like him or his arc, and have never played his game?
I can see where what most fans see Red but he was meant to surpassed it was never meant to be some legendary unbeatable stoic hermit of a Pokemon trainer they people are all to fond of. Off-topic, I know but just had to get it off my chest.
I hate the popular viewpoint of Game!Red. Whenever I see one of those "badass" fanart poses of Red on Deviantart or whatever I die a little inside. I just prefer to see him as a more happy-go-lucky person, rather than a kid with a permanent scowl. That's depressing as hell. I like to think of him being almost exactly like his manga counterpart, actually. That's probably why Manga!Red is my favorite character.
Good Ghetsis quote, it fits how the villains think quite well. Though, I don't really believe they're gods but rather very powerful pokemon that are one-of-a-kind. The problem is that we don't always see how they're captured and they just appear with barely a comment. For instance, Lila/Anabel suddenly appears with Raikou and there's barely a comment on it. Another example is that Latio/as are working and friends with Emerald for almost no reason. No resistance, no struggle to control them, nothing. I can understand limits, but such things were just recently shown. Before then, they really did come off as regular pokemon like the common pikachuu. Heck, Pika resisted Red more than half of the legendaries shown. The best and my favorite was how Kyogre and Groudon were written, with Giratina as the runner-up. Rather than have two puny humans controlled them or being completely mindless, they control the humans and talk using them showing they aren't just mindless fighting beasts. Sure it could of been a bit better, but it really gave a sense that the legendaries are a force to be reckoned with if you take that risk. I like when the legendaries aren't push-overs and have minds of their own so they can rebel if they so wanted.
You have some good viewpoints here. Given me a little bit more to think about. I never cared for Latias or Latios' role in the manga at all, but on the other hand I have no clue how I'd improve them either.
Speaking of Anabel btw, I didn't really like how they made her the "leader" of the Frontier Brains. To me, Brandon suits that role better. But instead they made him a butt monkey to Emerald...
Somehow that just makes me love Gold more. Sure, I would love to talk!
Great, I guess I'll send you a message in the morning if you haven't sent one to me first by then.
And I can really believe that happening with lots of holy music in the background. Uggh. Agreed; I don't mind the humans having super skills and abilities, but the powers were pretty out of place and overall pointless. I see, well, it's okay if you like her. I do like the whole "E4 being evil, but not really" and the focus on Pika and his issues aspects, I just don't like her as character. I feel that other characters like Green would of been better for the arc. I certainly wouldn't mind her retiring forever. It would be nice, actually. Heh, I would even say that GSC could of been fine without her with a little rewriting.
LOL @ the bold. Why does the Viridian Forest have those special "powers" to give people, anyway? Was that ever explained? Probably not. And don't worry about breaking my heart or anything lol, like I said I like Yellow to some degree but she's still extremely low tier as far rankings go. Probably in my bottom five of the main characters.
Oh and I enjoyed the Elite Four being villains as well. It was interesting. I don't think Blue (assuming you mean the boy) would've fit as the hero of the Yellow arc, though. If they were getting rid of Red, I think it was necessary to create a new character to serve as Yellow's protagonist. Ergo, Yellow was needed at the time, but she's not really needed anymore. In my opinion, at least.
Oh really? That's news to me! I had no idea he was ever a owner, but I'm not surprised. I mean, it's not like the Pokedexes can't be restored to their default, pffft. Man, Mitsuru always gets the short of the stick. Maybe, but I had actually liked him a bit before his whole backstory popped up and I still couldn't bring myself to care. It's just too forced and bad. Frankly, I see Emerald as a lost cause, haha.
Well that was only in the magazine run, the volumes rewrote history so that Oak registered Emerald as the Pokedex's owner beforehand (for reasons that seem completely illogical to me...again, silly senile old man). You can still pick out the exact panel where Wally originally registered himself---it was on accident, after he collapsed on the Pokedex after reaching Sky Pillar's 50th floor. It just spews bogus error messages in the volume.
And Emerald is a lost cause, exactly. Nothing they could do can ever make me like him.
I like that vision of game!Red because he can be pretty interesting when he does loses. That and I like stoic characters since they can be fun to mess with with characters like game!Green and Hibiki and tend to be darn cool. Though, he would be hard to make likeable if it wasn't for these characters, I'll admit.
On that note, I hate how Red and Green's rivalry was handled in PokeSpe. I like rivalries as they not make the characters more fun to watch/read, it also helps in the development. It would of helped those two be a lot better characters and, at least, the bickering would make up for the rest of their lackluster personalities. Their friendship (if you can call it that), as shown in FRLG and GSC, is just meh. Below average.
I see, I see. From the little I've seen, I don't like Black (or White yet) too much either. You may not be alone yet.
I like stoic characters as well, I just don't think Game!Red fits as one. Like I said earlier in this post, I prefer to see him as more like his manga counterpart. Although I guess the whole thing about the silent protagonist is that we're supposed to decide what their personality is supposed to be like for ourselves, so eh.
I agree with you here. Their whole "best friend" thing during FRLG was extremely awkward. It probably would've worked better if Blue had his game personality in the manga. His game personality is soooo much better than his boring serious guy demeanor in Adventures. -____-
Poor Black. Don't worry buddy, I still love you. <3