Could it be possible? do my eyes deceive me? Is this really the 50th post on this website! BY GOD IT IS! PEOPLE HEAR THESE WORDS THIS IS THE 50TH YES 50TH POST ON THIS SITE! *LOUD CLAPPING AND APPLAUDING STUFFS*…….so whoop big deal right? Well ye for most I guess it’s not a big deal but for moi it kinda is, sorta like an achievment or something, but anyway I plan to celebrate, and how? By discussing something on the topic in the subtitle which has not yet been dealt with. Yes my friends, you teach me and I’ll teach you….POKEMON!
Come on, who can honestly say that they were never a fan of pokemon? The fucking thing was just so amazingly huge! between the show, the games and em *ahem* the card game it was impossible to escape. Now for the purpose of this post I just want to make clear that personaly…i don’t really consider anything that happened after number 151 real. Like it was hard enough catching 151 pokemon but once they started going into the 300s it just got to hard…and who knows how many pokemon there are now! I wouldn’t be suprised if its over 500!
But looking back for a second, think back to the first time you started playing pokemon blue red or yellow versions. Think back to the first pokemon you caught, or the first time you won a gym badge…think a little further into the game to the first time you beat the pokemon league. Good time aye? And to be fair to the series, it has kept these fundamental aspects the same through out the series. The only flaw with…the only big flaw, is that they kept on adding pokemon, sure they had to capatalise on the product but the pokemon are ridiculous and are uninspired at this stage and its freakin’ difficult to catch ‘em all. I dunno about you but the smile that crossed my face the first time I caught 151 pokemon in blue version. I was so happy with myself that I had actually finished what had seemed like an incredibly long adventure. When I tried to do the same in gold version, I just gave up to be honest. It was just to damn hard, and from there on they’ve been getting harder. But that first game had the balance perfect. It was long, but not frustrating, difficult, but fun. It truely was a fantastic game and a fantastic adventure.
And so was the anime! For a long time, probably longer than the games actually the pokemon series was really good fun! Watching Ash catchem, try (and fail) to catch pokemon, but still be a good trainer was exciting. Watching him and the colourful cast of characters (not to mention cute ones like pikachu) was something that made everyday of the week highly enjoyable. Team rocket’s slapstick comedy and occasional actual threat kept us happy to see the same villain over and over and watching ash and misty’s battle of love (which tragically was never resolved!) was hilarious at some points. Brock’s lady’s man attitude was just pure comedy and the pokemon…well we just couldn’t wait to see which pokemon would show up on the next episode! it was great! Not to mention that fuckin’ awesome theme song. I mean seriously that song is definatly one of the best theme songs of all time, so epic! But as we all started to hit 13 14 we stopped watching it we lost contact with the show. So recently I went back to see what it was like these days……………………………its bad………..really bad. Team rocket are practically good guys, they changed all the voice actors to sound just horrible (I think they even change the voice actor for pikachu…i know! hat the need?) GARY IS NO LONGER A FUCKING TRAINER EITHER! I MEAN HE WAS AWESOME! (well maybe he’s gone back to training by the time that whoever reads this reads this i dunno.) and the animation quality for some reason seems worse to me. While watching it I couldn’t help but shake my head and say “Where? pokemon where? where and when did you go so wrong? Oh ye also the people tha follow Ash these days are really annoying and need to be shot…in the face.
So stick to the original series and original games. They’re really amazing and enjoyable. Thanks for reading this 50th post. I hope you had a small pleasant trip down memory lane. Thank you and goodnight! HAPPY CATCHING!
Oh ye I forgot, remember that subplot about misty’s bike being broken by ash? I wonder if he ever got her a new one? now never forget…….GOTTA CATCH ‘EM ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbhbLrSQKyY (sooooo awesome!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G71enrqDI_o (not as awesome, but pretty damn cool!)
Note: At the time that this was written the slogan of this blog was ‘Home of the Pokemon generation’.
