*Bounces back into thread* What? - Don't look at me like that, i was just..uhhh...out parading the streets with my BMB flag! XD *lol*
Sorry guys for being absent, England had storms all over the country last night, and we had a power cut that lasted about 12 hours x.x I really wanted to post here last night but the comp was dead.
Anyhoo... *Dances about* =D Its so great to see this Club growing! I'm really glad you joined Star, and welcome Wy_Wynaut and Mistys_Brother! Tis great to see another fan-boy here. Enjoy yourself here guys, we are more than happy to have ya here!
BTW your avatar is pretty Star ^.~
Oh, and i signed your petition! It's great. First signature on the list *wink*
ML17 - I love the Miyabic Room AAML pics you have posted, the Autumn sketch one is clever, cause it's Tracey that's drawing them ^////^ I've always thought he knew there was something between them. I can never have enough of AAML fan-art! *Satisfied sigh*
Well guys, i thought i'd post this for you to read and see what you think, i'm not the one who wrote this, it's a fellow AAMLer over at Serebii who posted it in the Pokeshipping Discussion. (Which is the only reason i go to SNF) I'm just copying and pasting it. I think it is a really good post. It's half for Misty's return, half for AAML. Here it is, beware, there are for people who have not watched AG ect. ***Spoilers***:
I think that when misty returns we would probably have a slight character development for her.. it was tried in johto but the writers just could not pull it off... we would probably see a few arguments here and there, but prob mostly sarcasm and chiding... i feel that ash in hoenn even though he doesnt mention it, has come more to terms with his feelings and i do think that if pokemon was more of a Truman show we would probaly see a few moments when he misses his old friend.. the reason there is little or no mention of misty is not because she is not gonna return, but becauses the writers, for better or for worse, put max and may in the show.. they know that fans would obviously label them as replacements for misty, and that if too many mentions of misty were in the anime, then it would subconciously tell everyone that may and max are mere replacements, and would forever live in another character's shadow.
I disagree with people that think the hosos being a means to keep misty's fans quiet while the real show goes on, but rather they are trying to keep us informed as to what is going on, like how misty gets her gyrados, kinda like prequels.. the fact that yet more visual as well as audio hints were thrown in just shows that they still got something planned for misty.. its like keeping hope and interest alive.. the lack of future hosos does not really pertube me... after all, there is only so much they can do with a character who lives in a gym, short of sending her out on some grand journey on her own.. the fact that she is staying in the gym, which is a state that really cannot last too long, as her sisters have returned and her staying there just is not an ending which any writer would conjure, shows she still has a future with the show and the main party.. if she did not, she would have packed up and gone on her journey or found some fixed ending like getting together with another guy or studying water pokemon under lorelei or some professor who specialises in water types, or something like that.. many people say that the fact that she said in the last hoso that she was thinking of going to hoenn to look for ash and co and just stayed for two eps was kind of like a gravestone for her.. people forget that she was the STAR in those two eppys, and added to the fact that she had a new costume, means she is likely destined for things greater than cerulean gym.. the most telling of all is that the rhythm of the AG series in Hoenn has been mapped out already, with character dynamics already in place.. misty cannot just come in and disrupt everything.. so she got just two eps, making her fans happy for a while yet wanting more, and keeping the rhythm and interactions theyy want to keep at least til nearer the end of hoenn.. ie hoenn league.. the writers would have to wait til at elast then to put her back in the group, as anything else would spoil their story... this in no way shows that misty will not return...
It really does not matter if hints are concentrated in kanto and orange islands, because i think that it was really to show that kind of chemistry between ash and misty, and once everyone knew it was there, all johto needed to do was to keep us refreshed from time to time as well as to give new viewers an idea of what was going on... anyway, johto focused on pokemon, not the group anyway...
As far as hints go, misty's feelings we definitely know.. ash of course is guarded or dense, but no one is that stupid.. he probably has an idea of what is going on, but just pushes it aside as he thinks that misty liking him is probabvly impossible, juding from all their arguments and how they started off.. i think an obvious one is in gcyl (Gotta Catch Ya Later) when ash's face changed when brock told him that misty would have wanted to go on with them if she could.. that shows that he cares, just that pokemon is kinda like a soap opera, and things just cannot happen so fast.... we ARE sure of misty's feelings, and i do not think anyone would have the guts to deny that, no matter what ship they support, and as long as misty likes him, we all know she sure as **** is NEVER EVER going to give it up.. and that in my opinion as far as animes go, is a sure symbol of success...
Thoughts? ;)