I was going to respond yesterday, but my neighborhood's power went out.
I won't source the site, though, as there's no need to.
With that logic, Brock and Hikari are also stupid. It's just some sort of cliche or gag.
I've questioned Brock's reputation since the "Holy Matrimony" episode (as he was seen mourning for James's "Death", even though it was point-blank obvious that James was faking it.), which made me question his intelligence in regards to his being tricked by TR's disguises (though at least in season 1, they were a bit better disguised.).
As for Dawn, well, she's inexperienced, so I can't expect anything about her falling for disguises.
Well, with Cybercubed, he may have a biase towards May, a hatred for Johto which really wasn't as bad as people make it out to be, and a fetish for character depth but he generally has the right idea with how the anime is doing right now. In fact, a majority of creditable members of Serebii, Bulbagarden and even this forum believe that the Pokemon anime is at a high point right now.
I just don't like how Cybercubed is with Misty.
Yeah, I know. In fact, I doubt that he actually Likes misty as he claims. I mean, he seems to take any opportunity to make a Wisecrack at Misty (I mean, in the dogasu thread, he said something about Misty's bug-phobia in such a way that made it seem like he was actually Mocking her.)
As for "Credible members", most of these members that fit your description that I've witnessed posting on the forums seemed more like those arrogant bullying types. Like for example, Lex Suicune, one of the higher ranking, and more respected people on the thread, was always picking on the so-called "noobs" and claiming that they make the stupidest reasons, and that Chimchar was NOT going to be given to Ash (OR that the Buizel/Aipom trade will never happen), and when those things did indeed happen, the same guy ened up still insulting them, going "THE NOOBS WERE RIGHT!!11!!1!1". Actually, most of these "credible members" seem undeserving of the name, actually.
Yes, I was once a delusional Misty fan but I'm older now. Even if Shinji weren't in the current anime, I'd probably still recognize it's current status, just pointing that out so you don't assume that Shinji made me biased for the new series.
I'm not going to assume that Paul made you think that. Though, even if I did, it won't matter anyways, as Nickstr already showed it's true current status anyways.
But it took until the freggin Battle Frontier for them all to appear! That's nine seasons in the dub! Compare that with the two seasons of DP and the three already debuted elites.
Actually, only two elites appeared so far in sinnoh (Cynthia doesn't count, as she's the champion, not one of the Elite 4, and the two shouldn't get confused.), and besides which, Ash and the Gang had met Two Elite 4 members under that same rate anyways (Bruno and Lorelei/Prima).
The sensible members of the Pokemon fandom think Jun could possibly be a serious rival. He may have a ditsy personality but he did in the games too and he was still the main rival.
Funny, because when I was reading up on people's thoughts on his appearance, most of the people on the thread seemed more like they were saying he's going to be the worst rival ever.
meh, I don't pay attention to Hikari complainers, I just tune them out of my head, although I have noticed that even the more creditable members have sometimes thought Hikari was too similar to May.
Funny thing is, since even you admitted that Cybercubed was a credible member for the most part, he also said that Dawn had become far too girly now.
Perhaps the rules in Shinou are different. Or it could be that the Cerulean gym almost being shut down in the anime was anime only and Melissa leaving the Yosuga gym temporarily was in both the games and the anime, therefore the transition in the anime was a bit confusing.
I know you encounter her in the contest hall in Hearthome after first arriving at it, but she was probably gone for at least half a day (and anyways, the only reason why you didn't battle her was actually because of her refusing to battle you, saying that you aren't strong enough, not because she was out of town, so to speak.).
Besides, she was gone for at least a month (In anime time, not production time, I mean.), if not much more than that. Plus, I doubt Sinnoh has different rules for PIA inspections (it was implied that Rudy's gym was shut down by the PIA, and it was shut down for the reasons they stated, which was Uncool, Unsafe, and Unclean. Plus, Nurse Joy was going to go to Hoenn next, implying that it had the same rules as well.)
What about Drew? And Saori? Sure the latter character wasn't as popular but Drew has been known for having a large fangirl base both in the anime and in the fandom.
I know it was higher than May's in the poll, but I think it was still the 3rd lowest popular in the poll for popular characters.
And not a lot of people take the anime seriously enough to be loyal to a character. To them, they think that those characters are just fictional anime characters and have more important things in their life.
Sort of how certain people think that we christians are nothing more than insane schitzophrenics, and how they have more important things than "waste time worshipping an imaginary friend"?
Oddly enough, the polls I've seen had the three girls nearly tied. I've seen polls on sites like Quizilla where Misty was always winning but it is to note that the audience there is composed of mainly girls who are Pokeshippers and/or IkariShippers who like Misty and hate May. On forums like Serebii, the audience is more varied.
Hmm, I know that the popular characters poll on serebii had May ranking the lowest of the three girls, and the third lowest of the main characters period), as only Tracey and Max were lower.
You're going to have to respect that other people aren't as attached and/or dedicated to the anime or to your favorite character as you are, even though they say like the character a lot.
Ok, I agree. though a "Fan" means someone who is loyal to this character. I mean, think of it this way, say a person joined a club, who despite their claims of being a Misty fan, they deliberately say very nasty statements about Misty, make cruel comments to her fans, among other things, would their behavior be "Misty fan"-ish. And anyways, I don't count fanart of Misty as being a requirement of being a Misty fan. I mean, I searched the net, and I saw a picture of some giant Pikachu looking thing (with bear-like teeth) tearing Misty to shreads (did I mention that it was gory?). I mean, it was made by someone who has watched Pokemon, which qualifies as fanart, and yet the nature of that particular fanart implies that the person hates Misty.
I like Hinata and Natane a lot but I don't get angry when people go around saying that they like Hinata for her tight uniform. I accept that some Shinji fans find Shinji hot or think he's a great rival but aren't exactly loyal or dedicated to him.
Hey, people claiming they aren't Misty fans is something I can handle and accept. What I Can't accept, however, are said non-misty fans trying to join a Misty club and spending most of their time bashing Misty fans or saying snide things about Misty, or even doing it outside of the Misty club, to a certain extent.
And with fandoms, we joke about being obsessive and other stuff and you know what? Those people on Bulbagarden who were being "mean" to you, they were merely joking. Joking is a part of the internet. If you can't handle humor, then the internet is not the place for you.
Sigh... then I guess some of these people don't even know what a joke is. I mean, the "Jokes" they were telling were border-line cyber-bullying. I mean, you've even experienced it yourself, like when Cybercubed mocked you for your Aspergers (And I would never try to do that, since I myself am, if not Autistic, then at least Aspergers.)
I have a friend who likes Misty a lot (even more than me) and he posted here once or twice and he thinks your train of thinking is highly ridiculous. Of course it's normal to be sad that your favorite character is gone from the show but sometimes you just have to accept those things eventually and sometimes it takes time for people, but that's life.
Hey, do you have any health classes in wherever you or your friend come from, and if so, do they cover Bulimia and Anorexia, and if they do, do they cover the causes of it, or make it obvious? I'm asking because I do in my area, and my Health classes (Especially in middle school) have stated (or implied, at the very least) that a major cause of Bulimia and Anorexia is girls wanting perfect bodies just like the models in the fashion industry.
I mean, they showed us a film, "Secret Life of a Bulimic", whose motives for becoming a bulimic dealt with her working as a fashion model part time, as well as her feeling insecure about her own looks because of what she thinks people think of her. They also held a seminar about Bulimia and Anorexia during one of my health classes, and they even just flat out stating it.
Also, when I had to read a newspaper for Algebra (For something called Math in the News), and in the article, the author of "Math doesn't suck" (she's the same person who played the girl in "wonder years") said that she wrote that book for girls because girls in this day and age think that they have to grow up to basically have an IQ of... one, two, maybe ten at most, be party animals, and do reckless decisions (because of certain... "incidents" that certain hollywood starlets got themselves into.), and the way she said it made it seem as though it was a pretty significant number.
Heck, the way several teachers in middle school taught about the causes of Anorexia and bulimia made it seem as though a significant percentage of the girls in question get it as a result of society, via the media, the fashion industry, and the porn industry has convinced them that the only way you can have a perfect body is if they become super-thin and have big boobs.
Heck, even Anime and any other fictional intertainment is at fault, as some kids are actually imitating certain stunts that would send them to the hospital just because they saw it on TV or saw it at some sort of stunt rally. And anyways, kids learn to swear because of TV (I mean, some kids are learning to swear because someone left "The Jerry Springer show" on, and someone I know learned the F-word from her sister because she was watching one of these "Nerd" movies, and when she said the phrase with said word in it one day while on the road, her mom nearly caused a car accident from the shock.).
Also, a recent survey that my mom found on the net said that most of the sexual experiences from underage teens (and teen pregnancies that result from it) that have arrived mass-scale across the globe were a result of them watching Movies and shows that show sex on tv (Especially the out-of-wedlock kind.)
I mean, if people were to mimic thse things, imagine the sheer onslaught that would happen if we don't bring Misty back (BTW, that's NOT my only goal. In fact, bringing her back is just a step towards that goal. my plans are to shut down the Porn industry (Starting with Playboy, and if I must keep that sham in business, then I'll place a prohibation ban on any leud pictures and only keep it as a journal magazine.), recall any FAS's merchandise or any animes where the majority of it's main characters are FAS's. I also plan on eliminating Fashion magazines, and Teaching women to think for themselves completely, and not act like total Airheads.)
Weedle, I'm going to say that I agree with you that Johto is horribly underrated. A majority of the episodes from said series were full of key events or little things that made a lot of episodes hard to do away with in the Bulbagarden Johto crop thread where members decided what fillers were useless. And even some of the fillers with no character development at all were at least entertaining.
Yeah, I agree. And I admit that it was worth sitting through all the Johto episodes aired on that marathon (except for "Don't touch that 'dile", which I missed a part of it due to "Barnes and noble" having a busy day). Heck, if it wasn't for that "Socka party" sideshow that KidsWB (With that uber annoying song), I probably WOULD have tried to sit through Johto.
However, the plots they opened up were poorly executed. Casey was treated poorly for a rival with only three episodes, Gary only appeared three times, the fillers were excessive, three gym leaders only got one episode, and the series was and is still generally hated by the majority of the fandom. So tl;dr. Johto had good stuff but it was poorly executed.
Yeah, I know. But then again, some people hated some things DP offered (like the Buizel trade, or the Chimchar thing.)
And if you're curious, while browsing Serebii, I stumbled across many posts that show that DP is really pretty good.
Well, Jesse GS the II did seem to have some slight House-like tendencies, though, yeah, he was a good example for the most part (and probably a true follower of rules.)
Also, I agree with the most parts, but it's hard to determine whether it actually has the praiseworthyness if the ratings in Japan are growing lower by the minute (I won't post the source as Nickstr already did.)
