Is he? He's a member of the Elite Four, at least that's something like a minister I guess... That should make him a VIP who could be dangerously affekted by scandals... think of how often a politicians carrer ended up after a verbal or sexual scandal. xD
Well, we were talking about the *biggest* scandal, and comparing Will to Lance...I guess in the case of Will, Lance would get realyl mad at him and shout at him and threat him with kicking him out and everything. Lance, on the other hand, could probably do whatever he wants, yet the public eye still watches him and for having an affair with Cynthia, he would certainly get in trouble, too.
Hm... no, not really. It's more a natural ability of Dark Pokemon, I guess. So they can only block attacks and psycal powers targetting themselves. But there is no hint to that theme anyway, so we could fight about this for years without coming to a result... ^^
...hm, I can see what you think, but I'm still not too sure. If it's a natural ability, why shouldn't they be able to use that ability to, let's say, save or guard their trainers? Other Pokemon do the same with their kind of ability, and dark Pokemon maybe block psychic powers to save their trainers.
She was evil, and she was one of the leaders of TR, so letting the city take over bei TR doesn't means she's weak-minded. She controls the city anyway, further as a gym leader, afterwards as a TR executive. And I don't think the city meaned much to her - otherwise she surely would never had joined TR.
I don't think Sabrina had as much control over her city after she had given it to TR as she had before. I mean, both Koga and Surge where, in the final battle, there, and their roles were, if I had to judge, just as big as hers. If you didn't have any information from the games, and just judged the situation by the plot, you would think that Sabrina literally had no power over any city, because the other executives (and Giovanni himself! How could I forget him?) were in Saffron and fighting in Silph.
Though, it *is* debatable if the city really was such an important point for her.
Well, you don't read PokeSpec 14, right? ^^
No, I don't own it. >> Sadly.
And, as you already sayed, she was quite young in RBY, not much older than Blue (Green in our German version). And Blue and Silver where nearly at the same age when they were kidnapped. I just remember that by now. It definitely wouldn't fit in the timeline. And, last but not least, if I'm Giovanni, I would choose a woman which is old enough to take care of a child better than a 14/15-year-old girl without emotions (and no time because she has to build up a criminal empire by your side).
...I'm starting to wonder just why I am defending a theory so much that I don't even believe in myself. XD!
Well, Sabrina was
certainly older than Blue (I myself think that Blue matured really fast, and Sabrina...well, the opposite. XD!). Blue was around starting trainer age (aka 10) and Sabrina had to be at 15. So...okay, I see, I see, the theory *is* stupid, but only as long as we don't know Sabrina's true age in the manga. For all we know, she could be the opposite of anime May, and look like 15, but be 25 in reality.
And, hey, Giovanni seems to have enough money to get a nanny. After all, look at Koga, there's no sign of a wife or mother for Janine, so he probably took care of her himself, and that didn't seem to be a problem for Giovanni.
*sigh* I think he founded TR a year ago before he was stopped by Red, or maybe two years, not earlier. Surge, Koga and Sabrina where members from the beginning (as you see in PokeSpec 14) and it would be too conspicious if three leaders disapper for such a long time, I guess. And 8-9 years before I don't think he would doubt his victory anyway. He doesn't seem to be that type of person. He even rebuilt TR after the Elite Four and Mask of Ice were stopped, right? That means he never give up, so why should he have doubts before even founded TR?
Oo Uhm, why do you think that he found TR just a year before RB? I mean, they have a nearly half-complete Mewtwo in their backyard, you seriously think it took just one year to have the basics for cloning a Pokemon and fulfill said task? A year is not enough for that, imo.
Like I said, I didn't read volume 14, but I think I read that somewhere else, too.
Come on, Green, Red and Blue saw that Sabrina and Surge were members of TR, and in GSC, they're again gym leaders and competeting in the gym leader's tournament. If *that* is no problem, then being gone for a while certainly isn't, too. And isn't Surge some kind of sailor, often on the sea?
Before he rebuilt it, he was gone for a long time. And the ending of Yellow certainly didn't give the the wipes of Giovanni being the strong man he claims to be. >>
Trained by the Mask of Ice wasn't his plan. Anyway. The three gym leaders were executives (and his deputies) from the beginning, so why should he make his son to a lower-ranked henchman?
I think after recognizing Silver's his son, he wants him to join Tr, but in the days Silver was born he didn't think about Tr already, or at least didn't think about an heir.
First, I didn't mean training by the Mask of Ice. I meant that Silver was supposed to become a member of TR to be trained and then becoming the next leader. And well, the three gym leaders were gym leaders, so why not give them a higher ranking? Silver was just a mere trainer, he had no real position yet.
And still, we don't know when TR was founded, so he could have, or could have not thought about an heir back then.
I know, but I thought you mean she actively opressed her hormons. I think it is just an adverse reaction. By the way, she liked Giovanni...
I don't think her *love* for Giovanni is that openly controlled by hormons, otherwise, she would react quite differently (A hormon-crazy Sabrina...ugh, horrible image x.x)
She had a year to mature... Red arrived at the last day on the hotspring, and anyway, she was grown up menatl, of course, before that. It's just about her physical condition.
(After all, YOU started that theme about how strange it is she lookes so much older in GSC! xD)
I know you meant she had a year to mature, that funny picture was not meant to be serious (XD Not at all!). Yet, to go through, let's see, 10 years of maturing in the span of one year is still...ehm, weird to imagine. XD! (Can't we just blame it on the artist? lol) ...I know I started the topic, but I didn't know before that it would end up with such crazy theories. XD!
And no, I guess you shouldn't... or maybe you should? It might be funny to see what you image next time... *g*
It has to be 1 am for me to think of crazy stuff. Remind me never to continue my story at this time. x.x I don't want to scare the readers.