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The Legend of XYZ RETOLD
I never got much into generation VI, but from what I heard, the pokemon XY anime has made considerable leaps. The Mega evolution specials with Groudon, Kyogre, and Rayquaza were epic, some episodes were pretty deep, and even though Ash lost a pkmn league yet again, I felt that the AmourShipping moment at the end was satisfactory. So one of the last two episodes before Sun and Moon began was a special called Legend of XYZ, and I felt it wasn?t executed properly. Other than the plot hole where the guy?s girlfriend remains stone, there are some things that could have been better presented had they been given time to develop. So let?s get on with retelling the legend of X Y and Z.
As I said, some things could have been better represent had there been time to develop, so instead of going back and forth in time, the episode should play out straight. For the most the part, the set up is pretty nice, an ancient city based on Roman culture, a man and a woman being our protagonists, and the man being a warrior, so let?s look into that warrior aspect. Since childhood, the man, Jan, has been trained with his Talonflame by the city elders to seek and destroy Yveltal because they see that pokemon as a threat to all life as well as their city. The woman, Aira, tries to reason with Jan not to kill Yveltal not just because it?s too dangerous, but also because it would be like killing an innocent life. Jan keeps iterating that he has a duty to do and he?ll be fine. With that said, Aira only wishes him a safe return. Just as Jan sets out, Yveltal appears over the city near Aira. Jan rushes over to confront the dark pokemon with Talonflame but Yveltal uses Oblivion Wing turning the bird into stone and crashing to the ground. Unaffected by that lost, he fires a few arrows but even they bounce off Yveltal?s wings ? as oppose to missing a large target ? and is knocked off his Gogoat by Yveltal?s Dark Pulse. Now Jan charges at Yveltal with a sword, Yveltal fires another Oblivion Wing, but Jan is pushed off to the side by Aira who takes the blast.
Moments later, Jan wakes up in a barren forest that was once prosperous. He walks over to what looks like his Talonflame turned to stone and shattered. Once he starts to feel lost over that, he looks up to Aira who?s also stone, but still intact. At this point, Jan screams and vows to kill Yveltal for taking away everything from him. He would have set out again had not a mage showed up called Magica. She tells him that not everything?s lost; only petrified, and there?s another pokemon, Xerneas, that can undo what Yveltal has done. Upon hearing this, Jan?s rage subsides and sets out to find Xerneas while Magica stays and watches Aira ? where she can tell her Meowstic not to touch the statue for a little comic relief.
Now I do like how some characters here resemble other characters where in Magica might be an ancestor of Olympia. But in the original version, she foretold of the incident, so it?s kind of like a prophecy which can be too clich?d.
Carrying on, Jan travels for days looking for Xerneas. Not only does he have facial hair, he?s also sleep deprived as he tries not to sleep where he would see Aira?s stoned face in his mind. I have no problem with him getting information from an old man with Scatterbugs. Now when he arrives at a city where Xerneas is as a tree, the city?s king ? who for this retelling can resemble Lysandre without the crazy hair and might also be his ancestor ? and a mob have come to burn it down because of a famine and it might provoke Xerneas to come out. Jan tries to fend off the king?s soldiers, but he?s overwhelmed. When the tree is engulfed in flames, Jan begs and screams out Aira?s name. Then a Zygarde core happens and the Zygarde cells in the surrounding area combine to form Zygarde at 50% who completely levels the city with Land?s Wrath, but only Jan and the king barely survive. Zygarde restores the tree and Xerneas appears. Jan kneels to Xerneas asking for help, but Xerneas runs away leaving him bewildered. Jan then looks to the king barely alive and draws his sword, but he can?t push himself to kill him. For what will that accomplish? And ironically, we can say if Jan killed the king, Team Flare would have never happened. So Jan leaves without saying a word. Much later, Magica sees the man in the distance, but not Xerneas. When asked, Jan says he found Xerneas, but it didn?t want to help. Magica gives Jan her condolences and leaves.
Now Jan is at his lowest point. He apologizes to Aira for failing her. He tries to cope with the fact that his woman is forever lost as he transports her inside of a cave ? while anxious not to drop her. Once she?s set in place, Jan gets chocked up and moans. The life he had before is now gone, and he screams while tearing his clothes up, and cries himself to sleep.
This is what the original version lacked. Instead of jotting down everything that?s just happened, this should be a time for Jan to reflect on what has transpired. Now instead of our protagonist doing a soliloquy in the cave, we can change the setting to all black to symbolize what?s happening in Jan?s psyche. We find him in a spotlight sitting in a sad position with his torn drenched garments. Then three people appear with their own spotlights around him and they?re Aira with Yveltal behind her, Magica with Xerneas behind her, and the king with Zygarde behind him. They ask Jan certain questions such as was it a good idea to go after Yveltal and even converse amongst themselves. Since this is all in Jan?s mind, we can say that Aira represents the counter culture that Jan was raised on, Magica represents the possible atonement for Jan?s ambition, and the king represents what Jan could have become had he gone all the way. From all of this discussion, Jan comes to the conclusion that in being trained to destroy a destroyer, he inevitably causes his own physical and mental destruction as well as losing everything and everyone he holds dear, and that?s deep, like Evangelion-deep. Upon realizing this, the king leaves saying ?what a shame,? Magica leaves saying ?I?m sorry,? Jan buries his face begging Aira?s forgiveness, and she lays her hands on his shoulders saying ?I love you.? Jan thinks this is for real and turns around only to see her still stone as the blackness reverts back to the cave.
Much later, Jan tries to atone for his sins by planting seeds in the land Yveltal destroyed in hope of returning some things to normal, but it?s no use. Now, the man is exceedingly sorrowful; he wishes to be dead. So he draws his sword and prepares to stab himself. But then, Xerneas appears to him, looking upon the anguished man and woman turned to stone. The blue pokemon does Geomancy and it revives the land, causes plants to grow, and the statue glows. The glowing statue of the girl reaching out poses into a normal stature, the glow subsides, and Aira?s revived and falls into Jan?s arms. He checks for a pulse, and feels her heart beat. She wakes up and wonders what?s going on as Jan breaks down in tears embracing her. They look up to Xerneas, to whom Jan gives his thanks, and the blue pokemon leaves.
Now I like to explain why Aira not being revived in the original version is a plot hole. In Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction (2014), Yveltal uses Oblivion Wing on the film?s antagonists and several pokemon including Pikachu and Xerneas revives them all in the end. So Xerneas not reviving one girl, even when she?s stone for some period of dormancy, makes no sense. Not only that, it goes against the polarity of the mortality duo ? where in Yveltal takes away life while Xerneas gives life.
Back to the story. In the morning, Jan, now no longer a warrior, and Aira walk out of the cave and see the revived land full of foliage and pokemon prospering. The ancient city is deserted, but that doesn?t matter to the couple. Over time, they adapt to living off the land. And for more comic relief, I would have Aira gathering fruit one day and get frightened by one of the two Zygarde cores much like May in All in a Day?s Wurmple.
Years have passed, and the couple has grown old and they relax together in the cave. A young girl, that might be an ancestor of Bonnie and Clemont, walks up to them wanting to know if Xerneas really came here. They tell her that they saw the X pokemon with their own eyes as well as one that looks like a Y and a Z and are willing to tell her more, with Zygarde cells and ?Squishy? watching.
Now cut to the present where Professor Sycamore and Alexa arrive at the ruins after the Team Flare debacle. Alexa sees Olympia at the mouth of the cave and tells the duo that knowledge about the pokemon Team Flare pursued can be found inside. The trio enter the cave and discover stone slabs with X, Y, and Z written on them and a large stone coffin. On the coffin reads ?Jan and Aira, Witnesses of X Y and Z.?
I never got much into generation VI, but from what I heard, the pokemon XY anime has made considerable leaps. The Mega evolution specials with Groudon, Kyogre, and Rayquaza were epic, some episodes were pretty deep, and even though Ash lost a pkmn league yet again, I felt that the AmourShipping moment at the end was satisfactory. So one of the last two episodes before Sun and Moon began was a special called Legend of XYZ, and I felt it wasn?t executed properly. Other than the plot hole where the guy?s girlfriend remains stone, there are some things that could have been better presented had they been given time to develop. So let?s get on with retelling the legend of X Y and Z.
As I said, some things could have been better represent had there been time to develop, so instead of going back and forth in time, the episode should play out straight. For the most the part, the set up is pretty nice, an ancient city based on Roman culture, a man and a woman being our protagonists, and the man being a warrior, so let?s look into that warrior aspect. Since childhood, the man, Jan, has been trained with his Talonflame by the city elders to seek and destroy Yveltal because they see that pokemon as a threat to all life as well as their city. The woman, Aira, tries to reason with Jan not to kill Yveltal not just because it?s too dangerous, but also because it would be like killing an innocent life. Jan keeps iterating that he has a duty to do and he?ll be fine. With that said, Aira only wishes him a safe return. Just as Jan sets out, Yveltal appears over the city near Aira. Jan rushes over to confront the dark pokemon with Talonflame but Yveltal uses Oblivion Wing turning the bird into stone and crashing to the ground. Unaffected by that lost, he fires a few arrows but even they bounce off Yveltal?s wings ? as oppose to missing a large target ? and is knocked off his Gogoat by Yveltal?s Dark Pulse. Now Jan charges at Yveltal with a sword, Yveltal fires another Oblivion Wing, but Jan is pushed off to the side by Aira who takes the blast.
Moments later, Jan wakes up in a barren forest that was once prosperous. He walks over to what looks like his Talonflame turned to stone and shattered. Once he starts to feel lost over that, he looks up to Aira who?s also stone, but still intact. At this point, Jan screams and vows to kill Yveltal for taking away everything from him. He would have set out again had not a mage showed up called Magica. She tells him that not everything?s lost; only petrified, and there?s another pokemon, Xerneas, that can undo what Yveltal has done. Upon hearing this, Jan?s rage subsides and sets out to find Xerneas while Magica stays and watches Aira ? where she can tell her Meowstic not to touch the statue for a little comic relief.
Now I do like how some characters here resemble other characters where in Magica might be an ancestor of Olympia. But in the original version, she foretold of the incident, so it?s kind of like a prophecy which can be too clich?d.
Carrying on, Jan travels for days looking for Xerneas. Not only does he have facial hair, he?s also sleep deprived as he tries not to sleep where he would see Aira?s stoned face in his mind. I have no problem with him getting information from an old man with Scatterbugs. Now when he arrives at a city where Xerneas is as a tree, the city?s king ? who for this retelling can resemble Lysandre without the crazy hair and might also be his ancestor ? and a mob have come to burn it down because of a famine and it might provoke Xerneas to come out. Jan tries to fend off the king?s soldiers, but he?s overwhelmed. When the tree is engulfed in flames, Jan begs and screams out Aira?s name. Then a Zygarde core happens and the Zygarde cells in the surrounding area combine to form Zygarde at 50% who completely levels the city with Land?s Wrath, but only Jan and the king barely survive. Zygarde restores the tree and Xerneas appears. Jan kneels to Xerneas asking for help, but Xerneas runs away leaving him bewildered. Jan then looks to the king barely alive and draws his sword, but he can?t push himself to kill him. For what will that accomplish? And ironically, we can say if Jan killed the king, Team Flare would have never happened. So Jan leaves without saying a word. Much later, Magica sees the man in the distance, but not Xerneas. When asked, Jan says he found Xerneas, but it didn?t want to help. Magica gives Jan her condolences and leaves.
Now Jan is at his lowest point. He apologizes to Aira for failing her. He tries to cope with the fact that his woman is forever lost as he transports her inside of a cave ? while anxious not to drop her. Once she?s set in place, Jan gets chocked up and moans. The life he had before is now gone, and he screams while tearing his clothes up, and cries himself to sleep.
This is what the original version lacked. Instead of jotting down everything that?s just happened, this should be a time for Jan to reflect on what has transpired. Now instead of our protagonist doing a soliloquy in the cave, we can change the setting to all black to symbolize what?s happening in Jan?s psyche. We find him in a spotlight sitting in a sad position with his torn drenched garments. Then three people appear with their own spotlights around him and they?re Aira with Yveltal behind her, Magica with Xerneas behind her, and the king with Zygarde behind him. They ask Jan certain questions such as was it a good idea to go after Yveltal and even converse amongst themselves. Since this is all in Jan?s mind, we can say that Aira represents the counter culture that Jan was raised on, Magica represents the possible atonement for Jan?s ambition, and the king represents what Jan could have become had he gone all the way. From all of this discussion, Jan comes to the conclusion that in being trained to destroy a destroyer, he inevitably causes his own physical and mental destruction as well as losing everything and everyone he holds dear, and that?s deep, like Evangelion-deep. Upon realizing this, the king leaves saying ?what a shame,? Magica leaves saying ?I?m sorry,? Jan buries his face begging Aira?s forgiveness, and she lays her hands on his shoulders saying ?I love you.? Jan thinks this is for real and turns around only to see her still stone as the blackness reverts back to the cave.
Much later, Jan tries to atone for his sins by planting seeds in the land Yveltal destroyed in hope of returning some things to normal, but it?s no use. Now, the man is exceedingly sorrowful; he wishes to be dead. So he draws his sword and prepares to stab himself. But then, Xerneas appears to him, looking upon the anguished man and woman turned to stone. The blue pokemon does Geomancy and it revives the land, causes plants to grow, and the statue glows. The glowing statue of the girl reaching out poses into a normal stature, the glow subsides, and Aira?s revived and falls into Jan?s arms. He checks for a pulse, and feels her heart beat. She wakes up and wonders what?s going on as Jan breaks down in tears embracing her. They look up to Xerneas, to whom Jan gives his thanks, and the blue pokemon leaves.
Now I like to explain why Aira not being revived in the original version is a plot hole. In Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction (2014), Yveltal uses Oblivion Wing on the film?s antagonists and several pokemon including Pikachu and Xerneas revives them all in the end. So Xerneas not reviving one girl, even when she?s stone for some period of dormancy, makes no sense. Not only that, it goes against the polarity of the mortality duo ? where in Yveltal takes away life while Xerneas gives life.
Back to the story. In the morning, Jan, now no longer a warrior, and Aira walk out of the cave and see the revived land full of foliage and pokemon prospering. The ancient city is deserted, but that doesn?t matter to the couple. Over time, they adapt to living off the land. And for more comic relief, I would have Aira gathering fruit one day and get frightened by one of the two Zygarde cores much like May in All in a Day?s Wurmple.
Years have passed, and the couple has grown old and they relax together in the cave. A young girl, that might be an ancestor of Bonnie and Clemont, walks up to them wanting to know if Xerneas really came here. They tell her that they saw the X pokemon with their own eyes as well as one that looks like a Y and a Z and are willing to tell her more, with Zygarde cells and ?Squishy? watching.
Now cut to the present where Professor Sycamore and Alexa arrive at the ruins after the Team Flare debacle. Alexa sees Olympia at the mouth of the cave and tells the duo that knowledge about the pokemon Team Flare pursued can be found inside. The trio enter the cave and discover stone slabs with X, Y, and Z written on them and a large stone coffin. On the coffin reads ?Jan and Aira, Witnesses of X Y and Z.?
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