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  1. Posted

    2 hours ago, Scotty said:

    I'm not sure Catalina knows Diane beyond the fact that Rhoda was worried about what Diane might think of her and Catalina dating. The only reason I can think of that Rhoda hasn't told Catalina about Diane looking like Susan is the fact that Catalina would have likely tried pulling an Ellen and asking Susan about a long lost relative that looks like her. She might have also tried to get them to meet.

    And would that have been such a bad thing? I guess Rhoda was just too timid to talk to her girlfriend about Diane, and I kind of understand why.

  3. Posted

    I didn't expect to find this more amusing than hot, but I was wrong. Of course, it is still pretty hot too.

    Hmm... I wonder, would it be possible for Sarah to turn into a vampire without becoming evil? I'm just saying because this form is way too awesome to be used in only fantasies. I know she could use a watch, but the watch wouldn't give her any vampiric powers like super speed, strength, flight, hypnosis etc.

  6. Posted

    Hot damn! I wonder how Rhoda and Catalina will react when Susan and Diane start hanging out together. I know Rhoda and Catalina are happy together, but I certainly wouldn't blame either of them for having sexy thoughts about their old crush and her equally hot twin sister.

    Come to think of it, has Catalina ever seen Diane before? I know Rhoda hadn't plucked up the courage to introduce those two to each other yet the last time Diane asked her about Catalina, but surely Rhoda has some pictures of Diane she could have shown Catalina at any time. We know Rhoda knows about Susan and has made the connection between her and Diane, but has she told Catalina about it? Also, surely Catalina has told Rhoda a lot about Susan. Things like these make me really wish those two would get more screentime with the main cast.

  9. Posted

    On 30.6.2016 at 11:14 PM, Scotty said:

    I think when it was mentioned that Tedd was expected to be a powerful wizard, it was a given that it was Edward that was the wizard, Noriko being a wizard would be odd considering Nanase's magic and the fact that the griffins believed her to be royalty, Noriko would likely give off the same aura of royalty.

    I believe both of Tedd's parents are wizards. I'd say that's a pretty safe assumption, considering what Noriko said about her family having straightforward hereditary magic and her and Edward's bloodlines. Remember, anyone can learn to be a mage, but wizards are born, not made. Tedd and Nanase are probably the first non-wizards in Noriko's family in generations. Tedd is some sort of "mutant", but Nanase's non-wizardness can probably be explained by her father most likely not having magic. I have a feeling that Nanase's mother (who may secretly be a wizard herself) didn't want her children to carry on her family's monster-hunting profession so she chose to marry a non-magical man. Maybe she had issues with her family long before she disowned Noriko as a sister. I'm not sure how she feels about Nanase now, but she seems to have trained herself up a bit, possibly so she can protect her daughter if she needs help. Who knows, she may be just as powerful as Noriko, but if she hasn't used her abilities in a long time, she's wise to train in case she's needed.

  11. Posted

    I really hope Dan isn't going to skip Sunday. All those poor cats in all those bags need to be set free! All the beans must be spilled!

    Also, I really want to see Elliot wake up to a swarm of reporters outside his house.

    Also also, how nice to know that this Q&A is still going because Dan doesn't want the next storyline to be as long as The Card Games from Hell and The Best Date Ever.

  12. Posted

    On 6/22/2016 at 7:20 AM, ijuin said:

    Amanda in the Hogwarts outfit reminds me of Luna Lovegood. I think that Amanda might make a good Ravenclaw type.

    I agree, she is a scientist after all. Then again, I think Dan doesn't like sorting his characters into obvious Hogwarts Houses. He made Ashley a Hufflepuff (nothing wrong with that) and IIRC, he said that he wouldn't sort every villain into Slytherin just because they're villains. I personally think Pandora would also make a good Ravenclaw - she's totally cuckoo, but she is pretty damn smart too and she does everything she does because she wants to help her son, so she's not completely evil. Damien and Voltaire, on the other hand? Slytherins for sure.

    Elliot is such a boy (girl?) scout that he's definitely a Gryffindor, and so are most likely Ellen, Nanase and Justin. I'd say Tedd, Grace and Susan are Ravenclaws, Sarah is a Hufflepuff and Diane would make a good Slytherin - she's definitely cunning and likes getting what she wants, but she can do that without being mean. Noah could be pretty much any of the four, and we don't know that much about Luke and Sam yet. ...Although I probably wouldn't sort Luke into Gryffindor. :P

  13. Posted

    1 minute ago, Scotty said:

    Diane was introduced only a couple months real time after Noah back in 2004. So she shouldn't be lumped in with Ashley, Charlotte, Luke and Sam who've only been around for the last 3 years.

    True, but Diane was only a minor character back then. She wasn't relevant to the story until she became interested in Elliot.

  15. Posted

    I don't read a lot of books, but when I do, it's mostly fantasy. So naturally, I've read Harry Potter. I've also read The Hobbit, The Chronicles of Narnia and the first four Percy Jackson novels. Currently I'm reading through the Eragon series. It's nothing spectacular, but I kinda like it. I do own the LotR trilogy, but I haven't read it yet. I have a lot of time on my hands, though, so I hope I'll be able to read it this summer after I've finished the last Eragon book. I've also read The Cleric Quintet by R. A. Salvatore. I won that book as a prize in high school and thought it would be rude to ignore it, but I kinda wish I had.

  16. Posted

    Interesting... So it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, for uryuom-hybrids to learn Earth magic. It would take intense determination, lots of time and patience and much more training than any non-uryuom would need.

    Wow. Noah is even more badass than we initially thought. We already knew he was a prodigy and it was implied that he's taken down bigger foes than the bulldog dragon before (he only lost that fight because Pandora cheated) and now we learned that he's most likely learned to suppress his Uryuom Power in order to learn Earth magic. Now I'm even more impatient to see him again.

    IMO, one of Dan's writing's biggest flaws is the way he keeps introducing new characters when many of his older characters are still shrouded in mystery. Diane, Ashley and Charlotte are good characters and Luke and Sam have potential, but I wish we'd get to see Noah again before Dan comes up with even more characters who might join the main cast some day. Luckily, now that Susan and Diane are about to meet and Sirleck is targeting Raven, it's pretty much guaranteed that we'll get to see Raven again. The girls might ask him to train them to deal with Moperville's vampire problem. If Raven agrees, we'll most likely get to see Noah too. Maybe he will also teach the sisters some tricks.

  17. Posted

    On 11.6.2016 at 5:03 AM, Scotty said:

    It should be noted that even though Dan mentioned Greg having a new girlfriend a while back (like 2 years ago?) he may not have actually had anyone in particular in mind to be that girlfriend, and if it came to a point where he felt like introducing her, he'd either pick an existing character that fit well, or create someone new. Of course it is equally possible that Dan had already chosen who Greg's new girlfriend was when he had Dex mention it, and is now waiting for an opportunity to surprise us.

    Thank you. My point was that it's been a while in real time since we learned that Greg has a new girlfriend and I seriously doubt that Dan had designed Téa back then. I definitely did not mean to give the impression that I think Téa is less than one day old.

  18. Posted

    On 11.6.2016 at 4:14 AM, Scotty said:

    Wait, what? This pinup has been up since the end of March, the most recent ones have been up for over a week now.

     

    Or are you complaining that you missed being able to post about these when we were posting about them?

     

    I'm confused.

    I thought this pinup was one of the newer ones when I made that post, probably because it had been commented on recently. I just forgot to check this page's date. Sorry about that.

  19. Posted

    48 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    Are you saying it started to be more interesting after I stopped watching?

    It depends. When did you stop watching? If you've only watched the Original Series (Ash's journeys through Kanto, Orange Islands and Johto), then definitely.

    48 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    That "saving legendary pokemons" was not stated to be preventing destruction of world, was it? Sure, the weather was awful with Moltres and Zapdos captured, but I'm not convinced the "earth shall turn to ash" was really about destruction of whole world.

    Well, the movie pretty much said that the Chosen One (Ash) was the only one who could calm down the legendary birds and therefore stop the world from being flooded. Of course, that was only the second Pokémon movie. Since then, there have been much, much more powerful legendary Pokémon than the bird trio and Lugia with powers over things like space and time itself. So yeah, in hindsight, there's no way the three birds could have destroyed the world without any other legendaries stopping them, but hey, those legendaries hadn't been invented yet, so the makers of the movie didn't know that!

    48 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    Of course. It wouldn't be interesting if it would be that easy. Still, Ash seems to be doing LOT of mistakes, and he also seems to LOSE most pokemons he get. I'm not sure why they didn't rather make some rule about only using "local" pokemons in every league - oh wait, that would prevent him for using Pikachu all the time.

    Ash used to make a lot of mistakes, but he wasn't the only one. The anime used to be quite lax about following all the same rules as the games, but it's gotten much better now. Ash definitely couldn't do crazy stuff like "Pikachu, the horn!" or that infamous "Thunder Armor" these days. Ironically, neither of those things I mentioned were his mistakes because they actually worked against his opponents. No, they were just the anime being weird.

    48 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    ... so, his Sinnoh pokemons were back, or did he started with just Pikachu again?

    Ash started with just Pikachu again in Kalos. What I meant was that he's just as competent in Kalos as he was in Sinnoh. Do yourself a favor - if you ever decide to catch up on the show, skip the BW series. Trust me, it's for the best.

    48 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    If they really want to start from the beginning, they should make new character. It's not like it wouldn't be pokemon without Ash.

    Oh, I agree. I like Ash, but I'm 100% positive that the BW series would have been much better with a new protagonist. It would have been believable for an actual rookie to make all those stupid rookie mistakes Ash did in Unova.

    48 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    ... right. Government money? Is it ever stated who is paying all those trainers? I hoped that the older ones need to get some real jobs, even if that would be just something like Gym leader, pokemon researcher or stuff like that.

    Although, maybe with exploiting pokemons as cheap work force, their economy can afford it.

    It's never been stated how Ash and his friends pay for all the food and supplies they use on the road, so I must assume that the government pays them. In the games, you get money from the Trainers you defeat in battle, but that's never been even hinted at in the anime.

    And yes, some Pokémon do work alongside police officers, firemen and construction workers, so that does save some money.

  20. Posted

    *sigh* Okay, I don't want to sound insensitive, but I am getting very tired of Dan's annoying habit of feeling like he has to immediately correct himself when people tell him he got something wrong by creating a new page just for that one purpose even though it wasn't in his script. Not only that, but he also felt like he had to end this page on the exact same joke he used on the previous page, and I didn't find it funny then either. Can't he just apologize in the commentary? Now this Q&A will last longer and delay some sisterly meeting goodness.

    Also, I'm not even sure how many times Dan has used the "seven billion people" joke, but it's not funny anymore. I know exaggerating can drive a point home, but he's basically saying that every single person on the planet reads his comic and they all felt like telling him he got his terminology wrong.

    Sorry for the rant, but I had to get this off my chest. I tried to not be too rude.

  21. Posted

    On 13.6.2016 at 1:22 AM, hkmaly said:

    Agree. In Pokemon, the world was never in danger. In Digimon, every season finale.

    Excuse me? The Pokémon world has been in danger many times. Mostly in the movies, yes, but Ash and his friends have had to rescue legendary Pokémon from being used for evil many times in the anime as well and by saving them, they've saved the world from destruction each time. My favorite time when that happened was in the DP series when they stopped Team Galactic from creating a new universe which would have wiped the old universe from existence.

    On 13.6.2016 at 1:22 AM, hkmaly said:

    It would be fascinating how in Pokemon the society somehow adapted to children usually having pets capable of mass destruction if not for the fact that they didn't even attempted to explain how. And the only gun shown caused the episode be banned in US, because being shot is much more dangerous than 4rd degree burns from Charizard - wait, actually it might've been, considering it happened to Ash multiple times ...

    I think it's pretty obvious that humans are a LOT tougher than they look in Pokémon. Team Rocket and Ash are the best examples of that. They've been through so much abuse over the years that I think they would make many superheroes look like wimps. They obviously feel pain, but they recover ridiculously fast and they never gain any lasting injuries from electricity, fire, freezing, explosions, crash landings, poison, physical and mental attacks or anything else. In short, humans are just as indestructible as Pokémon, they just can't attack the way Pokémon do.

    On 13.6.2016 at 1:22 AM, hkmaly said:

    Also, ANYONE playing the game proved to be better trainer than Ash in first hour of play.

    The games are not like the anime. In the anime, training Pokémon takes a lot more time and patience, not to mention more improvising. I know fully well that Ash is pretty dumb, but he is a great Trainer. He was still a rookie in the first season, so of course he made lots of rookie mistakes and I am not a fan of how he won most of his Indigo League Badges, but those days are long gone. Ash got progressively better in Johto and Hoenn, and he was brilliant in Sinnoh. He really should have won the Sinnoh League, but because the writers always have to find some excuse to make him lose, they pulled a legendary user out of their asses so Ash wouldn't win - and Ash still beat two of that guy's legendary Pokémon that nobody else had beaten before.

    Then, for some reason, they made Ash suck again in Unova without any explanation at all. I HATED the BW series. It was complete garbage. I could barely watch through it all.

    Luckily, Ash is back to his Sinnoh greatness in the current XY series. The Kalos League starts next week and I'm eagerly looking forward to it. Ash has some good, fully evolved Pokémon and his Greninja has unique power that will certainly work to their advantage. However, I fear that Team Flare will interrupt the Kalos League before it's finished, because the episode after the next one will have two of Ash's rivals battle for a place in the semi-finals. That seems oddly rushed to me, so I believe this League will get interrupted and they will try again after they've saved Kalos from Team Flare. I really want Ash to win this time because he really deserves it, but I should probably prepare myself for another bitter disappointment. Too bad the writers of Pokémon don't seem to get that Ash could still stay as the main character in the next series even if he wins the Kalos League. Winning a League Tournament doesn't make him a Pokémon Master, it only gives him the right to challenge the Elite Four. Ash is pretty good, but I doubt he's match for the Elite Four yet, so the writers could easily make Ash go to Alola after losing to the Elite Four.

    Sorry for the rant. Touchy subject.

    On 14.6.2016 at 3:15 AM, hkmaly said:

    Also, while Ash seems to never return, perhaps it's supposed to be like for summer holiday, with return to school for winter? (It's not like Ash is aging either, is it? Maybe it's STILL the first holiday.)

    No, Ash and his friends (or anyone else in the show) don't seem to age. There's no explanation for it whatsoever, we're just supposed to accept it. They're like the Simpsons - we see time pass, but it doesn't affect anyone. Not physically, at least.

    On 14.6.2016 at 3:15 AM, hkmaly said:

    And you might actually NEED Pokemon in school. Especially if it's Pokemon school, which is the only kind shown in the series. Oh, wait, there was also that school for Chansey, wasn't it? :)

    Yeah. There are lots of Trainer Schools in the show, but since not EVERYONE is a Trainer, it can be assumed that there are also regular schools for people who want to have real jobs. There doesn't seem to be an upper age limit to being a Trainer, however, so many adults can also spend their time walking through forests and mountains catching Pokémon and living off the government money.

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