The Psychology of Pokemon

[Alex]

Have you ever noticed that the pacing, tone and story development of Pokemon changes after Ash is hit by lightning in the early episodes, how Ash and his world were relatively normal until after the incident?

I have a theory.


A long read, but surely entertaining if you're a fan of Pokemon.

[American Hero]

Re: The Psychology of Pokemon

Depressing.

[Jeroak Nelave]

Re: The Psychology of Pokemon

Holy crap man! Thats just horribly depressing.

But strikingly funny to me at the same time.

[Goufunaki]

Re: The Psychology of Pokemon

I don't remember Ash being in a coma. o_O

[Cutter De Blanc]

Re: The Psychology of Pokemon

Might have read into that a little too much

[Maijo]

Re: The Psychology of Pokemon

I loved this. So much.

[Big Rick Cook]

Re: The Psychology of Pokemon

Alto posted this years ago. It was still great then.

[Sampson]

Re: The Psychology of Pokemon

Didn't Ash get struck by lightning in the first episode? Maybe the second?

So how can you possibly say that the world changed after the event when it was hardly established what the parameters of the world were to begin with?

Further, the fact that its normal for a ten year old boy to go out on his own--nevermind the very existence of pokemon themselves--disproves the author's assumptions about how the "normal" world of pokemon should work.

[Shard]

Re: The Psychology of Pokemon

I'm on pins and needles for your Unified Theory of Taxez and Pokeymanz.

[Sampson]

Re: The Psychology of Pokemon

I'm on pins and needles for your Unified Theory of Taxez and Pokeymanz.

tax the pokeballs. It will give incentive for trainers to capture less pokemon, thus increasing the supply of pokemon in the wild, leading to more pokemon for all...

[Alex]

Re: The Psychology of Pokemon

Get out of my thread.

[Zeroth]

Re: The Psychology of Pokemon

That was a fantastic read. How cool would the series be if it started to set itself up for an ending like that?

It makes me wounder how many other conspiracy theories are out there relating to TV shows like this.