You're talking as if Team Rocket are still as serious as they were in the beginning of Best Wishes.

They're still not respecting Shudo's characters or following what he wanted to do with them either way. That was my point to begin with. They have no reason to act like such pansies in this regard when you take that into account.

Are you implying it's a travesty to write about Mewtwo, maybe even Gelardan or Mi, but somehow it's not disrespecting Shudo when they do it with Rocket Gang?

To hype up the new movie and help shift Mewtwo merch.

It still confuses them! How does that disprove my point?

This whole "talking down on the minds of children" shenanigans in the Pokemon fandom is getting pretty sickening. As a person who has to take care of his siblings and sometimes others on a day-to-day basis, I'm confident when I say children are smarter than you think they are. When *I* was five, I questioned the plotholes in this show. Pretty sure Japanese kids are capable of being picking this stuff up too and being confused about it.

The average viewers of the show would have started watching the series during Diamond & Pearl. They would not have seen that clip of Mewtwo.

Are you implying that parents did not buy the movie sets for their children? Did sales of that bomb?

There's nothing ambiguous about it - this isn't Shudo's Mewtwo and nothing in the movie came close to retconning its existence.

Was the 「おまえは」 (omae wa) ambigious or not? Make up your minds.

How many people and Pokémon has Ash said he'd come back for or meet again, but never did? Too many to count.

And those instances weren't cool either. That's like saying "oh, that guy right here shat in someone's food, you should defecate in her's."

Especially here, where we have an iconic character that everyone was dying to see again, had the perfect set-up from its previous character arc to take part in the premise of the movie, and had a trailer that tricked everyone thinking it was the original charater until the voice came around. That's hype BACKLASH on *themselves*.

It's a kid's show

Ugh. This excuse again.

"It's a show for adults. They don't have to do anything but make gratuitous sex scenes."

Have you ever watched Don Bluth's children's movies? Or Bruce Timm's DC cartoons, aimed at the same audience as this show? Just because they're children doesn't mean they have to be exposed to everything shallow in the world. That's insulting to the children.

- they don't need to come up with a gripping backstory.

If they were too lazy to make a unique backstory for her other than making one that's an empty rehash of the old Mewtwo's story, then why not just use the old Mewtwo to begin with? They wouldn't have to explain anything in that case.

This movie contradicts with its own prologue!

(now, Batman and Robin was campy).

Tangent: I meant to say Batman and Robin. My bad.

Also, having something that reminds us of the original Mewtwo does hit a tone the anime seems to go going for at this point, with the recent Butterfree episode and such.

Except it's completely different. Satoshi's Butterfree was directly referenced in that episode, whereas the original Mewtwo wasn't referenced at all. How is it intruding on the territory of Shudo's Mewtwo? It was never specified that only Team Rocket were interested in cloning Mew or that an attempt to clone was only made once.

Except that it was never specified that only Team Rocket were interested in cloning Mew.

That has nothing to do with what I said.

Mewtwo isn't a simple clone of Mew. If it was it'd be a Mew. NO ONE, not even the movie director or screenplay writers, has come up with a viable explanation as to how or why a second Mewtwo, who looks exactly like the one that Dr. Fuji's team made, came into existence. It's always 'poof magic".

"Stop referencing this special as if the movie audience have watched it, or even know it exists. For the most part, they don't. They're aware of the first movie only."

How is assuming they haven't watched it any better than assuming that they did?

Oh right, because they're new fans and they're stoopid. Going with the logical in-universe choice? Bah.

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