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I watched "Detective Pikachu" yesterday, with LB and a friend who we used to play Pokémon with more than fifteen years ago. There was a lot of nostalgia :)
I didn't know what to expect from the movie, I just hoped it'd be entertaining and fun, and it was.
( Spoilers )
I was inspired to read up on the current state of Pokémon (the last game I knew well was Crystal, though iirc the last one I played a few times was Ruby.) Apparently there are Mega Evolutions now! Past me, whose self-insert had a team made out of fictional higher evolutions, feels smug. (I had the next evolutions of Pidgeot (Taubokhan), Rapidash (Pegana), Vaporeon (Aquilea) – these three I still knew off the top of my head – and Incognito (Icogg.) Yes the names were very creative.)
Actually I had two different Pokémon self-inserts, one of them a very successful Pokémon trainer and the other a near-feral child who grew up among wild Pokémon in the Viridian Forest. Well, technically three, as I just saw when I checked my old notes, but I'd completely forgotten about the third one and I don't think she ever got much of a story at all. I'd also forgotten that I made paper pokéballs for each of the original 151, and I drew and made A5 "cards" for each of the original 151. Some of the drawings even look nice! I'm glad I still have them.
I didn't know what to expect from the movie, I just hoped it'd be entertaining and fun, and it was.
( Spoilers )
I was inspired to read up on the current state of Pokémon (the last game I knew well was Crystal, though iirc the last one I played a few times was Ruby.) Apparently there are Mega Evolutions now! Past me, whose self-insert had a team made out of fictional higher evolutions, feels smug. (I had the next evolutions of Pidgeot (Taubokhan), Rapidash (Pegana), Vaporeon (Aquilea) – these three I still knew off the top of my head – and Incognito (Icogg.) Yes the names were very creative.)
Actually I had two different Pokémon self-inserts, one of them a very successful Pokémon trainer and the other a near-feral child who grew up among wild Pokémon in the Viridian Forest. Well, technically three, as I just saw when I checked my old notes, but I'd completely forgotten about the third one and I don't think she ever got much of a story at all. I'd also forgotten that I made paper pokéballs for each of the original 151, and I drew and made A5 "cards" for each of the original 151. Some of the drawings even look nice! I'm glad I still have them.
