Gosh darnit, Pokemon!
Aug. 11th, 2016 12:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetSo the big boss of the bad guy team in Sun and Moon has been leaked, and...
...it's another dude. I've talked before about how a female Big Bad was something I didn't know I wanted until X/Y, and it looks like I'm going to be disappointed again. My one hope is that the female admin will take over for some postgame plot bonus stuff. (Fuckin' dude did that in X and Y, too. Grah!)
I'm also reeaaally not sure how I feel about the aesthetic of Team Skull. Is it Bro Aesthetic, or is it Young Black Man Aesthetic? Or has the former copied so much from the latter that it as much as makes no difference? Hopefully I'll be able to dig up some analysis by Black bloggers fairly soon. And we still don't know what Team Skull's goals or motivations are, which will definitely also make a difference here. As it is, I've still got a slight case of the Do Not Wants going.
That said, I'm definitely loving all the new Pokemon, and all of the new Alola forms! I'm completely satisfied to see Alola Meowth is Dark type, since standard(?) Meowth learns so many Dark-type attacks, and really, Dark is just a sensible typing for cat Pokemon ;) I'm really hoping that they'll include an Alola Butterfree that's Bug/Psychic or an Alola Venemoth that's Poison/Psychic, since Butterfree's lack of Psychic typing especially annoyed me in the core games (though Venomoth would also make sense, IMO). I'd also love more Corsola forms, and maybe a pre-evo for it? Oh, and a new, even more colorful/extravagant Shellos and Gastrodon, because nudibranchs, and it's already got alternate aesthetic forms. And maybe an Alola Tropius? Really, just any one of those would make my day.
In other news, I need to make myself a Pokemon icon or two. But probably not until after I crochet some more stuff.
...it's another dude. I've talked before about how a female Big Bad was something I didn't know I wanted until X/Y, and it looks like I'm going to be disappointed again. My one hope is that the female admin will take over for some postgame plot bonus stuff. (Fuckin' dude did that in X and Y, too. Grah!)
I'm also reeaaally not sure how I feel about the aesthetic of Team Skull. Is it Bro Aesthetic, or is it Young Black Man Aesthetic? Or has the former copied so much from the latter that it as much as makes no difference? Hopefully I'll be able to dig up some analysis by Black bloggers fairly soon. And we still don't know what Team Skull's goals or motivations are, which will definitely also make a difference here. As it is, I've still got a slight case of the Do Not Wants going.
That said, I'm definitely loving all the new Pokemon, and all of the new Alola forms! I'm completely satisfied to see Alola Meowth is Dark type, since standard(?) Meowth learns so many Dark-type attacks, and really, Dark is just a sensible typing for cat Pokemon ;) I'm really hoping that they'll include an Alola Butterfree that's Bug/Psychic or an Alola Venemoth that's Poison/Psychic, since Butterfree's lack of Psychic typing especially annoyed me in the core games (though Venomoth would also make sense, IMO). I'd also love more Corsola forms, and maybe a pre-evo for it? Oh, and a new, even more colorful/extravagant Shellos and Gastrodon, because nudibranchs, and it's already got alternate aesthetic forms. And maybe an Alola Tropius? Really, just any one of those would make my day.
In other news, I need to make myself a Pokemon icon or two. But probably not until after I crochet some more stuff.
