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You sound like someone who's never played or watched Pokemon. It regularly hits on these themes. One Pokemon's whole shtick is wearing its dead parent's skull.
by foxdev 6y ago
You sound like someone who's never played or watched Pokemon. It regularly hits on these themes. One Pokemon's whole shtick is wearing its dead parent's skull. It evolves by growing past that trauma.
Ecology is a huge theme through the whole thing. It is not a happy-go-lucky franchise isolated from the troubles of the world.
- claudeganon 6y agoI grew up playing Pokémon. It was the second Gameboy game I ever owned. I think I played every one through the DS era. What I think you miss is that individual works can be contrary to certain negative trends or values, without posing any real opposition to them. A Pokémon game can embrace a pro-environmental narrative, while the material reality of the franchise in the context of Capitalist exchange involves all kinds of ecological destruction. Just think of all of the Pokémon tchotchkes, bought and discarded, since the series began. I’m not trying to single out Pokémon as some especially bad actor, but indicative of how the widespread fetishization of these imagined ecosystems might result in a future not dissimilar from the one described in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? PKD wrote that book in the 70s, contemplating trends in the world he inhabited. It makes sense that we do the same in engaging with it.
- Loughla 6y ago>It is not a happy-go-lucky franchise isolated from the troubles of the world. It is if you consume it on a surface level, as (I would argue) most people do. Folks who are into Pokemon Go have no idea of the ecological messages in the other games/media.