Tumblr All Day

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 Since today is President's Day, the Diglett Cave is going on a Tumblr marathon. Join us all day for some great posts!

The Diglett Cave has a whole new "fancy" look. On top of that, we are almost up to 150 followers. Pretty cool!

Enjoy your day off if you have one, otherwise stay tuned here or the Diglett Cave to keep you entertained. 

Also, jump over to the PokéTalk forums for some chats. 

Woot!

 

030 Pokemon Emerald Version (Live Show)

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Live Show from Anime Milwaukee. SBJ, Aaron, and Catie for over news in reagards to the Trading Card Game, Celebi, and Victinni. We also answer a ton of listener questions as well as do a Q&A. This is our first Live Show... so the audio isn't the best, but it'll do pig... it'll do. 

Big Thanks to Everyone who came out and saw us in Milwaukee!

 

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Host: Steve || Guests: Aaron and Catie

Pokemon, Then and Now

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Mewto Strikes Back - The "Defeat of the Truth"

To get to the bottom of what Pokemon is all about, we have to go back in time and analyze the first movie. Now, everything about Pokemon is predicated on the fact that Pokemon is about forcably capturing creatures, throwing tournaments, and making Pokemon fight each other. Despite that, Pokemon is hell bent on passing as a "journey of self-discovery, of hope, and dreams, friendship, and the power inside". 

How do they manage to convince the viewer that this is what Pokemon is all about? They create a villain who does all these things, and then that villain is defeated. This is the point of the first movie. Enter Mewtwo Strikes Back. Out of hubris, scientists cloned the lovable Mew to create a Frankenstein-ish Pokemon Mewtwo. Mewtwo, angered that he was created for power, went on to forcably capture creatures, throw tournaments, and make Pokemon fight each other.

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In other words...Mewtwo does everything normal Pokemon trainers are expected to do. Only Mewtwo does it in a profoundly unnatural, demonized way so as to cover the potential and realistic immorality that Pokemon does and should represent. He even injures Ash.

Then, as we see the Pokemon fighting, an inspirational, sad song comes on, calling for peace and brotherly love. Not even the kids of the era missed the complete contradiction of Pokemon ever preaching love and peace. Then Mew, the "original", swoops in, heals Ash, and Mewtwo flies away into self-exile with all his clones.

In numerological order, Mewtwo is #150, and Mew is #151 even though Mew is supposed to have been discovered first. The reality of the matter is, symbolically, Mew is Mewtwo's clone, and that's why it comes first. When Pokemon talks about clones, it is talking about cloning Mewtwo, the original attitude of Pokemon, in order to attain Mew. 
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Finally a Featured Team

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Big thanks to people who send in your teams. The reason Featured Team was out for a bit is because I am redesigning a template to make it easier for you guys to submit your teams! This will be key in Black and White when it drops March 6. Anyways...

Team 20 (20 teams now!) is from jmeister9497. He is aware he has a lot of Steel on the Team, so let's give some good feedback on how to fix that!

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