Vengeful Ghost
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If you had paid attention in literature class, you would know there are a variety of methods of textual criticism that don’t involve negationism of the text itself. This is a nice straw man you’ve made for yourself.Fine then. Go ahead and accept every nonsense that the writers are offering us, no matter how implausible or forced. If Plot Armor is obviously such a bad invention by evil fans, then from now on let's worship the writers' infallible holy words. Shame on those infidel who won't accept their truth...
Are you arguing against the concept of heroes fighting against impossible odds in order to achieve a goal? Because the concept of someone who is less experienced and less powerful defeating someone much stronger and more experienced has been a thing long before David and Goliath was written down. Because acting like this is somehow ridiculous in fiction is in and of itself a ridiculous claim. Acting like this is ridiculous in real life is also stupid since dark horse victories are also a thing.Let me turn around your argument, may I ?
How is it not an a priori assumption to assume that a 10 year old brat boy can defeat a veteran Champion like Cynthia when
Tell me, how this isn't ridiculous, Plot Armor and suspension of disbelief? So, if you want, the whole concept behind Ash is an a priori assumption in that case.
- we hardly saw brat boy train
- his team is completely new and apart from Pikachu has almost zero battling experience (Only Sirfetch'd, and Gengar to some extend, had battled before. But damn, this is not a simple gym challenge, this is the Masters Eight where "some experience" just isn't enough)
- his new team only needs 125 episodes to be on par with Champion Pokemon that have been trained for all their lives
What’s funny is that you’ll probably find that many of us hold your criticisms to be valid, but we do not hold your denialist attitude with your “Cynthia is the true champion because Ash can only win by plot armor.” You can criticize what happens in the text without going into conspiracy theories and making up arbitrary rules like your previous classist statement of “Leon looks like he’s from the ghetto.”