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What does being Japanese have to do with it? Lots of people have read or watched stories about time travel, and the plot is pretty simple.
What's confusing is that we're told that it's possible to significantly change the past without changing anything (other than the directly relevant details) in the present - how can that not be bloody confusing?!When people say that they are confused by time travel, I often wonder if it's the time travel being straight forward simple to understand that confuses people, because they think it has to be some complex and confusing process.
What's confusing is that we're told that it's possible to significantly change the past without changing anything (other than the directly relevant details) in the present - how can that not be bloody confusing?!When people say that they are confused by time travel, I often wonder if it's the time travel being straight forward simple to understand that confuses people, because they think it has to be some complex and confusing process.
Why do you keep quoting movies as valid sources? No one really knows what would happen if we could travel back in time and change past events, but it is scientifically/logically likely that even small changes made not that long ago could have a big impact on what we know as the present moment - think about the likelihood of any one sperm being the winner in an intercourse race, and the infinitesimally small change that would make that event not happen so that a different/no human being was created. And that's just one small, small, small scale chance event that would have a big impact on someone's present day.
Ok ok I concede I am impaled on my own sword! My point was simply that the reason that I, personally, find these episodes annoying is that logically I can't imagine it working but you're right - without actually testing it we can only use our own imaginations (of which mine is limited...)...but as you said we don't know what will happen.
If there is something that people don't get it's that not all changes have a massive effect on the future. Sure, there are some cases in which saving a guy from a mortal accident will allow him to become the next president, or he could simply be a guy who simply survives and lives a pretty boring and irrelevant life with no massive impact.
There are changes and changes. Arceus dying almost risked to make Ash and the others disappear, while this event simply made the condition of the hotel. I see no big deal with that, since the change involved only a little area (the hotel). Honestly, what were people expecting? What kind of big change should have happened? I think it is okay the way it is. No need to huge events and consequences every time.
If there is something that people don't get it's that not all changes have a massive effect on the future. Sure, there are some cases in which saving a guy from a mortal accident will allow him to become the next president, or he could simply be a guy who simply survives and lives a pretty boring and irrelevant life with no massive impact.
There are changes and changes. Arceus dying almost risked to make Ash and the others disappear, while this event simply made the condition of the hotel. I see no big deal with that, since the change involved only a little area (the hotel). Honestly, what were people expecting? What kind of big change should have happened? I think it is okay the way it is. No need to huge events and consequences every time.
Eh I completely disagree. This changes a lot of things. With Yolton occupying the hotel and gambling Pokemons, a lot of trainers will lose their Pokemon at the hotel and is forced to capture another for their life. This is a huge change to the population of Pokemon, and just like Butterfly Effect, it changes a lot. Lets say today this trainer is forced to capture another Pokemon due to his being taken away by Yolton, he went to capture another one, and then its possible that this capture shifted multiple parent-ship in the wild Pokemons, and these parent might have born children that will impact the big scene. Since those Pokemon are not captured, the might become mate with certain Pokemon, and those paired with them in the first timeline will be forced to find another, and the loop goes on and on, and then its nothing short of disaster. Its ten years ago, its completely possible that Diantha's Gardevoir wasn't born as a result of her parents met other Pokemon and become mate with them.
Butterfly effect might not affect the anime as I don't think the writer will implement it, but if they did its a huge mess. Huge I say!
The movie however, is considered non-canon, and I will be happy if you can convince me otherwise, I really love if Ash really befriended so many Legendary on his journey. (I dont event need him to capture one, just befriending is enough for me XD) They have no continuity to the main series and whatever timeline its in it does not affect the anime timeline. They always add subtle hits like the Lunar Wing of Dawn, but the adventure itself is completely off the book and they act that they never saw the Legendaries.
Wait I'm confused, I thought Mantle was a bad guy and Yolton was the good guy,
Yolton is somehow worse than Mantle?
Or are you saying that Mantle FORCED certain partnerships with the Pokemon, two parent Pokemon meeting as a result of the terror inflicted upon Mantle, but because Yolton is a "good guy" these Pokemon partnered up with other Pokemon and as a result some Pokemon aren't existing at the time.
While I can see your point that perhaps Diantha wouldn't have the SAME exact Gardevoie (assuming said Ralts was found near the Lost Hotel), I'm pretty sure she would've just caught a different Ralts and evolved it, it's not like these Pokemon are one of kind, they may be super rare, but it wouldn't be impossible for Diantha to not be affected, unless of course we're going to argue, that Diantha's Gardevoir is very special unique, which is why Diantha is champion, and an ordinary Gardevoir wouldn't allow Diantha to become champion.
The problem with complicated timeline changes is even if they could happen, there are too many conditions involved, in order to genuinely say that it could have an effect. But simple basic obvious changes are much easier to believe. If we assume a very narrow "destiny" Event A leads to Event B that leads to Event C.
We definitely don't need Event A under Condition A results in B, under Condition B it results in B2, Event B with Condition C results in Event R if Condition L is not met.
We had plenty of meaningless episodes in Best Wishes and we had 150 new Pokémon there. We had very few meaningless episodes in Sinooh and the number of introduced Pokémon was less than in Gen V. In short, the number of Pokémon introduced in a generation has no effect in the quality of the episodes. I don't get what you are trying to say. "Only 70 Pokémon" was and still is a positive decision from Game Freak, anyways.This episode was really uninteresting and meaningless honestly. Its times like these that /REALLY/ makes me wish there was a lot more than only about 70 new Pokemon, so we wouldn't have to dedicate episodes to older Pokemon.