I just watched this youtube video and that got me to think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiY1kBWsmtc
What I have understood (not an expert on the subject) Pokemon might be based up on the Japanese old mythological lore about spirits (Yōkai?). (see: Spirited away and princess mononoke). Everything has a a spirit that can come to life. What if the pokemon are the old spirits living in a modern society.
Maybe the big conflict in the world of pokemon was that humans discovered that the spirits/gods where real and stared to live in a society with them.
The big question was where did they come from? Even though they posses powers of nature, should they be treated as gods? Maybe there was a conflict between humans what to do with them. destroy them, capture them or live with them. (basicly the current plot of legend of Korra).
After "the great war". The people who wanted to capture pokemon won, and created the big company who rules the world of pokemon. Every man was killed, and every child where used to be inspired to capture pokemon/spirits for science.
Where did all the normal animals go? shipped to factories to produce food for the people. One state, one production of food to everyone.
The reason there is so much organised crimes in the world, are the losers of the great war who went underground to fight their cause. Giovanni might have been a soldier of the people who wanted to destroy all the pokemon/spirits, and became a mafia leader after the war.
Maybe even Ash's father ended up joining a rebellion on his pokemon journey and has therefore no possibility to return home? The big question is: Has people the right to control nature and life? Did pokemon/spirits orgin in space?
7.31.2014
7.01.2014
My 3rd attempt to write a blog, now in English!
So this is my 3rd time trying to write a blog, and this time I think I will be starting to write it in English. Why? Because I need to practice. And yes I suck at writing in English.
I have always wondered why the language that I listen to and read every singel day on social media is the one of the hardest for me to write?
Maybe it is because I'm lazy? I was never good at English in school, because I hated to sitt and cram words every single day for the next test at school.
I just had to repeat the same words over and over again like a machine, so I in the end would just spit them out like robot the right way. And after the test I would totally forget them. Why would I need them? They where only random selected words my teacher wanted me to learn.
Was it my fault, or was it my teachers? Maybe both.
The first time I challenged myself to understand English was when I was trying to play the games and watch the movies everyone else was watching and playing.
Just knowing what the correct button was between "play" and "delete". I remember burning myself a lot of times, deleting my brothers saved games.
I continued with games like Age of Empires, The Sims, and one of my favorites: The Movies.
The game was a The Sims clone, where the people was customisable, but it all was set on a back lot of a movie production studio. It was awesome, and I remembered discovering words like: "Salary". I just had to play the game. The only bad thing about the game was it took forever. It started in the early days of film making, and developed slowly towards the years of 2000, and the movie techniques got more advanced.
The next game I played was Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines. My first RPG-game. I was PG15 and my grandmother bought it to me. I new it was PG18 in Norway, but I loved vampires so much. It scared the hell out of me, but it was worth it.
This time the big challenge was to actually understand what my mission was. I have no idea how man words I learned playing that game, only so I could reach the end. It was amazing, and every time e beat the game I understood more and more.
The most influential movies for my vocabulary was the lord of the rings trilogy. I was blessed with fantasy and couldn't get enough of it. After watching the movie over, and over, and over again, it was the first English movie I could see without subtitles.
And after a while I could see Harry Potter without subtitles, and cartoon series and so on.
But that was just the reading part.
I feel I still have a lot to learn about the English language, but I hope I will evolve a lot after living in England the next 3 years (or maybe more)
I have always wondered why the language that I listen to and read every singel day on social media is the one of the hardest for me to write?
Maybe it is because I'm lazy? I was never good at English in school, because I hated to sitt and cram words every single day for the next test at school.
I just had to repeat the same words over and over again like a machine, so I in the end would just spit them out like robot the right way. And after the test I would totally forget them. Why would I need them? They where only random selected words my teacher wanted me to learn.
Was it my fault, or was it my teachers? Maybe both.
The first time I challenged myself to understand English was when I was trying to play the games and watch the movies everyone else was watching and playing.
Just knowing what the correct button was between "play" and "delete". I remember burning myself a lot of times, deleting my brothers saved games.
I continued with games like Age of Empires, The Sims, and one of my favorites: The Movies.
The game was a The Sims clone, where the people was customisable, but it all was set on a back lot of a movie production studio. It was awesome, and I remembered discovering words like: "Salary". I just had to play the game. The only bad thing about the game was it took forever. It started in the early days of film making, and developed slowly towards the years of 2000, and the movie techniques got more advanced.
The next game I played was Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines. My first RPG-game. I was PG15 and my grandmother bought it to me. I new it was PG18 in Norway, but I loved vampires so much. It scared the hell out of me, but it was worth it.
This time the big challenge was to actually understand what my mission was. I have no idea how man words I learned playing that game, only so I could reach the end. It was amazing, and every time e beat the game I understood more and more.
The most influential movies for my vocabulary was the lord of the rings trilogy. I was blessed with fantasy and couldn't get enough of it. After watching the movie over, and over, and over again, it was the first English movie I could see without subtitles.
And after a while I could see Harry Potter without subtitles, and cartoon series and so on.
But that was just the reading part.
I feel I still have a lot to learn about the English language, but I hope I will evolve a lot after living in England the next 3 years (or maybe more)
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