There’s a lot of legendary stories that pretty much ruin each other, the Arceus vs. Mew thing being the biggest one, but what about Groudon/Kyogre and Regigigas? I personally don’t like the whole “pulled the continents apart” so I refuse to acknowledge its existence. What would you do with that story if you were in charge of all that?

Hrm. I don’t think there necessarily has to be a conflict between the two; we can assume that Groudon raised a single Pangaea-like landmass out of the ocean while Regigigas was responsible for dragging the continental plates into their present positions. Basically, Groudon and Kyogre are primordial beings, while Regigigas is from a more recent era. Alternatively, though, since I don’t think we’ve ever seen direct evidence of Regigigas’ power, you could suggest that “towing continents” is a simple exaggeration. After all, the image of Regigigas running around the face of the planet, dragging India a few metres northward before nipping off to shove the two halves of North America a few metres closer together, is just a little bit absurd.

I think my first assumption, if I wanted to keep the continent-towing, would be that there are multiple Regigigas, dragging multiple plates in multiple directions and often working at cross-purposes (hence earthquakes and such). The second would probably be that they didn’t come to exist until long after Groudon and Kyogre went to sleep. They’re not elemental forces in the same way that Groudon and Kyogre are; they don’t drive continental drift for the sake of continental drift. Rather, they generally have some reason or another for dragging a continent – moving it to a warmer or cooler region of the planet, or further away from a rival Regigigas.

With regards to genesec’ts current reveal i’m curios to know what you think of the theory he is a kabutops just modified. as kabuto (and 99% likely kabutops) lived 300 Million years ago according to the pokedex and genesect is a heavily modified hunter from 300 Million years ago odds are they could be related. Keep in mind plasma… who made genesect… are unova based and might not be aware of a pokemon roaming kanto.

Well, my normal position on a lot of theories like this (Cubone is an orphan Kangaskhan, Gengar is Clefairy’s shadow, you killed your rival’s Raticate, etc) is that I think they’re a lot of fun and, if they’re consistent with the evidence, I would probably roll with them if I were writing a fan fic or something just because they add extra details to the world, but I just don’t think there’s enough there to demonstrate that the creators intended for us to make those connections. I guess then you get into Death of the Author stuff, but that still makes my head spin, so let’s not go there.

Anyway this theory.

I was going to say that Genesect was a jungle Pokémon originally, but I can’t remember where I read that now, so I suppose I may have just made it up… still, I am bothered that Genesect has no water-related abilities at all (aside from the Water Techno Blast), since Kabutops is primarily an aquatic Pokémon. The Pokédex does suggest that Kabutops was a transitional state in the adaptation of a species of Pokémon to life on land, though, so I’d be happier suggesting that Genesect was a descendant of Kabutops who’d more fully committed to a terrestrial lifestyle (I don’t think Kabutops’ age ever has been specified, actually; he could well be older than Genesect).

As for Genesect being a Unova Pokémon and Kabutops a Kanto Pokémon… well, do remember we’ve got 300 million years of continental drift (or… Kyogre/Groudon antics… or Regigigas towing landmasses around… or whatever) to account for. Kanto and Unova could well have been neighboring regions once. The workers at Twist Mountain find remains of all the known fossil Pokémon, so I have to assume Kabutops did in fact exist in Unova at some point.

I can understand how you think Dialga is a lot better than Registeel, as it is based on something significant in our society. According to Wikipedia, it seems to be based on the personification of the Iron Age. It may not be as interesting as time, but it does have its significance in reality. Regardless of this, would you change your opinion if Registeel was based on something more intersting, or had a rich historical significance?

Oh, I think Registeel and its siblings are actually doing pretty well on that front. I may have given the impression that I was more dismissive than I really am when I did Registeel vs. Dialga – really, it was just late at night and I didn’t want to rehash what I’d just said about Regice.

I actually really like the concept. I’ve just never been happy with the execution.

I think conkeldurr looks like a clown cause he’s supposed to be like a circus strongman. That’s why he has the nose thing. It really doesn’t come across that well, though.

(For reference, this comment is in response to one of my older entries: http://pokemaniacal.tumblr.com/post/17760667917/timburr-gurdurr-and-conkeldurr)

That… would make sense. I suppose if that is what they were aiming for then Conkeldurr is… shall we say… less awful than I made him out to be.

I still think the whole clown thing makes him look unbelievably stupid, and I still think they haven’t really done anything with it – that is, if you take away the clown noses and the funny hair, it would do nothing but improve the design; he has no traits or abilities that would stop making sense without them (I mentioned Mr. Mime in the entry, and you might make a comparison with him; his powers are way more specific than “this Pokémon is physically strong” – do you see what I mean?).

So, yeah. I still hate Conkeldurr, but I hate him less now. Good job. 🙂