>>53256242I watched a bit more of this video and one thing that really is pissing me off is that it talks about the motif around Ho-Oh and Lugia, or what they represent, and everyone at Game Freak says "day and night" or "light and shadow" and even "it's time-related" and all of those are so fucking lame and superficial, if not downright wrong, when you consider the deeper themes at play here for half a second. In the legends, Lugia fled to the sea after conjuring (perhaps accidentally, going by its G/S and R/S/E dex entries) a destructive storm which destroyed the Brass Tower, killing the three unknown Pokemon. Lugia did this seemingly to hide itself away so that it couldn't harm others again. Ho-Oh, on the other hand, saw the burning tower and resurrected those unknown Pokemon, transfiguring them into the beasts we know them as today. It carries the Sacred Ash, an item that fully revives a trainer's entire team of Pokemon. It's a fucking phoenix for god's sake.
The theme is clearly meant to be death and life, or death and rebirth, and it's both infuriating and depressing that these guys have completely forgotten about it. It's not incredibly deep, but it's more subtle than most writing in this series and it's disappointing to see it memory holed.
