>>47625049>Can you expand on your Mew point?The gen 1 themes of cloning, DNA, and such have a lot of synergy with the idea of a mass extinction (which should be a huge deal), and this just clicked with me & got me thinking about things in a new way. Since there wasnt a whole franchise yet, mew/mewtwo/team rocket was the whole story and the animals' relation to pokemon might have had a larger role in introducing the world or character motivations and could have had story potential if the anime wanted to expand on it.
Mew being the "ancestor of pokemon" seems weightier. Is mew a step between animals and pokemon? If they successfully clone mew can they clone animals? These might be the wrong questions, but its feeling like just beyond my reach everything will click and come together. There's a powerful sense of mystery in the old story where the characters themselves are trying to figure things out, and it makes more sense and even has urgency if the pokemon aren't the same as animals and in fact came and drove them to extinction. It makes mew out more blatantly as a "missing link" sort of thing that would unlock the answers.
I'm probably not explaining myself well because desu I'm not exactly sure what I'm driving at. I'm just sort of open ended wondering about what could have been or if anyone was going to connect the dots more (seems shudo had some plans but I might be reaching), these things could connect in 1000 different ways.