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After the previous Shudo post, I kept going through his blog because I got really into it, and also I'm dealing with insomnia. So it goes.
So there's a lot of telephone that kind of conflates Shudo's ideas near the end of his tenure in Pokemon. The T-Rex was his idea for the third movie that eventually turned into the Entei movie. It got turned down because Masakazu Kubo felt like the plot wouldn't be a hit, based on experience Kubo had in trying to make Bakusō Kyōdai Let's & Go!! a hit. He then wrote the Entei movie for his daughter, and struggled to come up with a fourth movie idea because he was already extremely ill. The idea he had for the fourth movie was the slave revolt idea, and he discarded it himself because at that point he understood that Pokemon was gonna be going forever and he couldn't do something that would ruin the Pokemon worldview. Somehow, in retellings, these two ideas got really badly conflated.
Reading to the end answered a major question I had about why there wasn't a series composer after Shudo until Diamond and Pearl. The answer was that Shudo said he'd keep writing scripts (which he did for a bit), and the staff wanted to keep the position open for him in case he returned (which he didn't). I guess by the end of AG, they understood Shudo wasn't returning ever, so Tomioka got the book. It is a far different sounding story than the idea that Shudo was forced out by TPC's corporatism. Also his last episode (that he never finished) was apparently going to be about Furret. So that's doubly sad.
