08/10/2010: Goofs
In one of my ever-classic moments of working on everything except what people actually want me to be working on, I randomly made the Goofs and Inconsistencies page I mentioned off-handedly a while ago that I wanted to make. Hopefully it will amuse some of you.If you remember more goofs that I didn't just fix, by all means point them out.
Yes, I've been writing the chapter too. I know progress is slow, but I've had work and friends taking up a lot of my time.
COMMENTARY DONE
Comments
Sands Buisle (08/10/2010 11:53:17)
Is it just me, or was it I that pointed out Mist's backstory and the HM reusability contrdicted themselves?
Me first.
Butterfree (08/10/2010 12:34:05)
Probably.
Scytherian Poetry (08/11/2010 10:01:23)
That first was completely unnessecary. Besides, Butterfree was first.
I actually haven't noticed any of those, goofs. I'm gonna tetras the entire thing and go goof spotting.
b_l_minu (08/11/2010 14:40:00)
Does the Racko-son-of-Ash's-Grovyle thing count as an inconsistency?
Negrek (08/11/2010 14:43:13)
Oh God, the pokéball send-out light thing. I've always written it as white to send out, red to recall, since I remember it quite clearly from the anime. But lately it seems that everyone is writing it as red-red instead, in ASB as well as in fanfiction. I've gotten really paranoid that either I'm insane or for some reason they changed the color in later anime seasons.
I don't understand why it's such a common mistake. Even in the games the send-out color for a basic pokéball is white…
Butterfree (08/11/2010 15:39:17)
Does the Racko-son-of-Ash's-Grovyle thing count as an inconsistency?Hm. Well, not quite, since I didn't actually mess up there - it was a Grovyle at the time I wrote that, and it's not like I'm listing every time the characters don't use obvious fourth-generation moves in chapters written before Diamond and Pearl came out - but it's still inconsistent with the current facts. Maybe I should just go fix it in the chapter to get rid of this dilemma.I don't understand why it's such a common mistake. Even in the games the send-out color for a basic pokéball is white…Yeah, it's kind of puzzling. I was completely confident it was always red until after I'd double-checked some clips. Maybe it's just some psychological mix-up due to the similarity of the sendout light to the more memorable white light of evolution? It could be that the association in the brain is just "white light = evolution, red light = Pokéballs" unless you've been paying special attention to the color of the Pokéball light.
Sands Buisle (08/11/2010 17:23:01)
I'm not sure if its a coincidence or not (not that anybody here can me tell if it is), but the colors of the pokeball are the same as its sendout/recall colors (the basic pokeball).
Pure Umbreon (08/16/2010 20:22:09)
Huh… sorry I am late to the party but have been on a week and a half vacation this week… the only one of these goofs I have noticed was the Ariados having six legs thing. The rest went totally unnoticed by me.
Quinn2 (08/25/2010 00:08:31)
@Butterfree
You did mention the white send-out light was part of your theory on how pokeballs work. Do you have this theory written up somewhere?
Butterfree (08/25/2010 00:43:39)
@ButterfreeNo, not yet. It basically revolves around Pokémon's genetic material being able to spontaneously construct the Pokémon in a process that emits a bright white light, and this being what is happening during both hatching, evolution and Pokéball sendout.
You did mention the white send-out light was part of your theory on how pokeballs work. Do you have this theory written up somewhere?