Ash Gets Stoned

This next post in my 30 Days of Tragedy Challenge borrows from my childhood and demonstrates that tragedy does not have to persist, it can even be undone just as fast as it first happens all that is really essential is that for one moment you feel the emotion and the connection with the characters depicted.

Pokémon was quite a phenomenon when I was growing up and it still holds such fond memories for me, not just through the anime but the games and the movies that went with it to form the complete Pokémon experience.  Perhaps it is the series that I followed and the character development spread across it that made me form the attachments I had to the characters.  Movies that take a series to the big screen have the advantage that much of the characters are pre-built and much of the expectations of the audience are engrained in the viewer long before they ever see the Movie.

The first Pokémon Movie I ever saw was 'Mewtwo Strikes Back' and my expectations from the series had me completely unaware and completely caught off guard of what would happen in the Movie.  In one key scene two powerful Pokémon are battling, Mew and Mewtwo and in their haste to destroy one another and in the haste of the series key protagonist Ash Ketchum and his desire to end the fighting, Ash inevitably becomes a casualty caught up in the cross fire.  Although the effect is short lived and soon reversed the Movie still provokes some reaction from me.