Board 8 > Netflix making live-action Pokemon series

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XIII_rocks
07/26/21 1:35:26 PM
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Zigzagoon
07/26/21 1:59:20 PM
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Sorozone
07/26/21 2:03:39 PM
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Could be ok? Has a decent showrunner attached.

I'll also wait to see how One Piece turns out first.

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GuessMyUserName
07/26/21 2:04:34 PM
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hell yeah

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Mac Arrowny
07/26/21 2:14:44 PM
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As long as they make it about a Pokemon trainer it should be alright? Focusing on other stuff is probably why Detective Pikachu was less successful than it could've been.
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masterplum
07/26/21 2:19:25 PM
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Is this going to be detective Pikachu or more like an agents of shield.

The latter sounds amazing. The former ehhhhhhh

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Nanis23
07/26/21 2:26:55 PM
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Well...Detective Pikachu worked. I mean it was mostly Ryan Raynolds that made the movie what it was, but it worked

Mac Arrowny posted...
As long as they make it about a Pokemon trainer it should be alright?
Just don't follow Goh, it would suck

Also Serebii is skeptical, but he always is
https://twitter.com/JoeMerrick/status/1419719752004550663

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Lightning Strikes
07/26/21 2:30:47 PM
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It could be good. Just do a RBY adaptation with a town of the week structure and you have a good basis for a TV season.

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XIII_rocks
07/26/21 2:47:48 PM
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Mac Arrowny posted...
As long as they make it about a Pokemon trainer it should be alright? Focusing on other stuff is probably why Detective Pikachu was less successful than it could've been.

I think there's an "animal fighting" problem with this. I think that's why Detective Pikachu sold battles as illegal and underground and if you tried to consistently sell live-action Pokemon fights between animals captured by trainers as this normalised, fun thing there might be a problem. There's a chance that doing it "live action" rather than a cartoon crosses an...uncomfortable line.

Maybe not, maybe people will just go with it, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to see them steer clear.

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Forceful_Dragon
07/26/21 2:51:08 PM
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I think as long as it's clear that Pokemon a happy participants that can be avoided.

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kevwaffles
07/26/21 3:03:25 PM
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Tbf if dogs could breathe fire and rats could shoot electricity we'd probably be okay having them fight irl.
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redrocket
07/26/21 3:20:46 PM
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Forceful_Dragon posted...
I think as long as it's clear that Pokemon a happy participants that can be avoided.

This feels like it stretches suspension of disbelief no matter what you do.

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red13n
07/26/21 3:22:49 PM
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kevwaffles posted...
Tbf if dogs could breathe fire and rats could shoot electricity we'd probably be okay having them fight irl.
We'd probably just all be dead.

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GuessMyUserName
07/26/21 3:26:21 PM
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tbf wasn't illegal pokebattles pointed out as a uniqueness of the Detective Pikachu city

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XIII_rocks
07/26/21 3:36:50 PM
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GuessMyUserName posted...
tbf wasn't illegal pokebattles pointed out as a uniqueness of the Detective Pikachu city

Oh for sure, but by doing that they managed to make it a non-issue in that specific movie

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tcaz2
07/26/21 7:48:54 PM
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redrocket posted...
This feels like it stretches suspension of disbelief no matter what you do.
I mean that's literally the explanation from the games and people seem okay with it enough for it to be the largest entertainment franchise in the entire world by a very large amount

If that actually is a problem its a really, really dumb one.
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redrocket
07/26/21 9:43:16 PM
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tcaz2 posted...
I mean that's literally the explanation from the games and people seem okay with it enough for it to be the largest entertainment franchise in the entire world by a very large amount

If that actually is a problem its a really, really dumb one.

Games =/= live action TV.

Even anime =/= live action TV

People are more willing to just turn their brains off and accept a dumb premise in those mediums, especially games, where the story is only part of the draw. But something about seeing a fictional world portrayed in a photorealistic manner makes people question things a lot harder.

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Grand Kirby
07/26/21 9:49:57 PM
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Probably could work if they presented it as a full on sport, maybe similar to the gym battles in SwSh, or like in Pokemon Unite. Have no random unsanctioned battles in the field, and give the Pokemon the more human-like personality that shows they're super in to it (which is basically what they have in the anime anyway).

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Mac Arrowny
07/26/21 9:56:12 PM
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redrocket posted...
People are more willing to just turn their brains off and accept a dumb premise in those mediums, especially games, where the story is only part of the draw. But something about seeing a fictional world portrayed in a photorealistic manner makes people question things a lot harder.

You think this will have photorealistic Pokemon...?
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Raka_Putra
07/26/21 10:00:44 PM
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Or make it about contests, which are the best Pokmon activity after battling.

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redrocket
07/26/21 10:01:51 PM
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Mac Arrowny posted...
You think this will have photorealistic Pokemon...?

If its (presumably) like Detective Pikachu, thats close enough.

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Mac Arrowny
07/26/21 10:12:48 PM
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This won't have anywhere near as high a budget as DP.
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XIII_rocks
07/26/21 10:14:46 PM
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Yeah like "photorealistic" might be the wrong word but "more realistic" is better

When battles did happen in DP, Pokemon were either controlled by the red stuff, or the human mind had taken over as in the end where Reynoldschu fought Nighytwo. Actual "Blastoise use Hydro Pump!"-type-battles weren't shown.

I think there's a big reason for that. The difference in medium does, or will, matter to some people. And people will respond with "but it's been like this for 25 years" but by then the show is already mired in controversy before even being released.

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Mac Arrowny
07/26/21 10:20:07 PM
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XIII_rocks posted...
The difference in medium does, or will, matter to some people. A

Do you have any evidence to back you up? Any at all? There's been plenty of movies with CGI animals in live action that have fighting that people still like (Sonic being the most recent one).
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Paratroopa1
07/26/21 10:24:43 PM
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Hot take: Pokemon battles are stupid anyway
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XIII_rocks
07/26/21 10:25:22 PM
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OK jesus I'm sorry: I think the difference will matter to some people.

I also don't think the Sonic example is valid. We're talking here about capturing animals against their will and forcing them to fight. Sonic wasn't forced to do anything: he basically had human intelligence, made his own choices, etc.

It has always been an underlying problem with the franchise that it's sort of got away with because they're mostly weird cartoons. I don't think it gets away with that so easily in a live-action medium. But hey, maybe I'm wrong?

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redrocket
07/26/21 10:35:05 PM
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Sonic is not even close to the same thing.

Pokemon is literally fantasy cockfighting/dogfighting.

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Punnyz
07/26/21 11:54:07 PM
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Detective Pikachu was alot of fun, consider me interested

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