Greetings earthlings, My name is Sachin Shastri. I welcome you all, to my blog. I am a student of PESIT...But enough about me , lets talk about you. Do you like movies, tv shows..? Do your senses tingle when you hear the word "bazinga" or "Legen...wait for it..diary" or "Winter is coming"? Is the address you know better than your house "P.sherman 42 wallaby sydney" ? Have you ever pointed your pencil towards a heavy object and gone "Wingardium Leviosa!" ? Did you watch the Miley Cyrus VMA performance , and realize that your palm is covering your face? Speaking about facepalms , Did you know, Ben Affleck is going to be the new batman in the upcoming films?(went too far,huh?) If any of these answers are yes, CONGRATULATION! YOU ARE A POP CULTURAL......LY aware person.
You thought I'd call you a Pop culture nerd.
WHO IS A POP CULTURE NERD?
A pop culture nerd is not one who just knows popular trivia. He is obsessed with it. A pop culture nerd is one who has probably seen the Star trek : Wrath of Khan 50+ times , cant emphasize more on the fact that HANS SHOT FIRST , never misses comic con, agrees that the Green Lantern movie was one of the worst things to ever hit the cinemas. They quote from various movies and shows ,almost all the time. They are also those people, who spend hours on 9gag and 4chan and trolling forums.
Ok yeah, so you can imagine they look like these guys.
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So why would anyone want to be a obsessed pop cultural maniac? Let me just give a few reasons why.
1) Life becomes much more AWESOME -
Remember the time , you first read/watched the Harry Potter series , or when you used to spend every evening at 5:00 ,watching Pikachu battle team rockets. Remember the magical feeling that would linger through out the day. Imagine how much more duller would life be if you never knew about Pokemon.
I don't care what you think this is. I am still going to use my masterball on this one.
It's not just how interesting these shows/movies were, life used to become much more better thanks to these shows. Every situation becomes better and easier to explain by just quoting a particular reference to a show. It makes life much more hysterical and amusing too.
Breaking bad and SouthPark fans would be laughing their ass out right now.
2) It actually makes you smarter (No really!)
You'd think that watching Breaking bad , playing God of War , and reading A song of Fire and Ice would have just made you more oblivous to violence and to the fact that your grades won't probably get you placed anywhere. You would have heard the never-ending ranting of how the idiot box is spoiling the children's minds and how everything they show on tv is useless garbage . Although , the last line is true to some extent( Has anyone seen the crappy cartoons they show on tv these day, ugh!!:( ) , most of it is bullshit!!
It is an obvious fact that the more you imagine, the larger is your perspective of thinking. The more movies you watch, the easier it is to imagine things, things like hypothetical scenarios or even contingency plans .
Hypothetical or a Contingency plan? You decide.
In most cases, it even improves your knowledge and verbal & social skills
This is NOT what I meant by "Knowledge"
3)It makes you a more interesting person-
Notice the difference between how Popular culture makes "Life interesting" and makes "You an interesting person". The difference is important . Alcohol makes your life interesting , but when you are hugging the commode and puking your guts out, you are not that interesting.
Pop culture -1 Jack Daniels- 0
Pop cultural nerds unlike other variations of nerds are almost always a lot of fun. Nobody really hates these guys. Also at the rate, at which media is influencing everyone , It is more socially acceptable to be one! Haven't you ever become instantly friends with someone because of a pink-floyd hoodie or a common hatred towards Joffrey/Justin Beiber/ Edward ? My friends impression of Danish Sait/ Kapil Sharma kills in parties! Your weird actions are more accepted to a fellow pop culture nerd. I find sending Troll faces much faster than explaining to my friend why his oreos taste like toothpaste or why he is getting messages from matrimonial sites.
This way, being a popular cultural nerd is AWESOME. This post is just to give an intro to explain what this blog is all about. I will now be only mostly posting things in pop culture that will BLOW YOUR mind.........LIKE THE TIME , BRUCE WAYNE'S MOM BECOMES JOKER AND HIS DAD BECOMES BATMAN!
OR WHEN THIS GUY
FIGHTS THIS GUY.
....AND MUCH MORE...SO STAY TUNED!!!
(Btw, I have just made this blog and I haven't really shared it with everyone , but if any of you are reading this , please +1 this. THANK YOU!!! :) )
Let's face it. If you are a 90's kid(the odds are high, that you are one) , you might have come to the realization that your childhood has come to an end. You no longer can cry aloud in a family function so that you can go home early , you can't enter a jumping castle without looking like a total 'tard , and its no longer acceptable to tell other people about your imaginary friends .
And all your favorite cartoons are gone and replaced with random crap.
Also, you(the smart ones , at least) must have realized that your entire childhood is pretty much a lie. The moon doesn't follow you , there are no little people inside the tv box and the story of how you were born, well it does NOT involve a stork.
But one of the biggest kicks "right in the childhood" is when people come up with insane theories on your favorite cartoons. There are plenty of theories , like the one where Aladdin is a story which takes place in the post -apocalyptic world or where Spongebob and all his friends are the product radiation from atomic testing during the ’40s and ’50s on the Bikini Atoll.
..and this kids is how Patrick Star was born.
...But of all the insane theories I have read , this one creep-ed me out the most.
ASH KETCHUM'S COMA
The thoery goes off like this -
"Have you ever noticed that the pacing, tone, and story development of Pokémon changes after Ash is hit by lightning in the early episodes? How Ash and his world are relatively normal until after that incident? I have a theory.
The accident with the bike put Ash into a coma. Days later, he was found and hurried to the hospital and treated with heavy medications. This is why Team Rocket became less menacing. The medication took effect and stabilized his coma dreams so that, instead of being terrifying, they became idyllic. They allowed him to live out his Pokémon Master fantasies.
After the beginning episodes, the series is the result of Ash’s subconscious mind fulfilling his desires as well as attempting to escape reality. Should Ash realize he’s in a coma, he would wake up and suffer brain damage, so he must take down all of his mental barriers one by one.
The idea of Pokemon world, where Ash is in coma and is hallucinating the entire show creeps me out everytime.
If he can do that, he can come to grips with who he is and escape his coma. Further evidence comes from the realization that even though his journeys take him vast distances, he never usually travels by bike due to having developed a phobia of them.
The coma and fantasy explains why he never changes much, physically. It explains the worldwide socialism, as he thought up a safe system of government that would run smoothly and keep the world going, allowing his adventures to work like they do.
It also explains how a child can go off on his own into a world full of dangerous and untamed animals. In addition, it explains why every town has the same police officer and every Pokémon Centre has the same nurse.
Your pokemon are fully Restored.Hope to see you again.
Also, We do not all really exist.
Joy and Jenny he knew from his hometown and they act as a safety net or anchor, allowing him to feel safe no matter where he goes. They represent stability. The professors represent Ash’s ideals, which is why Gary became a professor.
The fantasy also explains why every time he enters a new region that virtually no one has heard of him, despite his conquests. How else could Paul, the rival of the Sinnoh area, not know of someone who placed in at least the top sixteen of all three leagues and destroyed the Orange League and Battle Frontier?
Moving on to the characters closer to him…Ash’s traveling partners are aspects of himself he can enjoy but cannot associate with himself.
Brock is Ash’s repressed sexuality. Ash fell into the coma a virgin and, as such, needed an outlet for his growing sexual frustrations. However, since he can never experience sex, Brock must never succeed. Brock’s stay with Professor Ivy was an attempt by Ash’s mind to suppress his sexuality.
If ash can't have her, no one can.
Brock isn’t just a projection of Ash’s sexuality, but also a projection of Ash’s fatherly instincts. He leaves his siblings to journey with Ash because he can’t cope with having that much responsibility.
You may notice that James got much more dialogue in this part of the series, as well as getting more touchy-feely with his Pokémon and exposing much of his backstory. Ash didn’t enjoy this much, which is why Brock returns, horrified, and refuses to speak about it.
Ash’s subconscious was repressing him at the time so, other than a general feeling of dread, he has no idea what happened. Further evidence of Brock being Ash’s sexuality is that he keeps returning the series after Ash meets a new female aspect of himself.
Misty is the first such aspect we encounter. Because she is the first and is merely an aspect of Ash are explanations as to why Misty plays such a prominent role in the show but is ultimately unattainable (since he never really knew her before the coma).
Since Misty is his initial love interest (if only subconsciously), he needed her to reach a certain level of womanhood. He felt that people could only have relationships after they’ve matured.
In practice, however, he finds he can’t cope with it, as he lacks real-world experience. He wants the normal, pushy, arrogant Misty he knew…thus, not letting her keep Togepi. We can see this arc in the constant berating of his sexuality, but her eventual mellowing until she had faded into the background.
Since Ash was quite attached to her, this was traumatizing. After this experience, anyone around him “threatening” to mature quickly ends up leaving only for another, more naive fill-in to enter his life.
Gary Oak is what Ash wants to be. He is wish fulfillment. He succeeded and then settled down to a normal life. Ash needs someone to succeed in his world or he won’t be able to validate it and will start questioning why he is where he is. It’s a subconscious trap to keep him from becoming too aware of his situation.
His mind must have figured out that awareness of the coma would snap him out of it, so it took something the boy already loved and build a way out for him with it. However, Ash is too complacent to make a final stand and fight his way out of it, and cannot escape.
This is why he keeps encountering legendary Pokémon. They’re his mind’s way of showing him he can do great things if he tries. It’s a way to encourage him to push forwards.
Team Rocket are the qualities of himself that Ash deems “negative” but is coming to terms with. Jessie and James want to appease Giovanni, Ash’s father figure. To achieve this, Jessie will trick the submissive James into doing her bidding. Meowth especially wants to appease him because he remembers the good times with Giovanni.
This places Meowth in a category known as Ash’s (corrupted) innocence. This is apparent because Meowth is able to speak. In fact, the whole reason Meowth can speak is so Ash can eventually accept the aspects of Team Rocket as parts of himself.
Ash had issues with his father, so he put him atop the evil corporation and demonized him. There may be an actual Team Rocket (in the real world), but it’s doubtful that Ash’s father is their leader. Ash likely feels the split between his parents was partly his fault, but also partly blames his father.
The split caused his mother to move out of the city down to Pallet Town and is one reason why Ash initially embarks on his journey: to escape the turmoil at home. The whole organization, including Butch and Cassidy, is symbolic of his inability to escape his father’s machinations.
James is implied homosexuality (which does not necessarily make Ash homosexual) and gullibility, while Jessie is vanity and manipulation. Since Meowth has the potential for rehabilitation and doesn’t want to be evil, this once again fits with the conflicting personalities and demonized-self theory.
Team Rocket cross dresses because Ash is exploring his gender, a different facet than what Brock represents (sexuality), and this was a method that allowed his gay/vain side to experiment freely. When he found that it wasn’t something for him, he “free” side stopped playing with it.
ONE DISTURBING EPISODE. Wrong Ash ,Wrong!
Pikachu represents Ash’s humanity. This explains the episodes where they get separated and Ash desperately wants to find him, even to the point of working with Team Rocket (aspects of himself he would never normally associate with), but for some reason cannot.
Team Rocket wants to steal Pikachu and hand him over to Giovanni. Jessie and James will always oppose Ash because he is terrified of the thought of his humanity lying in the hands of his father. However, this is the same reason he will work with those aspects of himself in order to save his humanity.
Ash couldn’t evolve Pikachu because that would mean challenging his concept of who he was, which was something he wasn’t comfortable with while still working through his original issues.
The narrator is Ash’s higher mind, recapping and explaining the progress he’s made and the tribulations he will face, allowing insight into how to best awaken him.
Team Rocket’s methods gradually become more and more ludicrous because Ash is only a child dreaming these things up. That is why Team Rocket’s disguises are always believed. He knows it’s them (at least on a subconscious level), but chooses to ignore it so he can better himself.
(Finally an answer to our old childhood question - IS ASH RETARDED? )
In a sense, the Ash who wants to escape is sabotaging the Ash who wants to stay lost in his mind so that there can be more conflict and, hopefully, an eventual escape. The escape is a consequence of coming to terms with who he is. As mentioned previously, Team Rocket are a method to Ash to deal with grounds he’s uncomfortable with tackling on his own.
You may recall that early in the show, there were animals and references to animals. For example, the fish in the aquarium of the Cerulean City gym or that the Pokedex lists Pikachu as “rat-like.” These animals don’t matter to Ash’s psyche, so they don’t come into play much.
As he’s in the coma, he’s losing concepts of some animals and machinery and replacing them with Pokémon. It could explain things like electric Pokémon working as power generators; these are signs that his memory of the old world is slipping more and more as time goes by.
Ash- "This part of my coma is called "being stupid"."
The Pokémon in Ash’s team, however, serve the purpose of displaying his issues and aspects of himself. For example, Charmander represents his sex drive (not his sexuality, like Brock). At first it’s a cute, easy thing to control, but eventually becomes a raging inferno of disobedience since Ash has no real understanding of his sexuality (thus has no way to vent or keep it in check).
Bulbasaur was his unwillingness to change, reflected in when it declines to evolve and almost decided to stay behind unless he battled it. Squirtle was his willingness to follow the lead of others, as evidenced by the gang it ran with. Even though he ran the gang, they were viewed as one group and Ash’s subconscious gave him the strongest one.
Butterfree was his crushing loneliness, which he dealt with when he released it to join a flock. His bird types are his recklessness, always willing to sacrifice something at a moment’s notice for the win. When Ash is trading Pokémon, it’s an attempt to push his own problems away on someone else. However, he realizes this and usually trades back very quickly.
Admit it! All of this is suddenly starting to make a lot of sense.
Other trainers are more direct forms of his issues - ones he must either come to terms with or outright suppress. Gym leaders are more primary aspects of his personality, with each Pokémon being stronger than the last to display a level of skill he could only be capable of if he gave into it.
Ash releases his Pokémon because his mind is forcing him to get go of them. The second he raises an overpowered team, a tournament comes up and, after fighting his way through it, he has to go to a new land for new challenges. However, with an overpowered team, there won’t be any challenges or any way to motive him further.
The Pokémon realm will be idealized continuously the longer he has no stimulus from the real world. Ash may or may not be mentally deteriorating, but he is becoming more accustomed to his fake world’s rules. The wild Pokémon are his rationalizations for the functioning of his created fantasy. It’s the “a wizard did it” syndrome. If he doesn’t know how it works, his mind says Pokémon.
Ash Darwin Ketchum.
Mewtwo is a new form of treatment, done with electrical impulses and a machine to know Ash out of it, taking down every last one of his mental guards (the original Pokémon in the movie). In Ash’s mind, Mewtwo and his clones were (in the real world) the treatment for the mental safeguards that were protecting Ash and keeping him comatose: the Pokémon of his world.
The clones were counters to the issues Ash had thought solved and each appeared to Ash as the exact copy of his defence. The clones didn’t play by the rules of Ash’s world. They didn’t use any special attacks or moves. They just beat down their counterpart through brute strength. The treatment was working.
There were side effects. The electric jolts were beginning affect Ash’s nervous system. If the treatment continued, he would be paralysed. His mind manifested this in the dream world by petrifying him.
Were it not for the end of the treatment by Ash’s mother, who knew her son wouldn’t want to live in a world he couldn’t explore, Ash would have remained as stone forever.
So in a way, that's Ash in reality and Pikachu.... is his mom.
After this, Ash needed to recover from the damage caused by the electric therapy. In order to reduce the danger Ash’s consciousness felt from it, his subconscious began downplaying the effects in this world, which is why Pikachu’s electric attacks - once noted for their strength by Team Rocket - no longer have any effect on Ash, other than comic relief.
MEANWHILE IN THE REAL WORLD.......
As we can see, Ash may well have been trapped forever in this world. However, like every dream, like everything, there is a beginning and an end. What would happen if Ash never recovered?
In his hospital room, we see Delia, obviously distraught. She’s talking to a doctor with a grim look on his face. The man is saying their insurance is up and the boy has had no change in brain activity in years. The shock of taking him off life support has a very small chance of awakening him.
She tearfully agrees.
Back in Ash’s world, he has finally defeated the Elite four and, one by one, the people around him disappear. Eventually, everything is black. Pikachu comes dashing toward him, glowing brighter and brighter in the darkness. Eventually, he reaches Ash and the two embrace one last time.
In the hospital room, his life signs fading, Ash mutters his final words.
“I…want to be…the very…best…”
He will die never having known his dream, except as naught but a dream. When he came back to reality, he knew it all for the lie it was, knew it as his imagination. Knowing that all his efforts, ambitions, and friends were nothing, he will let go.
As he utters his final words, he barely opens his eyes and sees the silhouette of his mother, her face hidden by her hands wiping away tears. They make eye contact and one final realization fills him before he loses all strength.
He sees that his mother was holding out hope that he’d recover all that time. He sees her and finds that her hope had been broken as she’d come to the realization that she’d outlived her only child. He dies knowing that he is loved, but that it means the one person closest and most real to him is utterly crushed.
Still, there are other possibilities. The fountain of time flows in mysterious ways. One could not go back against the current, such as Gatsby. However, one could never see what is waiting for him downstream. Ash finally defeats Lance, only to be confronted by not Gary Oak, but a mute mirror image of himself.
The voice of the narrator speaks to him, telling him that now he can finally escape the prison of his own mind. One by one, his friends appear and melt away into more copies of himself, cheering him on. After a long, tough battle against himself with the assistance of all his Pokémon he had ever befriended, he jolts awake.
In his hospital room, he sees his parents, asleep. He finds himself unable to speak.
Ash pushes forward toward his recovery. He goes through physical therapy, training harder and harder with rehabilitative Pokémon until he can walk on his own again. This time, an older and wiser Ash sets out on a journey.
Just like last time, he’s late getting to Professor Oak’s laboratory. When there’s only one Pokémon left…he suddenly recalls all his memories of his “life” and realizes all his friends are gone forever.
As he sets out with his new companion, he finds the world is darker than he imagined. More “real.” Pokémon and people die. He, too, has aged.
I think I will just stay in the human world then.
He vows to become the Pokémon Master he dreamed he was. He vows to himself. He vows to “them.”
“I WILL be the very best!” "
So THAT is the thoery. I wonder if any of you have survived till the end of this story. I will be posting much more creepier stuff soon. But till then , Sayōnara & take care.
The butterfrees actually represent all of you leaving my blog.
Good night.
Hello again! Today I am going to post something related to my most favorite section of fiction. PARALLEL UNIVERSES IN POP CULTURE! There are always shows that show you how a small change can cause a big change in the future(butterfly effect). All of you must have heard of the multiverse theory. For those who don't...
Pretty much,sums it up.
So they are infinite universes. So what? So here I am going to talk about one epic movie(based on the comic) where a small change destroys the fabric of history which results in a totally different alternate universe!
Justice League FlashPoint Paradox Imagine a universe where Hal Jordan is not green lantern , Batman uses C4s , superman is a captive in the pentagon, Lex Luthor is the good guy , Bruce Wayne's mom is the joker and there is about to be World War 3 between the Atlanteans led by Aquaman and Amazons led by Wonder Woman and the whole world comes to an end , just because a speedster(Can you guess who?) changes a small thing in his past, to make his life better. Bam! This actually happened in the DC history. I present to you
In this universe , thanks to small change in the past creates a ripple effect. Here The bullet that kills Bruce Wayne's dad deflects a little and hits him instead . So Thomas Wayne is devastated and Angry , while Martha Wayne just goes insane and starts laughing.
I know,you know where I am going with this.
What else? The meteor that hit the road on the outskirts of Kansas just shifts a little ,and falls into Metropolis. In other words, Superman is now just a mere captive of the US government . The ring that picks Hal which makes him green lantern? Well it instead just flies of into space. What else? Almost entire Europe has sunk thanks to Aquaman and princess Diana has taken over Great Britain. They are on the verge of war, because Wonder woman has just beheaded Aquaman's wife Mira. The movie has also kids getting killed( Billy Batson) , Batman gambling and murdering people, and Flash having to choose between saving his mother's life or the world.(guess which he picks). Basically its one for the whole family.
Your face, when you read my sarcastic comments.
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