^_^ Every time I get a Lucki review, I laugh happily for several minutes

[farla]

Good lord, it's... it's some bizarre combination of solid writing and horribly foot-plodding SI trainer 'fic

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[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

The Blue Orb bit is actually canon - each group steals the opposite color orb, meaning it's quite plausible that the group's plans might have worked if they hadn't been utter idiots who somehow thought the red orb controls Kyogre and the blue orb controls Groudon. Although for anyone that dumb, it's unlikely the rest of their plan would have gone any better. Seriously, they're color coded. Getting that wrong means you're terminally incompetent and the rest of your plan is probably riddled with similar mistakes.

Have I told you that I adore you? I despise Team Aqua and Team Magma, and that's a hilariously succint way of describing them. As one of my friends put it, "There's no real menace there. If they're too stupid to notice the OBVIOUS flaws in their plans, they're too stupid to act on them competently." Of course, I think that friend was probably grossly underestimating the destructive power of stupidity...

[farla.livejournal.com]

I tend to see them as a doomsday cult. And not the sciency doomsday cult they're pretending to be, but one of the weird ones that's following some ancient half-translated book and stifles free thought among the cult members.

I mean, Team Magma, the guys hanging out around volcanoes and intending to bake the world into submission, wear heavy sweaters. You've got to be pretty weird to willingly choose that as your dress code. And Aqua is made up of pirate cosplayers or else run by someone with a pirate fetish, I'm not sure. (...and I've just figured out their real reason for wanting to expand the oceans.)

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

Once again, your interpretation is way more interesting and appropriate than the canon one. I mean, ecoterrorists can be stupid, but not that stupid. And I can't say I've ever heard of them favoring one sort of animal over another, except for the humans < all other animals bit, and that's getting more into Manga!EliteFour territory.

[farla.livejournal.com]

I think that they're actually supposed to be pro-human, although they might be pro-everything (I should replay the games). Magma wanted to expand the land so there'd be more places for people to live, and Aqua wanted to expand the ocean because the ocean can support more life and that would help people, I think. (From a technical standpoint, humans generally do quite well on small islands surrounded by fish, so it's less completely insane than it first appears.)

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they are pro-human, but they do play favoritism with pokémon, as they talk about wanting to help them, too. Either that, or they're just too stupid to realize that any sort of global environmental change will inevitably hurt some species, even it does help others.

[farla.livejournal.com]

As Team Aqua didn't seem to realize that eternal cloudcover would have a few repercussions beyond enlarging the ocean, my money is on "too stupid".

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I was just thinking. "Never ascribe to malice what can be attributed to ignorance" is pretty much Team Aqua and Team Magma's tagline.