Entry 8

Yo!

Welcome to May. April showers are finally over, making room for the flowers we in rain-ravaged eastern Virginia could really use, for a refreshing change of pace. It's about 6 weeks left until the kids get to start summer vacation, and 4 days left until Mission Impossible 3 is released! All that aside, I have yet another Pokemon announcement to make: I have seen the future. And I am freakin' terrified. This past Saturday, the WB finally aired the big 10th anniversary Pokemon special with the new, non-4Kids Entertainment voiceover cast that'll be on permanently in September. They reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally could've done better here. Half the voices make their characters sound way too old, the other half makes them sound like they're actually squeezing out hemmorhoids as they record the voices. Pretty much what I expected.

On top of that, last week, Kids WB revealed their Fall 2006 schedule--- with no, I repeat, NO POKEMON IN SIGHT! Don't believe me? ToonZone's got the whole story at http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=10281. Sorry, folks. My link-embedder's acting up this week. Anyway, supposedly, Kids' WB won't renew the show for their network in the fall without the original crew, so rather than accept the inevitable takeover, they're putting the whole show under the guillotine blade. Rumor has it, The Pokemon Company is in talks to continue the show with season 9 on Cartoon Network, but since those exact same plans never worked out (U.S.-wise) with Pokemon Chronicles (yes, there was a spinoff. Click HERE for more), it's safe to say this is the end of the road for one of the most enduring anime franchises in the history of time. Which leads me to have to sum things up with the following imaginary gravesite:

Veronica Taylor
Maddie Blaustien
Eric Stuart
Rachel Lillis
Ikue Otani
Adam Blaustein
Dan Green
Ted Lewis
Stan Hart
Megan Hollingshead
Amy Birnbaum
Lisa Ortiz
.....and the ENTIRE Pokemon voice cast and crew; basically the entire Pokemon show as we know it

-------1998-2006-------

Epitaph: "Thanks for 8 great years. You will be missed."

And now, a moment of silence, in honor of those little creatures that impacted the childhoods of so many, this generation.














..........................................Thank you. (*sniff...) I'm sorry, world. I'm just really choked up about this devastating loss. A lot more than an 18-year-old guy should be about a cartoon. But that's just m--- Oh crap, I still can't believe it's actually biting the dust!!! (*briefly sheds a few tears and struggles to hold back more) (*sniffs again) Forget it. I gotta go, world. See you next Monday, 7pm.

-D.