Okay so spr srs post in eof here.
Admittedly my "Pokemon fans are retards" comment could be seen as offensive. I thank Castiel for pointing out (also side note Castiel is like one of the better members/Pokefans here, just sayin'). What I meant is that Pokemon caters to an audience (aka a younger audience) who doesn't understand narrative and character design. And quite honestly the writers really can't write otherwise, I would go as far as to say they are bad writers because there are children's shows that can provide a more shallow experience for children and a deeper one for adults. I don't mean shallow negatively here, I mean that they won't drown in all this complex hoopla. A good example would be like Adventure Time, where children get funny moments, goofy characters, and creative designs, while adults can appreciate the more complex lore and overarching stories. Also a good example is Avatar, where children get great action and cool characters while adults will recognize the more complex themes and character development. Pokemon is not that.
EDIT: For the record I had a pretty nice discussion over this whole thing (not in a serious manner of course but laughing at it) at a New Year's Party with some friends (yes Gahars included). Even though Gahars and I were the only two GBAtempers here everyone else laughed pretty hard at Black-Ice's butthurtness. We also even got to a somewhat lengthy discussion on Pokemon as a whole. Yes the parties I go to usually involve people talking about dumb shit.
But I think everyone is getting incredibly fucking butthurt over goddamn Pokemon. Like seriously, grow a fucking pair. It's not like I said something racist, sexist, homophobic, anything remotely offensive to a real aspect of a person unless Pokemon makes up a great deal of your personhood, in which case you are a sad, sad individual. I get my game tastes called shit all the time. Both here, even by my friends, but I don't give a fuck. Here's an example. I'm really psyched for Metal Gear Rising. A friend of mine (also of Gahars, he can attest to this) thinks the game is dumb weaboo bullshit that looks fucking awful and only retards like it. He tells me this time and time again. But do I get all buttmad and start crying profusely when he brings this up? No, I chuckle and say "Well he throws a fucking Metal Gear man," he says a witty retort, we laugh and nothing about our friendship changes. Why? Because we're fucking adults who don't get offended over goddamn video games.
tl;dr: Admittedly I was a bit offensive but it's fucking Pokemon and if you get offended over it then grow the fuck up.