so, team rocket

i'm finally getting around this! so a few posts ago, i mentioned that i never really got team rocket and whatever they were about. well, i'm currently on bulbapedia and it's starting to make sense to me now. from their page:

Team Rocket (Japanese: ロケット団 Rocket-dan, literally Rocket Gang) is an organized crime syndicate in pursuit of evil and exploitation of Pokémon based in the Kanto and Johto regions with a small outpost in the Sevii Islands.
While its main focus is stealing or capturing, then selling, rare and strong Pokémon, it also funds and conducts cruel experimental research on Pokémon.

and that is right in line with everything they do in the games. at first i couldn't think of a time that they were selling pokemon, but then i remembered how you could get pokemon as prizes in the game corner. and then there was the whole thing in azalea town with the slowpoke tails. so it all comes together.

but then you have the anime, where Jessie, James, and Meowth have spent years trying to steal Ash's pikachu, while occasionally trying to steal some other pokeom along the way. i know there is the whole rest of the team (like Butch and Cassidy), but why did Giovanni have a three person team made solely for stealing pikachu? is he really that special? (pikachu is a he, right?)

but either way, they're still a pretty interesting group. i mean, so far they are the only criminal group to appear in more than one region and they got themselves together after their leader gave up on them. that's pretty admirable, even if they do steal pokemon...

mood: normal
listening to: spongebob