Oranges of Speciousness

A while back, I considered making a website made from the perspective of someone reviewing Pokemon episodes that he last saw ten years ago and marveling at the oddness of it all... along the lines of those excellent Saved by the Bell reviews. It didn't come to much, but I wrote about five or six of these things (the first few episodes plus a couple from Johto), and they're just sitting on my hard drive, so I might as well post the buggers here.

So yeah. Here is the first.
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So! Aloe, then...

I probably should have expected no less from a fandom that genuinely believed the forthcoming games' names would be changed from Black and White to avoid accusations of racism. But the degree of overreaction to the reveal of the series' first black character has astonished even my jaded self.

As far as I'm aware, nobody so far has said "I think Aloe is racist". But plenty of people seem to be convinced that everyone else will find Aloe racist, and ...