Well said.
So onto the most mysterious of mysteries, WHO ARE THOSE TWO RED AND BLUE MASKED SUPERHEROES?! The world may never know...
Nah, let's talk about Entralink and the Dream World. Specifically, what is it? A mysterious dimension that pokemon can hail from, with connections to other parallel Unova's, and it contains a little house and garden for you :).
Still, the entire Dream World is just bizarre in how it fits with the series. Like, is it a dimension like the Distortion World, or is it all in their heads? Do Darkrai and Cresselia have any power over it? If not, then why Musharna of all pokemon? Are your pokemon just getting high on "dream smoke"?What happened to the Dream World since the shutdown? Is Fennel (and other researchers) broke now?
Well like always, I have a couple theories borrowed from other games.
1. Entralink is the Pokemon version of the Velvet Room. For those not familiar, the Velvet Room is a place in the Persona series, resided by an old man named Igor and his various attendants. The Persona series is founded heavily by Tarot (fortune telling) and Jungian psychology, and the Velvet Room is said to exist between the real world and the realm of the collective unconscious. Hard to sum up without a whole game speech with a psych lecture, but in function it's a place where you can summon legendary figures, demons, and angels from the depths of your mind to fight for you. Has a lot of parallels with the Entralink, mainly both are in-between one world and another, presided by an Old Man and his attendants, give you monsters to fight for you (and items sometimes), and is (mostly) only accessible by the protagonist. I always found it odd that the Entralink is hardly ever mentioned in-game, and only accessible via warping.
2. Entralink is the Outrealm Gate. This one is from Fire Emblem Awakening, the Outrealm Gate is a gate to various parallel worlds. In these you can fight (and recruit) copies of various legendary heroes called Einherjar, which differ from the real deals in that they are almost a summarized version of the real deal (and you summon them through cards... no wonder that PersonaxFireEmblem cross is in the works...). There are some notable exceptions (you recruit a certain older brother of a character whose explicitly not an Einherjar but an alternate reality version of the "prime" one) but basically the Outrealm Gate is like the Velvet Room but with alternate dimensions instead of links to the collective unconscious. Still this difference is significant, in that its the dividing line between believing that the Dream World is it's own dimension merely "accessed" by dreaming, or if it is a product of a Pokemon's mind but with the capability of becoming real.
What do you guys think?