"Load and lock; let's rock!"
Score: 4/10
We begin in a ten year-old girl's bedroom, as she quietly moans to herself under the covers. Okay, Japan. Dawn is excited to begin her pokemon journey, telling her mother (who should already know all of this) that her dream is to become a top coordinator just like her. Like all people from cold, snowy regions, Dawn dressed slightly more conservatively than a lesbian vampire in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Well, at least the writers have established that Dawn is nothing like May. May, you see, is a klutzy ten year-old girl with a unique hat and a parent who’s well known for being an excellent pokemon trainer, who ultimately chose a pokemon based on a bird for her starter and had her bike destroyed by Ash.
Okay, so let's say you're a mother. Your daughter wants to go on an adventure, and packs a bag of what she considers to be only the most necessary of supplies. In the bag, you find a French Maid outfit.
If you’re a responsible mom, you tell your daughter that she’s not ready for this, go finish fifth grade first and then we’ll talk. If you're Dawn's mom, you tell her the French Maid outfit is a little unnecessary. What’s especially weird is that she gives Dawn a much a smaller backpack that clearly is too tiny to have a change of clothes. It’s like… what? Do you expect Dawn to wear one outfit for the next three or four seasons?
She gives Dawn her first championship ribbon, telling her it's a good luck charm, and Dawn asks what it is even though, as it's one of her mother's greatest trophies and she's intensely interested in pokemon coordination, she couldn't not already know what it is. Dawn sets off on her bike and almost immediately kills herself by running into a rock, but rides on, her mother silently telling herself that there's at least a chance Dawn won't get killed in the first week.
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Started: July 6, 2005