MGR is going to be 40% doing stuff and 60% cutscenes where you will think "Wow, I wish I could do that in actual gameplay" and you are kidding yourself if you think otherwise.
I tried doing a Pokemon marathon a while back and I couldn't make it past Johto - it became way too formulaic. Some episodes were just dreadful to watch, especially when Team Rocket shows up. I might try again, this time skipping the filler episodes.
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mnkboy907 posted... Ash's Sinnoh team is not leaving much of an impression yet.
Well, he only has five pokemon right now, and one of them is Pikachu.
GTRagnarok posted... I tried doing a Pokemon marathon a while back and I couldn't make it past Johto - it became way too formulaic. Some episodes were just dreadful to watch, especially when Team Rocket shows up. I might try again, this time skipping the filler episodes.
There are a few good filler episodes here and there, though. But yeah, I barely survived Johto. Hoenn is better, and Sinnoh seems to be... strange. There's a ton of filler, but it's not as bad as Johto filler, so okay.
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Ill-Will Hunting! "Alright J, this time, no mercy! I'm putting an end to all your bad stuff!" Score: 7/10
I know he's ten and all, but come on. No one deserves money for writing that line. You actually deserve to have some money removed from your wallet, in fact.
The heroes are at Mount Coronet and discover a Shieldon. Before anything more can happen, some dune buggies show up! That's right, it's J again! Or rather, her flunkies. Ash quickly tells Pikachu to lose to a Golbat (which it does), but before the heroes can continue to get their asses kicked, Gary shows up. His Electivire (which I guess has taken over as his main pokemon from Umbreon?) stops J's men, who I guess don't bother to chase the heroes as they run away even though they own a dune buggy and the heroes own several nice pairs of sneakers.
Gary is studying the Shieldon native to this area and acting like they’re not a super rare extinct pokemon, and is working with Professor Rowan to turn this area into a nature preserve. He calls Rowan, who tells him to take the Shieldon and meet him in a nearby canyon to avoid the hunters. Just as the heroes decide to leave, J's men show up again, so Electivire takes the Shieldon while Pikachu and Gary's Blastoise and Umbreon stop the hunters. The hunters' wild attacks anger some wild Beedrill, so the heroes take the opportunity to run away. Gary is only concerned with protecting the Shieldon, not stopping the hunters, which Ash dislikes but is forced to agree to.
J's men radio her hovership, so she sends out more hunters to the area to surround the area of the forest she knows the heroes are in and make it impossible to escape without being either Batman or Solid Snake. Ash wants to just fight their way out, but Gary tells him that he's a dumbass. After Brock, Dawn, and Pikachu tell Ash that Gary is right and also extremely sexy, Gary laments that stealth isn't an option, but that trying to fight could end up with the Shieldon hurt. Yes, Gary is concerned that a pokemon -- that can be easily healed -- with super high defenses might be hurt if they stay on the sidelines while he and Ash fight the hunters.
Well, despite all of that, Gary still finds a route for the heroes to take. J comes out of her hovership, and she and her hunters wonder where the heroes are when they spy Rowan's jeep, and to my surprise, Rowan actually called Officer Jenny to accompany him on her motorcycle. Ridiculous, I know, that someone would involve the police when thieves are involved.
Ridiculous because J owns a goddamned hovership. Even if Officer Jenny was competent, and she’s not, J is a little out of her pay grade. You need the National Guard for something like this. Calling Officer Jenny to deal with an invisible hovership that can shoot lasers is like calling for Wolverine to fight Superman. I guess you could do worse, I mean, I’m sure Officer Jenny can probably put up a better fight than Professor Rowan can, but it’s still not really enough.
J determines the heroes’ most likely location based on where Rowan is heading (proving once again that she is definitely the most competent character on this show), and she and her Salamence appear.
The last time Ash and J fought, her Salamence kicked his Pikachu's ass easily, so Ash has Pikachu attack her. No, not her Salamence. Her. And she defends herself well enough to get out her Drapion, which quickly defeats Pikachu. Still, Gary and Ash slow her down while Brock, Dawn, and the Shieldon escape. Sadly, however, J manages to turn one of the Shieldon to stone and escape.
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Ash and Gary climb onto the dune buggy J places the statue in. J can't leave the forest yet because her client wants to pick up it here in his private helicopter (?), so Ash sends Staravia to find Rowan and the others.
Ash and Gary sneak onto J's hovership and wreck the place up to cause a distraction, then they run out and steal back the Shieldon... Normally I would assume that one of them would make a distraction and the other perform the rescue, but okay, I guess. J is about to battle them for Shieldon when her client, upon learning that Officer Jenny is on her way, decides to leave, she realizes there's no point to fighting them even though she could easily score a super rare Shieldon. And, I mean... ****, what could Officer Jenny do to her anyway? She doesn't even have a gun. At best, she sometimes has a Growlithe.
Rowan and the others arrive, pick up the Shieldon, and depart, and Jenny promises to start an investigation into J even though her actions were already known and the entire Japanese government should be scrambling to stop her. I mean, hell, imagine if a criminal in real life somehow got control of a US Navy ship, a vehicle that is actually less versatile than J’s hovership. The entire military would do everything in its power to track it down and never stop.
Well, in any case, this was a decent episode, but not as good as J’s debut. As before, J is what makes the episode.s
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After Brock, Dawn, and Pikachu tell Ash that Gary is right and also extremely sexy
Heh, what? I don't remember that...
Yes, Gary is concerned that a pokemon -- that can be easily healed -- with super high defenses might be hurt if they stay on the sidelines while he and Ash fight the hunters.
Heh heh.
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GenesisSaga posted... After Brock, Dawn, and Pikachu tell Ash that Gary is right and also extremely sexy
Heh, what? I don't remember that...
Yes, Gary is concerned that a pokemon -- that can be easily healed -- with super high defenses might be hurt if they stay on the sidelines while he and Ash fight the hunters.
Heh heh.
Well obviously Dawn doesn't think he's sexy.
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A Maze-Ing Race! "We're blasting off agaaaaiiiin! ... But this is only Act 1!" Score: 4/10
The heroes have reached a pokemon center where Dawn hopes to get a new app for her Poketch. Sadly, that particular app is only offered at the pokemon center on the other side of the woods, and that giveaway is over at five o'clock tonight. The heroes rush away, hoping to get there in time because apparently Japan isn’t technologically advanced enough to let you download apps using the internet.
They run into a disguised Team Rocket, who tell them that there's a cave through the mountain that can get them to the other side quickly, but there's a maze at the end. Fortunately, James just so happens to have a map (that isn’t accurate). Before Team Rocket can steal the heroes' pokemon, a group of Golem roll by and ruin the plan, forcing everyone to run in separate directions through the cave. That’s right, it’s another “everyone gets split up” episode.
Ash and Pikachu quickly find the exit and the maze, and to his surprise, he finds Paul trying to catch a Fearow. He assumes Dawn and Brock are trapped in the maze, so he runs into it and immediately gets separated from Pikachu by Team Rocket. Fortunately for Pikachu, a group of Golem roll by because they’re being chased by a rampaging Onix, which blasts Team Rocket off.
Dawn and Croagunk escape the cave, and she asks Paul if he's seen the others. He brushes her off and returns to the Fearow, but when Brock escapes the cave and does the same, he angrily lies and says no. Fortunately, Brock got split up with Staravia, so he sends it to search the maze from the air. Wow, competence by Brock. Who knew?
Dawn and Croagunk wander the maze when the golem almost kill them, but they escape. What they don’t escape is the rampaging Onix, so Croagunk saves Dawn’s useless, screaming butt from it by hiding her. Christ, even May wouldn’t have just screamed and stood still while an Onix charged at her. Meanwhile, Ash finds a dead end and curses the fact that he isn't with Pikachu, as if Pikachu could help him avoid dead ends.
Ash meets up with Buizel, Piplup, Pachirisu, and Sudowoodo, and everyone else meets up. The rampaging Onix attacks him, so he has the water pokemon just attack it back and it runs away. I love how when Ash is with other peoples’ pokemon, he suddenly knows exactly what to do, but put him with his own pokemon and he’ll have Charizard use seismic toss on a ghost type.
Well, in any case, Team Rocket captures Staravia, even though it's a common pokemon and they should care nothing for it because they have, in the past, ignored rarer-but-still-common pokemon. They then leave Brock and Dawn in their balloon and find Ash, so he has the pokemon with him target the balloon, very specifically saying to target the balloon and not Staravia. Unfortunately, Pachirisu shocks Ash instead of the balloon or Staravia, allowing Team Rocket to escape, which means that the heroes would literally be better off without Pachirisu. This is just the way it is, I’m sorry.
The heroes find each other on the opposite sides of a wall, so they break through using all of their pokemon... except Pachirisu, whom Ash bans from helping. Even Happiny helps. Haha, sucks to be you, Pachirisu.
The heroes escape the maze just in time to reach the pokemon center, and Dawn gets her new app: Coin Toss, which lets you flip a coin to get either heads or tails. The episode doesn’t show it, but I assume Ash punches her in the face at this point.
This would have been a decent episode but for all of the unanswered questions and unresolved points. Why is Paul here? Does he catch the Fearow? Why is that Onix rampaging around the maze? Who built that maze? Why is Dawn even more stupid than Ash?
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I forgot what the app was so I burst out laughing when you revealed it.
The heroes rush away, hoping to get there in time because apparently Japan isn’t technologically advanced enough to let you download apps using the internet.
Reminds me of when special pokemon are only available at select stores.
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I love how when Ash is with other peoples’ pokemon, he suddenly knows exactly what to do, but put him with his own pokemon and he’ll have Charizard use seismic toss on a ghost type.
lets be fair now. Ash was clearly hoping the 'normal attacks wont work on ghost pokemon' rule would be ignored again, like the anime did so many times
This will definitely be proven in about three or so episodes (if my count's right). I won't say how; I want to see if Anagram notices.
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Azp2k32 posted... Anagram posted... GenesisSaga posted... East Coast
BEAST COAST MO FO!
Have fun on the Least Coast while I wear shorts and a T-shirt in the dead of winter.
Wait... you wear shirts?
Sometimes. Other times I just go with my torso...
In the nude.
GenesisSaga posted... Oh did you wear a T-shirt during your last earthquake? Lol Less Coast
Bah! The last major earthquake was in 1994. I remember it perfectly despite being six. I had just finished a Lego pirate ship with like a gazillion pieces and it was destroyed in the quake.
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Sandshrew's Locker! "Post a comment on my webzone if you want a pizza roll." Score: 4/10
Brock shows Ash a map to Heartholme City: it's only a few miles away, so Ash comments that it's only a few more days.
Lol wut?
Meanwhile, a creepy girl with red hair thinks to herself that she could "use Piplup and Buizel" for unspecified purposes. She approaches the heroes, introduces herself as Mira, and says she knows a shortcut. Because the heroes instantly trust anyone who isn’t openly Jessie or James, she takes out her Abra and explains that it can teleport everyone to the city (which isn’t even technically a shortcut). It teleports everyone away, and they're suddenly on a dam.
Mira claims that Abra screwed up, but before she tells it to teleport everyone again, she asks if the heroes can send their water pokemon to search for her grandmother's pendant that she dropped in the nearby lake earlier. In an astonishing display of second grade-level reasoning skills, Dawn realizes that Mira lied about the teleport being a mistake. I'm impressed, Dawn! Why, you’re as smart as a ten year-old! Even though this girl is clearly untrustworthy, the heroes agree to help.
Piplup, Buizel, and the heroes dive underwater (the heroes have… breathing things), and underwater is an entire abandoned city. She takes them to a school (instead of searching vaguely for a pendant), out of which comes a Gyarados to attack them. It easily defeats Piplup and Buizel and blasts everyone out of the water. Dawn asks if Mira knew about the Gyarados, and she says that had she mentioned it, the heroes would have refused to help. Finally, Brock asks if she's hiding anything else, as she already knew exactly where to go despite the pendant’s location being unclear, and she knew of a Gyarados.
She explains that she used to go to school in that building when she and her two friends found a pokeball with a pokemon, a Sandshrew, already in it. The three of them decided to own it together, but then a dam was built that caused the town to flood. Mira and her friends all moved to different cities, so now no one knows where the pokeball is, but she thinks it's in the school. Sadly, that Gyarados moved in and always chases her away. Even though Mira has lied to the heroes multiple times, they still agree to help her.
Brock comes up with a clever plan: have Piplup and Buizel distract Gyarados and then have Pikachu shock it. Wow, I… yeah. Everyone swims into the school, but Team Rocket attacks and kidnaps Abra and Mira. Mira tells Abra to teleport them back to the heroes, which it does, and they continue on through the school. Wow, that’s… I don’t even know what that is.
They easily find the pokeball, and on the lake's shore, Sandshrew is happy to be released and hugs Mira, but Team Rocket steals Abra again. This time, however, they're armed with an anti-psychic net. Ash simply has Turtwig free it, though, instantly defusing this situation of any potential tension.
Turtwiguserazorleafwe’reblastingoffaaaagaaiiiiin
To reward them, Mira has Abra teleport everyone to Heartholme City for real this time, and everyone finishes the episode certain that there will be more filler in the future.
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