Poll of the Day > Watching Pokemon

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gonna get really drunk

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watched 7 episodes. All time great show

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which season?

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I was going to do that earlier today, but changed my mind. Apparently many of the episodes are available on the Pokemon website to stream for free.

The first 10 episodes of Dragonball Z are free on Funimation, and I watched them over the last couple days. I hadn't watched DBZ in 20 years, and as someone that really doesn't like anime, I have to admit that DBZ is actually pretty good.

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Other than that first episode, the early episodes were fun. I've kinda been tempted to re-watch just to see what they've edited out since the show first ran.

Also: "Chah-mandah beat them?"

faramir77 posted...

The first 10 episodes of Dragonball Z are free on Funimation, and I watched them over the last couple days. I hadn't watched DBZ in 20 years, and as someone that really doesn't like anime, I have to admit that DBZ is actually pretty good.

Early DBZ still has a lot of the DB feel. Once it starts to simply become episode-long fights, it gets dull fast.

In general, DBZ is a lot of what I dislike about anime and its influence kinda hurt anime.

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Dmess85 posted...

which season?

One, baby!

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Loved re-watching season 1 on netflix, but they only seem to have the first half for some reason.

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Yeah Netflix needs to speed things up

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I got some of the old tapes, does netflix keep the pokerap and other ending stuff in?
https://i.imgur.com/ySfFDcw.jpg

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Pokewrap is still in.

I still have all the VHS' from release. But that's a nice collection!

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And the movie too, nice

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SpeeDLeemon posted...

Yeah Netflix needs to speed things up

Its been 4 years, so I'm guessing its a rights issue, like someone else has exclusive rights to the rest, or they just can't be bothered to pay for the rights for the rest.

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Oh, I thought they put it up less than a year ago ha

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I still think season 1 is one of the best adventure shows of all time. Theres always some new pokemon related thing to see over every new hill whether it be in the wild or in town. I also think misty is a pretty good version of her archetype. Ashe is a dumbass but at least somewhat realistically the dumbass kid loses a shit ton and takes like 20 years to accomplish his goal after a ton of failures. Most shonen protagonists "never give up" but I can't think of any that have failed and kept going half as many times as ashe.

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

I still think season 1 is one of the best adventure shows of all time. Theres always some new pokemon related thing to see over every new hill whether it be in the wild or in town. I also think misty is a pretty good version of her archetype. Ashe is a dumbass but at least somewhat realistically the dumbass kid loses a shit ton and takes like 20 years to accomplish his goal after a ton of failures. Most shonen protagonists "never give up" but I can't think of any that have failed and kept going half as many times as ashe.

He probably wouldn't lose as much if he didn't insist on basically restarting his team every time he visited a new region. However, even there it's kinda ridiculous since Pikachu should be OP by himself (despite being an unevolved Pokemon) yet he routinely loses to Pokemon and trainers just starting out. The same Pikachu who once beat a powerful Dragonite gets curbstomped by an Elekid. Wtf?

The other thing that kills me about the show is that they never really use a lot of characters again. The other Kanto rivals iirc are never even seen. You have that stupidly OP Sandshrew from an early episode where it would have been cool if they had another rematch but he never comes back. And, given the episodic nature of the show, they could have done a *lot* of recurring characters if they wanted.

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gonna finish season one tonight

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I've been playing a lot of Pokemon recently, and I've actually thought of rewatching a few early episodes since I haven't seen them in 20 years.

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It's so good. So worth it.

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Here we go.
Ep. 8.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fCkeLBGSINs
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ah with James's old old voice

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I like how Pikachu blows up the Pokemon Center in episode 2.

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zhangliao1 posted...

ah with James's old old voice

james the mighty moltres was the best james episode
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I recently rewatched the Pokemon League episodes from season one after 20 years and damn they're still so good. The way they wrote that whole arc was damn near perfect. Plus the way they ended it where they played the full theme over highlights of the matches was such a great conclusion.

I watched it for a few more seasons after that but definitely think they peaked with that arc.

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the soundtrack hits crazy to this day

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OHJOY90 posted...

Loved re-watching season 1 on netflix, but they only seem to have the first half for some reason.

There are quite a few seasons on Amazon prime

Krazy_Kirby posted...

james the mighty moltres was the best james episode

lol absolutely

Whitley posted...

There are quite a few seasons on Amazon prime

Also, this! Yes.

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