SEWADDLE AND BURGH IN PINWHEEL FOREST!
"A pure heart makes for profound art!"
Score: 4/10
The heroes reach Pinwheel Forest, and as they enter, a Sewaddle attacks Pikachu. Cilan then informs us that Sewaddle are popular among clothing designers because they can design and make their own clothing out of leaves. Huh. I would have thought clothing designers would like good-looking pokemon instead, but what do I know?
Ash likes Sewaddle's battling spirit and decides to catch it, but as soon as Pikachu actually strikes it back, it just runs off. Well, this is obviously the kind of battler Ash needs, so the heroes run after it, only to get lost in the forest because they’re idiots.
While wandering, they meet Burgh, a “super-talented artist,” but he's stuck in a slump, so he's hoping to get inspiration by living out here among the forest pokemon. I’m going to tell you this now: I would take a thousand Biancas over one Burgh. This guy literally uses the phrase “pure heart” at least once per five sentences, and that is not an exaggeration, I really hope he never appears again after the gym battle. In any case, while they talk with Burgh, Sewaddle reappears and attacks Ash, and Burgh explains this particular Sewaddle is wild and kind of a dick. That’s okay, though, because Ash already owns a pokemon whose chief characterization is “kind of a dick.”
Burgh tells Ash that you need to get to know a pokemon before catching it, and tells him to introduce himself, telling the heroes that Sewaddle distinguish things by poking their foreheads at them, so Pikachu, Axew, Burgh, and Iris rub foreheads with it, but when Ash tries, it just tackles him. The three of them (Cilan stays behind) follow Sewaddle as it does mundane things, and I love how it takes a nap in the middle of a field... even though this is a forest. And you would think predators would be all over it.
Anyway, Sewaddle is nearly killed three times in ten minutes, leaving me to wonder how it survived this long to begin with, but Ash is there to rescue it no matter what kind of trouble it gets into: wild Woobat, Japanese waterfalls, or crazy Deerling. You know, I really do not know how many times the “Ash saves a wild pokemon because it’s a dumbass and it bonds with him” plot has been used, I really don’t.
Sewaddle is now all over Ash and asks to come with him, so he catches it. Unfortunately, this is Ash’s seventh pokemon, so the pokeball refuses to open because you’re only allowed to have six. I have to admit, this is better than the seventh pokeball just teleporting away like with what happened with Krabby like seven hundred episodes ago (that’s not even an exaggeration). Burgh takes Ash to a pokemon center so Ash can exchange pokemon, and then declares that he’s gotten inspiration from Ash and his new pokemon and runs back to Castelia City, telling Ash that he looks forward to their upcoming battle.
I seriously can’t tell you how annoying Burgh is.
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Started: July 6, 2005