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SUPER EXCITING HOOK FIXING MONTAGE GOOOOOOO

Sometimes you gotta fix a hook / It’s not something
You learn in any book
You just gotta improvise
If you’re lucky / It’ll fix before your eyes
Pokemon!

Terrible.

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GenesisSaga posted...

SUPER EXCITING HOOK FIXING MONTAGE GOOOOOOO

Sometimes you gotta fix a hook / It’s not something
You learn in any book
You just gotta improvise
If you’re lucky / It’ll fix before your eyes
Pokemon!

Terrible.

You do better!

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Alright.


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Done.

Get it? I've done better by not writing anything at all.

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From: Jeff Zero | #050

From: charmander6000 | #046

The episode wasn't that great (better than a 3/10 sure, but nothing to get worked up about).

Anything with a DarTHEMANitan in it deserves at least a 7 as far as XIII is concerned.

It's OK. I'm... I'm the same way with Eevee and its evolutions. /tears up

What the crap is this

"DarTHEMANitan"? It's either plain "Darmanitan" if you want to be professional, or it's THEMANITAN if you want to be honest and awesome.

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GenesisSaga posted...

Alright.


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Done.

Get it? I've done better by not writing anything at all.

SmackdownSaga.

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DarTHEMANitan

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DarTHEMANitan is like...some twisted hybrid of cool and professional.

I kind of like it but only because it involves THEMAN. I mean, it's kind of a warped way of saying/reading the name

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From: Jeff Zero | Posted: 7/7/2012 8:07:04 AM | #009
...Man, it's kind of a shame all the Star Trek images will go straight over everyone's heads except for Anagram's. But such is life on Board 8.

We have plenty of sci-fi nerds, I'm sure.

AHEM!

I think you are forgetting the other huge DS9 fan on the board.

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THE LOOM IS ON AXEW!
"It's Axew's Dragon Sneeze!"
Score: 4/10

Iris and Cilan decide to have a battle, and Iris bans Ash from participating because he "would just try to win." Even after Ash offers not to use volt tackle, Iris refuses to let him fight: her goal is to slowly train Axew, not just to battle.

Cilan orders Pasage to use bullet seed "gently," and even after the weakest bullet seed in the history of pokemon, Axew is still ready to cry - it valiantly tries to continue, but it’s so weak that even after being hit with the most sperm-like solar beam in history is a problem.

Ash tells Iris that not battling for real won't help, so Iris orders a use of dragon rage that doesn't really work. Dragon Rage is supposed to create an energy ball you spit at the enemy, but Axew's energy balls just keep exploding while still in its mouth, creating craters around it.

Iris still refuses to battle Ash, though, so Ash asks how she got Axew in the first place: it was a gift from an elder in her home town. Wow, what a backstory. In her home village, everyone specializes in dragon pokemon, and presumably, ice cream is banned. An old woman gave her an Axew and told her to go on a journey, and she says "Yes ma'am" in the same voice you'd use to the teacher who just gave you detention. But it's been a while since Iris started her journey, and she's worried because Axew hasn't evolved yet and also kind of sucks.

Meanwhile, Axew is exploring and gets wedged in a Scolipede's antennae, and the wild pokemon starts freaking out. It begins using toxic on random pieces of terrain, burning them like acid in seconds, so Ash and Cilan decide to send out Pansage and Snivy. Amazingly, sending out only pokemon weak to poison and bug does not work out, so, after a while, Iris reveals her second pokemon: Excadrill.

Exadrill refuses to help, however, so Iris decides “to do it herself.” Doing it herself involves Pansage and Tepig helping her, but in any case, she does succeed in freeing Axew. Scolipede is still angry, but when it tries to brutally murder Iris, it accidentally kicks Excadrill. In the ensuing fight, Cilan detects "a delicate hint of battle flavor" from the murderous steel-plated mole, and Excadrill launches Scolipede into the distance. I love how Iris tries to apologize to Scolipede as it literally flies miles into the distance, presumably going splat as it hits the ground.

Ash wants to battle Iris, so she tells him to battle Pikachu. Ash agrees, and to no one's surprise, Pikachu kicks Ash's ass. I assume this is what writers do when they don’t know how to properly end an episode.

What can I even say other than that this episode is cobbled together from other episodes in earlier seasons? And that it’s not as good?

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A RIVAL BATTLE FOR CLUB CHAMP!
"I guess Pikachu and Snivy were okay, but your other pokemon are a complete joke, and so’s their trainer."
Score: 5/10

The heroes stop in Luxuria Town to enter its Battle Club, and who should be here but Trip? Don George arrives, and we learn that the Don Georges basically have the exact same gimmick as Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny, except that they're all forty year-old men instead of attractive young women. Huh, I… can’t think of a joke for that.

Trip doesn't want to battle Ash because Pikachu lost to a brand new Snivy, and Ash only has five pokemon and one badge. He also makes a comment about groundless confidence that in the wake of continuity with earlier seasons makes no sense. Still, Cilan and Iris persuade Trip to battle Ash anyway.

Tranquill versus Oshawott. Tranquill defeats Oshawott in twenty-six seconds (I timed it). Well, take heart, Oshawott, that is a bit better than Torkoal did against Darkrai… although when I have to compare you to Torkoal to make you sound good, I… I just don’t know. Ash sends out Tepig, and Trip criticizes Ash's "straightforward" choices. What does that even mean. Tranquill uses double team, and I love how every time double team is ever used in this show, every single time, the other pokemon freaks out and gasps or something. Tranquill then uses work up and just one-shots Tepig.

Ash sends out Pikachu, which is what he should have done to begin with, and after a lot of effort, Pikachu does succeed in taking Trip’s pokemon down. Trip sends out his Servine, and Ash, disbelieving, mutters "That's Servine... it's gotta be!" Thus, Ash sends out Pidovnohedoesn't he keeps in Pikachu, and Pikachu is deservedly beaten without landing a single hit. Ash insists that a match is never over until it's over, and sends out Snivy. After about a minute of letting Snivy get its ass kicked, Ash eventually remembers it can use attract, and has it knock out the lovestruck Servine.

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Next up is Frillish, so Ash recalls Snivy and sends out Pidove, ordering it to lose in one hit. Pidove does its best and succeeds. Ash sends Snivy out again, but doesn't realize that using vine whip is a bad idea - Frillish has cursed body, which prevents Snivy from attacking with it again. Thus, Ash has Snivy attack Frillish with leaf storm and then use attract... which Frillish just dodges and then finishes Snivy off.

There’s also a subplot where Team Rocket is cornered by the entire police force of Luxuria Town, which apparently only use batons and not guns. Another Team Rocket agent named Peuce helps them escape in a truck, and Officer Jenny helpfully informs them that they're resisting arrest. Then they destroy their truck on purpose and escape in jetpacks, instead of just escaping in jetpacks and not trashing a ninety thousand dollar truck.

So, uh… I gotta tell you. I now understand why Gary never battled Ash until the final episode of season 2, and only battled him full on at the end of season 5. I now understand why Paul didn’t have a full battle with Ash until they’d known each other for some time. It’s because it’s just not exciting. They’ve had no time to really establish a rivalry, and as a result, the writers are just giving away the goods too soon. You’re supposed to tantalize the audience with the promise of an exciting battle for a while, which can be as enticing as the actual battle itself. Instead, we just immediately get a battle on Trip’s second appearance.

And honestly, just **** Trip. This is Ash’s second worst rival, and I say that only because no one will ever be worse than Ritchie. This guy’s only personality is “dick.” Even in his early episodes, Paul at least used strategy and thought things out while calling Ash a dumbass - here, Trip is just a jerk. He’s not even an interesting jerk, and his only personality trait - calling Ash a dumbass - is already handled by a main character, Iris.

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Yeah, Trip's not that great. Luckily he doesn't show up that often.

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I prefer the D/P anime to B/W, so far.

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Next up is Frillish, so Ash recalls Snivy and sends out Pidove, ordering it to lose in one hit. Pidove does its best and succeeds.

Nice

From: Pokalicious | #063

I prefer the D/P anime to B/W, so far.

I like to think everyone does, honestly. B/W does some interesting things, but the D/P anime was just put together in a far more...intelligent way.

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A HOME FOR DWEBBLE!
"Herp."
Score: 4/10

The heroes stop by a river for lunch. For once, however, nothing tries to steal their food. Instead, they see a wild Dwebble carving a rock to make a home for itself, as Dwebble like to live with rock thingies on their backs. As soon as it finishes, three larger Dwebble appear and steal the rock, attaching it to the largest Dwebble’s already large rock. What is their motivation here? I do not know. In fact, given that we see Dwebble move around largely by digging, you would think a larger rock would be a disadvantage, but whatever, I guess.

Dwebble follows the evil Dwebble, but they get away. When the heroes approach it, it freaks out at seeing humans and attacks, and accidentally hits Pansage with a flying rock. Well, as we all know, rocks cause fevers, so Pansage is now sick, and it’s up to Iris to cure it with her knowledge of herbal remedies. She does. Wow, that was exciting. Cilan makes dinner for everyone, and let me tell you, it’s even more exciting than it sounds.

In the morning, Dwebble and the heroes find the evil Dwebble. Dwebble refuses the heroes' help and insists on fighting a three-on-one by itself, and does as well as you'd expect someone fighting three other people at once to do. Finally, the heroes persuade it that it needs their help in at least splitting up the evil Dwebble, and in one-on-one fights, it easily defeats the two smaller Dwebble. Finally, the head evil Dwebble is the only one left. Dwebble uses shell smash (despite having nothing to smash) and knocks off the head Dwebble's rock, which also results in its rock being knocked off, allowing it to take it back. Dwebble asks to come with Cilan, and of course, Cilan finds a way to make a food analogy. Still. At least Dwebble didn’t comment about the rarity of Pikachu.

Meanwhile, Peuce takes Team Rocket to an abandoned subway tunnel. He tells them that they have to go to the Antimony Research Lab and steal some data, and he does it using the least necessary hologram ever. Cut to Team Rocket... infiltrating the lab and stealing the data. Then they go back to Peuce and deliver the data. There are literally no hang-ups or unexpected problems with Peuce’s plan. The end.

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accidentally hits Pansage with a flying rock. Well, as we all know, rocks cause fevers, so Pansage is now sick,

>_<

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muddersmilk posted...

accidentally hits Pansage with a flying rock. Well, as we all know, rocks cause fevers, so Pansage is now sick,

>_<

I don't know why that surprises you. It's a well known fact.

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More from me either super-late tonight or early tomorrow morning, by the by.

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HERE COMES THE TRUBBISH SQUAD!
"Right."
"Of course."
"Indeed."
Score: 3/10

The heroes are walking along when several kids and a Trubbish ride up and attack them by throwing balls of mud. Also, they steal Ash's hat. Two women run up, Daniela and her grandmother the daycare lady, and explain they're from Daniela’s kindergarten class.

See, the kids found a Trubbish in a junkyard one day (why they were at a junkyard I do not know, unless it was the worst field trip ever) and brought it back. Daniela wouldn't let the kids keep Trubbish because it stank up the school too much, so when they refused to give it up, she dragged it back to the garbage dump and left it there. The next day, the kids just dragged all of the trash from the junkyard and set up a fort to hide in with Trubbish. Yes, apparently five five year-olds brought half a junkyard to a school. Including sofas, refrigerators, and other extremely heavy things. The kids refuse to let any adults to come into their fort, so Ash offers to help and go talk to the kids. By the way, yes, the kids do comment on the rarity of Pikachu, but this is offset by a rare legitimately funny moment where Pikachu acts cute and Trubbish tries to act cute by doing exactly the same thing as Pikachu. After a brief cameo by Sunglasses Sandile, the kids convince Ash that they should be able to keep Trubbish because… they want to, I guess.

Daniela, annoyed at Ash betraying her, sends out her ultimate pokemon: Deerling. During the Deerling/Pikachu battle, the former gets stuck under a mound of junk that's threatening to collapse. Part of it does collapse, and Daniela saves a kid by throwing herself in the way of some of the junk. Fortunately, Trubbish eventually decides to just destroy the junk or blast it away, saving everyone. Seeing that the kids and Ash desperately want to keep Trubbish, Daniela finally relents and allows it to stay. Her grandmother, satisfied, tells Daniela that if a Trubbish likes humans, it won't release its smelly breath, and everyone angrily asks her why she didn't tell them that before and save them a filler episode. Her response? "You have to go your own way." Jesus Christ, **** you, lady. As an attempt to keep this episode from being completely filler, she gives Ash a pokemon egg but refuses to say what’s inside, because the writers felt that we haven’t had the “character receives a mystery pokemon egg” plot enough yet. You know what, I hope that’s a Farfetch’d, just so you’ll be stuck with a completely useless pokemon, Ash.

In a subplot, Team Rocket is given a replica of a "certain rock” by another agent and told to wait for more orders. Man, super exciting stuff, here, people.

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Dammit, I don't have access to the next two episodes. Should I skip them?

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Have you skipped any episodes to-date?

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hell no anagram

youtube it if they have it

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next episode introduces a rival character

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I have not skipped any of the main series nor any movies. If the next episode has a rival character in it, though, I definitely can't skip it. I just have no access to it right now.

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Her grandmother, satisfied, tells Daniela that if a Trubbish likes humans, it won't release its smelly breath, and everyone angrily asks her why she didn't tell them that before and save them a filler episode. Her response? "You have to go your own way." Jesus Christ, **** you, lady.

I'd just like to point out that I have never seen a summary or discussion of this episode that didn't feel this way.

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I hope that’s a Farfetch’d, just so you’ll be stuck with a completely useless pokemon, Ash.

Then everyone would comment on the rarity of Pikachu and Farfetch'd.

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FalconPain posted...

Her grandmother, satisfied, tells Daniela that if a Trubbish likes humans, it won't release its smelly breath, and everyone angrily asks her why she didn't tell them that before and save them a filler episode. Her response? "You have to go your own way." Jesus Christ, **** you, lady.

I'd just like to point out that I have never seen a summary or discussion of this episode that didn't feel this way.

I can't imagine any mention of this episode not feeling this way. She literally wastes everyone's time for no reason when it would take her five seconds to help everyone. ****, she allowed the school to get covered in actual garbage because she didn't want to help.


muddersmilk posted...

I hope that’s a Farfetch’d, just so you’ll be stuck with a completely useless pokemon, Ash.

Then everyone would comment on the rarity of Pikachu and Farfetch'd.

Dammit, that's a good point. Patrat, then.

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I am working on acquiring the episodes legally but I have no timeframe, sorry.

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so now Iris is getting her second Charizard
ehr I mean..

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her second Excadrill

wait no

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htaeD posted...

so now Iris is getting her second Charizard
ehr I mean..

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her second Excadrill

wait no

Do you mean Dragonite?

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Silly Anagram and his worrying about legality.

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MINCCINO - NEAT AND TIDY!
"That's a pokemon connoisseur for you... whatever he just said."
Score: 5/10

The heroes are traveling along a river to Nacrene City when they are stopped by Bianca, who trips and crashes into Ash and Cilan. Wow, a clumsy moe girl who apologizes and bows a lot in an anime? I've never seen one of those before. You really have to wonder what is it in the Pokemon world that makes girls think traveling through forests in long skirts that nearly reach their ankles is a good idea.

Bianca shows Ash her cell phone watch (I refuse to call it anything else) and calls up Professor Juniper to introduce her. Bianca has been sent to give Ash his badge case, which is unfortunately very dirty because Bianca’s purse is apparently filled with nothing but dust. A wild Minccino appears and steals the badge case, because dammit, we haven't had nearly enough episodes where Ash's badges are stolen. The heroes follow it and watch it clean up the badge case, and Bianca decides that, since she is naturally messy, Minccino would be the perfect pokemon for her. You can tell Bianca is messy because her skirt is pure white and completely clean after hours of traveling through a forest.

Ash is ready to attack Minccino, but Bianca insists on fighting it first and sends out a Pignite. I love how Cilan calls Bianca a "fierce battler," only for Pignite to get its ass kicked by hyper voice and tickle so that Bianca has to recall it. Ash just sends out Pikachu, but Oshawott insists on coming out and battling for him - at one point, Bianca tries to command Oshawott, and the distraction allows Minccino to defeat it. I hope trying to command other peoples’ pokemon doesn’t become a thing with her. Minccino has now had enough and runs off, and Ash tells Bianca that this is her fault. She just ignores him and insists he help her catch Minccino because… because, I guess.

Eventually, the heroes find it again, so Ash sends out Snivy on the grounds that it's probably been his most competent pokemon so far. Somehow this turns into a conversation about Bianca's overprotective father where she uses a Valley Girl accent she did not have in previous scenes, and will have randomly throughout the rest of the episode. As someone who has lived in the Valley for most of his life, whose sisters were and are cheerleaders who talk about American Idol and how much their butts hurt from practicing tumbling, who has had to spend hours around their five hundred visually identical friends who are all also cheerleaders, I can tell you that actual Valley Girls sound nothing like Bianca.

Snivy uses attract, but Minccino just dodges it and uses attract itself. Snivy can't resist the allure of an ultra-sexy Minccino and is soundly defeated, so Ash sends out Pikachu... again. Pikachu decides that since the episode is almost over, it will just defeat Minccino easily, but Bianca stops Ash from finishing it off because she wants to catch it herself. She wastes everyone’s time so that Minccino is about to escape, when she finally takes out a dusty pokeball, which causes it to clean it with its tail, accidentally tripping the button on the pokeball and catching itself. Bianca celebrates catching Minccino as if she had anything to do with its capture, and Ash gets his badge back.

At a pokemon center, Bianca challenges Ash to a battle, so they agree to a one versus one. Pignite versus Pikachu. Despite Pignite landing like twelve hits and Pikachu landing one, Pikachu wins, and everyone acts like Bianca isn’t an incompetent fool.

Seriously, I have no opinion about Bianca in the game, but she does nothing in this episode except act like a dumbass.

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Seriously, I have no opinion about Bianca in the game, but she does nothing in this episode except act like a dumbass.

Say hello to the anime version of Bianca.

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Although I should mention that Bianca at no point comments on the rarity of Pikachu, so I'll give her a point.

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Pokalicious posted...

Seriously, I have no opinion about Bianca in the game, but she does nothing in this episode except act like a dumbass.

Say hello to the anime version of Bianca.

She's like this in every appearance, huh?

.... Fine.

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Well actually I haven't seen Bianca in action, as I have hardly seen any BW episodes.

But from what I've read, she's definitely annoying. Still, she's an ok character so far, I guess.

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I laughed my ass off at the morons who said they'd rather have Bianca travel with Ash than Iris. Maybe she's vastly improved in the original sub, but suffice it to say from my perspective that would be a horrible, horrible thing.

I only have experience with the sub, but I like Bianca. Admittedly some episodes less so than others. Her gimmick in the first mini tournament is annoying, but I thought her gimmick in the second one was funny.

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Eh, Burgundy and Georgia don't do much for me. They're pretty much completely one-trick ponies. Their personalities consist of "Cilan must lose!" and "Iris must lose!" I mean, Trip's not great either, but eh. Stephan's the best of the recurring rivals, almost by default, and even he has the terrible name pronunciation thing.

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Maybe because I just watched the Ferroseed episode and the one where Cilan and the other A-class Connoisseur have to pick a little girl's Pokemon. And Burgundy and Georgia were both great in them. And I can't stand Stephan's name gimmick.

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