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Holy crap, he does plan to use Oshawott against Elesa, I can’t even make jokes about Ash anymore.

But don’t worry.

Burgh comments about the rarity of Pikachu.

Every part of this made me laugh.

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Well Looker was in the game.

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Well Looker was in the game.

I think I vaguely remember this, but it's still interesting.

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He showed up at the end asking for help in hunting down the remaining sages.

Also he gave you the Super Rod because I guess sages are fish.

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EMOLGA THE IRRESITIBLE!
"Emoemo!"
Score: 6.5/10

A few wild Patrat find some apples, and a wild Emolga uses attract to make them give it all of their food. When they realize what happened, they get angry and exit the episode, reasoning that if they’re not on screen, heartbreaker Emolga probably won’t appear.

Later, the heroes are eating lunch with Bianca in the middle of a field. Where did they get a table and chairs? I do not know. Iris picks some apples for dessert, but Bianca protests because that’s not really a dessert. I can only point out that you’re not supposed to have dessert for lunch, if you want to be that way.

Axew has its apple stolen by Emolga, but when it sees Iris holding an entire platter of them, it creates a cunning plan: give Axew back its apple, and Iris will reward its generosity with all of the others. It does so, playing up its cuteness, and its plan actually works - Iris is about to give it all of her apples when Bianca suddenly appears and declares that she wants to own it because it’s so cute. I would like one major female character who at no point catches a pokemon because it’s cute. I think the only who matches that description is Zoey. By the way, Oshawott falls instantly in love with Emolga.

Bianca sends out Minccino to attack, but when it tries to use attract, but Emolga counters with its own attract. Minccino is saved by Oshawott, who wants to be hit by attract - haha, okay, this is actually funny. Regardless, Emolga finally decides that it's had enough of these weirdos and just leaves, so everyone follows.

Bianca and Iris both desperately want to find Emolga (the latter because Axew wants to give it an apple as a thank you and because it develops a crush), but it's Iris who finds it first. When Emolga learns about Axew’s crush, it thinks about this for a second, realizing that if it pretends to like Axew, Iris, who's already displayed that she's good at picking apples, will provide it will more apples. That’s not thinking very far ahead, Emolga. Sure, Axew is cute now, but imagine when it inevitably turns into a Haxorus and becomes ten times your size and twenty times your weight. Will the apples be worth it then?!

Unfortunately, Bianca appears again and sends out Minccino. Emolga's volt switch allows it to win and escape, however, and Iris and Axew go after it. It is at this point that I realized the episode could only end with Iris catching Emolga, and that the writers wanted to show off all of Emolga’s known moves in its debut episode.

Iris, Axew, and Emolga end up trapped in a dark, scary part of the forest surrounded by Swoobat. I’ll skip the padding here and tell you the ending: Pikachu and the heroes rescue them and Bianca acts like a dumbass.

That evening, as the heroes set down for dinner, Emolga appears and asks to join Iris because, I don’t know, of their bonding, I guess. It allows itself to be captured, which breaks Bianca's heart.

I’ve got to tell you, Bianca is what makes this episode.




She’s still annoying, but the fact that she keeps getting punished for her stupidity somewhat makes up for it, to a point where she actually becomes entertaining.

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It's pretty obvious that Emolga joined to get more apples.

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It's pretty obvious that Emolga joined to get more apples.

This leads to the question of how much Bianca would've been willing to spend on apples per day to get Emolga to join her.

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Except Bianca is pretty selfish, so that would probably come dangerously close to 0.

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that episode does make Biance look more bearable
and frankly I find Burgundy tolerable because she keeps losing x.x

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Loved the Emolga ep. Had me rollin'!

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Loved the Emolga ep. Had me rollin'!

You promise Bianca being horrible, Gen. This was not horrible. This was Bianca being amusing, I actually had to cut out a few scenes of her getting her ass kicked by Emolga because I already had too many Bianca captions.

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I meant her next appearance then. Just to be safe it's during a tournament, and I assure you she is quite terrible.

Yeah, the first tournament is Bianca at her worst.

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EMOLGA AND THE NEW VOLT SWITCH!
"Wow, a battle between electric-types! A spicy pairing like that could turn out to be electrifying!"
Score: 5/10

Bianca, who is still traveling with the heroes for some reason, challenges Iris to a battle.

Emolga versus Pignite. I dislike how attract is portrayed as the be all and end all of attacks, and after one use of it, Bianca has to recall her pokemon. She sends out Minccino, and their attracts cancel each other out (because that’s how it works). Against Iris' orders, Emolga uses volt switch (so all of one of Iris' pokemon will obey her), causing Excadrill to come out. Emolga's volt switch is "a little different," and doesn't cause it to recall to its pokeball, instead just causing another pokemon to come out. Huh. Well, I’m glad the details of this are explained, right? Iris tries to chew Emolga out for disobeying orders, but it just gives her puppy dog eyes and she stops.

Iris sends Emolga back in to battle, but it just uses volt switch again, somehow sending out Cilan's pokemon. Pansage gets angry when it's hit by accident and knocks out Minccino, and Cilan declares Pansage the winner. Ha, what a dick. Emolga continues to act ultra-cute, but now even Iris doesn’t fall for it, and she declares that Emolga must battle. Bianca sends out Pignite again, but Emolga just volt switches Snivy into the battle and then disappears. Only Iris is concerned by her pokemon disappearing, so Bianca and Ash just start battling. Ha, everyone is dicks.

Iris finds Emolga lazing off by itself in a tree, so Snivy (like three hundred feet away) just uses vine whip to grab it. Iris insists Emolga battle, so it just shocks all everyone... except Snivy, who sees it coming and jumps out of the way. Nice.

They stop for lunch, and Emolga uses attract to get the food of all of the other pokemon. Somehow, this causes them to think the others all stole the food and attack each other. I do enjoy Snivy just staying out of it, though. The humans figure out that someone stole their food, and they honestly can't figure it out. It's Snivy who points it out to them, but Iris defends Emolga, saying it wouldn't. Somehow, the other humans are convinced by Iris' complete lack of evidence, but this sparks angry eyes between Snivy and Emolga. Uh oh.

The heroes stop for a nap, but Emolga, who's still awake, runs off to find some food. Snivy, Oshawott, and Axew follow. Emolga tricks Oshawott and Axew into thinks some wild Watchog attacked it and stole an apple it found, so Oshawott takes some of the apples of the Watchog, causing them to attack in retaliation. They accidentally anger a wild Simisear, so they run off and leave the Simisear to attack the heroes’ pokemon. Simisear kicks Oshawott's ass and knocks it unconscious, and Emolga decides the most logical thing to do is throw an apple at it and just leave Simisear to murder Axew. Fortunately, Snivy appears to help, and the heroes arrive soon after.

Simisear begins beating up Snivy, and Iris yells for Emolga to help. Emolga finally decides to man up and help, and they bravely defeat Simisear in a two-on-one battle. Yeah, you go girl(s)! When Simisear is almost crushed by a rock it dislodges from a nearby cliff, they rescue it, and it finally just gives up and walks away, hoping to find fewer evil Emolga in its future (little does it know that all Pikachu clones are evil).

Emolga offers an apple to Snivy as a peace offering, which it accepts, Bianca runs off to Castelia City to challenge Burgh (I guess she was traveling away from it this entire time?), and the episode ends.

Pretty much the saving grace of this episode is Snivy, who is consistently competent and pretty darn cool.

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Yeah, Snivy is awesome. However I rather like Emolga too. She's the female equivalent of a total dick (guess that'd be a b****) but I find her antics funny. ^_^

When Team Rocket says that everyone just needs to escape, the Litwick all reappear, led by a Lampent. They create a portal to the ghost world, and we're pretty explicitly told here that if you go in, you're ****ing going to actual Hell. The Litwick try to force the pokemon into it, and when that fails, the walls crumble, revealing a ghostly ether all around the heroes. Cilan decides that they need to fight the Litwick (probably because no problems on this show are solved by anything other than fighting or friendship, and the latter seems unlikely to work here), so everyone (except Iris) sends out a pokemon to fight. However, the Litwick are just too powerful, and almost knock Jessie and Cilan into the ghost world. Ash and James, however, rescue the other on the other team, and both groups agrees to help each other. Working together, they’re able to fight the ghost pokemon-- Yeah, Dwebble! Use X-Scissor on pokemon with a quadruple resistance! Go, Iris! You stand there and look scared! You are a model of valiance, girl!

They knock the pokemon back into the ghost world, which somehow instantly cures Team Rocket's exhaustion and thunderstorm is gone now or something, I don’t know. The mansion reveals itself to be nearly destroyed and falling apart, the Litwick having used vaguely defined illusion powers to make it appear almost new, and Team Rocket escapes in jet packs because there's not enough time left in the episode to fight the heroes and blast off. Rain brews again, and even though the mansion is now empty, the heroes decide to just seek shelter elsewhere.

Yeah, this episode would be 8/10 just for Jessie's face alone. This is easily the best filler episode since Evil Togepi, and it very well might be better. **** anyone who uses that quote of pokemon not being evil, these Litwick literally try steal peoples’ life energy and send them into Hell when they’re no longer useful. ****, that is as evil as you can get without involving an orphanage or Germany.

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SCARE AT THE LITWICK MANSION!
"A dark and rainy sky casts an eerie pall over the surroundings..."
Score: 9/10

The heroes are walking along when a thunderstorm brews in literally three seconds. They see a mansion on a cliff, and because they have never seen a horror movie in their entire lives, when the front doors open on their own and no one answers their calls of "Is anyone in here?", they enter.

Elsewhere in the mansion, watching the heroes via cameras, Team Rocket laments that the heroes have accidentally found their new super-secret hideout. Team Rocket has earned the trust of four Litwick that live here. By the way, "Catch Pikachu and chase away the twerps" translates to "Ya ya yamask."

The heroes decide to spend their time in the entry room, but the Litwick start moving furniture, opening windows, and so on. When the heroes try to escape, the Litwick lock the doors. Team Rocket is confused as to why the Litwick didn't do as they were asked and chase away the heroes, but the Litwick continue to throw sharp objects at the heroes and move around clothing as if people were in them to freak them out.

Eventually, Pikachu catches the Litwick, and the heroes manage to catch one as the others escape. Ash tries to scan them with the pokedex, but it breaks down. Rather than take this as a sign that something is wrong, he shrugs and moves on. They ask if Litwick's trainer owns the place, but since they can't understand its response (even Pikachu, I guess?), they just take it with them, and they happen to run into Meowth.

Meowth runs off, and Team Rocket realizes that they all look exhausted and haven’t slept for days. James notices that the Litwicks' flames are larger than they were before, and we learn that the Litwick are misleading both the heroes and Team Rocket. Meanwhile, the Litwick kidnap Axew and Pikachu. Ash uses his pokedex again, which informs him that Litwick feed off your life energy and trick you into going into the ghost world.

Team Rocket calls up Doctor Monocle for help, and he tells them that Litwick feed off of life energy. Before he can say more, the Litwick stop Team Rocket’s skype call from working, but even Jessie and James can tell what's going on now. Before more can happen, the Litwick steal Meowth as well.

Jessie and James start searching for Meowth, and we get scenes that are literally taken straight out of The Shining.

The heroes find their kidnapped pokemon (and Meowth), but Jessie and James appear, and with Meowth, do their motto, barely forcing it out through their exhaustion.


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Yes, that episode was fantastic. Even though they never use the word death or kill, you can just tell what they're implying. Darkest episode yet???

That episode was dark for Pokemon, I loved it as well.

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That episode amazed me with just how evil the Litwick were. I remember I commented on it in one of these topics way back when I watched it.

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THE DRAGON MASTER'S PATH!
"Glorp.”
Score: 5.5/10

Scraggy and Axew, as the official weakest pokemon the heroes have, are sparring again. As with every single sparring battle they have, it ends with Axew misusing dragon rage. Jesus, you would think Iris would by this point just stop doing that. Well, whatever. A Druddigon appears and attacks because it feels it should have been dragon/rock, and dammit, someone needs to pay for this. Pikachu stops it, and Iris falls in love with it because she loves all dragon pokemon. Hey, my demand earlier (for a major female character to like a pokemon that’s not cute) was finally answered!

Druddigon's owner, a woman named Emmy appears, and Druddigon runs off into a forest, Emmy following behind, and behind her, the heroes. We also see that Druddigon's got a piece of rope around its ankle. Bizarrely, the heroes unite with Emmy off screen and agree to work together, so in the next scene, it's like... there they all are.

They find Druddigon in a cave, who wants them to go away. Cilan says that it's angry and dangerous, so Iris ignores him and goes right up to the angry-as-**** dragon and removes the rope around its ankle, which was causing it pain because it "was wrapped around its ankle and cutting into its skin." Seriously? This is a pokemon with the ability Rough ****ing Skin, I don’t think something you can buy at Home Depot is going to hurt it.

Well, Emmy thanks them for the help, and asks how Iris tracked Druddigon down off screen. She explains that Druddigon can't move very far when their body temperature drops, so she knew it had to find a cave where the sun could shine into. HINT: THIS IS TO DISPLAY THAT SHE IS KNOWLEDGABLE REGARDING DRAGONS. Iris tells the heroes that she wants to become a Dragon Master, apparently forgetting about her earlier refusal to tell them her dream, and Emmy asks to be taught more about Druddigon, as this is her first dragon type, and she's not comfortable enough to even go on a journey. Iris challenges her to a battle, and Emmy agrees to battle... Ash.

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Druddigon versus Tepig. Iris coaches Emmy on how to battle, apparently really good at commanding a pokemon she's never used before, even though she can barely command any of her own pokemon. Druddigon even wins! Let’s give Iris Mewtwo and see what happens.

Meanwhile, Team Rocket watches over the heroes in a giant robo-plane or something, I don't know, annoyed that the heroes freed Druddigon from their deadly, deadly rope. They attack and steal Pikachu, Axew, and Druddigon, but Druddigon is able to free Pikachu before it and Axew get trapped in a cage. I do love how Iris jumps up to Team Rocket's robot, then falls literally like a hundred feet and is completely fine except for like a small grunt.

The heroes follow Team Rocket's robot as it escapes. Fortunately, Axew is able to use dragon rage to force the robot to the ground, and the two escape, but are still too far for the heroes to see where they landed. Iris pauses the heroes, and psychically senses where Axew and Druddigon are. That’s not a joke. Iris is apparently in possession of psychic location powers.

Yamask and Woobat are about to defeat Druddigon and Axew because Team Rocket still has some lingering traces of competency this episode, but the heroes appear and attack. During the battle, Druddigon learns draco meteor somehow, but this only makes Team Rocket want to catch it more. Iris tells Axew to use dragon rage, which by the way looks more powerful than draco meteor, and it finally gets it right-- blasting Team Rocket o-- Oh, huh. Team Rocket escapes at the last second with their jetpacks. This is interesting. I hope they continue to not blast off in the future.

Iris is extremely pleased at Axew finally learning dragon rage. All of the Abra in the Little Cup are screwed now, and the episode ends.

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Iris is extremely pleased at Axew finally learning dragon rage. All of the Abra in the Little Cup are screwed now, and the episode ends.

XD

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Dragon Rage is banned in Little Cup!

Whaaaaaaat

Man I haven't kept up with competitive Little Cup since Pokemon Stadium. Anything else banned in it?

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*Every Warrior in the first few months of a story in Pokémon Conquest is screwed.

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Dragon Rage is banned in Pokemon Stadium 2 Little Cup. >_>

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Actually, you might be thinking of Pika Cup from Stadium 1. You use Lv15-20 Pokemon and Dragon Rage was allowed.

That sounds accurate. I never played Pokemon Stadium 2.

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OSHAWOTT’S LOST SCALCHOP!
"My beautiful serving dome!"
Score: 6/10

The heroes meet a guy named Stephan, who challenges Ash to a battle and throws out a Blitzle. Ash sends out Pikachu, but Oshawott wants to battle. Then the opening credits happen, then the narrator tells us what happened one minute before. Thanks, bro.

Oshawott's scalchop can deflect electric attacks, and it performs admirably against Blitzle, but when it tries to attack Blitzle with its scalchop, Blitzle accidentally kicks the item miles away into a nearby forest. Stephan agrees to wait for tomorrow, and Oshawott and Ash run into the forest to search. Ash, Oshawott, and Pikachu look through the forest, Ash not sending out his other pokemon to help because he’s kind of a dumbass.

The heroes just kind of give up searching for the scalchop, and when Iris and Cilan finally decide to help, guess Iris' brilliant plan? Replace Oshawott's scalchop with a berry. When it fails, Iris laments that it "seemed like a good idea at the time," but honestly, it didn't. Not really. Eventually, Cilan has Dwebble carve a new shield out of rock to protect itself, but it’s larger than Oshawott and like twelve hundred pounds. Still, Ash insists they learn to use the rock shield. We then literally get a training montage or Oshawott getting used to its new scalchop.

The next day, the heroes go looking for Stephan for their battle, and find him using an electrical generator for enhancing Blitzle. Don’t worry. This isn’t important. It’s just padding.

Blitzle's attacks are now extremely powerful, and Oshawott's rock shield is destroyed in less than a minute. Ash decides that the best defense is a strong offense, so he has Oshawott just run up and punch Blitzle in the face, also known as the Superman Defense. Deciding he has nothing left to lose, Ash just has Oshawott use aqua jet - but its aim is still poor. For some reason, Blitzle runs alongside it in a flame charge, and they collide with a boulder, knocking Blitzle out but leaving Oshawott up.


As the episode ends, Axew finds Oshawott’s scalchop. How did it do this? Why was it still searching for it? The answers to these questions will not be found in this episode.

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Lol.

No mention of that adorable scene with Oshawott and a Joltik? :3

GenesisSaga posted...

Lol.

No mention of that adorable scene with Oshawott and a Joltik? :3

That was okay, but I lumped it in with the "Oshawott tries new stuff" part.

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COTTONEE IN LOVE!
"When I think about love and romance, then I eat!"
Score: 4.5/10

Honestly, I could give you a real review of this episode, or I could post pictures of Iris eating things.





Which do you think is the best option? Also: green apples suck, red apples are the master race. I’ve never had an orange apple, though.

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Oh Anna... >_>

Actual episode summary:

A male Cottonee lands amongst the gang and of course they decide to help it out. After being rejected by a female because it's weak and kind of pathetic, Ash teaches it how to attack with Tackle and defend with Cotton Guard- the basics. You see, Cottonee find suitable mates by testing each other's battle prowess because that's how Cottonee roll I guess. Iris's method of training involves her eating a lot for no explained reason. Ya know... it seems like love of food is more Iris's gimmick than it ever was for May. Anyway Cottonee uses its newly found skills to impress the female counterpart, they fall in love and drift off into a rainbow... sky bridge thing. Oh, and Team Rocket prolly showed up to capture all the Cottonee but they failed because our hero Cottonee became cool or something maybe. The end.

Also yellow > red >>> green ??? orange!?

Also Scraggy is adorable and forms a bond with the Cottonee.

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I've never had a yellow apple either, Gen.

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Yellow apples suuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
Green apples ftw

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htaeD posted...

Yellow apples suuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
Green apples ftw

Yep. That is how your opinion on yellow apples is invalidated indeed.

Sweet > sour

Green apples are the worst.

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I've never had a yellow apple either, Gen.

They are sweeter than red apples, but kind of soft like a pear- not as mushy and grainy though. Red apples have the best texture, but yellow apples have the best flavor hands down. If only there were an apple with the taste of a yellow apple and the firmness of a red apple. Man, orange apples would be the best!

well I am mostly talking about Granny Smith apples
which arent that sour to me

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of course
Pears > all (as long as they arent mushy)

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Thank you for agreeing with me on red versus green apples, Gen. We're the only islands of sanity in a sea of madness.

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popping back in to say I'm glad you got to the Litwick episode. loved that one too.

I'll be paying more attention once you get to the B/W season that's on in Japan now, since I'm actually watching those.

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I want to try one of those Japanese grapples. An apple that tastes like a grape.

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I want to try one of those Japanese grapples. An apple that tastes like a grape.

That sounds horrible.

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