Review BW090: The Junior Cup Gets Underway! Kairyu VS Tunbear!!

[Dogasu]

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The Junior Cup Gets Underway! Kairyu VS Tunbear!!



Animation - Team Kato
Screenplay - Junki Takegami
Storyboard - Fumihiro Yoshimura
Assistant director - Fumihiro Yoshimura
Animation director - Takashi Shinohara



The Pokemon World Tournament Junior Cup has finally started! The winner will be given a chance to battle with Adeku, the Champion of the Isshu Region. The tournament starts off with an exhibition match between the Shin'ou Region's Champion Shirona and the Isshu Region's Four Heavenly Emperors' member Cattleya. This match between Shirona's Gablias and Cattleya's Gothilselle really gets the crowd fired up! Later, Iris and her Kairyuu go up against Langley's Tsunbear. However, Kairyuu won't listen to Iris' orders and take all of Tsunbear's super effective Ice-Type attacks head on! What will happen!?

 

[Ashs Battle Coach]

So what'd I miss? My keyhole was fucking up so bad I missed like 97% of the episode. Trip looked mad at Alder at the end though. Can someone briefly fill me in please? Cheers

 

[PockyAddict]

I'm kinda curious about what (i'll use thier japan names instead since this is a japan epi) Cabernet said to Hikari?

 

[Dogasu]

This episode felt like every other "first episode of a Don Tournament" episode. They're all so samey now.

I'm kinda curious about what (i'll use thier japan names instead since this is a japan epi) Cabernet said to Hikari?

She told her to watch out for Dent.

 

[Satoshi_Pikachu]

That was ridiculously rushed, it does feel just like the Don Battle tournaments...

There should be a rule about trainers automatically losing when their Pokémon refuse to obey them XD

 

[Moe]

So Iris and Dawn were the only one of the 16 entrants in the 'World' tournament to use non-Unova Pokemon in that first round. That's about as useless as Georgia's choice of attacks.

Iris being happy about winning annoyed me far more than her winning. Relief is the only emotion you're entitled to after winning with your Pokemon not listening to a word you say for the whole battle.

 

[HumanDawn]

Spoiler

[12:03:44 PM] Ruben Galea: ok look
[12:03:46 PM] Ruben Galea: CLONE
[12:03:56 PM] Ruben Galea: OH SHIT
[12:03:59 PM] Ruben Galea: CYNTHIA AND ALDER TALKING
[12:04:07 PM] Ruben Galea: THEY PROBABLY WERE KISSING
[12:04:24 PM] Ruben Galea: OH NO
[12:04:25 PM] Ruben Galea: TRIP
[12:04:31 PM] Ruben Galea: LOLOLOL
[12:04:38 PM] Ruben Galea: HE FORGOT ABOUT TRIP'S EXISTANCE!
[12:04:51 PM] Ruben Galea: LOL
[12:04:54 PM] Ruben Galea: HE REMEMBERS ASH
[12:05:19 PM] Ruben Galea: LOL
[12:05:23 PM] Ruben Galea: ALDER HITTING ON CYNTHIA
[12:05:26 PM] Ruben Galea: Pervert
[12:05:31 PM] Ruben Galea: You have a son
[12:05:33 PM] Ruben Galea: already
[12:05:38 PM] Ruben Galea: GEORGIA
[12:05:41 PM] Ruben Galea: Yeah yeah
[12:05:42 PM] Ruben Galea: dragon master!
[12:06:13 PM] Ruben Galea: BURGUNDY
[12:06:20 PM] Ruben Galea: LOL ASH HATES HER
[12:06:26 PM] Ruben Galea: and iris
[12:06:29 PM] Ruben Galea: Dawn is puzzled
[12:06:30 PM] Ruben Galea: LOL
[12:06:35 PM] Ruben Galea: Screaming
[12:06:57 PM] Ruben Galea: OH SHIT
[12:07:00 PM] Ruben Galea: WORLD TOURNAMENT
[12:07:02 PM] Ruben Galea: WORLD
[12:07:03 PM] Ruben Galea: WORLD
[12:07:10 PM] Ruben Galea: Competitors?
[12:07:11 PM] Ruben Galea: 16...
[12:07:15 PM] Ruben Galea: Wow.
[12:07:32 PM] Ruben Galea: Alder takes Don George's place.
[12:07:41 PM] Ruben Galea: Trip wants to battle him
[12:07:53 PM] Ruben Galea: Animation's NICE
[12:07:55 PM] Ruben Galea: OH SHIT
[12:07:57 PM] Ruben Galea: FLOWER
[12:07:58 PM] Ruben Galea: OPENING
[12:08:00 PM] Ruben Galea: CAITLIN
[12:08:01 PM] Ruben Galea: OMGOM
[12:08:02 PM] Ruben Galea: GOMG
[12:08:08 PM] Ruben Galea: MY FAVORITE ELITE 4 MEMBER
[12:08:10 PM] Ruben Galea: OH SHIT
[12:08:13 PM] Ruben Galea: CYNTHIA'S COMING IN
[12:08:21 PM] Ruben Galea: BITCH FIGHT
[12:08:29 PM] Ruben Galea: WHO'S THE SEXIEST
[12:08:30 PM] Ruben Galea: OH SHI
[12:08:32 PM] Ruben Galea: THE CAPE
[12:08:40 PM] Ruben Galea: 10 minute time limit?
[12:08:46 PM] Ruben Galea: OMG
[12:08:48 PM] Ruben Galea: Her..
[12:08:52 PM] Ruben Galea: Garchomp....
[12:08:53 PM] Ruben Galea: W/e
[12:08:56 PM] Ruben Galea: OMG CAITLIN
[12:09:00 PM] Ruben Galea: GOTHITELLE
[12:09:06 PM] Ruben Galea: Smexy
[12:09:08 PM] Ruben Galea: OMG
[12:09:12 PM] Ruben Galea: IRIS FANGIRLING
[12:09:17 PM] Ruben Galea: FOR GARCHOMP
[12:09:24 PM] Ruben Galea: KILL HER
[12:09:30 PM] Ruben Galea: CAITLIN
[12:09:33 PM] Ruben Galea: KILL CYNTHIA
[12:09:37 PM] Ruben Galea: AND HER FANS TOO
[12:09:39 PM] Ruben Galea: IF YOU CAN
[12:09:41 PM] Ruben Galea: OH SHIT
[12:09:53 PM] Ruben Galea: GARCHOMP IS BEING HURT
[12:10:02 PM] Ruben Galea: GOTHITELLE!
[12:10:06 PM] Ruben Galea: You have short legs...
[12:10:10 PM] Ruben Galea: Pokedex 3d showed your legs to be longer... :3
[12:10:12 PM] Ruben Galea: STAND UP
[12:10:20 PM] Ruben Galea: BEAT THAT MARY SUE THAT IS CYNTHIA
[12:10:35 PM] Ruben Galea: HOLY SHIT
[12:10:43 PM] Ruben Galea: DRACO MEETER
[12:10:44 PM] Ruben Galea: OMG
[12:10:46 PM] Ruben Galea: FIREWORKS
[12:10:49 PM] Ruben Galea: SPARKLES
[12:10:52 PM] Ruben Galea: BEAT THAT CILAN
[12:11:14 PM] Ruben Galea: Piplup stfu
[12:11:15 PM] Ruben Galea: OMG
[12:11:18 PM] Ruben Galea: BATTLE AWESOME
[12:11:23 PM] Ruben Galea: TIME UP
[12:11:29 PM] Ruben Galea: 10 mins already?
[12:11:32 PM] Ruben Galea: NOBODY WON?
[12:11:37 PM] Ruben Galea: OMG CAITLIN IS FANGIRLING?!?
[12:11:47 PM] Ruben Galea: GET THAT KNIFE OUT OF YOUR HAIR AND KILL HER
[12:11:53 PM] Ruben Galea: SMILING
[12:11:57 PM] Ruben Galea: HANDSHAKING?!
[12:12:01 PM] Ruben Galea: WTF?
[12:12:21 PM] Ruben Galea: WHO'S THAT POKEMON?
[12:12:23 PM] Ruben Galea: DARE DA?
[12:12:28 PM] Ruben Galea: UM....
[12:12:29 PM] Ruben Galea: DITTO
[12:12:31 PM] Ruben Galea: No wait..
[12:12:34 PM] Ruben Galea: GABITE YES!
[12:12:37 PM] Ruben Galea: YUP
[12:12:50 PM] Ruben Galea: OH SHIT
[12:12:59 PM] Ruben Galea: IRIS IS GOING TO TAKE HER DRAGONITE OUT
[12:13:02 PM] Ruben Galea: AGAINST HER RIVAL
[12:13:03 PM] Ruben Galea: AND WIN
[12:14:04 PM] Ruben Galea: YES YES
[12:14:09 PM] Ruben Galea: YUMMY
[12:14:33 PM] Ruben Galea: Trip and cabernet bitchin
[12:14:39 PM] Ruben Galea: CILAN VS COTD
[12:14:44 PM] Ruben Galea: WITH BIG MUSCLES
[12:14:50 PM] Ruben Galea: MORE COTD
[12:14:55 PM] Ruben Galea: ASH VS COTD TOO
[12:15:02 PM] Ruben Galea: more cotd...
[12:15:12 PM] Ruben Galea: Dawn vs some cotd...
[12:15:18 PM] Ruben Galea: Iris VS georgia
[12:15:19 PM] Ruben Galea: OMG
[12:15:33 PM] Ruben Galea: KILL EACH OTHER ALREADY
[12:15:37 PM] Ruben Galea: Meoletta cheering on
[12:15:40 PM] Ruben Galea: Meh meh meh meh meh
[12:15:48 PM] Ruben Galea: TRIP VS BURGUNDY
[12:15:50 PM] Ruben Galea: GO TRIP
[12:15:54 PM] Ruben Galea: KICK HER ASS
[12:15:59 PM] Ruben Galea: DARMANITAN
[12:16:00 PM] Ruben Galea: WHOOP
[12:16:08 PM] Ruben Galea: SERPERIOR
[12:16:10 PM] Ruben Galea: WOW
[12:16:19 PM] Ruben Galea: DARMANITAN WILL SURELY WIN WITH IT'S TYPE ADVANTAGE
[12:16:30 PM] Ruben Galea: OH wait...
[12:16:36 PM] Ruben Galea: THAT DOESN'T MATTER THIS SAGA.
[12:16:40 PM] Ruben Galea: OMG
[12:16:43 PM] Ruben Galea: SCARY FACE
[12:16:46 PM] Ruben Galea: DARMANITAN IS SLOW
[12:16:51 PM] Ruben Galea: YAY FOR STRATEGY
[12:16:57 PM] Ruben Galea: WOW DARMANITAN IS SWEATING
[12:16:59 PM] Ruben Galea: OMG
[12:17:02 PM] Ruben Galea: SOLAR BEAM
[12:17:09 PM] Ruben Galea: And...
[12:17:11 PM] Ruben Galea: It's over..
[12:17:21 PM] Ruben Galea: One
[12:17:23 PM] Ruben Galea: FUCKING
[12:17:25 PM] Ruben Galea: SOLAR BEAM
[12:17:29 PM] Ruben Galea: BEAT A FIRE TYPE
[12:17:36 PM] Ruben Galea: YAY FOR LOGIC
[12:17:43 PM] Ruben Galea: Alder's suspiscious
[12:17:47 PM] Ruben Galea: Trip's looking at him
[12:17:54 PM] Ruben Galea: making sure that Alder is impressed and all
[12:18:04 PM] Ruben Galea: Don't worry he'll forget all about you the next day
[12:18:09 PM] Ruben Galea: OMG
[12:18:20 PM] Ruben Galea: PANSAGE BEAT A GALVANTULA
[12:18:22 PM] Ruben Galea: Wow
[12:18:27 PM] Ruben Galea: Type disadvantages
[12:18:29 PM] Ruben Galea: BEATING
[12:18:32 PM] Ruben Galea: YAY FOR SOME LEAVANNY ACTION
[12:18:34 PM] Ruben Galea: ONLY 3 SECONDS OF SCREEN TIME!!?? FUU---
[12:18:36 PM] Ruben Galea: WAIT
[12:18:48 PM] Ruben Galea: THIS TOURNAMENT IS FULL OF ONE HITTERS
[12:18:55 PM] Ruben Galea: AND TYPE DISADVANTAGE WINNERS
[12:18:56 PM] Ruben Galea: BUT WAIT
[12:19:06 PM] Ruben Galea: That's prob just the last minute of the battle.
[12:19:12 PM] Ruben Galea: OMG
[12:19:16 PM] Ruben Galea: GEORGIA AND IRIS
[12:19:24 PM] Ruben Galea: YAY DRAGONITE
[12:19:31 PM] Ruben Galea: Georgia's all like
[12:19:32 PM] Ruben Galea: HMM
[12:19:35 PM] Ruben Galea: GO BEARTIC
[12:19:49 PM] Ruben Galea: TEAM DRAGONITE FTW
[12:20:04 PM] Ruben Galea: 4 ENERGY BALLS
[12:20:06 PM] Ruben Galea: OMG
[12:20:15 PM] Ruben Galea: IRIS FINDS OUT THAT DRAGONITE IS DISOBEDIANT
[12:20:28 PM] Ruben Galea: *GASP*
[12:20:36 PM] Ruben Galea: Now Dragonite is all like
[12:20:41 PM] Ruben Galea: BITCH FUCK OFF
[12:20:47 PM] Ruben Galea: Wow Dragonite
[12:20:52 PM] Ruben Galea: OS SHIT
[12:20:55 PM] Ruben Galea: DRAGONITE
[12:20:58 PM] Ruben Galea: IT'S SO OVERPOWERED
[12:21:14 PM] Ruben Galea: BEARTIC'S ICE BEAMING
[12:21:20 PM] Ruben Galea: WTF
[12:21:21 PM] Ruben Galea: YAY
[12:21:24 PM] Ruben Galea: IT'S FROZEN
[12:21:34 PM] Ruben Galea: GEORGIA'S ON THE EDGE
[12:21:42 PM] Ruben Galea: DRAGONITE
[12:21:53 PM] Ruben Galea: MELT YOURSELF WITH YOUR GODLYNESS
[12:21:57 PM] Ruben Galea: AS IRIS' SERVANT
[12:22:11 PM] Ruben Galea: KISS THE GROUND SHE WALKS ON
[12:22:18 PM] Ruben Galea: OH SHIT
[12:22:23 PM] Ruben Galea: DRAGONITE'S BREAKING OUT
[12:22:26 PM] Ruben Galea: IT
[12:22:28 PM] Ruben Galea: IT'S
[12:22:29 PM] Ruben Galea: COMING
[12:22:31 PM] Ruben Galea: RUNNING
[12:22:37 PM] Ruben Galea: BEARTIC'S GONNA GET FUCKED
[12:22:39 PM] Ruben Galea: HOLY SHIT
[12:22:41 PM] Ruben Galea: ICY WIND
[12:22:45 PM] Ruben Galea: DRAGONITE THUNDERPUNCHS
[12:22:50 PM] Ruben Galea: HOLY SHIT
[12:22:57 PM] Ruben Galea: BEARTIC
[12:23:01 PM] Ruben Galea: IT'S DOWN...
[12:23:05 PM] Ruben Galea: Um...
[12:23:07 PM] Ruben Galea: Yay Iris?
[12:23:11 PM] Ruben Galea: She's happy?
[12:23:25 PM] Ruben Galea: Oh she's telling draggy in disgust that he should obey her next time!
[12:23:27 PM] Ruben Galea: OH
[12:23:32 PM] Ruben Galea: GEORGIA'S BITCHING ON IRIS
[12:23:39 PM] Ruben Galea: "NO FAIR BITCH"
[12:23:48 PM] Ruben Galea: yay
[12:23:56 PM] Ruben Galea: EVERYBODY'S HAPPY
[12:24:03 PM] Ruben Galea: Trip's looking at Alder
[12:24:16 PM] Ruben Galea: TO BE CONTINUED
[12:24:20 PM] Ruben Galea: And...
[12:24:24 PM] Ruben Galea: That's it?
[12:25:24 PM] Ruben Galea: TEAM ROCKET LIVE CASTER!
[12:25:31 PM] Ruben Galea: Which means...
[12:25:34 PM] Ruben Galea: RECYCLED ANIMATION TIME

/GASMING

TL;DR

Rushed battles and another Gothitelle mistake. Legs should have been longer . 10 minute battle limit is an interesting new addition. Alder hitting on Cynthia was lulzy. Ash, Iris, Cilan, Dawn and 3 characters of the day all made it to the next round. Yup, that's just about everybody PP.

 

[Silktree]

So Iris and Dawn were the only one of the 16 entrants in the 'World' tournament to use non-Unova Pokemon in that first round. That's about as useless as Georgia's choice of attacks.

Has it been established that trainers from other regions are encouraged to participate in the Unova Junior Cup? Yes, Dawn happens to be in Unova for a visit and is participating, but everyone else seems to be from Unova (except for Ash who has been in the region for a while). I would think that trainers would be expected to enter the Junior Cup in their home region, with later cups requiring that they advance to other regions.

Does the episode explain the World Tournament system at all? Or is that too much to ask for these days? Either way, the continued dominance of Generation V critters is saddening.

 

[Airi-Chan]

Wow! That's great! Trip looks cool and cute there! I like battle between Georgia and Iris XD. That's all. And Alder's interaction with Chyntia made me LOL

 

[PTOldMan]

I'd like to have seen more of Burgundy, though her interaction with Dawn was pretty nice. Let's hope Dawn interacts with more Unova characters.

 

[Kenji-girl]

Wow... How can I describe this episode? Well it's pretty much what I expected it to be. Utterly disappointing. Probably the worst opening to a tournament arc ever.

Just a bunch of one second battles and no character development other than Trip I guess. Unnecessary to blow through the entire first round just to show us how powerful Dragonite is. And what was the point of even adding Burgundy to the tournament if they just knock her out of the tournament in ten seconds? Just to get yucks from the viewers I guess? Seriously now.

Stephan and Bianca didn't at least get cameos either...

 

[Hellion]

Oh wow, this episode was bad and rushed. Adeku and Cabernet were funny in the beginning, and I really liked the interactions between Dent, Cabernet and Hikari. Shooti showing some personality besides apathy was equally nice, but therein lies the sole good things I have to say about this episode, cause the rest was pretty much awful.

The exhibition match at the beginning looked good and all, but it was kinda gratuitous and there to be there and introduce game characters. I would have rather seen good battles from actual participants in the tournament. I think Shirona's ugly ass cape had more screen time than Cabernet in this episode. XD I expected quick blink you miss it battles for every battle that didn't involve two main/recurring characters, but even those that did looked like crap. Shooti's smug inner comments about Adeku were longer than the match itself. What's the point of having Cabernet there if she's just going to get the random CotD treatment? Use a CotD instead. One-hit KO crapapaloozza follows. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn. Now, I thought that Langley v Iris would be cheap, but it managed to exceed my expectations of how cheap it was going to be. Look how Dragonite can take all of Tsunbear's attacks without really being affected cause he's so much stronger than everyone. Major yawn. What bugged me is that the episode was clearly trying to create some tension and make the audience feel bad for Iris, but lulz that majorly failed because there was no consequence to Iris' problem and guess what? This is a battle she should have lost. She enters a tournament with a Pokémon she has never trained or really worked with, she doesn't know his style, how they work together, then realizes he's disobedient and... does that cost her anything? She wins the match, everyone's super happy for her, except Langley who's portrayed as being really unlikable because how can you not cheer Iris and her overpowered Dragonite. There's no consequences, no cost, no struggle, no hardship, nothing to really test her character and force her to grow and progress. It's a match she should have lost, or been disqualified, or retired from, whatever. There's nothing gained from having her make it past round one except some more Iris glorification, cause heaven forbid she should actually have flaws, actually lose early in a tournament, actually be portrayed as a character that can still get better and actually be held accountable to her bullshit. It didn't feel earned, it just felt cheap.

Also, commentator guy and Adeku lacked the sexual tension that commentator guy and Don George have, it really made the commentary less interesting. XD

 

[Masurao]

*Yawn* -> pretty much overall describes by feelings towards this episode. This seems even more rushed than the Don Battle.

 

[Grave-E]

I like how this was Reuniclus' debut episode, and it was only seen on screen for a split second. Granted, Ash will probably have to fight it at some point, but still. Are all the remaining gen V pokemon going to have unceremonious debuts?


Oh, and the episode was kind of shitty. At the moment, this certainly doesn't feel like a world tournament competition.

 

[CynthiaLover]

As I feared, not only was the episode bad, and rushed, but Iris' Dragonite is steamrolling its way through the tournament, despite being disobedient. I was afraid of this. If those images on BNN are true, then Dragonite is just gonna plow its way through the tournament until the final round, whether it listens to Iris or not. Such cheapness. I'm not going to even bother watching this section when it comes out in the states.

 

[Ishida]

Oh my god.. this tournament is ass the only good thing coming out of it is Krookodile. I can't believe I got hyped for this.. just bring on the League

 

[Trainer Yusuf]

Has it been established that trainers from other regions are encouraged to participate in the Unova Junior Cup?

It has been openly stated in the scans from Pokémon Fan(which is owned by Shogakukan) that there are trainers coming from all around the world:

"These Trainers have come from all over the world. The winner gets to battle Champion Alder!"
Translation is in the first post of this thread, along with scan: (link) Translation is by Sushi of Serebiiforums, so if you want to ask anything, ask Sushi, not me.

 

[MetroLSD]

Wait! Did the Shirona-Cattleya fight end in a draw??? im shocked!

 

[Mikuri]

How disappointing an episode can be? Because I think that this one exceeded the limits.
Trip getting a free pass to the second round;
Burgundy being treated as a character of the day;
Dawn's only victory in this tourney being in a battle that lasted for 3 seconds;
Dragonite being capable of withstanding Ice-type attacks smoothly;
Georgia's Beartic falling to a Thunder Punch;
But the worst thing was seeing Iris all happy to have won a match with a Pokémon that does not listen to her. I remember that in the Daybreak Contest Dawn was sad because the Flame Ice had not worked the way she wanted, Ash then told her she have not to worry about it, because she had passed to the next round, but Dawn was more concerned with the combination. Iris does not feel the same, the important thing is that she won a battle against the strongest Pokémon of her rival using a Pokémon she captured a day before the competition.

But apart from that, it was nice to see Caitlin. And the battle she had with Cynthia ended like a Contest Battle, I loved it.

 

[HumanDawn]

*sanity regained*

This episode... was so fast. One minute I'm looking at the beautiful, glorious and well-paced Cynthia and Caitlin battle, and in the next there's Georgia and Dragonite's Iris' battle. The problem with rushed battles is that they don't let the viewer enjoy what is being shown to them. It makes the viewer feel confused, puzzled and lack interest. Take the Cynthia and Caitlin battle as an example. The battle is going pretty well, both sides are giving it their all, you can't wait for the outcome and poof, battles' over. I also can't believe that the battle lasted ten whole minutes, resulting in Cynthia's first on-screen tie, when it only lasted around two minutes. It's times like these that I wish an episode of Pokemon lasted around 42 minutes instead of the usual 21 minutes. Unfortunately for the writers (and fortunately for the animators XD ), that will never happen.

<3​

Trip and Alder's plot in this episode was built up nicely. You have Trip keeping an eye on Alder's reactions to his battle and Alder looking at Trip oddly. So far, the tension's good. It made me both interested and compelled a bit. Hopefully it will lead to something good. I don't really get why people think that Trip possibly battling Alder is pointless because he could have battled with him after the 'battle' with Ash. I mean, what if they did battle in that episode? Wouldn't Trip be unsatisfied with Alder not caring? Wouldn't Trip still strive to train harder and battle Alder again, still thinking that his own methods are better? Regarding Trip's win against Burgundy, I'm really happy that Trip won. This isn't Burgundy's tournament. At first I though that Serperior beating Darmanitan with one Solarbeam was cheap, but then I remembered the many times I beat Fire-type Pokemon with a CRITICAL HIT Solarbeam in the Battle Subway as a last resort. The same happened in this episode.

Iris and Georgia's battle... ugh.... It was just as I feared in the preview thread. Hellion summed it up perfectly:

There's no consequences, no cost, no struggle, no hardship, nothing to really test her character and force her to grow and progress. It's a match she should have lost, or been disqualified, or retired from, whatever.

I was hoping that Dragonite wouldn't be displayed to be overpowered, but that battle with Beartic, the same Beartic that tied with Excadrill, countering its every move, breaking out of the ice, showed it to have immense strength. I'm not going to disregard the potential development, but lets just say that it isn't looking good for Iris' writing. Georgia calling her out on it was good, but not really satisfactory. Lets just hope that in the next episode the scenario isn't as... grating...

Oh and CAN'T THE ANIMATORS DRAW GOTHITELLE CORRECTLY?. Just look:

PokeDex 3D showed them to be longer and bigger.

The highlight of this episode still remains to be Cynthia and Caitlin's battle to me. Garchomp getting out of Gothitelle's Psychic with Dragon Rush was great and the contest-like combination of Dragon Meteor and Thunderbolt was great too. It definitely looked like a battle an Elite Four member and Champion would make. Sadly, it didn't last...

I hope that Caitlin's appearance means that Grimsley, Shauntal and Marshal will show up too.