Rocketshipper
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So since the Don battle tournament has officially concluded, I thought it would be interesting to have a topic discussion the event as a whole and getting everyone's overall opinions about how things went and everything.
Judgeing by a lot of the responses in the BW 44 topic, I'd conclude that the response to this arc was mostly negative, which kind of surprises me. Personally, I enjoyed this tournament arc quit a lot. It wasn;t as good as the tag tournament from DP, but I still had a lot of fun with it. The thing I liked best was getting to see all the rival characters together again and all the comedic banter and antics we had going on on the sidelines. Bianca chasing Zorua around constantly, Langley and Iris' constant back and forth, Cabernett trying to one-up Cilan at every turn, I was laughing quit a bit in these 4 episodes. I think my favorite moment overall was when Cabernett went into a whole dramatic speach about *poor* Snivy having to eat Cilan's food...and then Snivy just smackes her away with Vinewip like an annoying fly. And Kenyan/Stephan is now a definite favorite of mine, I hope he'll get to show up a lot more, maybe become this season's equivalent of Barry.
This tournament also restored my faith in the battling for the show. To be honest I hadn;t been really impressed with most of the battles we've seen in BW up to this pint. I thought ALL three gyms were pretty sub-par in terms of writing and animation, the other trainer battles havn't faired much better. Only ones before this point that were really that memorable for me were Stephan vs Ash, and Ash vs Trip in their 3rd match. But I thought all of these battles were really good, honestly. Trip vs Cilan is now my fave BW battle; loved seeing Trip lose against a character you might not expect, and I thought the battle itself had good stratigy and animation. Loved seeing Mugyo and Volcarona's pre-evo get screen time. Stephan's Sawk was well animated in its moves...great to see Ash use Palpitoad for the first time, and Iris vs Ash was well animated and exciting too. I didn;t even really have much iof a problem with Kibago learning a new move like that vs Luke. Only battle that dissapointed me I guess was Snivy vs Pawniard, and only because it just left me wanting more Snivy! Snivy seriously needs more screentime I think.
Judgeing by a lot of the responses in the BW 44 topic, I'd conclude that the response to this arc was mostly negative, which kind of surprises me. Personally, I enjoyed this tournament arc quit a lot. It wasn;t as good as the tag tournament from DP, but I still had a lot of fun with it. The thing I liked best was getting to see all the rival characters together again and all the comedic banter and antics we had going on on the sidelines. Bianca chasing Zorua around constantly, Langley and Iris' constant back and forth, Cabernett trying to one-up Cilan at every turn, I was laughing quit a bit in these 4 episodes. I think my favorite moment overall was when Cabernett went into a whole dramatic speach about *poor* Snivy having to eat Cilan's food...and then Snivy just smackes her away with Vinewip like an annoying fly. And Kenyan/Stephan is now a definite favorite of mine, I hope he'll get to show up a lot more, maybe become this season's equivalent of Barry.
This tournament also restored my faith in the battling for the show. To be honest I hadn;t been really impressed with most of the battles we've seen in BW up to this pint. I thought ALL three gyms were pretty sub-par in terms of writing and animation, the other trainer battles havn't faired much better. Only ones before this point that were really that memorable for me were Stephan vs Ash, and Ash vs Trip in their 3rd match. But I thought all of these battles were really good, honestly. Trip vs Cilan is now my fave BW battle; loved seeing Trip lose against a character you might not expect, and I thought the battle itself had good stratigy and animation. Loved seeing Mugyo and Volcarona's pre-evo get screen time. Stephan's Sawk was well animated in its moves...great to see Ash use Palpitoad for the first time, and Iris vs Ash was well animated and exciting too. I didn;t even really have much iof a problem with Kibago learning a new move like that vs Luke. Only battle that dissapointed me I guess was Snivy vs Pawniard, and only because it just left me wanting more Snivy! Snivy seriously needs more screentime I think.