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I personally count the references in episodes 7 and 12 as more than just slight hints.I am so glad they finally acknowledge something outright from the past series instead of slight hints
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I personally count the references in episodes 7 and 12 as more than just slight hints.I am so glad they finally acknowledge something outright from the past series instead of slight hints
I still feel it's stupid that Misty snarked about Ash on how her badge was a pity badge when Ash was clearly winning their initial battle. No matter, she did get trounced thoroughly shortly after that.I am so glad they finally acknowledge something outright from the past series instead of slight hints, especially one of the best battles from there. That was the first time when Ash getting a badge felt truly earned (even though he was totally winning against Misty).
She retconned that in her mind pretty early, since she made a comment about it in Mystery At The Lighthouse (and I think Ash's Pokémon nodded along with her? Early Kanto had a rather unique thing where Ash's Pokémon liked but didn't respect him, while his later parties pretty much all adore him).I still feel it's stupid that Misty snarked about Ash on how her badge was a pity badge when Ash was clearly winning their initial battle. No matter, she did get trounced thoroughly shortly after that.
She retconned that in her mind pretty early, since she made a comment about it in Mystery At The Lighthouse (and I think Ash's Pokémon nodded along with her? Early Kanto had a rather unique thing where Ash's Pokémon liked but didn't respect him, while his later parties pretty much all adore him).
This seems to be a pretty common thing among long-running shows (eg. One Piece), whereby they brief the viewers on the shows's main premise and/or the main characters' goals at the start of each episode. I'm guessing it's there so that new viewers can just hop in and watch an episode even if they're not familiar with the series.Also, how many times are they going to repeat the scenes where Ash and Gou's goals get told on-screen? Those segments waste a lot of precious screen time as it is. Like seriously, we get it that these two have distinct goals that they're aiming for but we don't have to see it over and over and over, it's exhausting. Repeating these scenes is pretty much them considering the audience to be dumb (which isn't the case at all, irrelevant management assumptions aside) as well as using up screen time that could be allocated to something better and meaningful even if it's in minor quantity.
Oh please this goes beyond a simple art style change. This is full blown 'whitewashed Bea in Twilight Wings'. I could maybe tolerate Surge's new facial features even if it makes him look like he had a dozen plastic surgeries since the last time we saw him because Ash's face has also had some modifications, but Ash's skin color has remained intact for the most part. Meanwhile Surge - who had the same skin tone as Brock back in OS - is now glistening like white marble. It'd be like if Brock had returned in SuMo looking as pale as Misty. So please don't try to tell me that's normal even for this show...
Maybe it's because I'm a person of color and still traumatized from that time when people on Tumblr made whitewashed fan art of Nessa, but I'm a little offended that the official anime would actually whitewash Lt. Surge to this degree.
In regards to the issue of Gengar’s intangibility, my guess is that it works on command and Gengar actually has to perceive the attack coming in time to activate it. Thus, Gengar could do it with Raichu, but not Electrode, as Electrode was too fast for it.
In regards to the issue of Gengar’s intangibility, my guess is that it works on command and Gengar actually has to perceive the attack coming in time to activate it. Thus, Gengar could do it with Raichu, but not Electrode, as Electrode was too fast for it.
That's the thing with incoporealness: you don't need to see an attack coming to go ghosty - it's just there so gengar can job and Pikachu can clean upYeah, the inconsistencies regarding Gengar's incorporeality kinda bothered me a bit, too. Technically speaking, I don't see any real difference between Raichu attacking with its tail and Electrode ramming itself against Gengar, so it's a bit weird that the latter works while the former doesn't. My headcanon is that Gengar actually has to see the attack coming in order to phase through it, so Electrode's erratic movements prevented Gengar from easily predicting the direction of its attacks.
He trained it, but it's not the same one that Pikachu facedSubs kinda confirm the Raichu is Surge's.
Well, it'd be rather weird to have raboot standing in the corner sulking during the opening, so...The Opening remains unchanged even now Scorbunny has evolved into Raboot, strange.
it's almost definitely another Raichu that was trained by Lt. Surge.
It’s possible that Gengar wasn’t able to because of the incredible speed of that electrodeYeah, the inconsistencies regarding Gengar's incorporeality kinda bothered me a bit, too. Technically speaking, I don't see any real difference between Raichu attacking with its tail and Electrode ramming itself against Gengar, so it's a bit weird that the latter works while the former doesn't. My headcanon is that Gengar actually has to see the attack coming in order to phase through it, so Electrode's erratic movements prevented Gengar from easily predicting the direction of its attacks.