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Indeed.and a cool scarf!
That's not the ribbonRegarding the whole ribbon situation, Serena still has it with her, it's just that you need a very keen eye to spot it.
When Serena rises out of the stage for her performance, you can see that she has a blue ribbon tied to her left ankle.
That's not the ribbon
Send Serena to Hoenn to try out Contests
Change Contests into a carbon copy of Showcases
It's showcases in all but name. It is no coincidence that we never saw Dawn enter a "contest" this series.I waited for return of Contests in Anime over a decade and gotta extremely meh version of it...
Overall not bad episode, but definitely not what I waited for over a decade.
Ash just said that he's aiming to become the strongest trainer, and Serena said that she's aiming to become the best performer, that's itLots to say about this episode, firstly how much this changes how we perceive previews… Serena didn’t appear in the opening nor the preview and (besides leaks) they only revealed she was in the episode yesterday - it kind of feels like the possibilities are endless now, they actually will keep things out of the previews for a surprise.
I think Serena’s new outfit is pretty nice, makes her look quite mature. Incredible to see her whole team together - newly evolved Delphox included and each with a new move. Her performance was great (there’s a key word there)
It’s good that Serena and Vhloe got most the attention while Lisa and Wallace were smaller parts - kinda wild that we’ve seen two Mega Altaria’s belong to two different Gen 6 characters debuting in Journey’s in as many episodes. And Goh catching one - surely he was keen to chase it down having Drasna’s Altaria is fresh in his mind? Was that mentioned.
I like how Some of these old character returns go, Chuck didn’t recognise Ash at first, Drake nor Ash recognised each other at first and now Ash didn’t immediately recognise Wallace - these are sort of the only real indication that time passes in the show. I do appreciate Wallace mentioning he used to be the Champion but now Steven is (I know we know that already, but it is just great to see it acknowledged that there was a swap over – I don’t know exactly what was said though) Kinda would have liked to see more of the battle, but I kind of like how this series now just portrays Ash battling as “yeah of course he can beat a former Champion, nothing to see here”
Flashbacks galore in this episode and I’m so happy to see both Dawn and May mentioned by Wallace - so nostalgic to be thinking about XY which I was watching at university and the Wallace Cup in DP which I can remember watching in school. Made me very happy!
Now, there can be noting more Journeys than an episode flaunting some of the most past series continuity an episode has ever had - at the same time as completely ignoring continuity to bring something more online with how they are portrayed in the games. This Pokémon ‘contest’ was just a Preformance in anime terms, that’s a little disappointing - Serena’s performance here was probable better than any of them from XY (they made more use of space, it certainly lived up a bit better to appeal rounds from DP) and, yeah - I suppose you could headcanon it that the battle round took place off screen but Serena using three Pokémon while everyone else just used one… makes me think they. It is a little lame they are sweeping it all under the carpet.
Again, I didn’t have subtitles, but it sounded like Ash was telling Serena to watch him in the PWC or something- I’m sure she’ll get another appearance or two.
Absolutely. This was their chance to bring back some of the old Performer girls from XY and they didn't do it because we saw almost none of the other Coordinators because they kept cutting away to Ash's battle. People who wanted a battle got snippets of a battle littered with contest and people who wanted a contest got a glorified showcase broken up by battle scenes. What they should have done was Team Rocket episode this week to mark the anniversary, Contest episode next week and Ash vs. Wallace the week after that still in Lilycove City.They should have given us a episode focused on Chloe, Serena and the contest and then had a Wallace Ash battle in a different episode