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Admittedly I was expecting the list to be worse than it was, but why in the actual hell is the Pikachu vs. Mimikyu battle that sucked so much on there instead of Memories in the Mist?
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Exactly I was going to reply to @RetroPokeFan the same thing.
We had Iris which still was not seen as a pest by the fans but was building to it. Trip was born cursed to be a Paul wannabe, the battles were not that good, and we had serious Rockets but the first year got nice things like the Pokemon having different personalities, Ash having surprising catches, Cilan being a dork, and good fillers mostly good due to not recuring to the Team Rocket formula. The tournaments. Also they gave us that awesome Meowth arc ,and the Litwick episode which for me had one of the best Team Rockets in history funny and competent. If we had the Rocket Plasma episodes probably one of the best seasons in Pokemon.
Admittedly I was expecting the list to be worse than it was, but why in the actual hell is the Pikachu vs. Mimikyu battle that sucked so much on there instead of Memories in the Mist?
If that was the logic involved they should have gone with the Pikachu Valley one. Pretty sure that had Mimikyu rivalry stuff in it as well as a much less crappy conclusion.The list is almost entirely focused on Ash instead of his friends with Serena seemingly being the only exception. They also probably didn't want to include such an emotionally intense episode on the list. It is memorable, but it also might be too depressing for this list. Not to mention it would stick out like a sore thumb compared to all of the relatively upbeat episodes included on the playlist. I am still amazed that they chose Pikachu vs. Mimikyu. Maybe they wanted to feature an episode between the two of them given Mimikyu's popularity, but this would still be a sad choice even if that was the logic involved.
At sth?I don't like that list.
Bye Bye Butterfree, Charizard Chills, Can't Beat the Heat for OS; Win, Lose or Drew! for AG; Club Battle Finale: A Hero's Outcome! for BW; The Moment of Lumiose Truth! or Championing a Research Battle! for XY; One Journey Ends, Another Begins... or Memories in the Mist! and The Professors' New Adventure! should be there IMHO.
I guess they either didn't want to include obvious choices or (wishful thinking) they are hinting at sth?
Maybe these episodes will be referenced somehow in the new series (I know, I'm naive).At sth?
If that was the logic involved they should have gone with the Pikachu Valley one. Pretty sure that had Mimikyu rivalry stuff in it as well as a much less crappy conclusion.
Alola finale is one of the biggest episodes in the show's history (heck, I think Sarah Natochenny commented on that when she and some of the other english VA were livestreaming it). It's the one I'm really not sure why was left off.I don't think that episode would be considered memorable though. As unsatisfying as that battle turned out to be, it was memorable, even though it wasn't for good reasons. Besides that, they really should have gone with Ash and Pikachu defeating Professor Kukui and Tapu Koko instead. That was definitely a highlight and memorable moment of SM and it would have worked more with how most of their choices did focus on Ash's major accomplishments.
Umm? What are you watching?First one is relevant, though. Elesa is still popular as a character especially in Japan.
Are people confusing Orange Islands with Decalora Islands or something? Orange Islands is my favourite season and almost every, if not every, episode of it is filled with hype and everything. Full package season that is worth everything.
It was very popular for a while but it had some issues; they really, REALLY overfocused on just a few of Ash's Pokémon; Heracross gets 1 KO, Snorlax 2, and Charizard 3; Bayleef, Tauros, and Muk were basically there to show Ash had made the mistake of choosing his team based off raw strength.I never got the chance to see Ash's battle against Gary in the Johto League, though I suppose that episode must have been pretty good and memorable. (At least they better not have messed that one up...)
Later series had some dark stuff again after Johto ended; Diamond and Pearl in particular had some scenes as dark as anything in Kanto; one episode had Pikachu pretty clearly almost die in a battle with a Raichu; we even see a scene of him hooked up to a heart monitor while Nurse Joy struggles to keep him alive, Ash crying and watching helplessly from the other side of the window (honestly it bordered on a gritty reboot of the Lt. Surge episode during that scene, though it directly referenced that one so it was more of a followup), and some of the later shows actually killed off recurring characters (and not just villains).I think the Orange Islands is when the series started getting a bit cheesy and unrealistic and it only went downhill from there.
I doubt that the Team Plasma two parter would have drastically changed things in BW's favor. I can understand why fans put the episode on such a pedestal when there was so much buildup for the two parter and we still don't know for sure what would have happened, but considering that none of my main issues with BW had anything to do with those episodes being written out of continuity, I don't think it would have changed things that drastically.
"Team Rocket? Who are they?"In retrospect, the lack of Team Rocket episodes is also quite weird, but almost every episode on this list is focused on Ash. That isn't too surprising when he's the main character, but it's kind of a shame that they seemingly didn't bother to focus on other characters here beyond Serena.
"The Hoenn region? What's that?"They don't even include a Hoenn episode, which was the main setting for the vast majority of the series. Even if they didn't want to focus on May, there were other good/memorable episodes for Ash in Hoenn too.
"The Orange Islands? What's th.…. oh forget it."Yeah, the Orange Islands really should have gotten some mention.