Tbh I dont know how to feel about this episode. I mean Poipole has FINALY its backstory revealed, but much too late in my opinion. Again nothing really important happend in the first half of the episode, except Poipole random learned Furry Attack, a weak move. Took LONG enough! Seeing its homeworld was pretty cool, but it is suddenly he has a dream about its homeworld.This episode really just kind of reminded me how little I care about Poipole. It hasn't done literally anything of value since capture,and as such I had a hard time sympathizing with it here. I feel like I barely know it and it just reminds me of a slightly less annoying Chespin kind of character. For these past episode's it's just hung around outside of it's PokeBall occasionally causing a mess, and now all of a sudden they're trying to make it have some deep emotional...something. I wouldn't call it development since it really didn't change here. Honestly, this is one I'll need the dub for since I'm not even sure what the real goal of this episode was.
I will say however that I liked seeing Mina here and I especially liked how she had the Skull Grunts draw with her. That was quite amusing (especially since those drawings were pretty bad). Mina is one of my favorite Trial Captains and I hope we get to see more of here.
Also, (this is a pretty minor thing, but I thought about it when Ro-dex was talking to Mina) I have to say that I'm honestly surprised with how little people seem to be surprised by Rotom-dex. I mean, I get that they are known about in the region, but they're supposed to be really rare, yet no one ever gets so much as surprised when they see Ro-dex for the first time. He just talks to them like it's nothing and no one gives any sort of reaction. And maybe I'd understand this if we saw a couple of other Rotom Pokedexes around from time to time, but we don't so it just strikes me as a bit weird.
It's similar to how no one really reacts upon seeing Poipole. Mina and everyone else who's interacted with it thus far, treat it like any other Pokemon even though there's no way in hell that they've seen one before unless they've all been to Ultra Space. Lots of people in Unova were shook whenever they saw Pikachu for the first time, but no one in Alola makes any sort of remark about the purple floating alien Pokemon?
Okay, slightly weird rant aside, all I can say is that I hope Poipole gets more focus in the future because as of yet, it still just feels...there for the most part. 5/10.
I feel the same. It didnt had one focussed episode until this one, but it did appear in each episode since its catch.
Quality over quantity. Poipole may not have gotten a lot of focus, but the moments that we have gotten have been good in quality. Even some of the smaller moments sprinkled amongst the bigger ones have been good at building its character.
The same could be said about Meowth: most people don't seem surprised at all to see the talking cat. It's nothing new. I guess they've just come to accept that the world of Pokémon is a weird place and weird things happen all over the place all the time.Also, (this is a pretty minor thing, but I thought about it when Ro-dex was talking to Mina) I have to say that I'm honestly surprised with how little people seem to be surprised by Rotom-dex. I mean, I get that they are known about in the region, but they're supposed to be really rare, yet no one ever gets so much as surprised when they see Ro-dex for the first time. He just talks to them like it's nothing and no one gives any sort of reaction. And maybe I'd understand this if we saw a couple of other Rotom Pokedexes around from time to time, but we don't so it just strikes me as a bit weird.
It's similar to how no one really reacts upon seeing Poipole. Mina and everyone else who's interacted with it thus far, treat it like any other Pokemon even though there's no way in hell that they've seen one before unless they've all been to Ultra Space. Lots of people in Unova were shook whenever they saw Pikachu for the first time, but no one in Alola makes any sort of remark about the purple floating alien Pokemon?
Hoshigumo?
Even that I grew unjustifiably fond of...
If that happens i'm giving up on SM and will only come back if theres a league.
That summary merely mentioned Team Rocket, there's nothing about the rainbow yet.
