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Why did I even bother to watch this episode and disappoint myself again?
- Pros:
- Pros:
- I had a smile when I saw the animation, it was so fluid and beautiful. Shame that it lasted for no longer than 10-15 seconds and the animator's talent was wasted in such a lame episode (especially when you factor in the recycled music), I'd really have preferred such animations in SS007. Nice touch there with the EP001 flashback, I thought they were really going to do something with it (official artwork and promotion anyone?) but then again, the writers do love to get high on exotic stuff.
- Let's get the biggest and most glaring issue out of the way, the bait advertising, the promotion, the artwork etc etc. Everything was pointing to this episode being about Ash and Ash himself and some sort of contact with Ho-oh, maybe Ash getting the Rainbow Wing that he'd carry around as a motivator (a more creative person could come up with a better plot). No one realistically expected a final resolution between the two, but people were hoping for something meaningful. I guess it was not going to be so, this episode seems like a very rude and intentional bait that's pretty much the writers saying "fuck you" and laughing like evil maniacs. The entire thing with Ho-oh amounted to absolutely fuck all and apparently CotDs are now far more important and have more relevant connections to Ho-oh (despite pretty much saying that Ho-oh is a lie, saying it doesn't exist, downplaying Ash's meeting with it, tossing the wing in anger etc.) than the main protagonist himself (whom it has appeared to quite often in the past, motivating Ash to push forward, implying the connection to "people and Pokemon's hearts being one")... Ash didn't even get to glimpse Ho-oh, not even out of the corner of his eyes. What could have been a pivotal episode for this series was turned into nothing more than a pointless filler that didn't lead anywhere.
- Ok, I didn't really consider this to be an issue in the past and just sidelined it but now I get everyone's complaints about the music and composition. We're nine episodes in yet we're not seeing any variety of music, instead getting recycled tracks like the Lugia Appears and Lugia Ride ones... it really downplays their value because they sounded amazing back in SS002, now they're just meh. Don't even get me started on that hillybilly soundtrack. Like, we have eight generations worth of Pokemon games filled with a lot of amazing music and yet we're getting these 4-5 soundtracks recycled every time? One would expect them to use Gen 1 music in Kanto, Gen 3 in Kanto, Gen 4 in Sinnoh etc. The only reason this might be is because the composer lacks creativity or is very lazy and can't be arsed enough about the anime.
- Gou is pretty much on the path to become Lawrence III Mk-2.0. "I want to catch Ho-oh"... just like how he's catching everything in sight with no second thoughts nor without any effort or difficulty. This kid started out interesting but now he's just a bore, I wonder what the writers are even trying to do other than the horrible Go-ification. What is even the point of Gou catching Mew, what does he plan to do with it?
- I don't see the point of the entire Misdreavus and Stantler illusions, other than to add some random fake tension when the episode didn't need any, while using up precious screentime that could have been dedicated to Ash and Ho-oh. This is especially more jarring with the ease Gou catches them with. How did Stantler even climb those stairs though, without the group knowing? Also, was anyone else expecting Stantler to kick the Pokeballs away, because that would have been worth watching?
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