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Bit on the long side for a sample, but I'll give it a whirl.
As to it being a bit of a drag ... well, yeah, it is. I don't really see the point in this rehash of the typical TRio encounter. You try to wink at the audience and acknowledge how tiresome the routine is, but I don't think it really does much to alleviate the problem. As I see it, there are two solutions:
As to it being a bit of a drag ... well, yeah, it is. I don't really see the point in this rehash of the typical TRio encounter. You try to wink at the audience and acknowledge how tiresome the routine is, but I don't think it really does much to alleviate the problem. As I see it, there are two solutions:
- Make the encounter as quick and abrupt as possible. No bags, no nets, no chase sequences, just a quick and brutal defeat. Because really, if Ash is now the champion, a stand-up fight would end this way.
- Somehow try to give the scene a bigger point in the overall plot. I think this is probably going to be difficult, but it may help if I point out that the extract tells us one thing we wouldn't already know/assume from watching the anime: Ash doesn't like being recognised