GreatLiver
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When Paul was walking down the stairs after the battle, I just kept seeing Reggie pull up in the van to drive him home. Would have loved that.
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Just rewatched the three episodes back to back... Wow... I mean just wow... What hit me the most was how much interaction was intertwined in these episodes. We were treated to some nice Ash/Paul scenes off course, but also some Dawn/Paul, Dawn/Barry, Barry/Ash and Reggie/Paul scenes so those were great. It really made the Ash/Dawn/Barry/Paul quartet almost feel like the core of DP. Piplup was also amazing during the battle, since it, Dawn and Barry gave us some comedy to lighten the mood.
Battle itself had strategy, tension and was just plain amazing. Two things I'd like to adress as a final comment on this battle, one positive, one negative.
- I like that, except for Ninjask and Froslass, all of Paul's pokemon were defeated by a combination of Ash's pokemon. Aggron and Electivire were defeated by Infernape but previously took some of Pikachu's attacks. Buizel defeated Gastrodon who'd already took some damage from Staraptor's Aerial Ace. Same for Torterra who dealt some damage to Drapion before it fell to Gliscor.
- One thing that did bother me (well on top of the fact that Gliscor and Torterra should have swapped focus and screentime and win in this battle) is that Staraptor, Buizel, Torterra and Infernape were all shown to suffer from poisoning, but Gliscor, who was poisonned at the end of his beatdown courtesy of Ninjask, was never shown to be affected by it during his fight with Drapion. It just added to the cheapness surrounding Gliscor.
Other than those two flaws, this was pretty much a perfect battle, pure and simple.
Just rewatched the three episodes back to back... Wow... I mean just wow... What hit me the most was how much interaction was intertwined in these episodes. We were treated to some nice Ash/Paul scenes off course, but also some Dawn/Paul, Dawn/Barry, Barry/Ash and Reggie/Paul scenes so those were great. It really made the Ash/Dawn/Barry/Paul quartet almost feel like the core of DP. Piplup was also amazing during the battle, since it, Dawn and Barry gave us some comedy to lighten the mood.
Battle itself had strategy, tension and was just plain amazing. Two things I'd like to adress as a final comment on this battle, one positive, one negative.
- I like that, except for Ninjask and Froslass, all of Paul's pokemon were defeated by a combination of Ash's pokemon. Aggron and Electivire were defeated by Infernape but previously took some of Pikachu's attacks. Buizel defeated Gastrodon who'd already took some damage from Staraptor's Aerial Ace. Same for Torterra who dealt some damage to Drapion before it fell to Gliscor.
- One thing that did bother me (well on top of the fact that Gliscor and Torterra should have swapped focus and screentime and win in this battle) is that Staraptor, Buizel, Torterra and Infernape were all shown to suffer from poisoning, but Gliscor, who was poisonned at the end of his beatdown courtesy of Ninjask, was never shown to be affected by it during his fight with Drapion. It just added to the cheapness surrounding Gliscor.
Other than those two flaws, this was pretty much a perfect battle, pure and simple.
I'm surprised Takuto didn't even appear at all in this episode did he even appear when he found out he was matched against Ash?
But honestly, Infernapes flamethrower just after Blaze actiavted was fricken awesome, though I'm still disapointed that Barry's Empoleon's Torrent wasen't made out to beas cool, even though it's meant to do the same thing,
Infernape was poisoned and fought against Ninjask and Aggron and was shown to still be fine against Electivire, Glisor got poisoned as well and didn't take much of a beating from Ninjask
Yeah,it was pretty short through.He was shown watching the screen,turned back,and started walking.
The fact that Electivire exploded sort of gave away the ending, during the panoramic scene, though I thought it was really intense.
I always wonder if Paul has any other rivals in his journey, and if not - I really believe he should return and visit Ash one day, though the fact that Isshu is really far away from Kanto, I doubt it.Maybe he'll visit Brock.