Almost Pikachu Crisis (1137)

[AuraChannelerChris]

I hope we get another Episode like this.

 

[Mythical-Moonlight]

YAY!

The only question now is WHEN?!

 

[AuraChannelerChris]

YAY!

And that easily is how someone lost the context of that video.

 

[Mythical-Moonlight]

And that easily is how someone lost the context of that video.

Oh I thought you were saying that we're going to get another Episode like this

Didn't know what you meant

 

[AuraChannelerChris]

Oh I thought you were saying that we're going to get another Episode like this

Didn't know what you meant

Damn. Someone didn't watch Frozen? Watch that. It's worth it.

Or just read the context:

Kristoff says "I'm gonna tell him" to Olaf the Snowman after listening to a song number of him wishing to enjoy summer, which is going to melt Olaf instead of giving him the good time he thinks he's going to get. Kristoff wanted to cynically spoil the fun by saying "I'm gonna tell him" but Anna scolded him not to do it.

 

[Mythical-Moonlight]

For all of this episode's flaws
This episode at least did give Lucario and Cinderace some much needed characterization (also I just really miss Cinderace....)

In Journeys the Pokémon are only allowed to have some degree of focus if they are A) Being captured by Goh, B) Showcasing that the species exists as an actual thing, C) Showcasing some alternate form such as Mega or Dyna, D) Battling or E) Evolving to showcase it's evolutionary lines.

They're not allowed to be characters anymore. This one episode felt like a bizarre sole outliner

For a show called Pokemon you think the ones on the main cast would have more of a regular focus

Here they're treated like tools (no matter what the show says otherwise)

It makes me worried immensely about the next Generation

Oh Alola you don't know how much I miss you....

 

[AuraChannelerChris]

This episode at least did give Lucario and Cinderace some much needed characterization

 

[Mythical-Moonlight]

Say all you want about Lucario but you can't deny Cinderace definitely feels like a character

Moreso than any other Journeys Mon even Pikachu

 

[RafaSceptile]

I mean outside of the quickly overused gag, at least the episode gives the Pokémon some personality outside of Battles, something that Journeys severely lacks

 

[UglyToast]

I mean outside of the quickly overused gag, at least the episode gives the Pokémon some personality outside of Battles, something that Journeys severely lacks

Yeah, definitely agreed, otherwise flying gag got old too quickly.

 

[AuraChannelerChris]

I mean outside of the quickly overused gag, at least the episode gives the Pokémon some personality outside of Battles

Which it then proceeded to forget about.

 

[Mythical-Moonlight]

Which it then proceeded to forget about.

I wouldn't say that

Rewatch the Falinks episode or really any episode where Cinderace actually gets to appear

 

[AuraChannelerChris]

I wouldn't say that

Rewatch the Falinks episode or really any episode where Cinderace actually gets to appear

Let me rephrase that.

Lucario barely has any personality, or rather, has a battle bot personality with very little glimpses of other behavior.

Cinderace, of course, is basically a bigger Scorbunny with less appearances.

 

[SerGoldenhandtheJust]

Sure we got a chance to see Lucario and Cinderace's personality, and Hikachu was cute
But I wish we got a better episode to see their personality shine in with, this was just too boring and they didn't take any advantage of it being set in Castelia city aside from a brief Sawk and Throh battle

 

[Mythical-Moonlight]

Let me rephrase that.

Lucario barely has any personality, or rather, has a battle bot personality with very little glimpses of other behavior.

That's literally every Pokemon in this series besides Cinderace, Eevee and maybe Grookey

I don't know why only Lucario gets singled out for this?

Sure we got a chance to see Lucario and Cinderace's personality, and Hikachu was cute
But I wish we got a better episode to see their personality shine in with, this was just too boring and they didn't take any advantage of it being set in Castelia city aside from a brief Sawk and Throh battle

That's fair I didn't like how no one other than the main characters appeared

 

[AuraChannelerChris]

I don't know why only Lucario gets singled out for this?

Um, this episode is about it. There's a reason I didn't go for others.

 

[Mythical-Moonlight]

Um, this episode is about it. There's a reason I didn't go for others.

I was talking about in general.
People bring up Lucario's battle bot personality but it's still more personality than the rest of Ash's Team minus maybe Dragonite

Remember when Gengar had an abusive trainer and was implied to have abandonment issues?

Yeah me neither...

 

[Ignition]

It’s funny to me that people dislike this episode because, as someone who hates Lucario, this is like the only good episode centered around it despite the forced pairing with Cinderace that went nowhere. I’ve always been a fan of episodes with the Pokémon interacting by themselves so that’s definitely a huge part of it

 

[Mythical-Moonlight]

It’s funny to me that people dislike this episode because, as someone who hates Lucario, this is like the only good episode centered around it despite the forced pairing with Cinderace that went nowhere. I’ve always been a fan of episodes with the Pokémon interacting by themselves so that’s definitely a huge part of it

You didn't like the Mega vs G-Max episode?

 

[Ignition]

You didn't like the Mega vs G-Max episode?

I don’t hate it but I didn’t like it. I found it to be a very underwhelming conclusion to their rivalry. The first part was good though. I find most of Journeys’ battles to have very underwhelming finishes