"An Appetite for Battle!"
So Clemont is the one who cooked for everyone? Well, there goes my hope for Serena being the cook of the group. Darn, I'm getting tired of every male companion cooking for the group in every generation. First Brock, then Cilan, and now Clemont. I don't get why the writers dosen't let a female protagonist to be the cook of the group? Oh well, at least Serena could bake Macarons for the group. It was nice of her to bring Macarons for the group, too bad Clemont's Chespin ate all of them and got totally stuffed. Fat Chespin's antics were really funny in this episode. The "diet battles" were quite entertaining. Froakie's battle with Chespin was fun to watch, but Bonnie battling Chespin with Dedenne was hilarious. LOL, Even though Bonnie didn't call out an attack... she still ended up winning the battle.
Clemont's new invention was amusing... but how did he expect Chespin to use that big treadmill?? I guess he just wanted to test it first and then make a smaller traadmill for Chespin. Like most of his inventions, this invention blew up as well.
Clemont's dilemma of trying to consider leaving Chespin with the old lady was quite interesting, and it showed that he still lacks confidence and needs the support of his friends (especially Ash's) to develop more.
With that being said, It's nice to see Clemont caring about Chespin's happiness before thinking about leaving it with Carrie. Also, it's awesome how he ran forward and blocked Delphox's Flamethrower with his Aipom Arm. Speaking of Delphox, I didn't think we'd get to see a fully-evolved Kalos starter Pokémon this early in the XY series.... but it's cool to see one in the anime nonetheless.
The battle between Chespin and Delphox was pretty good. Rolling around and dodging Delphox's attacks was a great idea, and it definitely helped Chespin lose some weight pretty fast. Because of all the rolling and dodging, Chespin was able move around pretty fast afterwards. While Chespin activating its Overgrow ability was cool. While it was cool to see Chespin activating its Overgrow ability, I'm glad the match ended in a draw. It's much better than the usual "pre-evolved Pokémon defeating fully-evolved Pokémon" plot. Even though the battle ended in a draw... it helped Chespin lose weight. Not to mention, the bond between Clemont and Chespin developed a bit as a result of the battle.
Aside from the bond between Clemont and Chespin, I liked the interactions between Bonnie and Serena in the beginning. And Serena learning to like camping outside was a nice character development for her. Overall, this episode was really good. I enjoyed watching it.
Dub-wise, this episode wasn't that good. The voice acting was fine, but they screwed up the title card again. Even though this episode was Clemont-centric, they replaced Clemont's face with Ash's face in the title card. Also, the amount of dub music disappointed me. After seeing how the English dub of XY012 and XY013 kept a decent amount of original music, I thought that the dubbers would keep a perfect balance between their dub music and original music in every episode.... but now it looks like they're won't do it anymore.
