This might be my fav JN episode, closely competing against Gary and the feel good episodes I liked
I cant see how this episode isnt a TREAT for all the OG DP fans!!!! <3
Fanservice in a good written way is always appreciated and this arc is delivering!!!
Happiny fully evolving into Blissey is so right man and really shows how far Brock has come as a doctor, achieving his dream of being a doctor! Really glad to see it and Croagunk!!
The DP trio was bliss, the way they excitedly kept yelling at Brock as he tried to calm them down and then Goh tells Brock how glad he is to meet him and how much he's heard of him!! Just all the DP trio scenes are fulfilling
Also the continuity is off the charts. They properly mention the movies with how Dawn and Ash recognised Arceus immediately and were so calm about it meanwhile Goh was freaking out that he met God lmao. Im pretty damn sure there are some issues that prevent them from showing flashbacks to movie stuff considering no flashbacks in the Mewtwo episode nor one here when the movie was explicitly referenced (How else would both Ash and Dawn recognise Arceus immediately and be so calm about it)
But the flashback we did get to the DP arc climax was perfect!!! They showed the back of Charon in the flashback so he isnt retconned lol, just not part of this arc as he isnt relevant and well it fits his character to not care about Cyrus and TG to the point Saturn, Mars and Jupiter do, the three of which are always together and were arrested together
And the narrator explaining the whole climax was perfect, this literally feels like a DP episode epilouge with Cyrus trying to be saved by the three admins and the DP trio reuniting with the fresh companions tagging along to stop TG
Also Toxicroak V Croagunk rivalry being referenced is a nice touch, even though we got an ending to it when Croagunk took down Toxicroak, it is still nice to see they hate each other's guts
Now the next 2 episodes we going totally blind for as 99 percent of trailer footage and SS were used in this ep, and considering the pacing I have no reason to believe it will be rushed as they are 2 episodes, and they can easily be longer like the second ep was, Im so hyped for this arc!!