-Today we are...thrown into Ash & Co admiring a fossil held by Juniper with no explaination whatsoever! Exciting!
-Apparently Lenora found the fossil. Continuity!
-...Iris isn't impressed about something, to the point where everyone else has a comedic overreaction to it(including making Junpier almost drop the fossil). Oh Iris.
-Juniper shows them a picture of Archen, and...Iris brings up Pidove for some reason. Is Archen supposed to be the evolutionary(as in REAL evolution!) ancestor of Pidove or something?
-Oh hey, Fennel's there too. I think the writers kind of cut to the chase TOO much by just going "Ash and co are about to see a fossil be revived DEAL WITH IT" without even having the start of the episode be a brief explanation of why they're there, but what do I know?
-Fennel is overdramatic as usual. And she
really needs to get a haircut.
-I love how Iris still doesn't seem convinced about all this. But who cares about her? SCIENCE is happening!
-Juniper decides to record the unveiling of Archen. That's...surprisingly realistic, considering that they DID just revive an ANCIENT BIRD/DINO.
-Iris STILL doesn't look too convinced about this.
-Oh hey, the ancient bird doesn't just politely sit around while strange pink flesh things babble about it. Who would've thought?
-OH GOD WHAT IS IT DOING TO DENTO'S FACE
-At least Ash just gets a kicking and Iris just gets a pecking
-I get the feeling this is going to be a hilarious episode. SLAPSTICK ALL OVER THE PLACE.
-And now Archen crashed into Ash, sending it
into a coma to sleep somehow.
-Meanwhile...TR's spying on them...in an awfully purple room.
-Blah blah blah shut up and let us get back to the funny stuff blah blah
-Back at the twerps...Dento brings in Pokemon food. In a bowl that's on a plate. There's such a thing as being
too fancy, you know.
-And then he gets shushed since Archen's still sleeping. (or, as he puts it...well, you can probably guess that it involves "sleeping" and "it's ____ time")
-Seriously, look at Archen sprawled out on its little bed. It's so cute. I want one
right now.
-Archen wakes up...and it's still not happy about having weird fleshy things looming over it and talking.
-Somehow, its screeching causes some seeds to sprout? Yeah, sure, I guess I'll pretend that seeds work that way.
-Archen just stares blankly at Ash when he tells him they're its friends. Presumably because it's never seen these weird human things before and has no idea what the sounds they make are supposed to mean.
-Aw, it doesn't like Dento's food.
-And then it escapes. And TR is still watching for reasons I really don't care about anymore. (although at least a revived ancient Pokemon IS legitmately interesting as far as targets go)
-Archen runs up a tree, and...it doesn't like the fruit on that either. HMM I WONDER WHY THE ANCIENT POKEMON DOESN'T LIKE ANY OF THE PRESENT DAY FOODSTUFFS.
-And then everyone randomly decides to help Archen learn to fly...you know, instead of finding a food it'll eat so that it doesn't
starve to death.
-TRANQUILL GETS TO DO SOMETHING. STOP THE PRESSES!
-Iris thinks this is all cute, and Dento just babbles about tastes and marriages and whatever else he's always going on about.
-Iris sends out Emolga, which...promptly uses Attract on Archen. But it doesn't seem to be affected.
-And one little peck has Emolga overreacting with a Volt Switch...which brings out Derpfish! Er, I meant Stunfisk.
-Archen takes a little nip at Stunfisk...and just gets shocked again. I suppose and endorse this episode being nothing but things getting hurt over and over and over again.
-Later on, Fennel's watching a clip of Archen's cry over and over again...which makes that ancient plant keep getting bigger until it starts poking out of the windows...I'll keep pretending that plants work that way.
-Meanwhile, Iris and Ash keep helping Archen, which can
sort of fly by now. And Juniper and Dento randomly start complimenting Ash's kindness towards Pokemon and his "unique taste" and stuff. But more importantly, the plant from the past is still getting bigger and no one seems to have noticed yet...even though it's almost reached the ground and it's covering a pretty big chunk of the building...
-Oh wait, Fennel went inside and just noticed that her lab got destroyed by the plant.
-And the tree decides to start bearing fruit all of a sudden. I have to admit, this is pretty cool other than the part where it basically destroyed an entire building. At least Archen finally has something to eat...so much to eat that evolves into Archeops! Which has a pretty badass voice, just fyi.
-Then thousands of little kids went "wait, my Archen CAN fly if I just evolve it?!"
-Oh hey, it's team rocket. Joy.
-At least they're attacking in style; they're all flying on their jetpacks!
-Pfffffft, Oshawott's reaction to the tree caught up in NIGHTMARISH FLAME is priceless.
-In the end, TR's driven away(of course)...but they couldn't save the tree. Welp, I guess Archeops is just going to have to starve.
-...but wait, a flock of Archeops just flew in! Woops, looks like they didn't need to bother reviving one from a fossil in the first place! Haha, isn't that a
riot?
-Everyone says goodbye(Dento even shoehorns in a "BEST WISHES!")...including Tranquill. D'awwwwwww.
Although the end of the episode kind of sucked(does TR
really have to go back to attacking Ash & friends
every single episode? And it's rather
convenient that a bunch of other Archeops showed up the instant our Archeops' home was ruined...), overall this was a pretty good episode. Sure, it's a filler, but it was a really damned funny filler! And at the end of the day, isn't that what
really counts?
EDIT: And now I read the stuff about what TR and Seger were actually talking about. It'd be cool if this lead up to Genesect, but I mostly just want it to lead up to something,
anything, that's actually interesting.