Lily Nadesico
Active Member
Oh, please! THAT would be the greatest battle in Pokemon history? It's all hype.
While I agree that it was somewhat better than the crap the anime writers regularly showed down our throats in the Sinnoh saga, it still wasn't satisfying for the simple facts that
A- Ash didn't defeat the team that had steamrolled his Pokemon at Lake Acuity, so it didn't feel like a real victory.
B- How Paul acted. Are we really supposed to believe that THIS is how Paul would have acted if he was in character? The writer seem to have forgotten that this is the same guy who abandoned Chimchar to a possible death because he wasn't strong enough for him... and suddently, he shows respect for his opponents and doesn't throw a fit over losing to an "inferior" Pokemon? I call BS on that. Paul should have gone completely batshit at his defeat and scream and rant about how his perfectly-trained team couldn't possibly lose to "weaklings" like Ash and Infernape. The REAL Paul is an irredeemable jerk who is mean to everyone for no reason at all and should have become a recurring villain, not a somewhat gruff guy who randomly decides that he's cool with losing.
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Oh, right, this is the Pokemon anime. Excuse me for expecting something satisfying out of it.
While I agree that it was somewhat better than the crap the anime writers regularly showed down our throats in the Sinnoh saga, it still wasn't satisfying for the simple facts that
A- Ash didn't defeat the team that had steamrolled his Pokemon at Lake Acuity, so it didn't feel like a real victory.
B- How Paul acted. Are we really supposed to believe that THIS is how Paul would have acted if he was in character? The writer seem to have forgotten that this is the same guy who abandoned Chimchar to a possible death because he wasn't strong enough for him... and suddently, he shows respect for his opponents and doesn't throw a fit over losing to an "inferior" Pokemon? I call BS on that. Paul should have gone completely batshit at his defeat and scream and rant about how his perfectly-trained team couldn't possibly lose to "weaklings" like Ash and Infernape. The REAL Paul is an irredeemable jerk who is mean to everyone for no reason at all and should have become a recurring villain, not a somewhat gruff guy who randomly decides that he's cool with losing.
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Oh, right, this is the Pokemon anime. Excuse me for expecting something satisfying out of it.