The animation issues aside, which I don't think were that bad in that episode because there was barely any action in it (the Drasna battle was a mess, but that's a different issue), the episode had Clemont and Ash catch up with one another and Bonnie had the same cute moments from XY while also maturing a bit. The moves Ash used in this ep he defeated Drasna which, even though I agree that was one of the weakest PWC battles in general. I'm also not sure how it was paced bad because I never thought that training battle at the end was going to get a lot of screentime. People wrongly assumed it would be Ash vs. Clemont Round 2 or something, but I figured it wouldn't be.
`What exactly am I supposed to respond to here Scott? You're still only giving me a summary of the episode. I described to you exactly why the episode was mediocre and I'm given nothing in return for why it was good.
I thought the Greninja ep was animated well, we're clearly not seeing the same animation issues. The Drasna battle was animated poorly, unless you're talking about those "still screens" that showed Greninja jump over the vines in a few shots and that doesn't bother me. Greninja basically became its own person (sort of similar to Mewtwo), where it's like its own trainer. It mentored Lucario and showed how strong it was in its base form. Its interactions with Ash also showed how much they're on equal terms now. I'll give you the flashbacks were stupid, but it is what it is.
...No, it wasn't. If you're telling me you watched the first couple scenes with Greninja using his Double Team and attacking the vines as well as the incredibly short Lucario v Greninja battle as examples of good animation, I don't know what to tell you. Jank galore, stills, bad boarding, there's literally nothing to praise for a production standpoint.
These aren't examples of good animation.
There's barely any " animation " here in the first place, just flimsy cardboard cut outs moving with no energy or dynamism.
Greninja was already its own person at the end of XY(
literally the entire point of the ending of XYZ), that episode added nothing in that department and like I said, it's great that Greninja mentored Lucario, but like I said, it loses value when that process involves the aurafication of a massive component of XY. That's a lot more than just " stupid. "
I've read your posts before, you put too much emphasis on the blue ribbon when Serena's crush on Ash is still evident as shown at the end of the episode. The writers wanted to show Serena stand on her own and how far she's come without shipping taking over, hence why Ash was intentionally delayed by Wallace seeing her. Serena was basically repeating to Koharu the same advice Ash told her in XY, basically keeping Ash in her heart. The whole final scene on the docks was beautifully done as well. I'm not even much a shipper but it tugged at my heartstrings. I also liked how on the contest side they had Serena specialize in her appeal (note in Contests the trainer is not supposed to dance around with the pokemon like in tripokalons), while also wrapping up Koharu's arc too. Seeing some other stuff like Braixen evolved was an added bonus.
I've specifically addressed every single of these arguments in both posts and why they fall flat under scrutiny, I know you've read one of them specifically because I remember you arguing against me and essentially your final response before your posts were removed and your account banned was " It doesn't matter because I liked it. " So I'm questioning how much you really internalized what I said considering you didn't really address any of my core complains and offered up meaningless one line summaries.
@Power Up
summary of your review : criticism to technical aspects of the animation of Journeys and the unconfirmed retcon of greninja (tomioka mentioned it recently? )
Yeah, uh, I don't see how the XY characters have had a bad return
" Unconfirmed " retcon. Jesus, apparently people literally need a divine creed stating
ASH-GRENINJA WAS RETCONNED. At the end of the show
, the end result is the end result. I can't provide that for you, so if you want to believe that it's unconfirmed or XY characters had good returns, more power to you.