-I'll be so glad when they stop shoving Look! It's Slightly Different Pichu! in our faces at the start of each ep.
-Oh look, it's the Pokemon of the Day - hilariously tacky CGI water! And the blue Shellos, as opposed to the pink ones. Why didn't the writers deal with the east/west Shellos difference back when people still cared about it, again?
-There's a pink Shellos in the river. Despite being a water Pokemon, it apparently can't swim away from the rock it's pinned against. Loser.
-Piplup goes to be a hero, then...incredibly lazy/dumb remix of High Touch! Which actually isn't that stupid, since I'm not going to have it stuck in my head every time I watch an episode anymore.
-I love how the Shellos in this ep constantly look so
shocked.
-Random Nurse Joy! Horray!
-Blah blah crap about Shellos I don't care about blah.
-It's Looker! It took five minutes, but we might start seeing some plot!
-Team Galactic! Good to know the Shellos are basically being ignored, because who really cared about those things?
-Pluto's voice sounds really familiar. It might just be the "non-old man trying to sound like an old man" effect, though.
-Yawn. Twerps with Shellos again. Why is it so damned important to get it back to the "right" side, anyway? Down with segregation! Seperate is inheritently unequal!
-Piplup is incredibly wise and falls down a hole right after Dawn tells it that it's dangerous to be there.
-Then the ground breaks beneath the Twerp Squad. They're plummeting towards the plot, I hope.
-Saturn doesn't seem happy with something. Pluto still sounds
really familiar.
-Something about Shellos blithely wandering off right after everyone falls down into a cave is just
adorable. I think it's the tiny feet.
-Shellos leads Team Twerp directly to Team Galactic. Good boy!
-Saturn conveniently has a bright light behind him for his reaction shot
-Oh hey, TG seems to have figured something out:When do-gooders get in your way, beating up the
people saves you more trouble than dealing with their Pokemon. At least that's what I assume all those grunts are doing with metal pipes/bars in their hands.
-During the commercial break, the twerps apparently did not resist at all and were tied up without a fuss. I do hope those ropes are electricity-proof, or else there's nothing really stopping Pikachu from shocking things.
-Shellos starts crying, Suspiciously Shadowy Grunt is sent over to shut it up, and Saturn seems to notice Team Rocket(although, as usual, he doesn't say anything about it).
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Looker Suspiciously Shadowy Grunt pretends to be dealing with the Twerp Troop harshly while he secretly acts nice to them and helps them out a bit.
-Goddammit would somebody find out who Pluto's VA is because his voice is seriously sounding
way too familiar and I want to find out if it's a VA I've heard elsewhere or if I'm just being fooled by Generic Old Man Voice.
-Pluto wisely explains what they're planning to do with the Spear Key to a random (Supiciously Shadowy) grunt. Because...because.
-I'm digging the blatent overuse of CGI to show that box opening. It shows such
class. The animators really do care!
-Looker has a Crowning Moment of Awesome as he rips off his diguise. He also proves to be remarkably agile for someone who's at least middle-aged.
-Looker sends the kids off to handle the crybaby Pokemon while the adults have a "discussion."
-TR decides that now is a good time to try to swipe the Spear Key. And hey, Seviper! When's the last time that got any action?
-It would be so awesome if TR foiled TG's plot by getting away with the key instead of stopping to brag, but nooooo. And of course, JJ&M forget one crucial fact:Team Galactic has an endless supply of Golbat.
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HELL YEAH LOOKER. (not shown:Him backflipping onto a cliff above the Galactics)
-Suddenly, the TG-dowsing-rod-mabob reacts to something!
-Why yes Saturn, it does make perfect sense to have Toxicroak jab out the rock instead of using something more intuitive for the job.
-It's random ruins embedded in a wall? I never saw that coming!
-It's apparently just the door to something. Zzz.
-Pluto makes a big show of using the key, and...nothing happens. Bahahaha! Needless to say, Saturn is not pleased.
-TG bails, but not before making sure Looker has enough Golbat around to prevent him from doing anything.
-Ash Ketchum and the Twerps fight off the Golbat, then...the room starts flooding, and fast! Luckily Looker has an inflatable raft with him, because all police busts of criminal syndicates involve flooding
somewhere.
-The ep ends with Shellos reuniting with its like-colored neighbors, further aggravating the problem of Pink Flight from predominately blue inner-city neighborhoods.
Speed edit:Aha! Pluto sounded so damned familiar to me(to the point I went "seriously, he sounds EXACTLY like this other character, what the hell") because...his VA also voices the guy I thought he sounded exactly like
rofessor Agasa from Detective Conan. I see he believes in using a distinct variety of old man voices.
Mt. Coronet Ruins! Team Galactic Conspiracy!!
