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What is the airspeed of an unladen Swellow?
Just watched the subs. This was a busy Goh episode. I like how it serves as a nice bookend to his development, and it showcases just how much he’s grown from when we first met him. The flashbacks to the early episodes were a nice touch.
That said, I’m not a fan of how they handled the episode’s first act. I’m not opposed to Leon taming and eventually receiving Eternatus. But it was handled just so…weird. This should have been set up earlier with Goh at least knowing they were going to try taming it rather than doing it secretly behind his back.
I do like that he willingly gave it up to Leon, knowing that he wasn’t a good enough trainer to continue taming it and that Eternatus was extremely important to that region. It does show how much he‘s grown as a trainer.
I don’t really have any complaints about the rest of the episode. Team Rocket was used well here, and their role builds off of the last episode when they remembered why they were in Wyndon. I also liked that JJ knew they couldn’t steal Ash’s Pokemon until after the finals. I also like how Goh stood up on his own here and asked to handle things himself. Again, this shows some good character growth.
The only thing I wished we would have had in the later acts is Meowth translating for Perserker and the Galarian Meowth. I find those moments to be one of the highlights of the episodes where TR works with local “evil” Pokemon.
The Ash/Goh departure didn’t have a lot to it. It definitely doesn’t seem like an end-of-series departure. So I wonder what they have planned…
If I were writing this episode, I probably would have changed up the narrative order. I would have had the Nickit/Galarian Meowth/TR story first, then had the Eternatus segment, and finished with Goh departing for Project Mew. I think this would flow better, and it would allow them to set up the Eternatus reveal by having Sonia calling Goh asking him to come to the stadium for something.
That said, I’m not a fan of how they handled the episode’s first act. I’m not opposed to Leon taming and eventually receiving Eternatus. But it was handled just so…weird. This should have been set up earlier with Goh at least knowing they were going to try taming it rather than doing it secretly behind his back.
I do like that he willingly gave it up to Leon, knowing that he wasn’t a good enough trainer to continue taming it and that Eternatus was extremely important to that region. It does show how much he‘s grown as a trainer.
I don’t really have any complaints about the rest of the episode. Team Rocket was used well here, and their role builds off of the last episode when they remembered why they were in Wyndon. I also liked that JJ knew they couldn’t steal Ash’s Pokemon until after the finals. I also like how Goh stood up on his own here and asked to handle things himself. Again, this shows some good character growth.
The only thing I wished we would have had in the later acts is Meowth translating for Perserker and the Galarian Meowth. I find those moments to be one of the highlights of the episodes where TR works with local “evil” Pokemon.
The Ash/Goh departure didn’t have a lot to it. It definitely doesn’t seem like an end-of-series departure. So I wonder what they have planned…
If I were writing this episode, I probably would have changed up the narrative order. I would have had the Nickit/Galarian Meowth/TR story first, then had the Eternatus segment, and finished with Goh departing for Project Mew. I think this would flow better, and it would allow them to set up the Eternatus reveal by having Sonia calling Goh asking him to come to the stadium for something.