Despite how much
@AuraChannelerChris always says Lillie's voice sounded way too young, I've never actually had a problem with Lillie's voice, and in the meantime, I have to say, Chloe's voice sounded WAY too young in this episode, younger than Goh for sure, so young that at the beginning of the episode I thought the first scene was a flashback. (I say the first scene specifically since she was under the covers and you couldn't see her, and later, with her bedhead, it still wasn't clear whether this was present-day or past Chloe. Obviously once she got ready, and I could see what age she looked like, I realized this wasn't a flashback.) Now, why am I only bringing this up now? It's because I just noticed it now. If Cherami Leigh sounded this way in the first 10 episodes, I never noticed it, probably because she appeared way less. (oh and btw, AuraChannelerChris, I know sometimes you misinterpret my posts about you, so I'm clarifying this up front: this is not an attack on you in any way, and I just want to have a conversation about it because I find it interesting that we have such different opinions on this, and it's interesting to discuss)
How did the Professor and his assistants get from the basement to the computer room without passing through the lobby and noticing Ash and Goh fighting it?
Overall, I really liked this episode. I wouldn't say it's my favorite, but probably my 3rd favorite behind the 2 Ash-centric episodes of the tournament and the Dragonite (episodes 7 and 10). This episode reminds me of the 5 Alola companions' intro episodes, and it's interesting that for the second straight generation, such an episode is needed to intro a character, after they weren't needed for the first six generations, due to the traveling format of those generations effectively introducing the characters since they were there all the time. Btw, if you're not sure which intro episodes I'm talking about, it's these:
SM005: Lana
SM006: Sophocles
SM008: Lillie
SM011: Kiawe
SM018: Mallow
Oh interesting! It does come from the original! I was going to ask what it was named in the original lol. I wonder why Francois in both. So random.
For me, it just seems kinda odd to suddenly be introducing characters who are essentially the “normal” in a world of Pokémon. Like for the series like Yugioh, they wouldn’t be too out of place in the cast but for Pokémon, the world had always been presented as people and Pokémon working in harmony. We’ve even had characters who would have normal careers like police, fire fighters, writers, pro sportsmen, construction workers, farmers, etc who all work with Pokémon. Even in the movie Everyone’s Story, we had possibly the most realistic city and that even had people in harmony with Pokémon. I’m not really sure what a normal like Koharu could really contribute within the confines of the series and this seems like an odd time to start having a character like that.
I kind of get what you mean by it seems like an odd time, but when would be a good time then? The sooner the better imo
Episodes like this show that while you can try, there's no way to avoid continuity altogether ... Stop trying to make the show something it can't and will never be no matter how hard it tries.
What is the evidence that the writers are even trying to avoid continuity? The span from episodes 6-9 was a little weird and unlike anything I've seen before in this anime, but it didn't seem more "anti-continuity" than say, similar spans of 4+ fillers in a row in the past. (and btw, I know 6-9 weren't fillers - I'm just comparing the two because of how they felt)
The only difference here is that there will be no more drawn out arcs, which is fine
Proof? Link? Was there some Japanese press release I missed saying that Pokémon was making this shift?
Kinda the norm for Ghost-types
"Aw, it wants to literally drag you into the afterlife or sucks your soul out of your body if it looks at you, but it's totally harmless, we swear!"
Not gonna lie, "Scare at the Litwick Mansion!"
literally scared me, and I was 18 years old at the time.