Pocket Monsters 2019 Anime: Thoughts before anime started vs thoughts now!

[SerGoldenhandtheJust]

Sorry, but Go throwing two Pokeballs and catching two Pokemon with no struggle within 5 seconds is not meaningful enough to label the entire episode as 'non-filler', especially when those Pokemon, unlike Scorbunny, will not be a part of Go's main team and will essentially be stuck at the lab and we'll never see most of the time.

That just doesn't work for me.

I'm not going to recommend people to watch the awful Ho-oh episode and tell them it's not a filler because Go had two crappy captures in a span of 5 seconds. That episode *is* a filler because nothing of value or relevance happened.

But those pokemon do keep showing up again and again in other episodes. Just because you don't care for them doesn't mean they are important or that it's a filler. U can't just describe anything as filler based on ur opinion about the episode. Heck fillers as a term just doesn't work for a series like Pokemon.

 

[1rkhachatryan]

Sorry, but Go throwing two Pokeballs and catching two Pokemon with no struggle within 5 seconds is not meaningful enough to label the entire episode as 'non-filler', especially when those Pokemon, unlike Scorbunny, will not be a part of Go's main team and will essentially be stuck at the lab and we'll never see most of the time.

That just doesn't work for me.

I'm not going to recommend people to watch the awful Ho-oh episode and tell them it's not a filler because Go had two crappy captures in a span of 5 seconds. That episode *is* a filler because nothing of value or relevance happened.

Except we've seen Go use the pokemon again so there is no reason to think they will never be seen again. They've legit all shown up again and regardless of the content of the episode, a pokemon was captured and if said pokemon is used again and someone is curious where they were caught, they can point to that specific episode. Don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing about the quality, I'm just saying that they weren't technically fillers as something important happened in them. It doesn't matter how meaningless you think the pokemon are, they are still a capture by a main character.

 

[Deleted member 384931]

My main concern is that they dont stay long enough in one place.

 

[AuraChannelerChris]

Go catching Pokemon with no effort absolutely means nothing in the grand scheme of things. It's not like Mew will show up when it notices someone has finally bothered to catch over 200 Pokemon.

Now, if Ash was the one to catch that many, THEN it would be really meaningful.

 

[shoz999]

Thoughts before: It's going to be good.
Thoughts after: It's good.

 

[Deleted member 384931]

Gou catching Pokémon has no connection to Mew. It makes his goal a little bit weird, because he cant really grow in it, maybe only if he catches more Pokémon. We also dont not really know why Gou is so obsessed with Mew and if ep 1 is all the backstory we will get, it will be poor. And is there way he will catch Mew?

Ash is there for sering the world I guess. I find it really confusing where this series will go with Ash. He is a strong trainer and degrading him would be a shame. But there must be a challenge for him.

For the professor and Gous childhood friend, I find them bland for supporting characters tbh.

 

[Henry's Journey]

Except we've seen Go use the pokemon again so there is no reason to think they will never be seen again. They've legit all shown up again and regardless of the content of the episode, a pokemon was captured and if said pokemon is used again and someone is curious where they were caught, they can point to that specific episode. Don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing about the quality, I'm just saying that they weren't technically fillers as something important happened in them. It doesn't matter how meaningless you think the pokemon are, they are still a capture by a main character.

It'll be hard to convince them because they have bias toward Go as a character so they will deem episodes where he catches a pokemon a filler no matter what lol they're wrong but won't accept it so whatever.

 

[Leonhart]

My main concern is that they dont stay long enough in one place.

Personally, I see that as a good thing, because I don't like the idea of Satoshi spending that much time in a region he's already explored for a long time before. I could easily deal with a Galar mini-arc in the future because it's a new region for Satoshi and Gou since they've only been there for a short time before, but I'd hate to see Satoshi and Gou spend multiple episodes in Isshu for instance.

 

[Joltik-Kid]

It's the slowest and most troublesome start to any Pokemon series to date... but with confirmation that Ash will indeed still be capturing Pokemon, its finally started to gain some steam imo. Let's see if I can ride this train all the way to the end lol

 

[pancakemonster]

I just wanna know why, if Ash apparently IS allowed to catch Pokemon, why he can't get anything from Galar. Feel like till he has at least one capture from there, something is gonna be missing for me.

 

[Red and Blue]

I just wanna know why, if Ash apparently IS allowed to catch Pokemon, why he can't get anything from Galar. Feel like till he has at least one capture from there, something is gonna be missing for me.

Who said he can't get anything from Galar? They still haven't shown Grookey or Sobble yet

 

[Leonhart]

I just wanna know why, if Ash apparently IS allowed to catch Pokemon, why he can't get anything from Galar. Feel like till he has at least one capture from there, something is gonna be missing for me.

There's nothing stopping him from getting a Galar Pokemon later on, though. This series will probably last at least three years like most previous sagas, so there's plenty of time for him to get a Gen VIII Pokemon. I admit that I would've liked for him to have caught something when he first visited Galar, but those episodes seemed to be more Gou-focused for the most part, so I understood why Satoshi didn't get anything at the time.

 

[Zoruagible]

It'll be hard to convince them because they have bias toward Go as a character so they will deem episodes where he catches a pokemon a filler no matter what lol they're wrong but won't accept it so whatever.

Nope, it's filler. Only not a filler if he gets a Pokemon that actually sticks like Scorbunny, otherwise you have to count the episode Ash got Seaking as not a filler. See how ridiculous that'd be? Go's captures are filler, Ash's aren't.

I just wanna know why, if Ash apparently IS allowed to catch Pokemon, why he can't get anything from Galar. Feel like till he has at least one capture from there, something is gonna be missing for me.

He will get something, I don't see why he wouldn't. The starters need promoting and he's almost certainly getting Kubfu as well

 

[pancakemonster]

I wasn’t saying he LITERALLY can’t, just that I’m frustrated he hasn’t already, and that it’s odd they’d make a Kanto Pokémon his first capture instead.

 

[Twilight-Kun]

Nope, it's filler. Only not a filler if he gets a Pokemon that actually sticks like Scorbunny, otherwise you have to count the episode Ash got Seaking as not a filler. See how ridiculous that'd be? Go's captures are filler, Ash's aren't.

The problem with Go is that we can't call an episode Filler until much later in the series

Did he catch a pokémon?
Yes?
Does it get used in an episode?
Yes?
Does it show up in multiple other episodes after the opening, because them showing up in the background while they're setting up the episode's plot doesn't count?
No?
Then it's Filler.


It's like what happened with the game aspects in Sun & Moon, where it's never brought up outside of whatever arc they're in the middle of - they'll go from facing down an Ultra Beast to partaking in a haunted house episode or dealing with Team Rocket like they weren't just inches from death a week ago

There's gonna be a lot of harsh hindsight in this series, probably with a few exciting ideas fizzling into nothingness, and obvious plotlines being ignored in favor of something inane and forgettable

 

[Leonhart]

I wasn’t saying he LITERALLY can’t, just that I’m frustrated he hasn’t already, and that it’s odd they’d make a Kanto Pokémon his first capture instead.

Well considering that he's spent more time in Kanto so far in this series than in Galar, I don't think it's too strange that he captured a Kanto Pokemon before he caught a Galar Pokemon. Also, the writers seem to be trying out new things in this series anyway, so some patterns from the past [such as him getting Pokemon from the most current generation] might not even apply anymore.

 

[ShadowForce720]

Nope, it's filler. Only not a filler if he gets a Pokemon that actually sticks like Scorbunny, otherwise you have to count the episode Ash got Seaking as not a filler. See how ridiculous that'd be? Go's captures are filler, Ash's aren't.



He will get something, I don't see why he wouldn't. The starters need promoting and he's almost certainly getting Kubfu as well

That's not even close to being comparable considering the fact that in Ash's Seaking's case he release it right away since it was part of the rules of the contest he was in, where in Gou's case when catches a pokemon, all the pokemon he has obtained so far he keeps, and they do show up in future episodes. Just because you don't like Gou doesn't mean that when he captures a pokemon that it is somehow filler.

 

[Ignition]

It'll be hard to convince them because they have bias toward Go as a character so they will deem episodes where he catches a pokemon a filler no matter what lol they're wrong but won't accept it so whatever.

I like Gou as a character a lot and I hold similar sentiments to people who feel as though episodes like the Ho-oh one are borderline filler. There doesn’t have to be some bias to think that.

I don’t see the use in arguing over what’s filler anyway.

 

[Pokegirl Fan~]

It's not what's filler or not, its whats boring and a waste of an episode, like the formulaic cotd/Team Rocket episodes where a Pokemon learns a move or whatever.

 

[SH65]

I think that giving up on the series after just one episode is a bit premature, especially considering that the first episode was more like a prologue than a bona fide example of what the rest of the series has been like so far.

If the first ep doesn't bring be in why should I keep going?