British Soul
Top Hat Regulator
Totally an essay time:
I know this episode was dialogue heavy and I can understand why people disliked the episode as a result, but to be fair I didn't think the Project Mew thing would be resolved in one episode anyway, this is merely the appetiser to set us up for next week. I thought it was interesting that they brought up that Mew can be as "merciful as an angel or as cruel as a demon" as it adds more emphasis to Mew's characteristics and as we saw during the episode, Mew seemed curious during the parts it was seen flittering about. When Gary questioned what Tsurugi would do when they find Mew, his silence (and Weavile's subsequent expression) had me curious as to what his intentions would be.*
Staying on the Gary tangent, when Tokio was talking about how perhaps pokemon are waiting for the right person to catch them and Gary saying he can't deny that line of thought, my immediate thought was maybe he was thinking about Ash and Pikachu.
I liked how the shape of Go's sensor looked like a GBA and the LED resembling an inserted cartridge and it being green is a subtle nod to Emerald, the game that Faraway Island is accessible in.
One thing I will say is that when the Skarmory cut the rope that the group was using, I thought that Go, Tokio and Asahi had their gooses cooked as they were merely just hanging on to the cliff face with no harness and it got me thinking that this situation is more precarious for Go and Tokio, two 10-year olds than it would be for Asahi factoring in the difference in upper body strength.
Not gonna lie, Tokio possessing a Virizion** caught me off guard, especially as when he said he had "just the right pokemon" to deal with Swampert, I thought that maybe his Bayleef evolved into Meganium, but thinking about it, him having a legendary makes sense in the context that he said he caught it in his last trial mission during the events of JN113 and in that episode, Gary and Go caught Regidrago and Regieleki respectively. Also, Go looking up Virizion on his pokedex marks the first time that a Unova legendary has received a dex entry in the anime.
One thing Journeys has done on multiple occasions is draw up pokedex entries of various pokemon throughout the generations and incorporating them into the episodes and this episode is no different when Asahi uses her microscope and discovering a small hair embedded in a half-eaten Cheri Berry, this is reflected in Mew's pokedex entry in LGPE which states that Mew's short fine hair can be viewed under a microscope.
One final thing I'd like to touch on is that I like how similar the inside of Table Mountain is to the Tree of Beginning from M08 as both are isolated locations inhabited by fossil pokemon that Mew has been sighted at and are guarded by Gen 3 legendaries.
I wasn't expecting the segment at the end involving Team Rocket and Sprigatito, that part was good.
*I'd also like to point out with the whole evil intentions thing, in the radio drama "The Birth of Mewtwo", Miyamoto (Jessie's mum) went on a mission for Madame Boss to capture Mew but she disappeared in an avalanche after encountering it.
**Although it didn't occur to me that Go having Suicune and Tokio having Virizion are subtle nods to the fact that there is data for paradox pokemon resembling Suicune and Virizion in Scarlet/Violet, though this is probably coincidental.
I know this episode was dialogue heavy and I can understand why people disliked the episode as a result, but to be fair I didn't think the Project Mew thing would be resolved in one episode anyway, this is merely the appetiser to set us up for next week. I thought it was interesting that they brought up that Mew can be as "merciful as an angel or as cruel as a demon" as it adds more emphasis to Mew's characteristics and as we saw during the episode, Mew seemed curious during the parts it was seen flittering about. When Gary questioned what Tsurugi would do when they find Mew, his silence (and Weavile's subsequent expression) had me curious as to what his intentions would be.*
Staying on the Gary tangent, when Tokio was talking about how perhaps pokemon are waiting for the right person to catch them and Gary saying he can't deny that line of thought, my immediate thought was maybe he was thinking about Ash and Pikachu.
I liked how the shape of Go's sensor looked like a GBA and the LED resembling an inserted cartridge and it being green is a subtle nod to Emerald, the game that Faraway Island is accessible in.
One thing I will say is that when the Skarmory cut the rope that the group was using, I thought that Go, Tokio and Asahi had their gooses cooked as they were merely just hanging on to the cliff face with no harness and it got me thinking that this situation is more precarious for Go and Tokio, two 10-year olds than it would be for Asahi factoring in the difference in upper body strength.
Not gonna lie, Tokio possessing a Virizion** caught me off guard, especially as when he said he had "just the right pokemon" to deal with Swampert, I thought that maybe his Bayleef evolved into Meganium, but thinking about it, him having a legendary makes sense in the context that he said he caught it in his last trial mission during the events of JN113 and in that episode, Gary and Go caught Regidrago and Regieleki respectively. Also, Go looking up Virizion on his pokedex marks the first time that a Unova legendary has received a dex entry in the anime.
One thing Journeys has done on multiple occasions is draw up pokedex entries of various pokemon throughout the generations and incorporating them into the episodes and this episode is no different when Asahi uses her microscope and discovering a small hair embedded in a half-eaten Cheri Berry, this is reflected in Mew's pokedex entry in LGPE which states that Mew's short fine hair can be viewed under a microscope.
One final thing I'd like to touch on is that I like how similar the inside of Table Mountain is to the Tree of Beginning from M08 as both are isolated locations inhabited by fossil pokemon that Mew has been sighted at and are guarded by Gen 3 legendaries.
I wasn't expecting the segment at the end involving Team Rocket and Sprigatito, that part was good.
*I'd also like to point out with the whole evil intentions thing, in the radio drama "The Birth of Mewtwo", Miyamoto (Jessie's mum) went on a mission for Madame Boss to capture Mew but she disappeared in an avalanche after encountering it.
**Although it didn't occur to me that Go having Suicune and Tokio having Virizion are subtle nods to the fact that there is data for paradox pokemon resembling Suicune and Virizion in Scarlet/Violet, though this is probably coincidental.
