dman_dustin
Well-Known Member
Honestly I loved how they handled the Lana and Eevee episode, because they made it clear that Ash never had a chance to begin with.
Unfortunately that's not what happened.
They marketed the hell out of Eevee, they made it clear it was supposed to be something important, even getting special preview scenes in the previous episodes.
But then they suddenly gave to Lana, who literally had no reason to be given one, with what because Vaporeon is all the rage now?
It just literally doesn't make sense.
Don't get me wrong, the people who though the preview was misleading were way off here, but PRIOR to the preview? No.
You don't get to argue hindsight, except for criticizing people who were criticizing people about the preview, of course it "makes all the sense" now that its absolutely confirmed, but don't act like it made sense before let alone made sense even when the preview came out.
In fact the preview was such a horrible pointless mess, it's like what was even the point of everything? Shoving Eevee in foreground of the poster, making a big deal about the messy hair Eevee.
What was the fact that Eevee traveled in the water supposed to be some subtle foreshadowing of it being caught by Lana who was water Pokemon? As if that makes any remote sense considering there'd have been no reason for it to travel any other way to linking it to another character if another character was going to get it.
Sure, I do get that Lana could've used another Pokemon, fine, so did Mallow and Lillie but the issue, why Eevee? Why add another Eevee to the cast, and why give it to one of the girls (ignoring that the girls literally only had one Pokemon as opposed to the boys which at least have 2).
What absolute purpose could this Eevee really serve by being with Lana over anyone else, and especially just because of Let's go Eevee, which only the symbolism will matter, because I'd fail to see why Eevee would even have anything else other than the water type move, and it evolving into Vaporeon.
I just fail to see why anyone on the anime executive team, thought this made any sense from a marketing perspective. Another DAMN Eevee, likely to evolve into Vaporeon (which doesn't market anything except Lana's specialty), and Eevee ends up being with ANOTHER girl.
It's so overused at this point, it's like why even bother with as much marketing as if it was just going to end up as Lana.
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe Eevee will evolve into a brand new water type Eeveelution perhaps something like an Alola form evolution that's part water, but honestly I can't see the point. It's just wasted on Lana, and seems like Lana only got the Eevee because the Eevee Trainer Dart landed on Lana, because I literally cannot imagine a conversation of this:
Executive A- Let's go Eevee, huh? Who are we going to give Eevee to?
Executive B- Lana, she needs a new Pokemon, she has a starter, she has a Z-ring, she in those terms is the most obvious choice.
Executive A- Brilliant!
Well, except for the fact it isn't, it just doesn't make sense, if Lana was going to get an Eevee, then why the hell did they make such a big deal about it when Serena's own Eevee didn't get nearly as marketed, what was the point of going through ALL of what just happened and then basically shrug your shoulders "LANA" because "WHY NOT?"
I just....don't know.....anymore.
I dunno, I just looked at that scene in the opening again, and it kinda looks like its head is turned toward Lana and Popplio. Also, didn't the offical description for it on the TV Tokyo site or wherever mention it really likes the sea?
There were hints about it going to Lana, too. Just many jumped to the assumption that it was going to be Ash because of the poster, LGPE hype, and because apparently Ash needs Pokemon more than Lana.
Lana had not had a single team change throughout the entirety of the series and hasn't had a non-filler focus episode since SM40. And Ash needs a Pokemon more than she does. And don't even bring up the Alolan League, because it may not even be a 6-on-6 League, for all we know.
Ash is LITERALLY (along with Pikachu) the face of Pikachu.
And he JUST released a Pokemon that had NO purpose on his team, indicating his last TRUE capture was Litten, and we JUST had an episode that basically SHOVED the idea of ROWLET was NEVER going to evolve down our throat.
You're damn right Ash deserved and needed a Pokemon more than Lana. Look take away ANY of those filler episodes that meant absolutely nothing, and give Ash some random Pokemon to make up for everything to happen, then yes I wouldn't have given two craps about who Eevee was going to go to.
Also how about they don't wait until the damn preview to tell us WHO was going to get Eevee.
I mean at least in XY we had both NOIBAT and EEVEE, and we knew Serena was likely to get Eevee, so Ash who just needlessly released Goodra could at least catch Noibat.
But we didn't even get that this time, just a bunch of needless stagnant team changes from Ash since Litten evolved which I'm pretty sure was before Ash needlessly caught Poipole.
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