Goh's been a psychopath. Then he is a thief. Then he robs TR. Surprised we didn't get to the point where Goh is torturing the writers....
Edit: And he is a bully too. The list goes on!
Anyway, while Ultraman gives an Absolute Conspiracy. Pokemon gives... An Absolutely Filler
Passable episode. Once again, Absol being misunderstood by humans but it kind of worked anyway.
Still, Goh's capture of Absol felt... Uncessary. I'd much rather Goh just pulling an Ash and jumping to save it and then it agrees to be capture. I guess the way they are doing is to highlight how Goh is different than Ash but I dunno, the way they've been doing, we are reaching a point where it'll feel like they are saying all problems within the episode can be solved with a capture. Which is just as bad as solving everything with a TR curbstomp battle followed by them blasting off again. I think they handled fine the idea that Goh put Absol in the pokéball to protect it and he was willing to let it go (no pun intended) rather than keep it, but I dunno, I think they could've used a different setup to reach that conclusion.
Doesn't help that earlier in the episode, Goh was willing to solve everything by capturing the Glalie family. Just as not everything has to be solved with battling or blasting TR off because it's was their fault (and Decade's too), not everything should be solved by catching. I hope they address this at some point, but considering it's a slice of life episode, I don't see it happening.
I mean, as a whole, the episode itself is nice and I get what they were going for, I just wish they did something differently as to not make Goh so one-note that everything surrounding him are about catching. Not even Ash is all about battling. Weird Tomiyasu pulled that off just fine on SM with Ash himself and it's now dropping the ball with who's arguebly his original protagonist character.
Anyway, episode had some Cinderace action so I'm content
Hey, miss, I brought you the cup of fandom tears you had ordered.
(yes, even Pikachu since he too hasn't done much for months now other than being just... there much like Ash himself really)
Yeah, aside the terrible jealousy episode, Pikachu's there mostly to look cute and remember kids to buy his plushies.