The Rainbow & The Pokémon Master (1236)

[Ragnarok4]

Personally, I don't like gryphoon, the guy was about to explode when my girl misty had her W against WC Ash

 

[AARTX]

Personally, I don't like gryphoon, the guy was about to explode when my girl misty had her W against WC Ash

He’s a low key Serena stan kek

 

[1rkhachatryan]

My bro Pidgeot returned to Ash and is staying with him!!! Finally <3!!!!

Don't care about whatever else happened, the episode was a win for me based on that alone <3!!!

 

[Kuzehiko]

So Ash started a new journey with only Pikachu and Pidgeot in his roaster.

 

[Blood Red]

No confirmation that he took Pidgeot with him. It’s most likely just Pikachu as usual.

 

[solrocknroll]

So Ash started a new journey with only Pikachu and Pidgeot in his roaster.

If only Butterfree had truly come back from the war

No confirmation that he took Pidgeot with him. It’s most likely just Pikachu as usual.

People who understand Japanese who literally watched the episode have said Pidgeot rejoined. I get that you want to be all cynical because you’re disappointed or whatever but that is factually incorrect.

 

[Umbilical Noose]

The moment they express an emotion other than pure happiness then yeah they’ve already surpassed him LOL

Like what? Crying after losing their first league?

Getting out of the cycle of samsara .. I know, but that "Buddhist stuff" like a joke in my region

We use it when someone says something like "bro just enjoy the process who cares about the result just enjoy bro "

That's not just Buddhism. Kind of whole Indian philosophy.

 

[Ragnarok4]

.....That is exactly the kind of mentality Buddhism tries to reprimand.

Yeah, I know a lot about Buddhism, I know what you're talking about, and it's funny because I recently critiqued some issues I have with their belief system (non-dualism and the non-existence of the essence) but that's a topic for another thread

 

[Blood Red]

People who understand Japanese who literally watched the episode have said Pidgeot rejoined. I get that you want to be all cynical because you’re disappointed or whatever but that is factually incorrect.

…I meant there’s no confirmation that he brought Pidgeot along on his journey.

 

[TomRC121991]

Do you think we see him sometimes?

 

[Flame Haze SnS]

All I can say is...Poor Primape.

 

[UnovaMaster]

Well the good thing is, even if Ash is back for Gen 10, they can't avoid Pidgeot's existence now

Now it will have to be at the lab every time he's there mwahaahahahaaha

 

[Morax]

That's not just Buddhism. Kind of whole Indian philosophy

I mean Buddhism came out of India so....

 

[Dragonsoldier77]

Let's be honest, between each gym there was N episodes of Ash befriending pokémon and their trainers
And these episodes were a good chunk of the series too

And still the main draw of the series has still been on the battling and other such goals. Even SM and JN which tried to do something different still had to rely on the big tournaments at the end to get people to watch. Even if you say that they put a lot of episodes for random pokemon befriending, you can’t say the battles weren’t the thing they pushed as important.

Like if befriending all the mons is really ash’s goal what’s the point of all the moments he’s super competitive in the past? Take the whole ideological conflict with paul, which is to see whose way in training was correct. What point is there to this conflict if ash’s goal doesn’t really have anything to do with getting stronger? Even if he’s not the absolute strongest, it doesn’t prevent him from just befriending pokemon as he want even if paul beat him and showed that his way is better go get strong mons. It just means ash’s way is better to actually befriend them, and that should be enough for him.

All the moments where ash is super serious about winning and tries his hardest to train with his pokemon to achieve their hoal just loses their bite when this last 11 ep seems to imply all ash really wants is to randomly go around and befriend pokemon, and all that previous effort really didn’t have a point.

 

[Kazuniya]

…I meant there’s no confirmation that he brought Pidgeot along on his journey.

Please consider how silly the idea is of Ash asking Pidgeot to travel with him only to drop it off at Oak's in the end.

 

[j4hsan]

ash will return 2027 book it

 

[Blood Red]

Please consider how silly the idea is of Ash asking Pidgeot to travel with him only to drop it off at Oak's in the end.

Dude this is Ash

 

[Ragnarok4]

That's not just Buddhism. Kind of whole Indian philosophy.

I know, the words i wrote are saying from my region, people are not very informed but whatever

I think I'm going to get banned for talking about off-topic xD

 

[Kazuniya]

Dude this is Ash

That's not an argument.

As it stands, you actually have no evidence that Ash dropped Pidgeot off at Oak's, but if you wish to be a debbie downer, go right ahead.

 

[Kuzehiko]

Ash's best Pokemon, Pidgeot.