Geodude said:
Nope. It ended at a stalemate...and really, that's all we should have been expecting. One of them winning would mean one of the teams would win. I think the whole "balance of nature" thing might have been part of what Lance was explaining to Maxie.
What stalemate? I thought that Groudon had prevailed(with a big assist from Pikachu)!
About the animation controversy...why the team switch(if there really was one)? It would far make more sense to have the same team do both parts, wouldn't it?
Regarding the ending, it sounds like the old "this calamity wouldn't have happened if not for human interference" bit to me. Personally, I believe that it would have been far better for JJ&M to have called in reinforcements---informing Giovanni about their discovery while they were at it---during Part 1(and putting them to use in Part 2), and then made a go for K&G *while* the two pokemon were at each other's throats. Ultimately, the Rocket attack---probably involving an electrified net---would get shot down by the combined efforts of Ash-tachi, Lance, and Teams Aqua and Magma, and the two heavily-exhausted legendaries break off their fight as the Orbs extract themselves(after the prerequesite mutual glare). Lance makes his comment(the one that he used in the actual ep will do nicely), but Brock disagrees(eliciting confused looks from Ash---who has just swum back from recovering Pikachu---and Lance), putting in that the fight between Kyogre and Groudon didn't have a clear winner thanks to Team Rocket; it's no longer a question of *if* there will be another confrontation, but *when*. May and Max start fretting over the prospect of another K&G demolition derby, as Archie finally regains conciousness and finds that he remembers nothing since from after the point that he absorbed the Red Orb.
You know, I think that there was a lot of potential for this ep that wound up wasted...