For now becoming 'that one episode' I wasn't too amused with the setup. Yes it's original but if there is no conflict or sweaty tension wafting about, how should I exactly care about the fate of those two.
Is Zoey trailing close behind our heroes? How can she make these often casual entrances, what kind of character does Zoey think she is?!
At least she doesn't warp across the seas like Oak, given his pocket pension.
How disappointing that Ash can sacrifice Aipom as a retainer for contests, yet remain unsupportive of the first Aipom to be king? I don't trust Dawn quite yet to carry the legacy of the amazing Aipom.
Two monkeys in the team does look like overdoing it, both of them in one battle field just questioned their motives. Aipom riding a star is something I'd like Dawn to master. That and Aipom pimp slapping Chimchar.
Ugh the animation fell far below my standards, Cacnea didn't take away too much I hope. Brock's face, Dawn's scarf. Zoey's butt. If the mood wasn't so serious I might have laughed. Ironically Team Rocket is done to perfection.
Good that Jessie, Meowth, and Wobbuffet try to make it up to James, for really hanging him to dry previously. No Team Rocket going solo episode however. Though now Carnivine is need of a move as nice looking as Pin Missile, or a personality to say the least. How nice that Cacnea was removed from the opening, I don't need to miss my favorite bludgeon for 50 episodes.
The strange techno at the end reminded me that the only clear music I heard was the TR theme. Those voices better quit muffling the classics!
5/10 So what's to become of the Great Buizel Ice Rocket now?