Review DP150: The Red Chain! Activated by Galaxy-dan!!

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- Satoshi and his friends come across Nyasu, who's been beaten up.

- We see the Spear Key being used.

- Mars looks *really* happy.

- Musashi, Kojirou, and Handsome are all in jail somewhere. We see Kojirou take out a Monster Ball.

- Satoshi, Hikari, Takeshi, and Nyasu (with a bandage on his arm) are seen running through some industrial area.

- Looks like Hikari's Potchama and Satoshi's Pikachu will be facing off against Jupiter's Skuntank.

This episode airs on November 5th.
 
I'm a bit pissed at how Pikachu and Piplup are used for every single non-official battle out there. We barely ever see any of the gangs other Pokemon nowadays, so this mascot advertising is really irritating. Now they get to fight vs Jupiter, and I can't even remember the last time someone else than Pikachu/Piplup blasted Team Rocket off...
 
I don't know if three episodes is enough for a proper conclusion. While it's better than Magma and Aqua. I just realized the problem. The problem lies in Azelf, Uxie, Mesprit being the second episode in this 3 episode arc, as well as some other problems.

After all you can't make a red chain without the pixies, now I believe in a sub of an episode (don't be dumb, I mean of an episode that has already aired and showed clips of these upcoming episode), it stated that red chain would be made of Meteorites from Veilstone. Okay plot point averted, but then why catch the pixies this late? I mean if you think about it, if the Pixies aren't caught soon then the actual conclusion is only going to be one episode, that sounds disappointing.

I say one episode, because apparently (no solid proof yet) the Pixies are just barely caught in the second episode. Hopefully the first but most likely the second. If the Pixies are barely caught in the second episode, and unless they're caught way early in the episode, that takes about five minutes. It means the final episode is going to be simply making sure Team Galactic doesn't succeed.

Then there's all the scenes we've seen so far, including the scenes showed today, and I just can't see how they can stuff them in and have a satisfying conclusion.

Although now that I think about it, it's not that there's not enough episodes, it's just the preparation. The Uxies should have been caught off screen (or what I meant was without the twerps interfering) without devoting an apparent "whole" episode to it. Then we could have a bit more time for the conclusion.

But we'll see, I could be wrong, I really hope I am. But if J finally captures the last Pixie, at the end of episode 2 of 3. I'll be very disappointed.

Kairyu said:
I'm a bit pissed at how Pikachu and Piplup are used for every single non-official battle out there. We barely ever see any of the gangs other Pokemon nowadays, so this mascot advertising is really irritating. Now they get to fight vs Jupiter, and I can't even remember the last time someone else than Pikachu/Piplup blasted Team Rocket off...
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I know it's really annoying. One of my major gripes. It's bad enough they're in all the episodes, do they always have to do the work? I mean I know Gliscor is coming up, but we haven't seen the flying scorpion since the Marill, Elekid, Piplup episode. I think a few of the reasons, since they are always in the episodes, easier to animate, and for an in-anime reason. It's because it saves time, rather than a few seconds to call out another Pokemon.

Part of me wishes Pikachu is snubbed in the battle against Volkner (doesn't partake). But that would be kind of mean since Pikachu hasn't had a gym win since Wake. But on the other hand, that is somewhat of a good thing.
 
dman_dustin said:
Part of me wishes Pikachu is snubbed in the battle against Volkner (doesn't partake). But that would be kind of mean since Pikachu hasn't had a gym win since Wake. But on the other hand, that is somewhat of a good thing.
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Well, arguably, Pikachu hasn't had a gym win since... well... Juan (The Frontier Brains are NOT Gym Leaders). I mean, even Pikachu's win against Wake wasn't even close to a gym win since he didn't take out Wake's last Pokemon.
 
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NYASU! :-(

Looks like a really intense episode. It's going to be interesting to see Nyasu work with the tweps himself.

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lol. Oh Musashi...
 
Dogasu said:
- Mars looks *really* happy.
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Haha, actually SATURN looks really happy. xD

Mars was just in that little part in the end. :X

But whoo!
So it looks like Jupiter and her Skuntank will have their screentime in this episode. :3
 
I swear though, that wide-eyed shot of Saturn makes me imagine his hair starting to wiggle. As much as the Japanese fanbase loves making fun of his hair, I'm rather surprised I haven't run across anything like that (and yet Cyrus, the only person in the entire organization with anything resembling normal hair, is the only one to get made fun of in canon for it).
 
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Hahaha.
Yeah. That would have been great if Saturn's hair wiggled in a way ..that looked more like kitty ears. O: xDDD

Well didn't only Cyrus get that his hair was blue in the anime? Which is kind of strange ..because many other characters have much stranger hair colors. And his blue isn't even that bad. Kinda looks like it could be the color of hair on an old person in the anime. (Still can't believe that he's only 27.)

But !!
ONE MORE WEEK!
 
As this episode takes place in Fuego Ironworks, I hope that we'll get to see Mr. Fuego - the owner of the place.

A game character debut is always nice.
 
Copy-pasting.

This is the one by the new AD, right? Not bad, at least... judging by the preview. I especially liked the part where Skuntank was using the purple attack.

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& Happy Saturn is happy. xD
 
^ Not likely he's in the first. Might appear in the second, but I'll remain doubtful. His appearence in the trailer was from the third episode since I swear that it was an Iwane-animated Gary.

And I'm still laughing at the intense, fierce Piplup VS Skuntank battle...~
 
Ah, so Gary goes 60 episode gaps without appearing, and then when he actually does appear...he doesn't get to do anything.

Sometimes I wonder why the writers even brought Gary into the DP saga.
 
Please Scott, stop with this ridiculous Gary complaining
Gary is NOT important anymore
Just be happy he's in Sinnoh and we get to see him at all
We could not even get -that-
Also, it makes sense he'd help Rowan rather than randomly go after TG...
 
Yah more Meowth. It will be so cool to see him work with team twerps. I feel so bad for him though, I hope he gets pay back on those jerks.
 
Judging from pacing it does look like this needed a fourth episode, but I hope they can fit it all in.

Yeah, I'm hoping Pokehunter J isn't finished here. She deserves her own final episode at the end of Sinnoh.
 
It looks like this ep will be an episode for Jupiter to "star" in more than actually the final itself
I think only the last two eps will really be the final, so it'll probably be only slightly better than Magma/Aqua
I'll probably like it anyway XD
And about J - it can really go either way, but I think they'll jump at this chance to resolve both "bad guys" arcs together
 
Woohoo Jupiter finally does something!
As far as the preview went, this episode was basically Ash and co. (plus Meowth) trying to save Team Rocket and Looker only to encounter Jupiter and Skuntank. And they battle... Where's J?
 
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