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Review S12 EP16: The Lonely Snover!

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One of a few episodes to have literate translation of Japanese title. Also first Pokémon episode that aired in HD and 16:9 in Japan. Will this be true for US airing too? Well, lets find out in a few hours.

Hope I am not too early with this. If I am, I am sorry, but I don't live in USA.
 
Well it looks like they cropped it.
They have a new opening which includes footage from "High Touch." Finally, I was getting sick of the old opening. If only they made a longer opening song... we could have had more footage.
Snover's voice is weird. Sounds a bit like Mamoswine's to me.
One of the more "interesting" dub tracks they have used in a while when Grotle learns Rock Climb.
Tatsunami Town is now known as Sandlestraw Town?
 
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Fullscreen, noooo. The new title card makes it really obvious.

Amazing new opening which is almost exactly what I thought it should be, yeeees.

Grotle using Synthesis is cute. :p
 
I guess they didn't make it widescreen.

oooh, they changed the opening. Yes, yes, yes, oh fucking yes.

THAT is an opening.

They're keeping music, and I'm quite happy lol.

lol, I forgot Grotle had that move, it's been so long since it used it.

lol, Chimchar's flame is still moving.

Snover sounds so cute.

lol, I like how they randomly finf the bush Snover's in.

Tentacles, pokemopolis would love this.

What IS that thing they're eating?

The Boss is a leader of a criminal orgainzation, why in the hell would he start an ice-cream stand, Meowth?

I like that extended motto theme.

Nice to see Yanmega again. More screentime than Dustox, that's for sure.

Surprised they didn't try to recapture it.

Heh, I never would have though that Pokemon would grow berries.

The music quality and volume seems to be better.

heh, poor grotle moving so slow.

That's pretty cool lol, they way Grotle sorta flew like that.

hey, I almost forgot Happiny existed lol.

lol, right in the ass/maybe balls.

Sandalstraw or sandaldraw? What a weird name.

This was the first HD epm, and it was quite good. I don't really care much about the cropping since the opening is good, and the quality seems to be much better across the board.
 
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Full screen? -_- stupids -_- I want to kill them
I hope at least they did that good and it doesn't look stretched and strange like happened here when they aired CCS movie 2 and the whole Tsubasa series, that was very obvious it wasn't originally like that
I also hope there won't be any missing parts due to the change to full screen (is it even possible not to have such missing parts? I don't really know much about this stuff)
So why even change the OP? just because it's HD now? not that I complain, I always want more songs
Oh well, let's hope at least next season will be wide screen and they simply didn't want such a change at the middle of a season
 
Has no clue Snover could produce little berries...

Wow, Snover sure is annoying. Is it me, or does it want one of the twerps to catch it, but none of them want it? XD

Ha, the twerps using the motto time to put on some clothes.

I like how Ash goes out of his way to blast TRio off just because. And after Razor Lead didn't hit, he sends Pikachu to use Iron Tail instead of Staraptor or Gliscor?

Grotle has nuts. (Pun unintended.) :D Neat. Grotle gets more adorable with every appearance.

Holy crap, and now Grotle's a badass! ^^ So that's what Rock Climb looks like. That pose after tearing up the balloon was great.

Oh my Arceus, he can leap tall buildings in a single bound.

Now we get CotDs and a girl come-on/Croagunk assjab? Oh, a really epic Croagunk assjab at that.

Lol, "oh look, a town with a Contest is just ten minutes away!"

Would have been a boring episode were it not for Grotle. Because of Grotle, I love it.

...mmm, now to wish for widescreen airings on SD. D: Hopefully it will be right on DVD*? Anyone watch this on CN's HD channel?

*Or possibly Blu-ray. But I sincrely doubt it.
 
THEY CHANGED THE THEME SONG TO HD/HIGH TOUCH!!!!!!!!! THEY CHANGED THE THEME SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
jinglejoe said:
THEY CHANGED THE THEME SONG TO HD/HIGH TOUCH!!!!!!!!! THEY CHANGED THE THEME SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yeah, that's the great part! It was pretty ADD, but still rocked.

Gotta love how they made up for the worst dub opening of all time with possibly the best dub opening of all time. XD
 
I was surprised when they changed the opening. I was just thinking about how awesome it will be if they change the opening using "High Touch" clips just days ago. xD

I'm disappointed they didn't bother to use widescreen...
 
Seeing how they changed opening, I have feeling TPCI and DuArt made it in HD and 16:9 but CN felt to crop it. Maybe there's chance for widescreen DVDs and widescreen airings outside of USA, like Dinosaur King did.
 
Can anyone describe the OP? was it only about 30 seconds again? did Piplup appear like it should have in the previous OP? what scenes of High Touch did they use? what other scenes they had? were they smart enough not to have a bunch of Poké talk at the end of the OP? how the song was? and anything else...
EDIT: was the singer male or female? I guess they weren't smart enough to do a duet? (well, maybe it wouldn't work with the English VAs, but I think it'd be nice in Hebrew)
 
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Can anyone describe the OP? was it only about 30 seconds again? did Piplup appear like it should have in the previous OP? what scenes of High Touch did they use? what other scenes they had? were they smart enough not to have a bunch of Poké talk at the end of the OP? how the song was? and anything else...
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I think it was the same length, minus the annoying cries. But they used pretty much every scene of High Touch, plus one or two moments of episode footage, making it very frantic and all-over-the-place, although at least there was logic in it (shots relating to J in-episode followed by her shot from the opening, for instance). They even changed the logo background to make it the background from the beginning of High Touch. Of note is they included the "recurring characters" shot but only for a split second... I wonder who managed to get in.
 
Piplup said:
Can anyone describe the OP? was it only about 30 seconds again? did Piplup appear like it should have in the previous OP? what scenes of High Touch did they use? what other scenes they had? were they smart enough not to have a bunch of Poké talk at the end of the OP? how the song was? and anything else...
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Seconded. I missed the opening as well. Hopefully it'll be up on YouTube soon.

Anyway, I saw pretty much the rest of the episode and came out quite entertained. I like how Grotle got some development in this episode. Not to mention it was quite entertaining to see the interactions with Snover.
 
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Of note is they included the "recurring characters" shot but only for a split second... I wonder who managed to get in.
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So they had that scene without showing it all? it'd be annoying if only some of them are seen and other aren't...
Did Pip appear? Barry? anyone else?
Singer male or female?
Was the focus mainly on Ash or equally on Dawn too?

Anyone who thought they'd change it to widescreen were really fooling themselves.
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Why? They do with the movies... it's not like kids will see it's wide screen and won't watch it because of that...
Actually, I'm sure even a lot of kids today would understand it's actually better
 
I think it's cool that they updated Battle Cry with High Touch scenes(lol non-believers). I hope some people that haven't seen it aren't getting the impression that they used an entirely new opening song.

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The music quality and volume seems to be better.
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I noticed that as well. Also, I thought TPCI's remixed version of a piece that I already loved was awesome.
 
Blue_Drifblim said:
I hope some people that haven't seen it aren't getting the impression that they used an entirely new opening song.
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Oh... how disappointing... I actually understood people's posts as if they actually made a brand new OP and not just different scenes with the same song
 
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