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Review S14 EP29: Cottonee in Love!

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BW29 - "Cottonee in Love!"

During another training battle between Scraggy and Axew, a strong gust of wind picks up and a lone Cottonee appears before Ash and his friends. Surprised that the Cottonee is by itself, Cilan explains that at this time of the year Cottonee find mates of their kind to form couples. Scraggy suddenly notices another Cottonee nearby and the Cottonee that was blown towards the group noticably has feelings for it yet is rejected! Can Ash and his friends help the Cottonee impress its love interest?
 
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Bleh, Cottonee doesn't interest me. Only Whimsicott.

Now that would've made the episode 1000% times better.

So, it's confession time becomes Heart-to-Heart time.

It's wind searching time becomes it's wind-testing time.

Lastly, confession time returns becomes it's confession time, second edition.

It's official. They decided to keep the it's ____ time permanently.
 
What was this Iris eating apples and talking about love? I think she temporarily switched bodies with Emolga off-screen.
 
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Just your standard filler really. As much as I still want to punch Iris for saying "You're such a little kid", I'll let it go this time because nobody ever wants to teach Ash the Pidgeys and Beedrills.
 
Not really that special of an episode. Just a Cottonee in love training, really. Though I have to admit, the Diamond Breeze was nice, but other than that, this episode is pretty forgettable.

Plot: 4/10
Resolution: 5/10
Team Rocket: 3/10
Music: 8/10
Animation: 5/10

Overall, I give this episode 5 points out of 10.
 
Decent episode, though I don't really care for romance episodes. Though I did kind of like seeing the Cottenee mating practices actually somewhat resemble real life animals....well as far as animals who can fire exploding balls of energy go....


Team Rocket felt a bit shooed in, in this ep. There wasn't even really a battle between Ash, co, and them. They came, crashed, and then just left as soon as it was starting to get exciting.
 
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This episode felt like a mix between standard training episodes and a "pokemon attempting to impress another pokemon" episodes. Both Ash's Scraggy and Iris's Axew were seen extensively trying to assist the Cottonee in improving the aim of its attacks. As Cilan had mentioned, this Cottonee was a quick learner and it did not take too long before the pokemon was able to battle effectively.

TRio's presence in this episode really was not necessary and was only included to fill up time. It felt very awkward that the Cottonee had resumed with their mating ritual after TRio failed to contain them in their machine. The same thing applied to Iris biting down on quite a number of apples in between important scenes. Both of these events filled up time because the plotline was too simplistic to last on its own for a good 20 minutes.

I wasn't impressed with this episode. I couldn't care less if the Cottonee succeeded in finding its mate. I enjoyed the screentime that Ash's Scraggy, Iris's Axew, as well as Cilan's pokemon, received when they were pitted to battle this wild Cottonee.
 
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When I watched the Japanese episode, I thought it was funny that even the young Scraggy understood Cottonee's problem better than Ash did. :p
 
They really gotta stop recycling this same damn love plot between wild pokemon in every series.

And every time this happens, the pokemon in love gets a "bandange, scarf, accessory" to make it stand out so we recognize it. One of BW's worst fillers simply because this type of episode was done better in previous arcs.
 
This episode pretty much felt like it belonged somewhere in early/mid Johto, where these type of fillers were common. Is it just me or does Cottonee remind anyone else of a Johto pokemon?
 
The episode was decent. I enjoyed watching Scraggy so enthusiastic about his new Cottonee friend, but it did get annoying when Iris always talked about love with her mouth full, and that Ash STILL doesn't understand the concept of couples. Come on, writers, he's gotta grow up SOMEtime.
 
A cute filler, but I'm always a sucker for romance. Each of the twerps helped in their own unique way, and that last shot of the episode was just gorgeous.

And yes, I still find it amusing how clueless Ash is about love. :p It just wouldn't be right any other way.
 
1. Yay Cottonee!! I'm go glad Cottonee got an episode! :D But no Whimsicott :(

2. this plot feels recycled and not all original. I swear I've seen it at least a few times before with different Pokémon in past seasons. Heck it even reminds me of the Dwebble episode.

3. Yet again we have an individual Pokémon out of a bunch of nearly identical Pokémon being identified with a bandage on of the protags puts on them after an injury early in the episode. That just makes me think either the animation should be better or that the writing should be better to make that individual Pokémon stand out more in the way it acts or soemthing.

4. Why is it common for this show to depict the first form of a Pokémon's evolutionary line and treat it as though it were an adult? For example, in the Venipede Stampede episode where the Venipede were led by a larger Venipede rather than a Whirlipede or a Scolipede.

4. I never understood this fixation of Ash to stop the TRio from catching WILD POKEMON. Sure catching a dozens of Pokémon from the wild with no intent to properly care for them is uncool, but THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT ASH DID IN THE ORIGINAL SERIES.

5. Wow, they actually recycled the Team Rocket Motto sequence from "Battling for the Love of Bug Types".

6. A TRio mech built for an EXTREMELY specialized role and being blown up with a single Thunderbolt form Pikachu? Seems VERY Pre-Unova to me, especially with the TRio crashing their truck right into a boulder.

7. In this episode in particular, escaping with jet packs seems only to be a cosmetic substitution for blasting off. What happened to them escaping on foot using smoke grenades or any of those other cool methods they used early on in Unova?

8. I regret to say this, but Team Rocket didn't need to be in this episode AT ALL. Remove all the scenes with Team Rocket in them and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IS LOST FROM THE STORY. Being attacked by agents of an evil organization should MATTER, not be completely negligible. They were just filler in a filler episode.
 
This was an okay episode.

Iris was actually entertaining for me because of her constant eating. Was she really hungry or something?

I agree that the TRio part was unnecessary and the episode could still be the same without them. I really like their literal blast off with jet packs.

I didn't notice that Ash didn't really understand couples. Even little Scraggy knew better.

The diamond wind thing was also cool.
 
I agree whole-heartedly with Iris about Ash being a kid. But for someone who's constantly talking with her mouth full in this episode she personifies what it means to be a kid. I don't understand the correlation between talking about love and romance and becoming hungry and starting to eat.

Maybe Iris has had some bad romantic experiances in her life and so she eats so that she doesn't feel the pain....Or I may be looking WAY too far into it. Well this episode was so boring and 1 dimentional that I had to think about another possible reason for Iris eating apples every three seconds!

IMO, the worst BW episode so far.
 
lets see how many apples did she had?
a green apple
a yellow one
a red apple(?)
another yellow and another green apple= 5 apples in all how hungery can you get???

and what the hell was with "its heart-to-heart time!" was it nessisary cilan?
not the best episode ever(IMO). writers, you can do better!
 
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Actually, eating an apple can make you feel really hungry.
The reason apples don't keep you full, and sometimes make you hungrier, is that they are 95 percent carbohydrates and carbs do not keep you full.
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Just sayin'. :p
 
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