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Review S14 EP30: A UFO for Elgyem!

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BW30 - "A UFO for Elgyem!"

While Ash and his friends are sleeping, what appears to be a UFO flies over their heads and wakes them up! Unsure of what they have seen, the group visits a café in an area which is known for UFO sightings. After being told about a local UFO researcher and strange incidents that happen to those who go near his lab, the group decide to investigate. What is the cause of the UFO and the incidents?
 
Another formulaic episode. Cilan sure is passionate about a lot of things, isn't he? You know, maybe it's better if some things aren't explained by the anime, because I know of technobabble that's far more plausible than this. Nice to see Tranquil finally got strong enough to beat Woobat.
 
I couldn't watch it...
But I saw the original, and it was fine, the dubbed one is probably too :D
 
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Who was Professor Icarus' voice actor? It sounded like Brian Drummond.
 
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Who was Professor Icarus' voice actor? It sounded like Brian Drummond.
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Bulbapedia says Sean Schemmel.

I like Prof. Imori's new name, Icarus. Glad to see the dub didn't give him a stupif name.

As for the episode, meh. Icarus is a cool character and all, and Elgyem was so uguu kawaii desu ne cute, but the episode's plot was so dull I just didn't even care about anything.
 
Saw this ep on the treadmill so may have missed something :p

Waited for th Eng version of this ep, because it looked awesome. And it was awesome. Cilan's passion about being a Science Connoisseur was great, he should have got himself a Elgyem for sure. Telekinesis instead of Psychic was great for a change, I thought Elygem and Icarus was great even if he looks grumpy. He went from 8 to being a awesome scientist and Axew was so awesome, Dwebble, Pansage, Tranquill.
 
Is it Vic Mignogna? I remember someone saying he was going to voice a character on this show while he was in New York.
 
This was a pretty decent episode.

So its pronounced (el-G-yem), not the (elg-yem) I thought it was?

Seriously, Ash STILL couldn't distinguish TRio in their disguises? And he said, "I should've known it was you." Well Ash, you should practice blowing their disguises.

Area 28 eh? And the desert? An Area 51 parody?

Ash was also pretty dumb in this episode. Space aliens?

Also another episode with Cilan's scientific reasoning VS Iris's explanations
 
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Pretty nice episode. Note to writers, this episode is a good example of making a COTD likable. Maybe give them problems beyond their dealings with Pokemon. I thought that little musical jingle playing right at the start of the ep was lovely. Gotta hand it to this ep, it really made me like Elgyem, a poke I didn't really care for. Nicely animated by Ogata too.
 
Gotta agree with the beginning; the animation was just so fluid and beautiful that it's my favorite part of the episode. When it aired in Japan I really loved Dent's dorky science sommelier/connossieurness. I didn't think this episode was boring at all; the nerd in me was totally loving every minute of it XD
 
I liked the episode. Elgyem's flashing, lighting hands were kinda cool. (That's minor. Needless to say, I liked the timid Elgyem.)

I thought Professor Icarus was a good character and all--I especially liked when he said that the UFO wasn't his top priority (though he said it in his kind of way, and better). "Icarus" was a good choice for a name, considering he's named after someone who built a flying contraption of a sort. (Of a sort.)

Team Rocket was decent in this episode, and their only too over-the-top contraption was their get-away vehicle. (Alot of "contraptions" in this episode.) (Their scheme in the Cottonee episode wasn't as good; here, they just tried to nab one pokemon, and weren't foiled by the pokemon they stole.) Character-wise, Cilan may have been the worst, but he wasn't that bad. (I imagine cooking to be a science, so eh. I haven't seen Cilan that often, so i don't know how repetitive his "passions" get.) Ash's inability to recognize TR--well, I expect that to happen any and every time TR is in disguise.
 
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Really? Wow, it sounded nothing like him.
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Honestly, I sort of just picked him out of the credits list. I looked over the credits and he seemed like the most likely candidate to me (in comparison to Lucario in M08). Here's the full list of the additional cast for this episode:
Eli James
Vic Mignogna
Mike Pollock
Kayzie Rogers
Sean Schemmel
Erica Schroeder
Marc Thompson
Tom Wayland

Of course it may have been Vic. The only role I know that Vic played was Omega, and Icarus definitely sounded nothing like Omega.
 
I liked this episode far more than the Cottonee episode.

There was just something fluid and soothing in this episode that made me like it. Maybe because it dealt with science fiction.

I really like Elgyem, it's my favorite 5th gen non legendary psychic Pokemon.

The only negative thing I can say about this episode is that Tranquill got screwed over. Sure it's stronger than Woobat, but that Shadow Ball was unnecessary even if we never actually saw the outcome. Of course Ash fell back to Pikachu.
 
Pikachu just blew up the Rocket's hovercraft (that's what I'll call it) though, so far as I remember. I think that such is the best and most I'd like Pikachu to do. Every other pokemon of Ash's can battle.
 
Icarus was Vic Mignogna for sure. Sean was the guy at the beginning with the southern accent.
 
"Is Dark Matter a Pokemon?" LOL Ash, no. This is why he should go to school.

I really liked this episode, I thought the plot was interesting, and Elgyem is really cute. Cilan was so funny and adorable when he was all excited about science.

And I adored the rockets' disguises!
 
In my opinion, the episode was sub-par. I just didn't really love the story. There were a few elements that I enjoyed, like the interaction between Elgyem and Icarus. But overall it was just sort of boring for me. I will say that Elgyem was adorable though.

I'm not entirely sure why they named him Icarus, since that's the name of one of the towns too.
 
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