Last week: Everybody died. Everybody is dead. Officer Jenny has declared them as such. You know that theory about Final Fantasy 8 that Squall is dead? I posit that everything after episode 15 of Pokémon is actually a dream. Everybody is dead and we’re witnessing the last remains of Ash’s consciousness. Read more…
Last time: Ash achieved something…on merit?! Wait, St. Anne? What’s the St. Anne? Who is Saint Anne? A quick Google tells me that St. Anne is the grandmother of Jesus. I guess that’s pretty worthy of canonization. The whole Christianity thing technically wouldn’t exist without her. But where’d the S.S. Read more…
Last time: Dragonite is the coolest! Lt. Surge returned home from war to run a gym and bully poor children, brutalising their unfortunate Pokémon. That’s how he gets his jollies after serving his country. What war was he a lieutenant in anyway? Was there some kind of great inter-continental Pokémon war that Read more…
Last time: Sunglasses are the coolest. I adored this episode as a kid. It was one of those episodes I missed the first time around and watched a repeat of after having seen like a hundred episodes. First of all – that’s magical in and of itself. Finding a new Read more…
Last time: Ash added a Charmander to his Bulbasaur. What could possibly comes next? I had no memory of Ash catching the three Kanto starters in three straight episodes. Ash really filled out his team fast. Squirtle is the coolest. It leads a a gang of miscreant Squirtles on the run Read more…
Last time: Ash caught himself a Bulbasaur! You know, there’s a fundamental decency to Ash. He’s a dope. He’s usually pretty self-centered. He can occasionally let his own stubbornness and pigheadedness get in his own way. But when push comes to shove – he always wants to do the right Read more…
Last time: Bullying is wrong kids. Wait a minute, that’s a perfectly reasonable moral to learn?! Misty arguing that finding an Oddish, a grass Pokémon, becomes her right to catch because it is drinking from a pool of water is extremely tenuous logic. Ash should’ve spent a great deal longer questioning Read more…
Last time: Slavery is okay? How big is Brock’s backpack? He pulls a whole table, chairs and tea set out of it at the start of the episode. Plus a whisk and bowl. Is his bag a TARDIS? Is Brock a timelord? How cool would a Brock Doctor Who series Read more…
Last time: Pity reigned supreme once more! It amuses me to no end that Ash, having won both of his badges by not actually defeating the Gym Leaders, has let his success go to his head because he can beat shorts lover Youngster Joey over and over again. Of course Read more…
Last time: ♪Clefairy♪ ♪Clefairy♪ ♪Clefairy♪ ♪Clefairy♪♪Clefairy♪ We talked a lot in Ash Catches A Pokémon about Misty’s failure to confront her feelings for Ash. That seems a reoccurring character trait as it’s not just her love of Ash she can’t face but also her crippling insecurities and the burden of responsibility from being related to the Read more…