I'M CAPTAIN KIRK

when i said 'warming up to the animation' i didn't mean its occasional drop into overexaggerated jojo-esque expressions because i have never liked that and never will like that in any anime
yes, i am that person who won't watch something because i don't like the animation style, sue me

 

there has been no recognisable merit to this episode as of yet, it's not even particularly funny because it's essentially just cringe humour. and, of course, it focuses on rotomdex, which is an immediate docking of -100 Decency Points

 

my usual scale of Decency Points goes from one to five by the way

 

have i mentioned i hate rotomdex yet

 

i want you to know that i will hand you the sledgehammer to take care of rotomdex once and for all, because i also loathe it with all my being

 

i will also be right with you on that, so like. incredibly valid

 

a wise man, a man of sense and good taste

admittedly i can usually get over it if i like the show enough- i was sort of meh on steven universe's style initially tbh- but sometimes it's just. way too distracting, right? looking more at the animation than what's actually happening.

 

apparently there has to be at least one Lovestruck Fule per pokemon anime series, and since Brock is long gone and they've lost Baby Gay Bonnie now too the role has fallen to fuckin Rowlet of all people

 

honestly though
honestly though
team rocket being aggressively fed and cared for is all i could ever ask for when it comes to these three

 

one day nintendo will permit something other than Strict Gender Roles into pokemon

also sophocles continues to annoy me. there is literally no reason for him to be named that. it's not relevant at all to his character traits or pokemon type affinity or culture or LITERALLY ANYTHING
sophocles was a fucking playwright SCREAMS

 

'are you able to make out that little island over there?' [points to large island plainly visible in the midground]
lady, ash may have the brainpower of a concussed Stunky but he's not blind

 

i think that's the first pokemon dying of old age more-or-less onscreen (they never said the word, and stoutland ~mysteriously vanished~ rather than anything else, but the symbolism was beyond unmistakable) we've ever had?

on an unrelated note scuse me i have something in my eye

 

that awkward moment when you make a dangerous ghost type so mad it evolves into an even more dangerous ghost type

 

if alolan detective loki (locke?) is such a good detective you'd think he'd deduce that he needed warmer clothes in the snow

 

team rocket stop basing wigs on people you used to know it's weird
don't think i don't see may, brock and harley in there

 

...okay usually when you show the past self of someone who has changed a lot you have them looking at least a little bit similar

 

Spoiler: big pics

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I suppose it's a wonder what a haircut, hair dye, a tan, some time at the gym and a successful DJ career can do to a man

 

how do you handle a band breaking up due to artistic differences when you're a dugtrio

poorly, apparently

 

my, personal thought of what is underneath a diglett that nobody sees: more diglett
all digletts and dugtrios are just fruiting heads of one huge multi-headed worm-mushroom creature that writhes and wriggles beneath your feet ten miles down into the earth's crust

 

apparently this guy's dugtrio held all his cool, 'cause he's put the nerd shirt and glasses back on after losing it. why did i know that would happen?