S06 EP18: A Poached Ego! ・ EP19: Tree's a Crowd

Well, speaking as someone who has better things to do than wank over every inconsistency between the dub and original, I rather liked the poacher episode. Even if there were changes made, that didn't make it any less touching to people who might not have seen the original version. Some of us are, yanno, happy with what we get.

( ... okay, so that's only because it takes the aforementioned 'some of us' a week to download one single episode thanks to dial-up connections, but STILL )

A Poached Ego was a cute episode, overall. TR's farewell/sendoff was more emotional than most of Ash's, I have to say. While Ash's were mainly "okay, thanks for your help, have fun, bye ", the nature of the scene here made all the difference. Even Weezing's little head was crying. Wah ;_;

And there was no sappy vocal! TEH WINNAR!

... just once, I'd like to see a Fearow who's trainer is, without question, good. It seems like every time a Spearow/Fearow shows up, it has an antagonistic role. Dear writers: pick on a different Pokemon, plzkthx ;_; *hugs poor Fearow*

Um.

Treecko episode was pretty good, too. I agree, the voices did get quite annoying, but eh.

I had the opinion that the scene of the tree growing was the dying tree's vision for the future - you know, grow a new tree from the seed, and it will grow other trees, etc. It was executed well ("it's just like a nature show! only... uh, animated"), but it was a bit too sudden, it took a moment to figure out it was a hallucination/vision/what-have-ye.

But dude, did Taillow get lost on the way to find Brock and company? Ash ran off, and arrived at the tree in, like, less than a minute. And Brock-tachi didn't make it to the tree until the next... morning? ... buh.

... er, did the "Who's that Pokémon?" on the second episode say Girafarig has a 'tale' that bites? Eheh. (... or was that just the snow on my TV making 'tail' look misspelled? :E)