BW 034 "Dangoro! Let's Fire the Luster Cannon!!" Review Thread

[Musashi]

Dangoro! Let's Fire the Luster Cannon!!
On the way to Raimon City, Satoshi and his friends stop for lunch. Just then, a Dangoro comes in and franticly moves about! What could be the problem?

[Meron Targaryen]

Awesome Rockets were awesome~!

Annnd Satoshi caught some rock, IDK

[GreatLiver]

I kept feeling like we were getting hints he wouldn't catch it. Like when they came out of the pokemon center and they were just kinda a group it seemed like the one individual was just lost in the crowd. Guess not. There's another type he's got for the first time.

[Krzysztof]

Satoshi caught Dangoro, which wasn't that surprising...with the size of his party being 9 now, I doubt that the writers will allow him to use any of his older pokemon in the league...

[CommanderPigg]

Spoilered for a generally tasteless rant:

Fucking terrible.

Ugh. I quit the anime. This is unacceptable.

When I'm less sleep depraved, I might give this episode a fairer review, bur from the parts that I was awake, the plot was stale and the pokemon of the day were VERY uninteresting. All in my opinion of course.

I cannot believe he caught it. When I wake up from this nightmare, it'd better not be on the team.

But, yay! Tepig focus...kinda. Still got KO'd by that...rock with a hole thing the first time though...

[Musashi]

It seems that Seger was giving the Rockets information about Dangoro. I guess he's really their boss for the time being.

And like Meron said, awesome Rockets are awesome. <3

[Ampharos King]

Anybody who wants a *real* summary of the episode can check here:

TRio once again causes trouble by creating a giant weapon that forces 19 wild Roggenrola to fire Luster Cannons (18 if you do not count the wild Roggenrola that had escaped). The Roggenrola that escaped tried to warn Ash and co., but Ash wanted to catch the Roggenrola first. He tried to use Oshawott first, but Oshawott fainted after his Aqua Jet collided with Cilan's table. He then sends out Tepig, and Tepig fainted as the Roggenrola escpaed. Ash and co. go to the Pokemon Center to heal the Pokemon, and they encounter a COTD who tells them of the incident. Ash and co. go with the COTD to the mine where they encounter that wild Roggenrola and TRio. As TRio tries to catch the wild Roggenrola that had escaped, Ash uses Tepig to save it. TRio fires their cannon, causing a cave-in, and make an escape.

Ash and co. escape the cave with Iris' Excadrill and Cilan's Pansage using Dig. They make their way back to TRio to save the other Roggenrola. Ash and co. encounter TRio yet again in a warehouse. As TRio fires their machine again, the wild Roggenrola's Luster Cannon collided with it. The other Roggenrola control their attacks so TRio can no longer fire their own weapon. TRio use their own pokemon to stop Ash and co., but Pikachu, Tepig, and the Roggenrola stop TRIo once again.

After they saved the Roggenrola, Ash and co. make their way back to the Pokemon Center to rejuvenate. The wild Roggenrola that Ash and co. interacted with goes outside the center and requests a battle from Ash and co. Ash sends out Tepig, and with enough persistance, Tepig defeats Roggenrola. Ash uses a Poke Ball and catches Roggenrola.

The episode ends at that point.

The wild Roggenrola all knew Flash Cannon, and the main Roggenrola also knew Sandstorm and Stone Edge.

The subject of Oak's Live Caster is Emolga.

This episode was almost a complete Tepig overload. Writers, what's the point of giving Ash numerous Pokemon if you plan to have him use one pokemon for the majority of an episode? I swear, there were several scenes in this entire episode that Ash *could* have sent one of his Grass-type pokemon out instead of blasting Tepig.

[Grave-E]

It's great that they gave the guy a little bit of attention here, but man. It's pretty evident that they really need to get their shit together and sort out Pokabu. Why does it still have to rely on Tackle and Ember? Hell, 37 eps in and it doesn't even have a 4th move yet.

[Mikado]

So, Satoshi caught a Roggenrola. Not sure what to make of that.
I hope Cilan learns how to drive a bulldozer.
Otherwise, I'll have to wait for the dub to really have an opinion of his newest capture.

[Tiki Man]

Decent episode. Glad too see the rockets.

I was o.k. with Ash having eight pokemon but nine is definitely pushing it. I sure hope they throw in some evolutions soon or at least give some screen time development to all of his non starters.

[TeddiUrsa]

It's great that they gave the guy a little bit of attention here, but man. It's pretty evident that they really need to get their shit together and sort out Pokabu. Why does it still have to rely on Tackle and Ember? Hell, 37 eps in and it doesn't even have a 4th move yet.

I really hope Pokabu's moveset is so lackluster because an evolution for the little piggy is planned out already. Gaining a second type might give it more interesting moves to use.

Well, Satoshi caught the Asshole-on-legs. Its voice was kind a nice but other than that it is a preeetty lame Pokémon ( the final evo is the only good thing about the Dangoro-line if you ask me...). Predictable plot, boring as hell TR ( even with the cool intro) and lame PotD...meh.

[Playerking]

Spoilered for a generally tasteless rant:

Fucking terrible.

Ugh. I quit the anime. This is unacceptable.

When I'm less sleep depraved, I might give this episode a fairer review, bur from the parts that I was awake, the plot was stale and the pokemon of the day were VERY uninteresting. All in my opinion of course.

I cannot believe he caught it. When I wake up from this nightmare, it'd better not be on the team.

But, yay! Tepig focus...kinda. Still got KO'd by that...rock with a hole thing the first time though...

Don't worry, Roggenrola is in episoe 38 as well. :P

I'm glad he caught it, it's voice is so cute. And I liked TR in this episode but the COTD, the setting and the plot was dead boring.

[martianmister]

* Another capture for Satoshi, Doryuuzu is really helping Iris, Dent is really happy for some reason...
* Poor Musashi's soul is trapped in that Dangoro? This would explain her soulless BW-self...
* Writers really forcing themselves to avoid TR's "blasting-offs", isn't they? These jetpacks isn't even there before the explosion...
* Iris is really cheerful about Satoshi's battles, I can see why people ship them with each other...
* CotD is far more bland than Nurse Joy. Worst part of the episode...
* TR isn't following twerps anymore, but they are still there to stop them. What a coincidence! Maybe TR should make their schemes in somewhere far away from Satoshi-tachi's route...

[Dogasu]

The only things I liked about this one is "It's Unbelievable Time!", the Pokabu focus, and the fact that both Iris and Dent got to do something. The rest was painfully boring.

I hope the Rocket trio stay out of the show for a while.

[WatcherMark]

Ok, with his eighth capture in Unova I think it's really safe to say (but, to be honest, I can't believe people thought it would happen anyway given the fresh start we're supposed to be having) that Ash will not be using any of his older Pokémon in the league.

Clearly, the writers don't want to rely on the same six Pokémon for the whole league but at the same time don't want Ash to use any of his reserves for the time being.

Personally, if Ash makes it to the Champions League, then I think he may use his older Pokémon .