BW 082 "Movie Showdown! Sortie, Isshu Defense Group!!" Review Thread

[Dogasu]

I guess their scene in this episode was just to establish that they're after Meloetta? Even though, like you said, we'll be getting that same information anyway when they actually *do* try to capture it.

Also, one of the highlights of Luke's first episode was how the Rocket trio (especially Nyasu) were actually kind of in-character for once. It's too bad that didn't carry over to this episode.

[nattfly]

I really enjoyed this episode, especially Dent's gushing about movies and his role as a villain. He's perfect for the role!

The little movie was fun to watch to, even though the beginning was a bit abrupt, but I guess the episode minutes were ticking away. Lukes rival was a bit bland though, Dent's rival from the last episode had much more character. And Zorua in MGM's symbol was a bit of fun. :)

Meloetta's cameo made me even more excited about season 2!

[Hellwarden]

I have to admit, the MGM Logo parody was pretty brilliant. Part of me wishes that the show would have more fun little homages to the real world, but I imagine finding ones that will recognized around world is actually probably a bit harder than most think.

[Musashi]

They've done plenty of real world homages before, (like the competitors in the Don Tournament) but most of the time only Japanese fans would get them.

And as awesome as the MGM one is, I find "Dirty Haderrier" to be the far more amusing reference in this episode. XD

[Dogasu]

I haven't seen it mentioned in this thread yet, but Hachiku's Tsunbear has its footprints in front of the Grauman's Chinese Theater-type sidewalk.

[Trainer Gabriel]

Rather fun episode, if nothing else. Interesting to see Luke have some competiton here with movie-making.

[Piplup]

I really liked that little nod to the MGM Lion with Zorua at the start of the movie, that was cute.

I totally loved that! XD
Also, I liked Cilan going crazy on Ash at the beginning when Ash just wanted the Gym XD and Ash/Pika/Pig looked cute in their costumes <3

[Artichoker]

Cilan was a little mean making Iris cry for making her think about being separated from Axew XD Krookodile's debut was so boring, usually pokemon like this make debut in for battles or to cause troubles.... any other pokemon apart from Krookorok and this episode would have been exactly the same :( (sorry bad english)

[Satoshi_Pikachu]

Eh, I thought it was an ok episode. It was fun, but I agree with Dogasu, I wish we could've seen in-character TR. I miss them so much :( It would've made this episode so much better. To be honest, I was much more excited by the next episode preview XD And I can't wait for season 2!

[97SaturnSL1]

Luke's film needed more coconuts, the air speed velocity of European and african pidoves, holy poke ball grenades,a killer buneary and epic organ music at the end.

[Hellwarden]

*watching awesome ep again, gets to the scene with Ash and Iris eating Hamburgers*


Awww...that's a cute little scene.

.....Wait a second.....


....eating hamburgers....



Ash, Iris, you're monsters!

[martianmister]

The main characters are Satoshi, Pikachu, and Charbu of the Isshu Self-Defense Force!

Does that means Isshu have an army?

[Dogasu]

In the world of that movie it does.

Also, they're probably referring more to the military units in sentai shows like Ultraman.

[Joshawott]

Best. Episode. Ever.

The Zorua MGM logo had be laughing so hard I thought I was broken and my dog was barking at me because she thought I was in pain. Cilan going OTT like that was always hilarious and Meloetta is absolutely adorable.

Best. Episode. Of. Best. Wishes.

Cilan was a little mean making Iris cry for making her think about being separated from Axew XD

It wasn't mean at all. Having studied drama myself, it's a very common technique that actors use to help them emote - they remind themselves of a time in their lives where they felt that same emotion, or a situation where they would expect to feel those emotions to help bring them to the surface. It's called "Emotional Memory" and was first employed by Constantin Stanislavski, who you could say is the father of naturalistic acting.

I honestly loved that Cilan brought it up; it helped make the episode feel a lot more genuine to me.

[Wyvernphlare]

@Joshawott Really now? I had a lot of problems with this episode.

First of all the movie itself was pretty awful and amateurish. Guess they were trying to make it realistic but the audience liked it. The pacing was pretty awful the audience wasn't even introduced to Golett before making its sacrifice. "Cilan: I'm gonna take all the pokemon all the pokemon (all the pokemon are in the same spot and get taken dispite habitat errors)" comes to mind. It was a bit rushed I know it had to be by nature but when you're given a small amount of time you have to structure it differently so it doesn't appear rushed.

It is unrealistic and unrelateable. I didn't enter contests all the time or knew how to operate a green screen how can luke given the short term of the pokemon world's education system a no supervision with the expensive machinery how can pokewood stay in business again? I'm gonna assume that Luke is loaded and went to film school. How often did you perform in front for adults as kid that wasn't part of some class day care or school program? For me it is fucking zero am I just weird? Is this a cultural difference can't be cause they dropped a lot of the Japanese festival elements from way back in OS. I know they did this in pokemon before but I can't swallow it. You may say it is fiction yes but fiction has rules and mechanics that for the most part THEY EXPLAIN. For instance in fiction people are supposed to act like people even if magic exists and if it is not it is short and used for comedy NOT THE PREMISE OF A FUCKING EPISODE. Besides a lot of people act just as spastic as Cilan

Ash pointed out the problem with the episode in the beginning of the fucking episode. He said that he didn't care about Luke cause it is unrelated to his goal and if the character doesn't care WHY SHOULD THE FUCKING VIEWER.

The hamages got a little old and too many of the titles had the word pokemon in it. And Luke broke the golden rule DON'T REMIND PEOPLE ABOUT GOOD MOVIES IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR BAD MOVIE. Also Ash knows about a Unovan movie doesn't that contridict Ash knowing nothing about the new region and the pokemon that reside their.


Honestly the only thing I LIKED about this episode was that it introduced Meloetta's ability to turn invisable which would explain how it can travel with ash without causing a shit storm everywhere it goes.

That was tiring.