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[Aussie Andrew]

Uh that's odd, from what I gather, Pokemon is still mightily popular in Japan, what with the release of new Pokemon Games for the GBA and GC.

But I'll give you all some spoilers of what's to come, MAJOR Spoilers, so if you don't want to know. Don't read on. Also there were special Hoso episodes in Japan that filled in what happened to Misty and Brock and Team Rocket so if you want I could tell you what happens. But here's just Advance spoilers, very brief, if you need more info, I can supply.


- Ash loses to Brawly.
- Jessie and May both catch a Wurmple.
- Ash and co meet Steven (Ending trainer in the game.)
- Ash catches Corphish
- Brock catches a Mudkip
- May's Wurmple becomes a Silcoon, whilst Jessie's becomes a Cascoon but she doesn't believe it.
- Ash rematches Brawly and wins.
-May gets a Beautifly.
-Jessie gets a Dustox and is thrilled.
- May enters a pokemon contest with Beautifly and loses.
- We see Jigglypuff again in the Trick House Episode.
- Ash thrashes Wattson 3/0 in his next battle with just Pikachu.
- Treeko learns Bullet Seed.
- Misty returns in new clothes with Togepi.
- There's a Togepi saga. Long story short, Togepi evolves and Misty leaves back for Cerulean.
- May catches a Skitty.
- May enters another contest and wins her first ribbon.
- Ash battles Flannery and Corphish essentially wins it for him.
- Ash catches a Toarkoal.

Ok and their teams:
Ash: Pikachu, Treeko, Tailow, Corphish and Toarkoal.
May: Torchic, Skitty, Beautifly.
Brock: Lotad, Mudkip, Forretress. (Speculation Brock may catch a new Pokemon.)
Jessie: Dustox, Wobbuffet, Seviper.
James: Cacnea (Its rumored he may catch a Mawille)

Enjoy.

Edited by Aussie Andrew, Jan 11, 2004 @ 7:29 PM.

[Lantern7]

I'd do an American Pokemon...maybe put Ash in a damn school. It sucks when you're a world-champion Pokemon trainer and you have the reading level of a second grader.

Watched two episodes on Saturday. Dunno where Pikachu came up with Iron Tail attack. And what the fuck is Nosepass? That Poke makes the Top Ten Most Bizarre Pokemon Ever list. Shuckle's at the top spot, possibly forever.

[Lantern7]

Not much this past Saturday...Max gets soda on May's Poke-Navi device, and he runs into the president of a big-ass corporation. Basically, this ep introduces up to the concept of Team Aqua...who are like Team Magma, but with water-based Pokemon. Wanna know why the one guy from there is cool? Because he didn't announce himself as a member of Team Aqua. Seriously...why does Team Rocket hire two attention-grubbing losers? Why?

That's it...was kinda bored with the episode. Can't wait for Misty to come back and bitch-slap May. She so needs it, you know?

[Readster]

Actually Team Rocket doesn't just have James and Jesse saying their motto all the time. Remember Butch and Cassidy and their Raticad? The cool thing about Team Magma and Team Aqua is that they were once the same team, but they had different opinions on what pokemon were better, hence they split. Magma uses more fire, rock and ground pokemon. While Team Aqua uses more water, dragon and air type pokemon. I'm looking forward to seeing Misty's new look too, but we have to wait until the end of the summer, bummer.

[mrow]

Misty is going to come back? Thats cool. Remember when we got the lameass Brock replacement, Tracey? Tracey sucked. I think the rule on this show is that only one older guy character and only one annoying girl character can travel with Ash at a time, so if Misty is going to come back it can only mean one thing, cage deathmatch. Or you know, something less deadly, but we're all really hoping for a deathmatch, right?

[Aussie Andrew]

Actually SPOILERS May and Misty get along just plain and dandy.

Misty also now wields a mighty Gyarados in the unseen Hoenn
http://www.serebii.net/anime/characters/misty.shtml There you can see new Misty.

And an episode guide for the two episodes, *Gives link*

http://www.serebii.net/anime/epiguide/houen/320.shtml
http://www.serebii.net/anime/epiguide/houen/321.shtml

Also, you'll never see the special episodes aired in Japan, but they're too cheap to Air. They show Brock going back to the gym, giving up Geodude, Crobat and Onix. Misty taking the gym back, and some Team Rocket stuff.
http://www.serebii.net/anime/epiguide/specials/

So yea

[Lantern7]

Not a good day for Ash. He meets his next gym leader, surfer boy Brawley. Along the way, Ash loses whatever battle sense he has, ordering Tallow and Treecko to directly attack. The ribsy Machop outlasts Tallow, and Makuhita beats the shit outta Treecko. Ash's leafy Poke hangs in there...but Makuhita evolves into the even beefier Hariyama, and crushes Treecko. Ash comes to realize what an asshole he is, and vows to train harder in the area.

In other news, the writers bring out every 80s surfer dude word they can, Team Rocket gets smacked around, and Brock lusts for Gidgets. In other words, nothing out of the ordinary.

[Aussie Andrew]

Brocks' Lotad mysterious evolves into a Lombre right before they meet a Solrock

We here in Australia are watching re-runs. I can't stop watching this show I used to watch when I was 11.

[Lantern7]

New Pokemon episode tomorrow morning. WB is also talking sneak peeks of future fights. I swear, I saw two guys in Pokemon outfits fighting.

WB did a "Best Fights" week. My personal fave was Ash vs. Drake in the Orange League. I consider Dragonite the greatest Pokemon never to have a movie based on it. Flame-thrower, water gun, electroshock, hyper beam...and it looked so durn cute. Took out three of Ash's Pokes before Pikachu beat it.

One more thing..."Pokemon 4Ever" on WAM! tomorrow morning and evening. It's a free weekend on DirecTV.

[Lantern7]

I'm more concerned about Brock collecting water Pokemon. Onix and Geodude are gonna be SO thrilled.

Also caught Pokemon 4Ever last night. See, the dude in the iron mask makes for a better villain than James and Jesse ever have. Dark balls? Turning a Pokemon evil and increasing its power? Brrrrrrrr.

[Aussie Andrew]

Onix and Geodude are gone :\ As is Crobat. But Brock's Stepmother trains exclusively water Pokemon. In the never to be released Hoso special, she returns, has taken over flint's gym and decorated it with crepe paper for her Water Pokemon.

I rented Pokemon 4 eva out recently on 1 dollar day (ok, the bad movies I rent when they're cheap) and well, it sucked.

And Dragonite, well.. Squirtle was weakened after fighting Onix, Tauros was also pretty tired after its constant summoning to battle, beating Venusaur amongst other appearances, Pikachu had already battled a Ditto clone of itself. Charizard however *Shrugs* I dunno.

Also, may is seriously not 10. Unless she's just using her top as a place to store her tissues.

[Lantern7]

lboogy: this is a world which mixes agrirarism with technology. Where kids can capture giant monsters in little balls. And where two people can get hit so hard, they fly into earth orbit. Believe me...kids travelling on their own is NOTHING to think about.

Did you see Sam's old-school Pokeball? With a cork? That's cool. Was half-expecting the time-lost Pokemon trainer to be the Rocket guy, but Pokewriters don't think above third-grade. Sam as the future Professor Oak works like gangbusters.

Brock special? I dunno...all those squinty-eyed children kinda creeped me out the first time.

[Pat Agonia]

Pokemon's been one of my guiltiest pleasures. Sure it may be repetitive in many ways, but like, say, Adam Sandler and his movies (which I'm not really much of a fan of), you're either into what you typically get from there or you're not. Me, I'm into Pokemon for my dosage of cute critters and in many cases, human characters, hapless failed villains, and other things that go into a light-hearted anime series. I mean, it'll always do more for me than, Kirby: Right Back At Ya!, where the otherwise great video game protagonist is left without any real trace of brain or personality. I'm all for mindless entertainment, but not in a literal sense.

One of the things I really dig about the show is how varied and full of personality the Pokemon are, from the typically hardy Bulbasaur (who softened up oh so memorably to that one Gloom in the greenhouse) to the endlessly giddy Togepi, who people love or hate. My favorite Pokemon include Jigglypuff, who gets pissed off whenever people fall asleep when it's singing and then proceeds to graffiti their faces with its mic/marker, the clueless and easily frightened Psyduck (its encounter with Slowpoke was classic), and Togepi, because it's so random.

Some of my favorite characters include Duplica, the Ditto trainer, because there's something about a girl of the theatre, plus, she's too cute, Officer Jenny, who for her role as a public official, has a fun personality, and Brock, and how his flirtatious hijinks end up with him getting yanked by Misty when she's present, yet on the other hand, he's a great breeder and cook. Basically, Pokemon's full of fun, cute and happy happy joy hoy characters, and it helps fill my quota for such, so there. And more importantly, it's more surreal than people give it credit for, particularly, for instance, during that one Bulbasaur evolution festival, and the slapfight between Jigglypuff and those pesky Clefairy thieves.

[Blue Penguin]

Ah.... it's always nice to know I'm not alone. I don't watch Pokemon on my own, but my little sister is obsessed with it and makes me watch it with her (don't ask me why). I was startled to find that I actually kind of liked it. Except for the new season. From what I've seen so far, it kind of sucks. And May=evil. She must die. And it would be nice if Ash did too, but we can't have everything, now can we?
At least Misty's Togepi is not on the show anymore. That thing is creepy. How come it always gets Metronome to do exactly what it wants it to? Okay, I suppose I'm just paranoid. But it did, have kind of an annoying voice, so there is that. And if Misty's not there, there can't be any Ash/Misty romance. Which is incredibly freaky, because they're TEN, for goodness's sake. TEN. What ten-year-old (especially, what male ten-year-old) thinks that the opposite sex is anything other than stupid? And I was kind of hoping that Brock wouldn't come back either. His one joke gets old fast.
Come to that, I hate all the "twerps". Why don't we get rid of them, and just have a show about Team Rocket? (Not Jessie & James, ALL of TR.) That would be cool.
Now I will stop my ranting, because it's probably getting quite boring... oh, but one last thing. James IS gay. Or at least transgender. In my opinion, anyhow... but really... how can you think he's straight when there's so much evidence to the contrary?

[Uzumaki]

Misty is older than Ash, by at least a year. I saw a comic which put her at 2 years older. And, these days, 8-year-old kids have boyfriends and girlfriends. It's a different world we live in.

[Lantern7]

Right now, May is the most obnoxious cast member...so natch, her mortal nemesis is equally as annoying.

I hate Drew. Seriously...what a hair-flipping douchebag. And we all know he's just a low-rent version of Gary Oak, right? Watching his Pokemon get its lunch forece-fed to it by some dude who kinda resembles Pegasus was fun, though.

Anybody still watching? I forgot to comment about the nasty Torchic from last week. Just pecked, clawed and burned the hell out of everything before it evolved into a Combusken.

[Pat Agonia]

That Torchic was hilarious. Adorable on the outside, yet quite insouciant on the inside.

I dunno. May's quite amusing, or at least it's kind of funny to gawk at her. If nothing else, she and Torchic make a cute pair.

While there haven't been as many standout moments as in past seasons, that Pokemon evolution machine, with Meowth coming out disguised as a different Pokemon each time, was priceless, especially when he got to Marill.

Still 5 more eps. or so until Jigglypuff returns, if I'm correct...

[Rosie Rubix]

Ah well, at least they aren't ten any more. Ash is like..(does a few mental calculations) about 13, or maybe 14. Technically he should be older, but hey.

I actually liked Ash/Misty. They pretended they hated each other it was funny. May is all right, but blander than a piece of soggy brown cardboard. And a bit thick to boot.

Anyway, the Hoenn region sends me into paroxysms of rage and hopelessness.

And James has a LOVE INTEREST in Hoenn! A FEMALE ONE! That is so stupid. He acts incredibly camp the whole way though, and now this? Really.

That's all I have to say on that.

[Lantern7]

Pixel Challenge fun. And yeah...never type in "Pokemon, Jesse" on Googlie's image search. First pic? Jesse and Cassidy. Naked. Kissing. That'll give me nightmares.

[insomniac57]

Basically, it's not very good anymore. First season was good. This stuff?

and TR? Please, it drives me insane. The few times I do watch it, all I can think is that it just keeps happening over and over, the same exact way. Ypou dont even have to watch. A tiny battle, thundershock, and somehow they fly.

It's a shame, they could have just made a few more pokemon, and changed the series a bit and it wouldnt be this bad. They also could have gotten rid of that worthless egg togepi. :D

[Lantern7]

I just go for the bizarre eps...like the one where Team Rocket abduct a Shuckle and drink its insides...or the one where Snorlax's Pokeball gets broke, and the kids have to roll him to the nearest Pokecenter. Does it get any better than Ash, decked out in an apple costume, running for his life as Snorlax tries to devour him?