Good, But That's All(Contains Spoilers)

Written by shane1594 on February 9, 2011 at 9:35 AM

As with a few of the other reviewers, I grew up both playing Pokemon and watching the Anime. This season is good in that it is back to a character(Ash) going around catching Pokemon and challenging Gyms. However, what I find hard to stomach is that Ash, whilst going around multiple regions still makes rookie mistakes. The battle against Shootie in episode 10 his greatest strategy against a flying type was, after losing with a water type, send a fire type out. Whereas in 'Battle Frontier', he was facing up against pokemon like Articuno and requesting for Charizard to come and help out.

I get that this is supposed to be introducing and advertising what the games are all about, but the producers lost the plot when they decided to make it purely about it. They should have continued on in the direction that they clearly had in the 'Advanced Generation' series' which was show Ash maturing both as a trainer and as a person, then write him out, maybe bring him back for some cameo appearances every now and then but follow a different character around. Also all these 'rivals' that Ash keeps on coming up against, come on, there's nothing new about them, it's just the same old argument, heart vs head. At some point the producers forgot what a storyline is and made it goal based rather than plot based and at some point they are going to have to face that.

But, complaining session over. This series, as I said, is good in that it is back to basics, the animation is better than it ever has been.