There's a battle against Team Rocket that involves a hilarious bit of Geodude clashing against Weezing, culminating in Geodude tossing Weezing like a goddamn boomerang, sending the poor tumourous gas bag zipping around and ripping holes in the blimp. The episode itself is just there, y'know? Ash and company win a lottery to get a blimp ticket, Team Rocket and their disguises ham it up and get Ash to ride their ramshackle blimp, Jigglypuff gets on (groan), we get some 'oh what terrible service' hijinks as the blimp literally falls apart, and there's some bland not-comedy bit of Jigglypuff sneaking on-board and stumbling around covered with a sheet and everyone thinks it's a ghost. forget the genetic experimentation and Pokemon trafficking, this is a true villain! The show straight-up implies that Giovanni is willing to let three of his employees die in an insurance fraud. We do get to see Giovanni, though, which is a neat treat, including the surprisingly dark bit of Giovanni assigning Jessie, James and Meowth onto the 'Dirigible Brigade', when he's planning to basically have the blimps crash to cash in on the insurance policy. complete filler, even by Pokemon standards. As it is, it feels like the two plots are just glued together and as an exit for one of Ash's longer-running Pokemon, it's kind of a poor one? Granted, the show really forgets Pidgeotto exists most of the time, but he deserved a better exit, y'know? At least it manages to reach its final form and show off some badassery, for what little it means.Įpisode 82 is. It's the third Pokemon Ash has released after Butterfree and Primeape, but unlike those two, Pidgeotto/Pidgeot hasn't really been shown to develop much of an emotional attachment to the local Pidgey squad or anything, and I really wished they had cut the Team Rocket spicy takoyaki bit short in order to facilitate a better exit for Pidgeotto. Ash then parts ways with Pidgeot, releasing it and leaving it to protect the Pidgeys and Pidgeottos in the forest from the Fearow.Īnd. Pidgeot showing off his strength ends up causing the flock of Pidgeys and Pidgeottos to join in the fight and they drive away Fearow's flock. We get a pretty dang cool bit where Ash rides around on Pidgeot and even tries to capture Fearow mid-air - Ash forgets that he can capture wild Pokemon so many times in the series that it's nice to see this little bit shown on-screen. it's less powerful than Charizard, but it's way more obedient) who fights the Fearow and gets knocked on the ground. After Fearow attacks Ash and drops him into the Pidgey tree, Ash realizes that the Pidgeys and Pidgeottos are being afraid and being bullied by the Fearow, so Ash unleashes his Pidgeotto (which the episode flip-flops on building up. Turns out that Ash recognizes the Fearow as the very same Spearow from episode one, and this Fearow has a bit of a blood-feud against Ash. Our heroes and Team Rocket both find their way into a forest and basically find themselves smack dab within a bird gang war, where a bunch of Pidgeys and Pidgeottos are hiding in a tree while a massive Fearow leads a gang of Spearows around. Okay, we have our quest, as little as this is honestly going to matter down the line. There's a bit of random intermezzo scene where Oak tasks Ash and company to head to Valencia Island in the Orange Archipelago to pick up a mysterious Pokeball that can't be transported digitally. Anyway, Team Rocket's bomb assault doesn't work on Charizard and he sends them blasting off again. Not enough of an ass to let Pikachu plummet to his death, but enough to still disobey Ash and wreak havoc and only fight when his favourite cake gets destroyed. The Team Rocket spicy takoyaki bit is dragged out longer than it should, but I did like the little gag with the transforming food stand, the instant-deploy Meowth balloons, and the bit with the show acknowledging that Charizard's a massive asshat. The first part of the episode is admittedly a nice, necessary thing to cap off the Indigo League as Pallet Town's residents throw a party for Ash. the set-up for Ash leaving Kanto to go off on some journey through the Orange Islands is sort of just pretty random, huh? "Pallet Party Panic" sort of shoehorns two entire episodes' plotlines together, and it's. This is actually the first time that I actually watched all three of these episodes, and for the longest time I only knew about these episodes from synopsis pages.Īnd, uh. which isn't something I could do every day. I have to confess that I don't remember much of it, beyond the Lapras arc and the Dragonite fight at the end? This is about the time that I sort of didn't get any real new VCD's of the show, and the best I could hope for was maybe to catch the show on air.
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