Pokemon
#2 : The Mystery Of Mount Moon
Pioneer
60 minutes
English
Dub only
03/09/1999
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Pokemon
Pioneer
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Brock : I'm Brock, the badass. |
| So sue me, I forgot to get a humorous and possible out of context quote from these three episodes of the electric rat show. I was too enraptured in the manly man that is Brock. He hails from Pewter town, where he is gym master. If the man** wasn't so busy taking care of his forty or fifty sibilings, then he'd be all over the women and their delicious poon. From his perpetually squinted eyes to his ridiculous Japanese tan, Brock is five feet ten inches of lady killing machine. Though his voice actor, Eric Stuart (also of Slayers fame, playing the slow witted Gourry), makes him sound about as evil as evil gym leaders come, Brock is really a soft hearted exercise in the tragic character. He is bested by Ash, not in battle, but in heart, a (half-vieled) attempt at masking the true Nazi purpose of this show. Brock then decides come along with the crew when his deadbeat dad returns from hiding after himself failing to be a Pokemaster*** and immediately starts obsessing over every girl over the age of fourteen. The Poke-crew is complete with the addition of the Pewter city gym leader and the three of them embark once again on their quest to catch those bastardly creatures that like to sit around all day being innocent and cute. Brock brings along his Onyx, a giant snake made out of rocks, and surfboarder/Super Mario villain Geodude. |  |
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But before all this happens we're treated to one sucktackular non-Brock filled episode. It has something to do with the love of your pokemon, giant bee attack swarms, and a little kid playing samurai with fake armor and a bug catching net.**** Ash tries to capture a Weedle, a bug pokemon that looks suspiciously like a mutant Caterpie. Unfortunately the events are set in motion that a whole swarm of evolved Weedles, called Beedrills, attack the group and Ash leaves his Metapod behind. Suffering the cries of "Novice!" by the Samurai child, Ash risks life and limb to save his dear friend and the ideals of love the trainer puts down for his slave animals is set out again for us, then shoved down our throat like an oral enema. Team Rocket walks around with a paper box they call their "tank", back in the day they weren't that technologically advanced. |
| After all that, it's off to the Mysterious Mount Moon. You know it's mysterious because that's the name of the damn DVD. Besides reciting poetry the crazy professor believes the Clefairies (They're weird little girly looking plush animals) came from outer space on a giant rocket made out of the moonstone now found in the mountain named after it, Mount Moon. Moon stone has the mysterious power to evolve certain pokemon like Clefairy, who turns into Clefable. A note on evolution, when certain circumstances are met such as "gaining enough experience" or being "touched by stones" a pokemon grows up into a new type of pokemon. Think of it as how the caterpillar turns into the butterfly, or how the Caterpie turns into the Butterfree after emerging from it's cocoon state of "Metapod". The latter explanation really only works if you're six years old, but I dare you to find a kindergartener who can't name every variant of Eevee there is. I double-freakin'-dog dare y ou. |  |
**Or Takeshi, as the Japanese know him.
***Which leads to the assumption that you don't HAVE to be eleven years old to start on your Poke-journey. That, or Mr. Brock was a very active little boy.
****In ancient times the waxpaper bug net was one of the most feared of all the Samurai weapons, taking a ten times master to use it's awesome skills to the fullest. The ultimate attack of these great warriors was the Kitsen Kyoto Slam, in which the attacker would slam the bug net down on his opponent's head and giggle and point uncontrolably as the enemy tried to remove the offending bee catcher, to no avail.