Pokemon
#6 :Seaside Pikachu
Pioneer
60 minutes
English Dub only
07/20/1999
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Pokemon
Pioneer
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Godammit, everytime I've got JUST enough time left at work to write up both my reviews I decide to look at animejump.com and realize, hey...they've done an update! Twenty minutes later I realize there was something I was gonna do and it's a mad scramble to type up ten or so kilobytes of text, can you believe I've actually stayed 20 or 30 minutes after work just to complete reviews? What do I care? -I'm- getting paid for it. Suckers. I guess it doesn't help that I spent most of my day doing actual work (like dishes and making food and stuff). Do you realize how much crap that is? I can't stand the fact that I'm forced to do -everything- to the point where I struggle to get a cigarette break for half the day. In an effort to speed up the washing I decided that NOT diluting the cleaning agent would be better than diluting it, because it would clean FASTER.** I think I was right in that assumption, but my fingers really sting right now. I'm not sure if it was worth it, I'm just not too happy about getting dirty water all over my brand new Robotech shirt. Before you tell me I should wear an apron like everyone else, don't. I can't hear you through the monitor and I'm not a total pansy. Only sissies wear those protective "weenie wraps", and do I look like a sissy? |
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But onto the story, Officer Jenny and a bunch of marines hold a funeral at sea for the five travelers lost aboard the sunken Saint Anne. Unbeknownst to them there's nobody dead on that ship at all, it is a kid's show after all. Lost would be a better term, as it seems that lost is ALWAYS a better term when you're watching Pokemon after Misty's Goldeen drags the water logged Team Rocket back to dry ship the two groups form a temporary truce...and with the help of Brock and Ash's pokemon they manage to escape to the ocean's surface. Even James' Magikarp comes in handy! But not for long. After Brock's speech about the story of Noah, Ash sends his Pidgeotto out to find some dry land, again a pokemon comes back with Team Rocket! Now the five of them are trapped together on the raft with no food, Magikarp is of course the first choice for good eatin's...that is, until Misty informs the rest of them that Magikarp is just scales and bones. With a swift kick the bouncing fish is out of the flamboyant pokemon stealer's life...that is, until it comes back as the evolved Sea Dragon Gyrados.*** A few minutes later they're all spinning out of control...passing out only to wake up on an island with most of their pokemon gone. |
| In a really weird turn of events, most of this episode is from the lost pokemon's point of view. Bulbasaur believes Ash has abandoned them (as all intelligent pokemon should, knowing that humans are evil slave masters), and Koffing and Ekans give a very good bit of insight into that fact that there are no evil pokemon, only evil pokemon trainers. That's when the giant pokemon start showing up.. |  |
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Pokemon Hot Girl #6 : Pokemon Island Guide Lady. There wasn't enough (any) good looking ladies in this episode. I was considering wasting Officer Jenny here or putting in another Misty because I just couldn't use anyone else. The first two episode just has the main characters for almost the entire thing, and the only girl in the last one is the hideous Nastina and her almost completely naked clutch of LITTLE BOYS. Disgusting huh? Well, here you go you horny bastards, the tour gide of Pokemon Island. She's pretty plain and not an incredibly attractive character, but I suppose she does have her charms and the fact that she's a public speaker will help her when she's shouting out your name on the verge of a magnificent climax.
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| The last episode is Misty-centric and kinda wasted.
The people of Porta Vista are building a hotel offshore and it's really
starting to piss off the Tentacool (the tentacle pokemon) that hang around
in the water. Misty catches a Horsea (the sea horse pokemon) and gushes
about how cute the Tentacool are, but the Tentacool are disrupting things
and aptly named Nastina and her cadre of naked little boys are paying a
million dollars to whoever can wipe out the plague of animals who just want
to stay alive and not have their home destroyed by pollution and technology.
Veterans of the Pokemon world know that a million dollars is JUST enough
to buy you a bicycle, unless you have a bicycle voucher...then it's free.
While the last episode TRIED to be sentiment (and points for me for not feeling all emotional during it) I found it kinda sad. This disc starts out pretty fun but the last episode junks it all up, then again...if you're going to buy the other DVDs why skip one?
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**More means better, after all.
***I worked SO hard to get my Magikarp to become a Gyrados, and it didn't even turn out that strong. Boy was I ever pissed off at being misled.
****Aptly named because she's NASTY looking. Though I would've suggested Hideouslyuglyodina.
