Thank you, Sunday morning re-airs. :D
DARN THIS IS A PRETTY SHOT THAT WE DID NOT GET IN WIDESCREEN THIS WEEK. Yeah, CN decided to make the Widescreen ratio for their HD channel only. It even cut some of the opening credits off. Laaame. ;_;
CROAGUNK'D!
And Chansey'd! I ship it now.
Okay, okay, seriously now, this battle is nuts. Between his talk with Paul and getting an official referee, it's pretty clear Regii is REALLY serious about this.
And so Ash gets his Pokemon back and checks on the- WHY IS CHIMCHAR SMILING LIKE THAT IT'S CREEPY?! Seriously, who was drawing him today? ._. SERIOUSLY GUYS HE'S STARING INTO MY SOUL.
So anyways, Ash FINALLY flat out says that he hopes to get Paul to respect his battling style a bit more from this match.
Chimchar shows his enthusiasm for this idea with poorly done animation. Still, I love how open Chimchar is now. He came to the group so afraid to say anything or even speak up to offer to help somebody, and now he's like, in sync with Ash.
Brock brings up what Cynthia said about Chimchar way back, and even goes as far as to say Chimchar is kinda the cornerstone for Ash and Paul's rivalry. GOSH I LOVE THE WRITING IN THIS SEASON. THE POKEMON ARE INVOLVED IN EVERYTHING SO MUCH MORE. SERIOUSLY.
On the other side of the animation spectrum for the day is Dawn. She had some really strong emotional expressions, and she needed them, cause man she was worried.
I don't really have a point by point for the battle its self, cause the whole thing was just INTENSE. Paul's got Ash's number and Ash is starting to lose it. Crap. A few thoughts I had though were "POOR GLISCOR D8" and "I'm surprised Weavile was first out". Seriously on Gliscor though, I was kinda hoping it'd get to battle its old leader again. Now I dunno if Paul even brought it. Yeah yeah, I do know a bit about next episode from caps, but I forgot the vast majority of this fight, as I realized watching this today
TO BE CONTINUED.