YakobTheRed said:
Personally, I still really like it, and that's coming from someone who watched the original series when it first aired over here in the UK. (I watched original to Johto Journeys, and then stopped. Now I've jumped in from mid Battle Dimension, so luckily I've missed gen3, which I don't particularly care for)
I don't know how old you lot are, but remember, this is a cartoon for kids. Stop complaining that it doesn't fulfill your exacting demands and enjoy it for what it is. I regualarly laugh out loud at it (Team Rocket Goldeen fishing and catching a Gyrados, and getting blasted off (again)) because I enjoy the simple humour and plot.
As for characters, Ash is just... well, Ash, Brock is there to tell the audience things that they might need to know, like one's weakness to another or to fall in love and get poison jabbed, and Dawn is doing her contests and not doing too bad, ackshually. To be honest, I quite like Dawn, I don't get the fanhate that everyone seems to be throwing around. Yes, she's not Misty, and neither was May. Different character, move on.
Oh, and the battles are way better than they used to be.
I whole heartedly agree with you YakobTheRed, I feel pretty much the same way you do though I live in the U.S. Come to think of it I have a friend who lives in the U.K.
In terms of the Pokemon English dub I'm optimistic about it too, it's not that bad but it's better than no Anime/Manga at all. It would be nice If the series reflected back on other old characters besides Gary, May, and Max. What about Harrison and that guy with the Metang at the Hoenn League who sorta looks like Yajirobe from Dragonball? It'd be interesting to see these guys again in the series.
YakobTheRed said:
Personally, I'm always on Youtube on Saturday afternoons waiting for some good American to upload the latest episode. I particularly like the little Johto/HG/SS pseudo-commercial thing they've got going on, with Khoury and Lyra.
I used to go to YouTube to watch the latest episodes but now I mainly go to GoodAnime.net to catch up, it's also a nice site to catch up on the latest episode of Family Guy it's not Anime but it's good stuff.
FireMeowth said:
Actually, the DP-episodes are by far the best. Ever. There's nearly any fillers, the animation is good, every single character is interesting, and... well, it's just so much better than ever before. :3
Fillers in Pokemon are meh but they aren't as bad as it was in Naruto Part 1, I do admit that some of the gym battles were interesting and the battle between Ash and Paul was pretty good even though Ash lost horribly. I couldn't help but laugh when Ash's Pikachu got pimp smacked by Paul's Ursaring, that thing had crazy stamina or something...
I did feel sorry for Pikachu though, he fought like a champ through and through especially against Magmortar as well. It just wasn't one of Ash's good battles, Paul had his Pokemon setup to counter what Pokemon Ash was using though Ash did make some play mistakes during the battle especially when he had Grotle against Honchkrow, not a very wise decision.
All in all I still like watching the episodes and it's still as entertaining as it was in the first few seasons IMO. Sure the quality isn't as good as it used to be but it's still good IMO. There was a funny episode where Gible and Khory's Totodile were having a contest to see which one was stronger and when Khory caught Gible he did a funny pose...
I think the main thing that bugs me about the Anime is how whenever Brock does something perverted his Croagunk usually stops him, I liked it better when Misty stopped him by nagging his ear especially Max. It just seems weird for his own Pokemon to do it instead but it's still pretty funny though.
I gotta agree with 6-dimension that the series has gotten more campy and kiddish than it used to be but part of the blame might had something to do with the banned episodes from Season 1 and 2 of the series especially how Ash managed to get a herd of Tauros without the American auidence knowing how he got them in the first place. Or what about the infamous Porygon episode that sent thousands of epileptic Japanese kids to the hospital after having seizures from the bright flashing lights? One episode got banned cause of an actual earthquake that occured at the time it was about to air involving Whiscash.
It'd be nice If they'd stop recycling old storylines for new episodes in fillers but sometimes they do it to keep the series fresh and entertaining for newcomers who haven't seen all 12 seasons of the Anime. It's understandable in a sense, it's good that the series still reflects back on old characters like Gary Oak and May and hopefully that trend will continue as well.
People at Serebii.net who watch the Pokemon series are the most optimistic, which is great cause there's still people who like the series for what it is and enjoy it as they go. The Kanto, Orange Islands, Johto, and Hoenn episodes were pretty good non-filler wise and the Sinnoh arc I think turned out somewhat better than Hoenn but in Sinnoh Ash has a huge disadvantage to his Pokemon team but they're getting better from what I've been hearing from the recent Japanese episodes and the new Japanese Opening as well.
