At least the first three episodes of every generation now spill out insufferable wank.
We're told what they told us last time, and the time before that, and the time before that.
It's stuff we absorbed to our bones, but no, the priority is always infants, as in minds more demanding of toys than content.
Perfect combination there.
Funny that when Pokémon was new and no one knew the rules, laws of battle were usually mentioned once.
Viewers had to remember, or if joining late, work it out via their own deductions
But children are now assumed to be thick, and discouraged from using their brains for fear they do themselves a mischief.
None of that independent thought, thank you.
Nice to see Gio treating himself to a variety of blow-up dolls.
Ivysaur's Mysterious Tower gives us a bizarre catechism routine between the Boss and his Bitches, to tell us Team Rocket are thieves.
Attempting theft later wasn't enough of a hint.
Destination Coronation! divulged Badge mysticism, not that it's any use elsewhere.
Come on, man. Modern kids don't have access to that there 'internet' thing.
You mean where they might research these secret ways, or God forbid, watch them?
Yeah. Don't expect miracles, love.
Biscuits lifted weights, as if Vermilion Gym is, you know, a gym, and with Ash visiting for a normal fight, the building's actual function is immaterial.
But kiddies will be in the vicinity of things they don't fully understand!
So? SO?! THEY WILL DIE!!!
The similarity between Boomer Wang and Robo-Surge is most unsettling.
I surmise they are mother and daughter, Biscuits omitted from the incestuous liaison of Bongo's parents.
We've got Gonad and Gohnan, Gohma and Gohda, so this must be...Gaunt?
A plug in the skull proves Biscuits is a cyborg, and a retro model at that, sporting the old-school round pin system.
Craving an electricity source, she frequents the one place in town with reciprocal socket work, being a setting from the Nineties.
By extension cord, the entire Gonad clan also consist of rusty robotics, which accounts for the absence of humanity.
Betrayed, Bothered and Beleaguered! finally reveals how Mash Ketchup met Pikachu.
Which was already covered in Enter Pikachu!, hence the name.
Kids today, eh? Don't just need very slow explanations, they need 'em twice.
Ash breaks his Pidgey Pokéball in his sleep, wakes up late, runs to Professor Oak's lab, but misses summer camp.
This is both a rehash of Pokémon: I Choose You! and canon balls of forcing rewrites on his backstory.
Ash breaks his Pidgey Pokéball in his sleep, wakes up late, runs to Professor Oak's lab, but misses picking a starter Pokémon.
I remember this, way back a few minutes ago.
Yeah, but THAT was plagiarism. THIS is the bastardised original, so that's alright then.
Ah well, on to new adventures:
Ash breaks his Pidgey Pokéball in his sleep, wakes up late, runs to Professor Oak's lab, but no one cares.
IT'S THE SAME THING THREE TIMES!!!
A boy who over slept once degenerated into a narcoleptic maniac unable to control his spasms of destruction.
Gutless, simpering imitation ripped out all dramatic impact of the occasion, leaving nothing but a hollowed-out, taxidermy reject.
How imaginative of Dame Ketchum to buy her son a larger but identical pair of jimjams and a single clock thrice.