Pokemon Journey, Episode 60
Added 2017-11-28 02:11:49 +0000 UTCHooray! It's early! I apologize in advance for my horrendous singing...
Comments
Good episode BTW. I admit as a kid I actaully liked this episode but... that's only because my starter was Squirtle thus my favorite Pokemon eventually was Blastoise who just had such a cool look with his giant dual water cannons that I appreciate anytime we get to see him do anything and yeah first episode he technically does appear in and at least he did more then in Venasaur's more debut episode in terms of solving the conflict. Though yeah the story itself is pretty weak if you think about it but eh maybe I was riding the high of the two parter gym battle with Blaine as well (which yeah Kids WB massively over promoted when that happened since I think even they realized kids had been wanting to see Ash get his 7th badge and that had been held for ages... though they promoted like Charizard vs Magmar would be a big two part special when that was only put at the tail end of the second episode) and hey at least you're past the biggest string of season one fillers. Since there's only two more episodes before the 8th though yeah next is the returns of Misty's sisters so curious what you'll think of that one.
Neo Ultra Mike
2017-11-28 19:54:43 +0000 UTCI think it also works only having one really big subtitle gag. You don't want to overdo and have too many as that dillutes the one there. Not to mention the point was better made just saying the things Wartotle could of been logically saying to explain why what he was saying didn't make sense to Pikachu then just having it put in subtitles.
Neo Ultra Mike
2017-11-28 19:50:35 +0000 UTCGood spotting, I actually did have an opening there, but there were a couple of problems that led to me deciding against it. 1) Squirtle didn't actually say anything other than one word responses, so the entire gag would be on wartortle. This was easy later on because I just had to think up a rallying speech, but writing a deliberately confusing thing for wartortle to say and pikachu misunderstand was a lot harder. I actually did think of a gag I could have used, but that leads us to 2) the only funny gag I could think of was of wartortle saying something laced with slang or accent, like the "jive talk" scenes in Airplane, but for the life of me I could not think of something that didn't sound insensitive to an ethnic group or culture. I also felt just having them spout stereotypes wouldn't be all that funny anyway. It might just be a weakness in my writing but at least at this point, I felt it was easier to just leave it.
Suede
2017-11-28 05:13:21 +0000 UTCI think there was a missed opportunity for a subtitle gag at the beginning where Pikachu sends out Squirtle to talk with Wartortle. You say "But there's no way of knowing, I guess", and I expected that to transition into you revealing what they were *really* saying via subtitles. Maybe if you have time, add one in? If not, no worries.
Will Herrmann
2017-11-28 04:30:18 +0000 UTC*helps solve crimes*
SuperBunnyBun
2017-11-28 02:29:42 +0000 UTC
