Cutting the Ties that Bind! (440)

[wobbanut]

I thought this was a great episode. It had a great drama, Ash's voice keeps getting better, Sceptile finally relearns his moves. It was a very satisfactory episode. I was also pleasantly surprised by Spenser's voice, it was really good. At least it wasn't the same old man voices we've heard in many old episodes, like with Pryce or with the old men in "Plant it Now Diglett Later". The episode also reminded me a lot of "Challenge of the Samurai", with all the beedrills and kakunas, and Team Rocket's coverage (at least this one wasn't cardboard.

Overall, 10/10. I can't wait for the new episodes Friday.

[Darkness Angel]

Nice to see Sceptile learned all of it's moves once again.

[spongeaud]

yeah for Sceptile i can tell he's going to be real usuful to Ash when he plays the brain

[Medea]

Overall, it was a pretty good episode. Of course, I'm not too fond of the "OMG it's a friggin' BEEDRILL SWARM! RUN!" Mostly because the Beedrill swarm thing is WAY TOO OVERUSED. And Spenser was pretty cool. I really wasn't expecting him to sound like that, but it was an okay voice none-the-less (I cannot tell you how close I was to beating him in the friggin' game)...But I digress!

That's about it! Oh and happy to see someone else with a Chansey besides Nurse Joy. That's all!

[Hikozaru390]

It's the return of Team Rocket's fail safe beedrill proof...

box.

Making a return from Kanto! Man, that brings back memories.

[Rashdan]

It was great how Sceptile relearns its moves and saves Ash. A bit scary when Sceptile shredded the arm-like things into pieces XD

Good episode, and yes, Spenser's voice was just perfect. Can't wait for the battle.

[Pika Hikari KT]

It's the return of Team Rocket's fail safe Beedrill proof...

box.

Making a return from Kanto! Man, that brings back memories.

Sure does--I was reminded of that as well. But they said it was made of steel, which I'm sure NO Beedrill could get into unless it used Hyper Beam or something...not to mention it'd be kinda heavy for Jesse and James to lift?

[Digitalkaiser65]

I didnt like this episode, simply for one reason. Ashes voice didnt quite cut it. It was off, and the emotion that the episode was SUPPOSED to have, was gone because of that horrible voice.

Which is weird, because I like his voice alot in other episodes, just not this one. Everything else was great.

[wobbanut]

Funny, I thought Ash's voice sounded great for this episode. He sounded right on emotionally in several places. I've liked the new voice all season long, so maybe I'm a bit biased, but I still thought it was really good this time around.

[halloweenghost]

wasn't the island named Metallica island? bnd James says.. we're serounded by heavy metal when they were in the beedrill box? lol

Anyways seeing the old beedrill proof box was great to see again.. though they thought wisely to make it of metal and not carboard this time it saved them for a few moments longer :P

[Cobalt_Latios]

I got to see it today(I dont want to say how as it's plain obvious) and i was pretty impressed by it. We get to see the Repel for the first time. It looks EXACTLY like a can of bug spray(hehe, bug spray, Beedrill!! LOL!!). Sceptile relearning his moves was great. I also thought it was interesting how Team Rocket attempted their box trick, but it didnt do too well. Spenser's voice was pretty good too. What you didnt hear before cant hurt ya(not counting it's counter-part version okay!).

Okay, big confusion. At what point does May's Eevee learn Shadow Ball? Somebody please tell me. Cause im sure ive seen almost all the episodes up till now.

Oh, and am i the only one who found that this had a distinct similarity to the episode "Numero Uno Articuno", not plotwise, but how they meet the frontier brain, then the next episode they battle 'em?

Otherwise, pretty good episode. 8/10

~C_L~

[chosen_one386]

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1. Eevee learns it at the beginning of the episode.

2. You're right, they do meet Spenser in the same way as they met Noland. Kinda.

3. Spenser's voice was AWESOME!!

[flame fox]

spencers voice was cool so was team rockets BOX of awesomeness

[Pika Hikari KT]

Oh, and am i the only one who found that this had a distinct similarity to the episode "Numero Uno Articuno", not plotwise, but how they meet the frontier brain, then the next episode they battle 'em?

That's been a running trend since Johto...nothing new.

[Horn Drill]

The Beedrill plot-device returns! The only problem I had with this episode is that Ash practically flew into Team Rocket's balloon, even though his knee was injured. ._.;

The best part was when James said, "You may be a Frontier Brain, but you look like a nut!" I was cracking up at that priceless line. XD

[Pacman]

A OK episode. Sceptile is cool.

[Knight_Ram]

Yeah I thought that this episode was quite a good one for the return of Sceptile (even though it never left). But yeah, it was quite the good episode with Sceptile using its moves to save Pikachu and having that second blade when using leafblade looks great! And when Sceptile used quick attack to speed up to Pikachu to save it was really cool. And the final moved use to save itself from getting crushed by the impact of it landing on the ground with bulletseed. Great!

Seems funny how his stage 3 evolution pokemon have problems but then they just get use to Ash and learn to co-oporate with him after he trys to earn there respect by standing up for them. 8/10

[Igottapoo]

Not much going on here :/ I hate how the writers just keep stalling until the final frontier battle. It's so annoying.

[Blue Snover]

I think it was nice that Sceptile managed to remember how to use it's attacks, it's a shame it forgot them to begin with.

[Littlemyuu]

Its a nice episode, Sceptile is my fave Pokemon and this episode rocks