Going, Going, Yawn! (332)

[Lindsay]

*Shrugs* Don't know. Maybe it's the outfit. Maybe it's *cough* other features. What's intriguing to me though is that you're a Female and you find Roxanna hot. Nice.

The outfit and character design is ugly. She would fit in better with that Yaoi-gi-oh show. Her hairstyle is atrocious....and wether its 4Kids doing or not, her rack changed size in almost every scene. Bleh.

[Togepi Trainer]

Can't you accept that 4kids may have done something right? Instead of whining, just think that maybe they DID do research, as this TC was harder.

[Heracross]

I mean, he sounded pretty mean when he returned Corphish then later (when it's his last Pokemon) he calls it "buddy?" Seemed to me like he was sorta using Corphish... :/ And I think he also acted too harsh when he started stomping his feet & saying he wouldn't quit.

Well, I don't think he was trying to be mean as much as he was just frustrated. I know I get frustrated when my pokémon are put to sleep. And don't forget how fired up (pun intended ) Ash can get over gym battles and such, he was just really getting into the battle and he doesn't like giving up without a fight.

[Gravy]

Can't you accept that 4kids may have done something right? Instead of whining, just think that maybe they DID do research, as this TC was harder.

I doubt they did research into it at all. I'm willing to bet they just went and assumed that poison attacks would effect Foretress because its a bug type, and didn't think the added steel type would make much difference. Although, that would bring up the question of why the hell Swellow was there. But I'll stick by my opinion of how they're working with these things.

Considering the amount of shows they are dubbing all at once, in such short amounts of time, which includes translation, editing, music changes and casting the voices to fit lip flaps, I doubt they'd have enough time to look over all the attacks pokémon learn.

The outfit and character design is ugly. She would fit in better with that Yaoi-gi-oh show. Her hairstyle is atrocious....and wether its 4Kids doing or not, her rack changed size in almost every scene. Bleh.

I don't think she's a badly designed myself...well, apart from the fact that she is twig-thin at certain points.
This episode was done by the best team of animators, so its surprising that they had some...*ahem*...inconsistancies concerning size ^^;

...y'know, I wish these episodes would air in the UK sooner, that way I could actually take part in these discussions properly ~.~ Another 4 weeks to go until this episode airs...

[Pika Hikari KT]

Time for another Gym Battle...Not as excellent as the last Fire Gym Battle(Charizard vs. Magmar), but good nonetheless. I should've known Mag and Meg's nicknames would be kept as is.(I overslept and missed the first eppie) They acknowleged the facts that Overheat gets weaker the more it's used, and that Reflect stays around for 5 turns(I almost forgot about that!^_^; ). And the Trainers Choice almost got me: I chose Swellow; since it's fast and Flying attacks do neutral damage to Forretress. When they said it was Seviper; I was all WTF because Poison does zip to Steel Types! Then I remembered later that Seviper can learn Flamethrower by TM(which can pretty much KO Forretress on the spot)...Pretty smart by 4Kids! I give it 8/10.

[darkgamerGS]

Yeah, they did something right for once. I was thinking Plusle or Swellow. *Is still intimidated*

[Indigo]

This match was pretty damn good.

Pros:

-Ashy boy gettin' all fired up...very cute. I don't find any problem with it. In fact, it kind of balances out the old, arrogant Ash with the new, mature Ash. So everybody's happy! ^^
-Flannery is pretty cool. She's a good battler and knows when something works.
-You have to give Corphish some credit, guys. He held up pretty damn long, and he really pulled through.
-The animation was phenomenal in this ep. One part that was especially good was Pikachu breaking the Reflect attack.
-Pika lost! THANK YOU!

Cons(Here comes my rant...):

-I wish Flannery knew what she was doing some more. It kind of seemed like a fluke.

-Okay, here's the rant, people. I shall start it with two words, and end with the same two. Here we go.

FAVORITISM SUCKS. You say that you don't know why Ash chose Treecko over Taillow. I'll tell you why. Favoritism. You don't know why Ash compliments one Pokémon and then is frustrated when another one loses? Favoritism. Why would Ash be angry with Corphish to wake up at first, and then use "buddy"? Favoritism! There were blatant acts of it all around this episode! Ash says it's all up to Pikachu when he still has two other Pokémon. Disabled, but he has them. He acts as if he uses Corphish, and is only happy with it when it wins, and he says that Treecko and him have teamwork on their side. SO DOES TAILLOW AND HIM! Or do they? We'll never know, because Ash can't seem to get over this new "I'll use this one because I've used it more so I KNOW it's stronger!" phase. FAVORITISM SUCKS.

*end o' rant.*

[£añkaÑ]

It was good, i never thought i'd be this good, untill we watch it...as this was excellent...

[Togemon]

Well, I slept in and missed the first episode, darn it...
Well, Flanery's voice was ok, a little annoying and over used, could have been better. But one other thing that annoyed me was Macargo using Double Team, isn't that like a speed attack, and it's a slug o_O Weird to me...
I liked the battle, yay for Corphish shining through, but IMO Ash should have used poor under used Taillow instead of Treecko, I mean it seems Ash forgot he has a Taillow...

[pokeplayer984]

Well, this was a good battle. I was amazed at how Ash got past Iron Defense. He knew that by spinning Torkoal around, he would make it too dizzy to defend itself. I always expect Ash to pull off some sort of brilliant strategy when he's in a tight spot.

Such a great battle. I really liked this ep, dispite it's bad title.

Oh, and I think I know why 4Kids chose Seviper. Look at Seviper's movepool. It can learn Flamethrower. I suspect that being the reason why they chose Seviper.

Anyways, gets 9/10.

See ya.

- Mew!

[Geodude]

Hopefully the rest of the online community now fully understands the sexiness that is Flannery.

[spacefissure]

The episode was good, but there was one problem...

Ash sent out Corphish, and Flannery sent out Mag. Then we see Team Rocket looking through their binoculars, and then we see a shot of the entire ring. In that shot, Mag and Corphish weren't there!

Other than that, the episode was good. I give it a 9.5/10

[MetaMew]

O_O; Did Flannery call Slugma Mag at one point!? Maybe I heard Her wrong.

Yes, I do recall hearing her say slumga Mag or slugmag, something like that. Overall, this was a nice episode of pokemon. I think Ash's strategy was good getting corphish to use crabhammer on the smokescreen and pikachu using thunderbolt as well. What really looked queer to me was the ursarings I saw in the hot springs. They looked a little to papery(sp?).

[V Faction]

I think Ash's strategy was good getting corphish to use crabhammer on the smokescreen and pikachu using thunderbolt as well.

Smog, not Smokescreen. The Slugma line doesn't get Smokescreen.

What really looked queer to me was the ursarings I saw in the hot springs. They looked a little to papery(sp?).

What the heck... It's just an Animation style, a pretty neat one at that. There's nothing "queer" about it.

[Kamex]

This was an o.k. battle, they were pretty even throughout the whole thing. But Torkoal kept using Iron Defense, which I thought only raises Defense, not Special Defense. Besides, it looked more like it was using Withdraw.

Team Rocket had that idea about barging in on the gym battle and stealing the Pokemon again, and James noticed when he said he had De Ja Vu. That strategy was used in the battle vs. Bugsy and Roxanne, I think.

Uh, yeah...that's all. 8/10.

[V Faction]

This was an o.k. battle, they were pretty even throughout the whole thing. But Torkoal kept using Iron Defense, which I thought only raises Defense, not Special Defense. Besides, it looked more like it was using Withdraw.

Nope, twas Iron Defense all right. I know it's a little hard to distinguish, though I'm sure if Torkoal had used Withdraw it would've done the same exact motions.

And the whole "Defense move protects against Special Attacks" thing has been done before in the Anime. In fact, Corphish used Harden to defend against Flamethrower in the same battle. In the show, defensive moves apply to all forms of defense and can protect the user from either a Physical or Special assault. A little confusing at first, but you get used to it.

[meggirl63]

Ash Ketchum was ON FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Yellow]

I loved this gym battle episode. It was really good, and I can't believe Flannery's Torkoal took out Pikachu and Treecko in one hit with Overheat!! Flannery was REALLY hot too. Those sand bath things look awesome too. The only thing that sucked was that Trainer Choice was wrong in both episodes today. Stupid KidsWB..

[Psychic Venusaur]

Nope, twas Iron Defense all right. I know it's a little hard to distinguish, though I'm sure if Torkoal had used Withdraw it would've done the same exact motions.

And the whole "Defense move protects against Special Attacks" thing has been done before in the Anime. In fact, Corphish used Harden to defend against Flamethrower in the same battle. In the show, defensive moves apply to all forms of defense and can protect the user from either a Physical or Special assault. A little confusing at first, but you get used to it.

Sometimes they distinguish between the two

The battle was cool. Ash needs to use Taillow a lot more than he does. All the time it's Treecko this and Corphish that and Pikachu everything, while Taillow sits on the sidelines for his occasional Rocket balloon searching and popping. If using Treecko was about speed, Taillow would have been a better choice.

The episode didn't have much to do with the Yawn attack, but they found a pun that they could use

Like Blue Pokemon Master said, they did dig under the Azalea and Rustboro Gyms, like James noticed

The Trainer's choice was messed up. Poison attacks don't do anything to Steel-types. I think Minun would have been the best choice to use. Being Poison-type, Seviper is ruled out. That leaves Minun and Swellow. Forretress's steel attacks are bad against Minun, and its bug attacks are bad against Swellow. Without ackknowledging stats, they would both be equal choices. However, Forretress's base defense more than doubles it's Sp. Def., so Minun would probably be the best choice

It was a cool episode, 8/10

[≈*Virulent Tsunami*≈]

This was a great episode. I agree though, the Ursarings were flat out AWFULLY animated. But, I liked how Yawn looked, but Corpish should've held up for a few attacks and then collapse from Yawn. That would've been pretty funny, 'cause Ash would've gone mad. Reflect was another cool feature, but what I loved here was the Thunderbolt and Smog effect. That was really cool; I loved it. They should include that in the game(expect with Smokescreen).

Overall rating:
9.7 out of 10!!!!
Probably the best Gym battle we've seen in a while!! Keep it up, KidsWB!!!!!!!!!