Mikachu's Kanto ep comment thread

[Mikachu Yukitatsu]

I wanted to make a nostalgic topic. In this topic I post five old Kanto episodes at a time every Wednesday and it's your task to comment on them. Quite in the same way as in this poll. First, I choose five eppies from episodes 1-20, then five eppies from 21-40, then 41-60 and finally 61-83.

Here are the first ones.

1. Pokemon! I Choose You!

9. The School of Hard Knocks

12. Here Comes The Squirtle Squad

15. Battle Aboard the St. Anne

17. The Island Of Giant Pokemon

My answers:

1. Pokemon! I Choose You!

The first episode is a classic. The writers clearly didn't want to inctroduce everything in the first ep, otherwise they would have made Ash to catch his first caught Pokemon, Team Rocket would have entered already and so on. I kinda like the arrangement, good ideas expanding the world of the games, like Pikachu who refuses to go into a Pokeball. I also fell in love with the camera angles or what are they called.

9. The School of Hard Knocks

I chose this episode because its idea differs from all the other early episodes. Again, it gave a funny viewpoint to the games when Joe ranted with the computer. And Giselle was pretty.

12. Here Comes The Squirtle Squad

I felt sad about this because I didn't manage to get it on tape when they showed repeats here in Finland. I finally found it from a shop for only 1 or 2 euros or something. It's a great episode, Squirtles are funny, Team Rocket uses weapons, explosions, boom!

15. Battle Aboard the St. Anne

James was COOL as a schoolgirl. The battle itself was an amazing combination of animation and music, there I noticed how great Pokemon music is eat least compared to other cartoons I had seen back there.

17. The Island Of Giant Pokemon

The subtitles were a great idea. This episode I missed when I was taping them. I finally caught it on Swedish TV4, but they had a narrator who spoke in Swedish what the Pokemon said and I was disappointed.

EDIT: Yeah, I didn't include a gym battle ep, I felt like I had more to say about these ones.