Yeah, the pronunciation of Gothita surprised me and sounded wrong. I'd also been pronouncing Garbodor wrong, but it makes a lot more sense the way the anime pronounced it than how I was. If I didn't suck at trying to explain things phonetically, I'd try and give examples, but you'll just have to wait for the audio version of this post.Even ignoring the odd pronunciation, Gothita's voice made this episode really tough to watch, despite the brilliant Axew and Scraggy scenes, 'Gothimu' is surely close enough to not dub over? Horribly annoying.
Ash annoyed me in falling for the 'maybe you're afraid' line for the 100th time. How about "I care more about my Pokemon than to have them fight over a thing like this"*. One of the early points the anime made was that Pokemon shouldn't be used in arguments between people. It's massive pressure to put on Tepig too - sure it was extremely confident, but considering Tepig's backstory was as a Pokemon abused and released by its trainer for not being good enough, why would you pick it as the one to defend Scraggy against being released?
Axew should have stepped up and dragon raged all the things! Then lost and had its heart broken before Ash steps up and uses Pikachu like he should have done from the start.
Of course, as with my complaint last week - Ash is being made excessively stupid in order to advance the plot. There are ways to write these episodes that don't make out Ash to be totally idiotic and reckless - yet every week he is being made to make stupid choices and actions to set up failure. I don't know why Snivy puts up with it.
*or - "I have 30 Tauros - but when someone wanted to trade me for just one, I said no".
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