And now it's time for Zorua Reviews with Zorua- son of Zoroark.
Tonight's Review: XY0654- Facing the Grand Design!
(First Person POV)
OH MY GOSH! This is the greatest episode I've ever seen in my life!
Take us to your- SPOILERS!
(Zorua chuckled loudly.)
This episode is so funny! It's like the funniest episode I've ever seen!
So Ash and his friends go to Grace Tower where there have been UFO sightings.
And Ash is like,
"I wanna see an alien one day."
(Zorua sniggered again.)
Ash hopes to see aliens! Like he and Pikachu haven't already seen a whole bunch of aliens.
Then they run into some Malamar who aren't evil like the one who brainwashed them before.
But then the evil Malamar from before comes in driving a truck!
(Zorua put a paw over his mouth to stifle his laughter.)
A Malamar is driving a truck, I ask you!
So Ash and Team Rocket follow the trucks, and it turns out there are actually three evil Malamar.
And they all team up with the Officer Jenny who used to be Madame X.
And Jame's Inkay wants to fight the evil Malamar by himself.
(Zorua laughed for bit before continuing.)
But then one of Malamar comes in captures everybody except James, Inkay, Meowth, and Clemont.
So they go down to the good wild Pokemon and ask them to help.
But then one of the evil Malamar comes down and is like,
"You should join the evil side instead-"
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
"-You get to murder innocent humans and Pokemon!"
(Zorua blew a raspberry.)
So the wild Pokemon decide to fight the evil Malamar.
And they go up to the top of Grace Tower where the Malamars have these giant prisms.
So it turns out the Malamar hypnotized alllll these scientists to make the prisms.
And they're somehow able to create this giant fire ball out of nothing with no power source that will somehow be able to turn the whole world into a place where only Malamar's can survive.
Like, they don't want to conquer the world or enslave it, they just want to kill all the other humans and Pokemon in the entire world!
(Zorua laughed breathlessly)
Imagine if this was trying to be serious, it'd be so stupid!
So then they take control of Inkay, but James snaps him out of it by, get this:
Feeding him a croissant!
(Zorua closed his eyes tightly as tears of laughter squeezed out and ran down his cheeks)
So then all the good Pokemon stop the prisms from activating.
But then the three evil Malamar escape because. . . because. . .
(Zorua is shaking with laughter, unable to speak for a bit. He finally composes himself and is able to finish his sentence.)
Because they use the prisms to make an instant time machine!
(Zorua burst out laughing, not just snickering like he usually does, but full, loud, raucous laughter.)
HOLY SMOKES! Facing the Grand Design is the funniest Pokemon episode of all time! I love it! 60 stars! I-
(Riolu suddenly comes on camera and said gently)
"Zorua. . . it's not a comedy. . .It's a drama."
(As Riolu walked back off-screen, Zorua stared at him in silence, looking very confused.)
Really? This was supposed to be taken seriously?
(Zorua blinked solemnly, and then shrugged)
Well . . .Okay, it was the greatest drama I've ever seen in my life!
I mean, this episode was so original!
You see, this episode had Pokemon carrying out an evil scheme without any human influence.
And no episode has done that before!
. . . Except for Scare at the Litwick Mansion
Meowth's Scrafty Tactics
The Pirates of Decolore
Genesect and the Legend Awakened
Aaaaaand anything having to do with Pokemon Mystery Dungeon.
But it also has the theme of the bonds between Pokemon and Trainer, which. . . just about every extra dramatic and emotional episode of the Anime has done.
But it has Pokemon using time travel which goes all the way back to is in nearly half of the Pokemon movies, not to mention Me, Myself, and Time.
And it has Pokemon being mind controlled!
(Zorua pulled a wry face.)
I'm sure Junki Takegami knows that we haven't seen that yet!
(Zorua scratched the back of his head.)
How is serious or original in any way, shape, or form?
Everything is borrowed from something else, how is this new?
They should have just played this up as a comedic episode, then it wouldn't have mattered it it wasn't new, cause it would've just been a big joke!
I'm just gonna pretend its a comedy, it's better that way.
This is Zorua here, and I was wondering. . .do ya got any croissants?! PLEASE! I really want some croissants! Come on, help a cute little Zorua out, huh? Come on, please!
Come on, what if the time traveling Malamar mind control me or my family? How are we supposed to break free from their control without a croissant?
Oh, and thanks. . . random anonymous guest. . . for the treasure chest full of Poke Diamonds! Now I can actually play Pokemon Rumble World!
Thank You
(Zoroark here. This episode was like a one of those really cheesy sci-fi movies that become 'so bad it's good' cult classics. It wasn't really a bad episode, but it really was kind of ridiculous and melodramatic at times. This Malamar story arc has seriously gone too far. This episode totally jumped the shark. If they can drop the GS Ball arc, I'm pretty sure they can drop this Malamar story arc too. I wouldn't mind. ('Z'))