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>watch latest episode with subs
>keep seeing Sophocles flashback scenes
>"Why would they be showing this? He can't actually be sad that Minior is rising up since he already knows that will happen. The only other explanation is that Minior will somehow die, but they're not going to show thousands of Minior just dying off, right?"
>cut to scene where Kukui gets asked how much of the Minior he wanted to show the kids
>Kukui says all of it
>"All of it means an entire life cycle though..."
>cut to scene where the Minior are going to lift off
>hear music
>"this doesn't sound happy AT ALL"
>see this pic
It was literally at this point I realized that, yes, they are ALL going to die. I've watched enough anime before to know build-up when I see it, so even though I had my doubts, the second I saw his expression and heard the underlying gasp, I immediately knew.
>sure enough, they die
>decide to look at /vp/ thread at time of airing to see if people liked the episode as much as I did
>"booooooring"
>"this sucks"
>"FUG CONSTELLATION"
>"m-muh rirrie!"
>"thanks matsui, another dull episode from SM, watch XY instead"
I felt barely any emotion from the Stoutland episode. Its death was telegraphed to the point where you'd have to be a retard not to see it coming. When it finally died, I knew they would leave it open-ended since they never show actual death in Pokémon except for extremely rare circumstances.
In the latest SM episode, the storyline was told so well that retards found it "boring" because they didn't know how to follow intricate storytelling. You just KNEW by the dialogue going on that something serious was up. When the Minior started dissipating into literal energy, it was highly reminiscent of the scene with Ambertwo and Mewtwo.
I honestly hope people were just being ironic when they said the episode was boring. The entire first 2/3rds was chalk full of important plot points leading up to the climax, and it was very well-written.
